Indigenous Cinema

The Moogai Director Jon Bell Talks Aboriginal Horror Filmmaking, Creating a New Generation of Filmmakers, and Working With Family in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Nov 6, 2021 25 min read

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Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Every so often, a horror film emerges that leaves you shaking and in tears. Not figuratively either. The Moogai qui…

High Ground Review - A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History

Andrew F Peirce Dec 30, 2020 10 min read

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Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…

Emu Runner Review - A Competent Look at Fractured Familial Relationships

Travis Akbar Sep 24, 2019 2 min read

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Having premiered at Adelaide Film Festival in 2018, Emu Runner, helmed by Imogen Thomas in her feature film debut, is a story about how a mother’s death affects an Aboriginal family living in an isola…

In My Blood it Runs Review - An Important and Educational Documentary

Travis Akbar Sep 10, 2019 3 min read

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Back in August of 2019, Pauline Hanson decided she’d travel to the NT to climb Uluru, regardless of what Anangu people wanted. In a great form of irony, Hanson got stuck and had to be rescued, swiftly…

The Tracker Review - An Important, Beautiful, and Haunting Story of Indigenous Australia

Travis Akbar Aug 15, 2019 4 min read

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For #AUSgust – the Australian Film Month – I’ve decided to write about a film that I saw for the first time only recently. It’s seventeen years old, and I have no idea why I haven’t seen it by now. It…

One Night the Moon Review - A Thematically Relevant Outback Opera

Andrew F Peirce Jul 31, 2019 8 min read

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Amidst the deceptive darkness of the wide open outback, the moon hangs high in the sky like a beacon, luring a young girl from her bedroom and into a world she knows little about. Startled out of her…

Art of Incarceration Review - Honest and Eye Opening

Travis Akbar Jun 19, 2019 2 min read

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In 2018, a report written by Sophie Russell and Chris Cunneen stated that Indigenous Incarceration has increased by 45% in the last decade – that’s from 2008 -2018. We make up under 3% of the populati…

Saving Warru Review - An Important Message About Conservation in Australia

Travis Akbar Jun 17, 2019 2 min read

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In March 2019, Helen Davidson from The Guardian wrote an alarming article, it was titled “Record Numbers of Australian Wildlife Species Face Imminent Extinction”. Just the title is enough to make you…

Ten Films You Need to See at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival

Andrew F Peirce May 8, 2019 5 min read

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The Sydney Film Festival line up has launched, and it’s as extensive and exhaustive as you’d ever expect. As is the case with this being one of the major, most prestigious festivals in Australia, ther…

Miranda Tapsell - Challenge Accepted

Travis Akbar May 1, 2019 8 min read

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Neil Patrick Harris would be proud. The legen… wait-for-it… dary Barney Stinson persona that Harris wore so well in How I Met Your Mother has been taken up by none other than – Larrakia actress Mirand…

We Don't Need a Map Review

Andrew F Peirce Feb 22, 2019 3 min read

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Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life via cinema. From Samson & Delilah to Sweet Country, he strings a bow that links t…

Samson & Delilah Review - Sadly Timeless

Travis Akbar Nov 8, 2018 4 min read

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Every now and then a film comes along that, for you, will never become irrelevant. The themes that it carries, the messages it sends, the honesty and compassion it expresses just align with what you f…