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The screen's soaked with beer, the whole place shakes when the tubes run, the sound system's crap...but, we love it! - Mark Moore Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the Worl…
Ant Timpson’s blooming lovely Bookworm converts the most cynical of hearts and makes them believe in magic. A rare film that speaks to kids and adults with sincerity and without condescension. Idiosy…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. One of the smash hit films of the year on the festival circui…
Pamela Adlon’s Babes begins with one of the most unconcerned “she’s in labour” scenes in recent memory. Eden (Ilana Glazer, also one of the screenwriters) and the heavily pregnant Dawn (Michelle Butea…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Akmal Saleh is one of Australia's finest stand up comedia…
2018 was a dark time for the “Merc with a Mouth” (at least he has one in this iteration, although Wolverine: Origins has been referenced before). On the ‘sacred timeline’ The Avengers are assembling t…
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…
Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s Hit Man is witty, sexy, and side-splittingly funny. Although it must be said that the first conceit that anyone could find Glen Powell even in repressed academic Ga…
Lately, the rom-com genre hasn't been riding high, much to the disappointment of fans like myself. But then came Anyone But You last year, a breath of fresh air that reignited our love for rom-com…
Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is one of the most salacious movies of the year - turning the sport of tennis into a sexy thrill ride. The director's recent filmography has had him channel the m…
There is a very special pleasure in discovering a writer or director is simply cleverer than you are. Instead of harbouring resentment towards them, the correct response is to be curious and feel you’…
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…