Looking Ahead for The Curb in 2024
As the 2024 season commences, I want to take the time to reflect on the purpose of The Curb and what I hope to achieve by spotlighting the voices I do with the podcast. Ultimately, my goal has always…
Bad Vibrations Writer/Director Nicole Delprado and Annabel Maclean Talking About Flickerfest and Creating Tension with a Theramine in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Australian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance…
Andrew Haigh's Infinite All of Us Strangers Makes Love Our Goal
Generations, culture, loneliness, and grief in queer culture and how true love transcends the mortal coil. “The power of love A force from above A sky-scraping dove Flame on burn desire Love with ton…
Melbourne’s Newest Movie Experience FoMo Cinemas Open in East Brunswick with a Blockbuster Summer Ahead
PRESS RELEASE Melbourne’s new next-level cinema experience arrives this week with FoMo Cinemas opening its East Brunswick doors this Thursday 18 January. A haven for cinema and food-lovers alike, FoM…
The Eternal Memory is Maite Alberdi’s Tender and Devastating Documentary About Marriage and Caregiving
“Reconstructing memory is an act of knowing yourself. Without memory you have no identity.” Augusto Góngora. January 2, 1952 – May 19, 2023. Under the dictatorship of Pinochet no one was allowed to…
Perfect Days is a Late-Career Masterwork from Wim Wenders
Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama in Wim Wenders Perfect Days, a quiet man who lives a life in solitude, working with great pride as a public toilet cleaner. We meet him as he starts his daily routine where…
Daniel Brühl and the Art of Collaboration and Being a Proactive Actor
Daniel Brühl’s career is long and rich. Some will know the Spanish-German actor for his work in the MCU. Others will know him as Fredrick Zoller in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Some will…
The Canterville Ghost is an Ugly Animated Insult to the Aesthete who Penned the Original Tale
Very loosely based on the short story by Oscar Wilde of the same name, Kim Burdon and Robert Chandler’s The Canterville Ghost is a slight adaptation of what was a simultaneously a satire on American m…
About the Curb
Links: the Curb Media Branding and Advertising and the Curb interview consent form the Curb is owned and operated by Andrew F. Peirce (Boorloo-Perth) author of Lonely Spirits and the King: An Austral…
Looking Down at Don’t Look Up: Performative Climate Allegory Both on and Off the Screen
Released by Netflix in 2021, Don’t Look Up was extremely popular in part because of its roster of big-name stars. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence returned to the silver screen after exten…
Dream Scenario is a Surreal Drama with a Touch of Absurdist Misery
Film distributor A24’s brand identity has crystallised into surreal, stylish dramas with a touch of misery. Their latest release, Dream Scenario, is exactly that. So in that sense, the film is almost…
Best Australian Films of 2023
Before we dig into 2023, let’s take a short jump back to October 2021. Stage 1 of the Australian Feature Film Summit (AFFS) was taking place online, providing producers, distributors, exhibitors, and…