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Travis Akbar·May 1, 2020·4 min read

Cook’s Legacy and the Modern Polly’s Folly

Given that acceptance of Aboriginal existence pre-colonisation has been so much later than it should have been, I found it...

Simone Grogan·September 2, 2019·3 min read

The Nightingale Review – An intense, Breathtaking and Essential piece of Australian Film.

The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent returns for her second directorial feature with The Nightingale – an incredibly raw depiction of Colonial...

Andrew F Peirce·April 16, 2019·5 min read

What Australia Can Learn from the Destruction of Notre Dame

Worldwide cultural heritage was harmed with the devastating destruction of the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Footage of the...

Travis Johnson·January 23, 2020·3 min read

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)...

Andrew F Peirce·July 29, 2019·22 min read

AUSgust – The Second Annual Australian Film Month is Here!

A year ago we kicked off the first annual celebration of Australian films – AUSgust. A whole month dedicated to...

Andrew F Peirce·February 22, 2019·3 min read

We Don’t Need a Map Review

Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life...

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23 hours 31 minutes ago

Josh Margolin’s THELMA is a marvellous, witty, smart, and wholeheartedly charming affair. A sublime mixture of comedy and affection for

Thelma is a Hilarious, Charming, and Huge-Hearted Triumph

"What would Tom Cruise do?" Nadine Whitney reviews Josh Margolin's THELMA for The Curb.

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The Curb

5 days 23 hours ago

LAST SUMMER is an indictment of bourgeois morality and respectability in keeping with Catherine Breillat’s sensibilities. Starring Léa Druker and

With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Once Again Provokes Ideas of Hypocrisy and Morality - The Curb

Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with Last Summer (L’été dernier), an interpretation of the Danish film, Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) ...

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The Curb

6 days 30 minutes ago

KNEECAP is fecking fantastic and searingly smart. It certainly should come with a warning of “Do Not Try This at

Kneecap is the Craic – It’s Brave, Bold, Ridiculous, and Relentless - The Curb

“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for freedom.” Fuck up it is! Rich Peppiatt’s hyper-kinetic Kneecap is A Hard Day’s Night for the North of Ireland and the hip hop generation. A little bit true and a lot untrue version of the formation of the Irish language hip hop West Belfast t...