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Each year brings new short films that push the format of filmmaking into powerful, important directions. Alongside The Moogai, The Recordist, and Two Sands, is the searing and devastating documentary…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. When the sound of a notification bell goes off in black-comedy Zola, you know one of two things: 1. A verbatim me…
With Boiling Point, director Philip Barantini crafts a remarkable one-shot film about a chef in a successful restaurant who is on the edge of personal and professional ruin. Andy Jones (Stephen Graham…
Lilias Fraser isn’t the household name you would think she would have earned after watching Jane Castle’s recent documentary, When the Camera Stopped Rolling, whose mother the film centres around. Lil…
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Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's film, Memory Box, about intergenerational trauma could have been an abso…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Over six years, filmmakers Franc…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. I had an odd moment of realisation partway through this: that I, an Indian person based in Australia, was watching…
Before the colonisation of Australia had occurred, Europeans developed their own lexicon for what they believed existed on the other side of the earth, which they colloquially referred to as the antip…
The British Film Festival returns this year with a stacked array of thirty-one fascinating films and marvelous performances. The opening feature is the Australian premiere of The Duke, a hilarious and…
Drift and stillness. That’s what defines the experience of watching Australian James Vaughan’s debut feature, which he writes, directs and edits. The film meanders through various vignettes in a langui…
When history was made in 2008 with the discovery of the wreckage of HMAS Sydney (II), I’m ashamed to say that my collective response was ‘ok, so what?’. Newspapers tried to distill decades of mystery,…