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This article was original published in 2024. Few filmmakers have explored the human condition through technology and biology as David Cronenberg. Long a fan of blending experimental technology with t…
Andrew Dominik has long occupied an unusual position in Australian cinema. After his breakthrough with Chopper in 2000, Dominik’s career has been forged almost entirely in the glare of American myth.…
Giles Chan's Jellyfish was one of the cinematic revelations that I experienced during 2025. It's a film about a man, Henry, played with grounded depression by Aidan Rynne, who earns mone…
Even though we're only five days into the new year, one of the standout shows for 2026 is the ABC adaptation of Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia. This glorious animation carries a s…
Academy award winning actor Kate Winslet makes the leap to directing duties with her feature debut film Goodbye June. Kate has talked about what reading her son Joe Anders script meant to her, and why…
Sophie Somerville is an Australian emerging filmmaker whose short films Linda 4 Eva and Peeps made waves at film festivals around the world. Now with her feature film debut Fwends, winner of the Berli…
In this podcast, Nadine Whitney speaks with documentarians Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas about the extraordinary documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Journey Home, David Gulpilil is a…
Writer-Director Adrian Ortega's Westgate follows Netta (Sarah Nicolazzo) and her son Julian (Max Nappo) as she embarks on a torturous day of navigating hospitals, family, cultural prejudices, and…
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Aussie genre filmmaking legend Kiah Roache-Turner is back with his latest fli…
“Australia has some great comedy,” says Kyle Marvin. “You guys are doing it right.” “Yeah,” agrees Marvin’s collaborator, Michael Angelo Corvino. “We were really disappointed not to make it over to t…
Bina Bhattacharya is a creative storyteller whose work I've been following for a while now. Her 2017 short film Wild Dances embraced music and cultural identity against the backdrop of Eurovision,…