The Set Review - Important, Invaluable, but Not Good
Powered by JustWatch The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely rec…
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Discussing Diversity With Annie Murtagh-Monks: The Heights, Casting, and the Global Financial Crisis
The legacy of Annie Murtagh-Monks precedes her. Her casting work on movies like Japanese Storyand Rabbit Proof Fence, and TV shows like Ship to Shore and Sweat, helped bring a welcome and much needed…
Perth's Australian Revelations 2020 Season Launches with a Film That's Out of This World
It’s insane to think that it’s been twenty years since the iconic Aussie film, The Dish, arrived on screens around the world. It’s even madder to think that it’s been fifty-one years since the events…
In My Blood It Runs Interview with Director Maya Newell
Andrew caught up with documentary filmmaker Maya Newell to discuss her new film, In My Blood it Runs. This is the powerful feature about 0-yr-old Arrernte Aboriginal boy Dujuan as he grows up Alice…
Undertow Review - An Extraordinary Film About the Complexities of Being a Woman in a Male-Dominated World
Undertow is an extraordinary piece of slice-of-life cinema that investigates the lengths people will go to deal with trauma and loss. Writer/Director Miranda Nation follows the lives of four people —…
The Leunig Fragments Review - An Elegy Stage Managed By Its Subject
Michael Leunig is one of 79 Australian National Living Treasures. There are certainly some august and worthy names on the list, like Barry Jones, Judy Davis, Julian Burnside, Evonne Goolagong Cawley,…
New Aussie film Wild Butterfly Reveals Claire Murray's Devastating Untold Story
Disturbing new information about the life of controversial Perth liver transplant recipient Claire Murray has been exposed nearly a decade after her tragic death. The documentary-drama Wild Butterfly…
Interview with The Leunig Fragments Director Kasimir Burgess - On Idols, Filmmaking, and Becoming Michael Leunig
I awake at 6am and lay in bed waiting for the moment where my body will drag me out of bed and to the kitchen to prepare a coffee. My dogs’ batteries have sufficiently recharged overnight and my movin…
Cloudy River to Premiere at Queer Screen's 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival
Cloudy River, a modern romantic drama about a couple, one of them pansexual, whose open relationship is put to the test when they move in together, will premiere at the Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Fe…
WA Made Film Festival Kicks Off with a Stellar Homegrown Lineup
We’re all big fans of Australian cinema here at The Curb, and given I’m based in WA, I’m particularly fond of West Aussie made films. Which is part of the reason why I’m so excited about the line-up a…
Hot Mess Coming To Cinemas And Digital Platforms
“One of the best films of 2019...it’s immediately clear that Lucy Coleman is one of the most exciting new voices in Australian cinema.” The Curb “Hot Mess was inspired by my own head spin of a crisis…
True History of the Kelly Gang Review - The War Between Ned Kelly the Man and Ned Kelly the Idea Writ Large
Early on in the proceedings of Justin Kurzel’s iconoclastic take on Australia’s favourite outlaw legend, young Ned Kelly (Orlando Schwerdt) watches furtively as his mother, Ellen (Essie Davis doing a…