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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…
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…
PRESS RELEASE The best of Australian cinema is available to stream free now on SBS On Demand, with over 50 titles to explore. SBS World Movies will also air a selection of homegrown classics in Homeg…
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…
Lake Michigan Monster in 2018 by Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews was a lo-fi indie comedy homage to all things nautical and creature features. Reuniting once again for Hundreds of Beavers t…
The Sámi people have long lived in the Sápmi region, which includes the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia. Until recently, they have farmed reindeer, and fished for their…
This review contains discussion of school shootings, suicide, abuse, and other traumatic events. The opening of Angie Vinchito’s devastating documentary Manifesto presents white clouds rolling across…
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? According to the history books he was either a saviour or a devil, and of course with his involvement in the development of the Atomic bomb he was certainly the embodime…
When the news that Greta Gerwig was going to co-write and direct a movie based on Barbie the collective response appeared to be a baffled “What?” (Whereas the news that Margot Robbie would be playing…
We are all imperfect beings. We all have our negative peccadillos, our bad days, our petty resentments, our self-doubt, our pretentions. In Randall Park’s Shortcomings based on Adrian Tomie’s graphic…
To an extent every biopic is a work of imaginative fiction. What the director and writer choose to include and exclude, the primary focus on the subject, the details that are exaggerated or in part fa…
The set-up is familiar; a group of teens start messing around with an occult object and bad things begin to happen. Despite this being the premise of dozens of possession horror films, Danny and Micha…