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Universal Pictures-Warner Bros. Twisters is a strange beast of a film. It's a tentpole American summer release that just so happens to be a prestige natural disaster flick helmed by Oscar nominee…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. In the wake of Afterwar’s screening at Sydney Film Festival,…
Yorgos Lanthimos has stated that “All of my films are problematic.” Even his collaborations with Tony McNamara which are imminently more ‘audience friendly’ and Oscar garnering than his earlier work r…
In the early 1960s a young photography student named Danny Lyon found himself with a motorcycle club in Chicago. Originally planning to just document their activities he ended up, for a period, a full…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Taylor Broadley's feature debut film Stubbornly Here is a…
A Different Man composites at least a half-dozen films but nevertheless stands on its own as a wholly original paranoiac satire that pays homage to ‘70s and 80s body horror before detouring into a Woo…
Niki Caro’s delicately laced film of belief, bravery, and true leadership honours the importance of Rangatira (Chiefs) in Māori self-determination while negotiating the inherent limitations of patriar…
There is hard edged cynicism inside the romantic sweep of Nikolaj Arcel’s Bastarden known in English as The Promised Land. Both titles are apt for the 18th Century set epic. The film wears the skin of…
How do you break the back of a crisis? If you’re writer/director David Vincent Smith (DVS) you shine a spotlight on the humanity that persists through the darkest days. In his feature debut He Ain’t H…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. There's space in this Bluey obsessed world for two Aussie…
Inside Out 2 has no space to be what it is – an acceptable Pixar film which expends most of its charm and energy in the first third of the film and then dips drastically before rallying again. It’s no…
Under the intelligent direction of Simon Godwin and adaptor Emily Burns, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's live production of Macbeth springs to life on both the stage and screen. Filmed live at D…