Hot Mess Review - One of the Best Films of 2019
There’s been a rise in stories about millennial Sydney-siders struggling to live in the ever increasingly costly city. Early this year, the black and white Jarmusch-esque dramedy Chocolate Oyster expl…
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu Review - The Green, Left Leaning Video Game Film You Didn't Know You Needed
This review contains spoilers. Look, I don't know much about Pokémon other than people catch these wild creatures, trap them in electric balls of some kind, and then, when they wish to fight anot…
Aladdin Review - A Whole New World Indeed
In a recent episode of the Indiewire Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum director Chad Stahelski talks about the roll of the stunt co-ordinator. He explains about the way a st…
Champions Review - Well Meaning Comedy Misses the Net
There are not many comedies depicting people living with a disability. And for a good reason, with actors such as Ben Stiller and Johnny Knoxville playing to the lowest common denominator in their ass…
Thunder Road Review - Meet Jim Cummings, the Voice of Modern Independent American Cinema
Meet Jim Cummings: this generation’s Steven Soderbergh and Kevin Smith and David Gordon Green. A voice that has arrived to shake up and rattle the cage of independent American cinema. One that aims to…
Back of the Net Review
When asked to have a look at Back of the Net, my main motivation for doing so was a chance to interview the films director, Louise Alston (My first ever interview). In fact, I jumped at the chance. I…
How to Access the Criterion Channel in Australia
If you’re a fan of film and culture, then you’ve likely been aware of the life and death of Filmstruck, and then, Criterion Channel’s pseudo-phoenix like rise from the ashes. An apparent holy ground f…
The Oath Review
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Like standing in the eye of a hurricane, assessing every piece of debris flashing past your face, it often a fool’s…
Happy Death Day 2U Review
It’s always a risky proposition to stick more than one genre into a blender and expect something good to come out at the end. Two genres? Easy done. A pinnacle of the ‘two-genre’ fare is the horror-co…
Cold Pursuit Review
The basic narrative thrust of Cold Pursuit is as Liam Neeson as they come – the son of a snowplow driver is killed by a drug dealer, so the snowplow driver heads off on a path of revenge to take out t…
Green Book Review
Sitting down to watch Green Book in this current atmosphere of ‘cancel culture’ and supreme ‘woke-ness’ is to sit down with a film that you’ve possibly already made your mind up about. Well, that is,…
Instant Family Review - A Wonderful Embrace of the Family in All Forms
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On paper, Instant Family has all the ingredients for being a mess. It’s directed by Sean Anders – he of That’s My B…