The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
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Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
In the cosiness of Paris in winter, red wine dinners, and old lovers in new trysts, it seems the pleasure of A Private Life is in the fantasy of bourgeois misadventures.…
Philip Marlowes are a little like Tom Ripleys in that several actors have played the part and although there are fan favourites (Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliot Gould for Marlowe and Matt Damo…
Quake screens at the 2022 Scandinavian Film Festival. Visit the website for screening details. Based on the 2015 novel ‘Grand Mal’ by Auður Jónsdóttir, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir’s film Quake is part family…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The utterly delightful and charming first entry in the six (6!) long film series, The Thin Man, was nominated fo…
Two decades ago, the earth had a pretty decent sci-fi crime thriller in the form of Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel starrer Frequency. It was reasonably original and great entertainment. In 2016 a TV se…
St Maud is a disturbing first feature by writer/director Rose Glass. In an effort that is nuanced, and intelligent Glass delivers a horror film that is both unsettlingly original yet also harkens to a…
Reminding Rian Johnson about his work on Star Warsis probably the last thing he wants to hear before releasing a new film. To Johnson’s dismay, his polarising work with Star Wars: The Last Jedi will…
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Knives Out stars Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the “last of the gentleman sleuths”, hired to solve the apparent mystery around the death of famous mystery writer…
Buy Lanny from Booktopia here. Sitting on the Booker Prize longlist alongside Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Talesequel, and a book titled My Sister, The Serial Killer, is Max Porter’s Lanny. At once,…
A barn burns in the middle of the night while a motherless calf simply exists in a nearby shed. A long lost friend magically reappears and asks Lee Jong-su to care after her cat while she visits Afric…