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Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound (2025) is a reminder that ‘home’ in India is not always a place of refuge—it can be a site of exclusion and humiliation. The title plays on an uncomfortable duality: to be h…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. In their first conversation Nadine and Virat speak about two films which are…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. 'Art is labour'. This is a statement from composer Jung Jae-il, the m…
It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where…
The blazing opening scene of the McManus Brothers’ science fiction thriller Redux Redux promises a white-knuckle ride: a promise that it keeps while revealing a deep sense of humanity and longing whic…
PRESS RELEASE The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has tonight unveiled the winners of its Academy Awards® accredited and BAFTA qualifying, MIFF Shorts Awards for 2025. Winners were annou…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. When documentarian Shalom Almond received access to document a group of women…
Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a s…
“You look at film history and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre needs to be up there as one of the greatest films ever made.” - Alexandre O. Philippe. Alexandre O. Philippe makes documentaries that absorb…
New Year’s Eve 1999 and anaesthetist Minnie (Emily Browning) starts her day with a reminder that she’s not got her life together in the manner she thought she would have. Her patient in obstetrics tur…
Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kot…
First Light is an astonishing debut feature from acclaimed Australian photographer James J. Robinson, and a film perfectly placed in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Bright Horizons competi…