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ACE Cinemas and HOYTS enter into a Joint Venture at Midland Gate in WA

Press Releases Aug 7, 2023 2 min read
Articles Hoyts

PRESS RELEASE HOYTS has entered into a joint venture agreement with ACE Cinemas in WA and will be managing their Midland Gate facility from the 5th October 2023, with a view to providing cinema buffs…

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With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Once Again Provokes Ideas of Hypocrisy and Morality

With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Once Again Provokes Ideas of Hypocrisy and Morality

Nadine Whitney Aug 6, 2023 5 min read
Films Reviews Clotilde Courau Drama French film Léa Drucker MIFF Olivier Rabourdin Review

Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with…

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Ira Sachs' Queer Melodrama Passages is a Savage and Stunning Work About Careless People

Ira Sachs' Queer Melodrama Passages is a Savage and Stunning Work About Careless People

Nadine Whitney Aug 6, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Franz Rogowski LGBTIQA cinema MIFF Passages Queer drama Review

Passages screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 5 and 18. Ira Sachs’ Paris set queer melodrama evokes the work of Xavier Dolan, queer people can be imperfect and self-obsessed…

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Anna Hints on the Sacred Spaces of Shared Experience in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Anna Hints on the Sacred Spaces of Shared Experience in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Nadine Whitney Aug 5, 2023 9 min read
Interviews documentary Interview MIFF Revelation Film Festival Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Documentarian and musician Anna Hints’s Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a journey into the psyche of women as they experience a unique cleansing and renewal in an Estonian Sauna. Nadine Whitney was given th…

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Jennifer Reeder's Perpetrator is a Glorious Slice of Revenge Feminism and a Paean to Girl Power

Jennifer Reeder's Perpetrator is a Glorious Slice of Revenge Feminism and a Paean to Girl Power

Nadine Whitney Aug 3, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Fantasia Film Festival horror Jennifer Reeder Josh Bywater Review

When Jennifer Reeder takes you by the hand you are guided into a universe where mascara runs like blood, teenage girls wear glitter and sequins like armour, and the strange world of being young can be…

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Monolith Weaves an Unsettling Mystery with a Mesmerising Performance from Lily Sullivan

Monolith Weaves an Unsettling Mystery with a Mesmerising Performance from Lily Sullivan

Andrew F Peirce Aug 2, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews australian film Erik Thomson horror Lily Sullivan Ling Cooper-Tang Lucy Campbell Matt Vesely MIFF Monolith Review Terence Crawford

Monolith opens in Australian cinemas on October 26. At the centre of director Matt Vesely and writer Lucy Campbell’s feature film debut Monolith is a mesmerising and impressive performance from Lily…

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Kim Albright's With Love and A Major Organ is a Delightful Indie Which Has its Heart in the Right place

Kim Albright's With Love and A Major Organ is a Delightful Indie Which Has its Heart in the Right place

Nadine Whitney Aug 1, 2023 5 min read
Films Reviews Drama Fantasia Film Festival Kim Albright Review

Kim Albright’s surreal alternate universe in With Love and A Major Organ is uncannily close to our own – so much so that the parallels it draws with modern loneliness leave an ache as one watches it u…

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Where the Devil Roams Sees the Return of DIY Horror Auteurs The Adams Family with Another Miracle of Independent Filmmaking

Where the Devil Roams Sees the Return of DIY Horror Auteurs The Adams Family with Another Miracle of Independent Filmmaking

Nadine Whitney Jul 29, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Fantasia Film Festival Hellbender horror John Adams Review Toby Poser Zelda Adams

DIY horror auteurs The Adams Family (John, Zelda, Lulu Adams, and Tyler Posey) have given audiences ghost/possession stories such as The Deeper You Dig and a delightfully wicked entry into witchcraft…

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Cold Hands but Warm Hearts Are the Balm in Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves

Cold Hands but Warm Hearts Are the Balm in Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves

Nadine Whitney Jul 28, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Comedy Drama Review Scandinavian Film Festival

Fallen Leaves forms the fourth part of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Proletariat’ series, after Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl. Although it is centred around a love story…

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Lola Blanc Talks About Her Short Film Pruning and Exploring Extreme Views in the Media in Genre Films

Lola Blanc Talks About Her Short Film Pruning and Exploring Extreme Views in the Media in Genre Films

Andrew F Peirce Jul 28, 2023 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts Articles Fantasia Film Festival horror Interview Lola Blanc

The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Direct download of this episode is available via this link. On this…

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Restore Point is a Czech Philip K. Dick Styled Future Tech Thriller That Convinces in Its World Building and Philosophical Quandaries

Restore Point is a Czech Philip K. Dick Styled Future Tech Thriller That Convinces in Its World Building and Philosophical Quandaries

Nadine Whitney Jul 27, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Fantasia Film Festival Frankenstein horror Restore Point Review Thriller

Robert Hloz’s debut feature Restore Point (Bod Obnovy) which premiered at Karlovy Vary is the first science fiction film made in the Czech Republic for near forty years. Although it wears its Philip K…

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Screen Warriors Program Scores Funding Boost With Screen Australia Grant

Press Releases Jul 27, 2023 2 min read
Articles australian film Veterans Film Festival

PRESS RELEASE Announced today, the ground-breaking new program ‘Screen Warriors’, inaugurated this year by the Veterans Film Festival (VFF) in partnership with the Australian Film Television and Radi…

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