pvi Moves to PICA
PRESS RELEASE Leading Australian media art collective pvi has been announced as Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)’s inaugural long-term company in residence (2024-2026), coinciding with the…
American Fiction Gives Jeffrey Wright His Well Deserved Moment in the Spotlight
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is an adaptation of Erasure a postmodern literary satire written in 2001 by Percival Everett. Over twenty years later and the issues Everett raised about the commodif…
Eileen is a Perverse Delight About Obsession and Cruelty
“Love will make you crazy, Eileen. You’ll probably never understand that.” Jim Dunlop Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) lives in small town 1960s Massachusetts. She’s twenty-four-years-old. She has n…
Heath Davis' Christmess is the Major Miracle Independent Australian Cinema Needs
There is a certain absurdity about celebrating Christmas in Australia with all the Northern Hemisphere trimmings. It’s hot. People are exhausted. Roasting a turkey on a day where the temperature can b…
Christmess Writer/Director Heath Davis Talks About Creating His Best Film Yet in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Aussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with hi…
Bottoms is Violently Funny and is One of the Cleverest Comedies of the Year
From its throwback poster parodying and/or paying homage to Revenge of the Nerds (1984) to its literal no holds barred crass comedy, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott’s Bottoms is both a throwback and…
Sally Aitken Talks About Her Adventures in Wiggle World with Hot Potato in This Interview
I cannot overstate how significant The Wiggles are to me. As a child of the late '90s, I grew up with Greg Page, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, and Anthony Field. They were my first exposure to both mus…
Isla's Way Director Marion Pilowsky Talks About the Importance of Seeing the Story of an 87-Year-Old Woman in a Cinema in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Much of what I do with The Curb is in a bid to shine a light…
Uproar is a Political Coming-of-Age Story that Stands as a Triumph for Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema
Comments made on the racism still inherent in New Zealand Aotearoa by Taika Waititi incited a lot of push back. Isn’t New Zealand just the pleasant little country where Peter Jackson made The Lord of…
Silent Night Is John Woo Stealing from Himself With an Audacious, Messy, Tightly Choreographed Action Flick
Imagining the reactions to Silent Night, John Woo’s first American outing in years as being labelled derivative is utterly laughable. If the film is derivative of anything, it’s John Woo stealing from…
Ena Sendijarevic's Sweet Dreams is a Carnivalesque Piece of Cinemas That Spares No One
How storytellers and filmmakers address pernicious evil is widely varied. For some verisimilitude and realism documenting atrocities is key. For others, such as writer/director Ena Sendijarevic, a fun…
Joaquin Phoenix’s Tired Napoleon Stretches the Idea of Common Knowledge into Fiction
There’s a comic by the artist Bestie which I saw as a kid, and it’s stuck with me ever since I first read it in Sunday morning cartoons. On the left is Napoleon laying on a bed, legs spread while José…