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Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look Real, navigates the intricacies of utilising an intimacy coordinator on the set of a film. Kate follows intimacy coordinator Claire Warden…
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…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particula…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's documentary A New Kind…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Documentarian Ian Darling's filmography includes a myriad…
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…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Filmmaker, critic, and cultural historian Bill Mousoulis has…
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 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…
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…
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.…
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…