My Old Ass in an Enriching Gift of a Coming-of-Age Tale
“I’ll show you what you're worth (that's what I'm gonna do) If you let me inside your world.” - Canadian folk poet Justin Bieber Elliott (Maisy Stella) is about to turn eighteen and in tw…
Comedy
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Daaaaaalí is a Glorious Oddity from Quentin Dupieux
Quentin Dupieux understands there is no such thing as Salvador Dalí. Once the mad Catalan decided he was going to become a walking paradox making grandiose statements about himself in the third person…
SUFF Interview: The Organist Filmmakers Andy Burkitt and Jack Braddy on Their Hilarious Cost of Organs Crisis Dark Comedy
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. The Organist screens at the Sydney Underground Film Festival…
Thelma is a Hilarious, Charming, and Huge-Hearted Triumph
“What would Tom Cruise do?” That is the question ninety-three-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) asks herself when she falls victim to a phone phishing scam. Thelma’s day-to-day routine post her rela…
When the school run turns deadly: darkly comic Aussiethriller ‘Buried’ to premiereon YouTube this September
PRESS RELEASE Frantales Productions is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Buried, a darkly funny new five-part digital series about the school drop-off run from hell. Supported by Screen A…
MIFF24: Scala!!! is an Unbelievable Yet Poignant Trip Back to the Lost Cinema
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…
MIFF24: Bookworm is a Charming and Magical Family-Friendly Adventure
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…
Mike Cheslik and Co Explain Why Hundreds of Beavers is the Mad Must See Indie Event of the Year
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…
MIFF24: Babes is Witty and Sweet With Its Heart in the Right Place
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…
Comedian Akmal Saleh on His Voice Acting Improv in 200% Wolf
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…
Deadpool & Wolverine Makes Scatology, Violence, Sarcasm and Unrelenting Fan Service the New MCU Benchmark
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…
Sydney Film Festival: 200% Wolf Director Alexs Stadermann and Star Ilai Swindells on Funny Farts in Films
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…