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With their new three-part series Australia: An Unofficial History, SBS have cracked open the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) vault and brought forth the long forgotten Australian government fil…
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu is an actor, writer, and director from Aotearoa. We Were Dangerous starring Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall, and the great Rima Te Wiata was her debut feature and w…
“You don’t know my suffering. You don’t know my pain… I’m not a well woman.” – Pansy Although I imagine the great social realist Mike Leigh would be horrified, while I was watching Marianne Jean-Bapt…
From Ramsay Street to Hollywood Boulevard, Australian actor Guy Pearce has a wide and varied career. With an Academy Award nomination for his role as Harrison Van Buren in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist…
Writer/director Charles Williams is one of Australia’s strongest emerging filmmakers. With a Short Film Palme d’Or under his belt for 2018’s All These Creatures the arrival of his debut full length fe…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Listeners should note that the following interview contains discussions about…
I’m sitting in my poorly airconditioned Melbourne apartment waiting to speak to the superbly talented just seventeen-year-old Vincent Miller. We’re connected via Zoom, and I ask Vincent where he is fr…
Nature’s an easy place to idealise. Both the tortured artist’s getaway of preference and where wayward souls (at least in movies) go for renewed purpose, nature keeps us honest—or so we like to believ…
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. We Forgot to Break Up tells the story of fictional Canadian band The New Norm…
There is a fairy tale sweetness to Julia Jackman’s queer coming of age film Bonus Track that makes the relatively rote storyline charming rather than grating. Written by Mike Gilbert from a story by J…
“The worst of men, they’ve got a little bit of good in them and that will be their undoing.” Charles Williams’ brutal and blazing Australian prison drama Inside is underscored by its immense humanism…