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PRESS RELEASE Australia’s best screen talent flocked to the Gold Coast for the 2025 AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel Group and hosted by AACTA President Russell Crowe. The night featured performances…
An interviewer asks Sandra Pankhurst, the subject of Lachlan McLeod’s documentary Clean what she would like to be remembered for. Sandra answers “Being kind, nothing more, nothing less.” After the pub…
Lilias Fraser isn’t the household name you would think she would have earned after watching Jane Castle’s recent documentary, When the Camera Stopped Rolling, whose mother the film centres around. Lil…
Documentaries are often made in the editing room, where the point of view and directorial intentions are honed, finessed and corralled into the final product that we call a ‘complete movie’. In the ca…
Welcome to the fourth anniversary of AUSgust: the month dedicated to celebrating all things Australian cinema! We here at The Curb dedicate the month of August to highlighting a wide array of Aussie…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The new Australian drama, Unsound, has arrived with a well-earned accolade – a Best Indie Film nomination at the 2020 AACTA Awards – as wel…
We’re going to have to get used to the obligatory mention of the current pandemic when it comes to articles about awards discussions and the like, given how much of a disruption this whole Covid thing…
We're a little late in posting this truly excellent press release, but better late than never! Fresh off its AACTA Awards qualifying run, the superb Aussie indie comedy Hot Mess is available right…
The 2020 AACTA awards are coming in hot, with a Covid-afflicted ceremony to be held in November, replete with staggered sittings to ensure guest safety in a limited capacity. As we near the ten year a…
The Daughter is an exquisite rendering of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck set in a small logging community in rural NSW, Simon Stone’s first feature is remarkably assured as it transposes Ibsen’s tragedy…
Rachel Griffiths directorial debut, Ride Like a Girl, will end up as being the highest grossing (domestic) Australian film of 2019. This is the retelling of the story of Michelle Payne, the first woma…
British journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy became one of the most ridiculed interviewers of the decade when he pushed director Quentin Tarantino on the relationship between the violence in his films and…