Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing
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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness
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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Ian Darling on The Pool
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The A to Z of What to Watch at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival
Radelaide is rolling out the red carpet once again for the annual Adelaide Film Festival running from 22 October to 2 November with over 112 films on offer. The Curb digs into the films you should put…
My Darling in Stirling Director Bill Mousoulis Talks About Creating a Musical in the Adelaide Hills in This Interview
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Emu Runner Review - A Competent Look at Fractured Familial Relationships
Having premiered at Adelaide Film Festival in 2018, Emu Runner, helmed by Imogen Thomas in her feature film debut, is a story about how a mother’s death affects an Aboriginal family living in an isola…
A Letter to the President - Adelaide Film Festival Review
A letter to the President is a film that follows the story of Soraya (Leena Alam) whom is the head of the Kabul Crime Division. She is called to an incident where she is forced to protect a young woma…
The Nightingale - Adelaide Film Festival Review
In 2014 Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released. The ultra-creepy Australian film was her first feature and it was the highest of quality. The film won a host of awards as did the director. It’s a h…
Island of the Hungry Ghosts - Adelaide Film Festival Review
Poh Lin Lee is a trauma counsellor who lives on Christmas Island with her family. Her job consists of assisting the asylum seekers who have been detained in the detention centre on the remote island.…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Adelaide Film Festival Review
I don’t like Coen brothers’ films. I did not like Fargo, I hated The Big Lebowski (yea that’s right, I said it, dude), I was not a fan of O Brother, Where art Thou? The Ladykillers was a complete bore…
Hotel Mumbai - Adelaide Film Festival Review
In November of 2008, four terrorists entered the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. They began to massacre everyone they came across. Without going into too much detail, the siege lasted over 60…