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Goodbye Julia by Mohamed Kordofani is an impassioned plea for understanding and inclusion which utilises the story of Mona (Eiman Yousif) and Julia (Siran Riak) and their long relationship built out o…
Italian director Matteo Garrone has cycled through many genres to tell Italian stories. Whether it be a version of Pinocchio, a bleak crime drama, Gomorra, or an anthology based on Italian folk and fa…
In the first three Kung Fu Panda movies, titular panda Po travelled to the spirit world, conquered the most fearsome foes, and became the hero of the Valley of Peace. Knowing all that, you’d think tha…
Jeni Thornley’s AFCA nominated documentary recently played in Melbourne at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival. To see who Jeni Thornley is and what she has done for independent and feminist Australi…
Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) is a documentarian who knows how to let her subjects speak. Rarely do you hear Poitras’ own voice in one of her films; she knows where to point the camera, and to allow peo…
National Theatre Live: Vanya is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's renowned play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's work delves into central concerns of unrequited love, existential dilemmas, inheritance st…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. As a young man, Matty Hannon explored the world, sinking root…
Set in the late ‘80s, Love Lies Bleeding tells the story of two burdened women who fall in love at first sight. Lou (Kristen Stewart) is a gym manager who lives a reclusive life as she struggles to ma…
To a new world of gods and monsters! Septimus Pretorius (The Bride of Frankenstein) There are many monsters in Rose Glass’ sophomore feature Love Lies Bleeding. The genre hybrid film positions almos…
Blumhouse Productions has long prided itself on delivering independent productions on a tight budget. Their latest entry, Imaginary,attempts to put a spooky twist on the friend you imagined growing up…
If Tarkovsky’s Solaris was a cinematic contretemps to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then Spaceman can be seen as Johan Renck’s riposte to Solaris. Both Solaris and Spaceman (from the novel ‘The Spa…
PRESS RELEASE The early life of Bon Scott is set to hit cinema screens in a project currently underway in Western Australia. Before the iconic thunderous riffs of AC/DC echoed across the globe, a yo…