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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…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Perth indie filmmaker Levon J. Polinelli made a film, and then, one night, it was sto…
The new Australian documentary, Birth Time, focuses on the birthing process in Australia, taking a look at post-natal care, birth care, and how to improve birthing care for mothers, babies, partner…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. 2021 is already proving to be a landmark year for Australian film, with Robert Connolly’s The Dry and Glendyn Ivin’…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Robert Connolly’s masterwork thriller, The Dry, transfers Jane Harper’s best-selling novel to the silver screen wit…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On January 6th 2021, Jacob Angeli partook in an act that would confirm his place in the culture of memes. With the…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. For the 2016 Archibald Prize competition — awarding the best portrait paintings in Australia — the top honour was gi…
This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
2020, as has been heavily documented, was a difficult year for cinema as a whole. Australian cinema in particular was hampered by shuttered cinemas and confusing release schedules, with many iconic fi…
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
Powered by JustWatch From Photon Creative’s fauna-focused series, Tales from Sanctuary City, to the iconic Emmy award winning series Bluey, there’s been a steady increase in the amount of Austra…
Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…