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Readers are advised that this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died. There’s a certain level of expectation that comes with true crime documentaries. With the echo of the tone…
The Queer Screen Film Festival has always held a soft spot in my heart. In 2006, my friend Loren and I decided that we would each choose a film from that year’s QueerDoc program, and the other person…
All too often the public hears of tortured artists whose lives were cut too short and David McComb tragically fulfilled this prophecy. McComb, best known as the lead singer of Australian band The Trif…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On September 15th 2021, former attorney general Christian Porter revealed that part of his defamation legal fees ha…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Complicated cinema is a tricky beast. It moves in the shadows, questioning the darkest aspects of humanity, unveili…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Skewing an old joke into ‘if it’s baroque, don’t fix it’ is more apt than most when it comes to Sicilian homewares…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. It is known that Nicolas Cage is one of the most unique, unpredictable, and mysterious actors working today, even w…
Stranger (Storonniy) is playing as part of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, from Sept 9 to Sept 26 2021. Details here. Stranger (Storonniy) opens with a quote from The Outsider, a creepily poign…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. An Ideal Host is playing as part of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, from Sept 9 to Sept 26 2021. Details here. An Ideal Host starts…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. James Ashcroft’s debut feature length film, Coming Home in the Dark, which played at this year’s Sundance film festival, shows that humans…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Directed and co-written by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, Just Mercy), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten R…
Kasey Chambers. Lee Kernigan. Slim Dusty. Wanita. These are the many faces of Australian country music, a genre that has changed over the decades. Figurehead after figurehead has emerged, breaking in…