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The Mardi Gras Film Festival returns this February with an array of fictional and documentary features and shorts, over a hundred all up. This year’s theme is the queer frontier, honouring our queer e…
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…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Perth's Revelation Film Festival has been partially delayed due to lockdowns, but that doesn't stop the films being talked about.…
Usually, at this time of year, I would be presenting a list of my favourite films of the previous year. In the past, I’ve created a separate Best Australian Films list and a combined overall Best Film…
The first feature film from director Samuel Van Grinsven pulls no punches in identifying that it is a homosexual film. The title card claims the film’s orientation and doesn’t wait for the audience to…
Oh this film, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story is a delight. A wonderful gem of a film about musician Glenn Copeland and his album, Keyboard Fantasies, and the impact it had on…
Powered by JustWatch The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely rec…
It doesn’t take long for Shakedown, Leilah Weinraub’s documentary about the LA lesbian dance scene in the 90’s and 00’s, to remind viewers how heavily gendered LGBTIQ+ mainstream documentaries are tow…
One of the more curious elements of the genuinely uplifting documentary Gay Chorus Deep Southcomes during the credits. You’ll have to wait a bit for it, long after every member of the over three-hundr…
Queer Screen’s 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival (Festival) is set to host several exciting international filmmakers between 13 – 27 February, with many holding masterclasses or participating on panels in…
Cloudy River, a modern romantic drama about a couple, one of them pansexual, whose open relationship is put to the test when they move in together, will premiere at the Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Fe…
It was only just the other day when I was talking about the changes in the Australian film and TV landscape, with short films and webseries flourishing. The shorter formats have allowed for some fasci…