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.…
mystery
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A Private Life is a delicate Parisian mystery that’s kind on the heart
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.…
Marlowe Review – Neil Jordan’s Philip Marlowe Would Have Raymond Chandler Spinning in His Grave
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 (Skjálfti) Review – Memories Fade, but the Scars Still Linger in This Scandi Drama-Mystery
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…
1934 Best Picture Nominee: The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke) - Awards Don't Matter
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…
Don’t Let Go Review – Acceptable Isolation Entertainment
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 Review - This Film Will haunt You Long After its Flames Have Extinguished
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…
Knives Out Review - Murder-Mystery Struggles to Cut the (Colonel) Mustard
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…
Knives Out Review - A Delicate Tonal Tightrope that Succeeds Immensely
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…
Lanny Book Review - Max Porter's Slightly Arrogant Work of Masterful Writing
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,…
Burning Review
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…