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Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters), Gaucho Gaucho concerns a specific type of “cowboy” from South America; skilled, brave, and unruly horsemen. Legends of local folklo…
Dory Previn: On My Way to Where, directed by Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth, is exactly the kind of well-balanced documentary mixed of archival and modern interviews that successfully inducts you…
Twilight Time is directed by John Hughes (After Mabo, Senses of Cinema) and examines the role that Desmond Ball, Australian writer and activist, had in protesting direct American influence over Austra…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Law Chen's familial documentary Starring Jerry as Himself…
Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s documentary Teaches of Peaches is conventional to the point of being near antithetical to the artist at its centre. Merrill Nisker, known around the world as…
The film that Baltasar Kormákur made immediately prior to Touch (Snerting) was Beast (2022) a survival adventure where Idris Elba punches a lion. Seeing the Icelandic director’s name attached to a hea…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. One of the smash hit films of the year on the festival circui…
Written and directed by Fede Álvarez, Alien: Romulus stars Cailee Spaeny as Rain, an orphaned young woman trapped on a sunless mining colony planet run by the all-powerful Weyland-Yutani Corporation.…
The wounded male ego spins out of control over a too long weekend in Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire, a claustrophobic and searing portrait of middle-aged male anomie brushing against the generation who…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. With 2021s phenomenal documentary River under his belt, filmm…
The earth echoes screams of fear taken in by a large parrot – Death (Arinzé Kene) embodied as an unfathomable feathered creature. Ineluctable and unswayed – the purpose is for the bird to silence the…
Written and directed by Michel Franco, Memory stars Jessica Chastain as Sylvia, a social worker, mother, and recovering addict who encounters Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) randomly and disturbingly when he f…