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When you mention the word ‘Australia’ to anyone who lives outside this sunburnt country, there’s a fairly good chance you’re going to get a response about how everything there wants to kill you. Wheth…
It’s LFF day four and Sarah Polley shows us some Women Talking, in her gripping character driven drama, Aubrey Plaza employs some desperate measures to make ends meet in Emily the Criminal, and Patton…
Sam Rogers rollercoaster ride of a web series Discontent is a short-form look at a group of millennials linked to one another through their phones and social media. With a rip-roaring level of comedy,…
Sophie Hyde’s work as a filmmaker has gone from strength to strength with a body of work in short form documentaries and fiction films before moving into feature films with the highly acclaimed drama…
Argentinian directing duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat take no prisoners in their biting and comical film industry satire, Official Competition. Even the film’s title belies the levels of irony they…
The name Charles Carson might mean little to most people, but to the rural town he lived in in the UK, he was a familiar friendly face with. Charles would share stories of his life on the farm by taki…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Watch Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites on RevOnDemand here. The act of connect…
Indie filmmaker Rowan Devereux turns his gaze to the trials and tribulations of Sydney’s turbulent rental market with his feature debut Evicted! A Modern Romance, with the newly unemployed Maggie (Ama…
I’d wager that almost everyone remembers the first time they saw Nicolas Cage on screen for the first time. For me it was Martha Coolidge’s 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl. I don’t remember the femal…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In 2022, the idea of the multiverse seems like a high concept of days gone. Audiences ha…
Patrick Marlborough (they/them) is a writer, a comedian, a Rove stan, and bipolar autistic whose new show Killing Rove recently played to sold out audiences at Perth’s Fringe Festival. Before heading…
One of the finest writers spinning words in Australia right now is Patrick Marlborough. You've read their work on The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Vice, Rolling Stone, and have seen their Twitte…