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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…
Christopher Doyle is a pioneer of cinematography in Australia and the world, who continuously attempts to live outside the rigid norms that society deems fit as seen in Ted McDonnell’s latest document…
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…
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…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Marvel Studios have occasionally made some canny choices with directors for its major franchise features. Giving th…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Halloween Kills came out in the United States on October 15, but Australia’s release was just short of two weeks af…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. I’ve been away, if you hadn’t noticed. Full disclosure: I managed to get my first ever full-time job, and coupled w…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. I broke into a wide smile at the opening title of Antlers, being a quote recited in what I assumed was a First Nati…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. AMC/Shudder's 2019 documentary Horror Noire: A History Of Black Horror became instant essential viewing for any…