Pixar’s Toy Story 5 embraces familiar warmth to tackle childhood in the digital age
Toy Story 5 feels like a natural next step for a franchise that has proved its relevance for over three decades.…
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MIFF Review: Michel Gondry’s whimsical stop-motion adventure Maya, Give Me a Title is a labour of paternal love
Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a s…
Robert Connolly & Alison Lester Talk About Journeying Down to Magic Beach in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this final chat in the series, Andrew catches up with pro…
Adam Elliot & Sarah Snook Talk About Bringing Heart to their Mollusk-motion Flick Memoir of a Snail to Life
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. On this episode, Andrew catches up with Academy Award winning…
Sydney Film Festival: 200% Wolf Director Alexs Stadermann and Star Ilai Swindells on Funny Farts in Films
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. There's space in this Bluey obsessed world for two Aussie…
Is Inside Out 2 Pixar's Anxiety Meltdown?
Inside Out 2 has no space to be what it is – an acceptable Pixar film which expends most of its charm and energy in the first third of the film and then dips drastically before rallying again. It’s no…
Kung Fu Panda 4 Sees the Series Skew Towards a Lighter Tone for the Better
In the first three Kung Fu Panda movies, titular panda Po travelled to the spirit world, conquered the most fearsome foes, and became the hero of the Valley of Peace. Knowing all that, you’d think tha…
Carl Joseph Papa Talks About How Richard Linklater Influenced His Rotoscoped Animated Film The Missing in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Listeners should note that the following interview contains d…
Inspector Sun is a Poirot-Inspired Tale That will Make Kids and Adults Reach for the Bug Spray
Inspector Sun is an animated family-comedy spinning a flimsy web of mystery, adventure, and insect intrigue. The Hercule Poirot inspired detective tale is more akin to Jacques Clouseau, but lacking th…
The Canterville Ghost is an Ugly Animated Insult to the Aesthete who Penned the Original Tale
Very loosely based on the short story by Oscar Wilde of the same name, Kim Burdon and Robert Chandler’s The Canterville Ghost is a slight adaptation of what was a simultaneously a satire on American m…
Bird Drone Director Radheya Jegatheva Talks About Perth Sunsets and Seagulls in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Radheya Jegatheva is a Perth based filmmaker. His work includ…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a Chaotic and Lively Outing for the Heroes in a Half Shell
There have been so many iterations of Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles it would be nigh on impossible to list them. From the self-published early eighties comic riffing on…