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Sissy, written and directed by Australian duo Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, is a brutal yet often chillingly funny examination of influencer culture and how much our collective dopamine levels are ele…
Australian director Sophie Hyde has utilised the notion of sex as a manner to gain self-knowledge in her three feature films. In her debut feature 52 Tuesdays sixteen-year-old Billie (Tilda Cobham-Her…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Prey stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a Comanche woman livi…
No matter how many adjectives one applies to David Bowie there will never be a single descriptor that can encompass him. Genius, icon, iconoclast, chameleon, polymath, enigma, innovator – the man was…
Writer/director Jordan Peele made one of the best horror films of the 21st century with his excoriating debut Get Out in 2017. Fearless and uncompromising in its vision to create a genre driven social…
The latest frenzied actioner from director David Leitch - Bullet Train (adapted from 2010 novel MariaBeetle) - is an inoffensive yet lengthy sketch of an Edgar Wright meets Tarantino thriller. Brad P…
Thomas M. Wright is quickly becoming the Australian master of cinematic discomfort. In his debut film 2018’s Acute Misfortune he created an indelible film about the Australian artist Adam Cullen and h…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. This was incredibly difficult to write. It’s not a good sign if a 2000 word spoiler review for Jurassic World: Dominion can come so easily f…
Quake screens at the 2022 Scandinavian Film Festival. Visit the website for screening details. Based on the 2015 novel ‘Grand Mal’ by Auður Jónsdóttir, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir’s film Quake is part family…
Trigger warning: This review contains mention of violence against women. Despite its marshland setting, there is a sterilised and dirt-free quality to Olivia Newman’s adaptation of the best-selling D…
John Michael McDonagh, director of the superb drama Calvary, returns to his themes of hypocrisy and excess in his latest and most expensive feature, The Forgiven. Set in Morocco instead of his native…
Argentinian directing duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat take no prisoners in their biting and comical film industry satire, Official Competition. Even the film’s title belies the levels of irony they…