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Welcome to The Curb’s first Shout Outs from the Soapbox, a rundown of the reviews, interviews, and news that have taken our interest over the past fortnight. The Curb is a reader supported website, w…
PRESS RELEASE Lumapixel, the Sydney-based creative production agency, was one of only four companies to reach the finals in the Best Documentary Short category at the Cannes World Film Festival ‘Reme…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've fo…
The 2024 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) continues the conversation of previous conferences with the forward-focused theme of Frontlines: Shaping the Future of Documentary &…
PRESS RELEASE SBS is proud to announce that cameras are now rolling on FOUR YEARS LATER – SBS' first foray into an Original scripted series to be filmed across two countries, told in dual languag…
Based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an endearing queer coming-of-age romantic drama. Director Aitch Alberto in…
Deep into Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta’s serene documentary Nocturnes, we finally get to see the elephants. Cinematographer Satya Rai Nagpaul observes them from a distance as the herd lingers,…
When Todd Haynes' May December premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, it was a major talking point along the Riviera. While immediately revered, it was a film that disturbed audiences as much…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Jon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai, receiv…
When it comes to experiencing cinema, one of the greatest honours that you can bestow upon a film is having an unexpected physical reaction to it. This might be an out place moment of laughter (the ba…
PRESS RELEASE National Indigenous Television (NITV), Netflix and the ACTF are proud to announce that new children’s comedy series Eddie’s Lil’ Homies, inspired by books from former AFL star Eddie Bet…
The Beekeeper is a well-oiled and by-the-book actioner that simultaneously takes itself very seriously, and yet not at all. All Jason Statham needs to do in this genre of film is what he always does.…