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For some of us, the sight of an Excel spreadsheet fills us with dread, but for an elite group of competitors, they see the blank cells of one of Microsoft’s core applications as a challenge to be conq…
Australia, and the world, is lucky to have her majesty of horror Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. A scholar, a fan, an award-winning author, a community builder, and a generous champion of filmmakers, w…
It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where…
There’s something quietly shattering about GEN_, something that lodges under your skin and hums there for days. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, this deeply intimate documentary slips past rhetoric and…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. 'The front fell off.' The 94 metre 100 metre track. Fred Dagg. 24 yea…
The Castlemaine Documentary Festival (C-Doc) kicks off its annual event from 4 July through to 6 July 2025, housed in Castlemaine, Victoria’s stunning Theatre Royal. The festival takes over the street…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Abebe Butterfly Song is a documentary that starts as a narrative exploration…
Revelation Film Festival Interview: Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Co-directors Richard Moore and John Dogg…
What does magick mean to you? It’s the sum total of my life. “Gen’s most provocative work was unconditional love” – David Jay. Brion Gyson’s Dream Machine spins and Genesis P-Orridge begins to narr…
Vital Alsar was an adventurer and a scientist. In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, after being inspired by the attempted journey of the Kon-Tiki by fellow sailor Thor Heyerdahl, Vital led an e…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Judith Hancock has always felt that was different from her siblings. Having s…
One of the most ambitious titles at this year's Sydney Film Festival is unequivocally Death of an Undertaker. It is an experimental fusion of truth and invention. It centres on Sparrow, an underli…