Soaring on the Wings of Eagles: Chariots of Fire at 40
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Academy Awards are no stranger to controversy, as this year's ceremony attests, generating heated think-pie…
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1939 Best Picture Nominee: Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch) – Awards Don’t Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The deserving Best Picture winner of 1939, Ernst Lubitsch's masterful Ninotchka, gets a deep dive discussion in…
1939 Best Picture Winner: Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. A long epic Best Picture winner deserves a long epic discussion. It's Gone With the Wind time as Dave and Andre…
The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Review: Lady Day Takes the Stage in Tepid Biopic
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The United States Vs. Billie Holiday (TUSVBH) is a film of soft fades, saturated lighting and Hallmark-esque dialo…
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1938 Best Picture Nominee: Grand Illusion [La Grande Illusion] (Jean Renoir) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. <br <center> 'This is why I'm obsessed with movies' - Dave We reach a monumental moment in t…
1938 Best Picture Winner: You Can't Take it With You (Frank Capra) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. We return to the world of Frank Capra with his second Best Picture winner, You Can't Take it With You. Co-hosts…
1937 Best Picture Nominee: A Star is Born (William A. Wellman) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The first version of A Star is Born features the first ever Best Actress winner, Janet Gaynor, and Frederic March,…
1937 Best Picture Winner: The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle) - Awards Don't Matter
Truth becomes fiction in William Dieterle's biopic of the famed French author, Emile Zola, in the 10th Best Picture winner, the creatively titled The Life of Emile Zola. With a narrative that e…
The Father Review - A Beautiful Film that Induces Renewed Love for Parents
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Father showcases the horrors of dementia with standout performances by its lead actors. First-time director Flo…
Judas and the Black Messiah Review - An Arresting Picture that Strips Away White-Manufactured Stories of Black History
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. All that I had known about Fred Hampton before seeing Judas and the Black Messiah at the preview screening at Luna…
1936 Best Picture Winner: The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Welcome to the episode where Dave says the fateful line, 'I outright refuse to ever watch (this) again'. Y…
1935 Best Picture Nominee: Top Hat (Mark Sandrich) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Gosh, after that rather well executed sojourn into darkness with Mutiny on the Bounty, it feels appropriate to give…