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In a small coastal town on the Faroe Islands, a compact factory thrums away. Inside, a steel-faced Kári (Sámal H. Hansen) toils away amongst other factory workers, gutting fish in time with the rhythm…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Writer-director Domini Marshall is a talent on the rise. With short films lik…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Daniel Bibby's short film Half Past Midnight follows two strangers - Harp…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Nadine Whitney gets her life thrown upside down with Jane Austen Wrecked My L…
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…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. I remember sitting in the Mercury at the Adelaide Film Festival and watching…
A person who promised forever elects to turn unfaithful, knowing full well the shame and hurt they will inflict on their spouse. It's not an uncommon situation, but variance springs from how the v…
If you had the power to change your ethnicity, would you? That is the question filmmaker Amy Wang poses in her debut feature, Slanted. She introduces us to Joan Huang [Shirley Chen], a Chinese Ameri…
The Surfer opens with a tense, slow buildup, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was watching a sloth move in slow motion rather than anything that kept me at the edge of my seat. The premise has pote…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Kelly Schilling's feature debut film With or Without You is the powerful…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. One of the more exciting news points in recent weeks has been the announcemen…
This review contains spoilers for Vulcanizadora and Buzzard. Vulcanizadora is a gnarly word, one that–out of context–suggests a fury of rage and violence at the centre of a chaos of noise, conjuring…