Adelaide Film Festival Review: Blitz
Blitz, Steve McQueen’s story of World War II London is a functional drama illustrating the different ‘Londons’ suffering under the terrifying blitzkrieg bombing by the Luftwaffe. Blitz is not the leve…
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Small Things Like These Sees Cillian Murphy Deliver Another Soulful and Sincere Performance
Small Things Like These directed by Tim Mielants is the second Claire Keegan adaptation from novella to screen. The Irish author’s moving social realist tales lend themselves to subtle and intimate in…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Order
Justin Kurzel is terrified about the state of the world. He’s terrified about the impact of violence from those who inflict it upon society, others, and themselves. He’s terrified of how easily the pa…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill
The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Maria
“Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore.” Maria the final film in Pablo Larraín’s trilogy of twentieth century iconic women proves one thing about the Chilean director: he knows how to cast a leading la…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: All We Imagine As Light
Tender and beautifully observed Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is part of a turning point in Indian cinema where the lives of women are given the spotlight. Like Shuchi Talati's 2024 Girl…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Emilia Pérez
“If you listen. You accept.” Jacques Audiard’s genre mixing musical rises from the streets of Mexico with a blistering rage. Sinners, saints, and martyrs merge in a struggle for salvation – a moment…
Black Box Diaries: Shiori Itō’s Unyielding Fight for Justice, Empowering Survivors, and Exposing the Failures of the Japanese Legal System
Black Box Diaries screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 30 October Shiori Itō’s story is not just one of resilience; it’s an unflinching act of courage that left me shaken, inspired, and…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her late…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Actor Dacre Montgomery on Went Up the Hill
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
Saturday Night is Poignant Pandemonium and an Exhilarating Jump Back in Time
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…