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Film distributor A24’s brand identity has crystallised into surreal, stylish dramas with a touch of misery. Their latest release, Dream Scenario, is exactly that. So in that sense, the film is almost…
Before we dig into 2023, let’s take a short jump back to October 2021. Stage 1 of the Australian Feature Film Summit (AFFS) was taking place online, providing producers, distributors, exhibitors, and…
For Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch, when he dances for his family and friends in the spotlights of car in a stunning gold dress in Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black), echoing the power and stre…
The Iron Claw releases in Australian cinemas on 18 January 2024. The qualification “Inspired by a True Story,” does a lot of heavy lifting in Sean Durkin’s American tragedy The Iron Claw a film based…
“The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice.” – Rudolf Höss Hannah Arendt famously coined the term “The banality of evil” when ruminating on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, who had fam…
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is an adaptation of Erasure a postmodern literary satire written in 2001 by Percival Everett. Over twenty years later and the issues Everett raised about the commodif…
“Love will make you crazy, Eileen. You’ll probably never understand that.” Jim Dunlop Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) lives in small town 1960s Massachusetts. She’s twenty-four-years-old. She has n…
There is a certain absurdity about celebrating Christmas in Australia with all the Northern Hemisphere trimmings. It’s hot. People are exhausted. Roasting a turkey on a day where the temperature can b…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Aussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with hi…
Comments made on the racism still inherent in New Zealand Aotearoa by Taika Waititi incited a lot of push back. Isn’t New Zealand just the pleasant little country where Peter Jackson made The Lord of…
How storytellers and filmmakers address pernicious evil is widely varied. For some verisimilitude and realism documenting atrocities is key. For others, such as writer/director Ena Sendijarevic, a fun…
There’s a comic by the artist Bestie which I saw as a kid, and it’s stuck with me ever since I first read it in Sunday morning cartoons. On the left is Napoleon laying on a bed, legs spread while José…