2024: A Hard Year for Australian Films
Right, there’s no beating around the bush: 2024 was a hard year for Australian films. An engaged film critic should hold their local film industry to account, with the following piece delving into th…
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We Live in Time Director John Crowley Talks About Working with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in This Interview
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. For this chat, Andrew catches up with Irish director John Cro…
Kate Winslet on Bringing the True Story of Lee Miller to Life on Screen
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Our second discussion is with Academy Award winning actress K…
Gabrielle LaBelle & Jason Reitman on Revisiting American Comedy History with Saturday Night
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Welcome to the first episode of our summer series of chats wh…
Whose Pain is it Anyway? The Monumental and Modest Humanity of A Real Pain
But isn’t everyone in pain somehow. I mean, look at what happened to our families. Look at where we came from. I mean, who isn’t… you know, who isn’t wrought? David Kaplan Jesse Eisenberg’s first fe…
Reinas is a Caring, Tender, and Joyous Peruvian Drama
Reinas (Queens) is a caring, tender, and joyous Peruvian drama that celebrates those who strive for a better life. Following two young sisters, Aurora and Lucía, who reconnect with their absent father…
Capturing Memories in Klaudia Reynicke’s Peruvian Drama Reinas (Queens)
Two young Peruvian sisters are about to leave their country forever in 1992 when they unexpectedly reconnect with their absent father. By turns stressful, joyous, generous, funny, and quietly terrify…
Vermiglio is a Rich Tapestry of Human Sensibility
Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…
Charles Williams' Inside Unlocked with New Trailer
PRESS RELEASE Bonsai Films has launched the official trailer for crime thriller INSIDE, the debut feature film from award-winning writer-director Charles Williams, whose short film All These Creature…
Todd Haynes: “What Happened This Summer was Tough”
Filmmaker Todd Haynes spoke about his aborted project with Joaquin Phoenix during an in-depth conversation at the Marrakech International Film Festival. “What happened this summer was tough,” Haynes…
In the Trenches Director Benjamin Scotford on Documenting the Muddy Battlefields of Esperance
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. With his feature documentary debut In the Trenches: The Makin…
John Magaro on the Burden and Responsibility of Bearing Witness in September 5
Centred around the ABC Olympic Sports reporting team being on the ground in Munich in 1972 during the Israeli hostage crisis, September 5 is a propulsive vérité style film. New York sports producer Ge…