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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…
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…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Everyone loves a good party game, but what happens when the stakes get dangerously high? It’s What’s Inside takes that familiar fun and twists it into something much darker. Greg Jardin, serving as bo…
Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s Hit Man is witty, sexy, and side-splittingly funny. Although it must be said that the first conceit that anyone could find Glen Powell even in repressed academic Ga…
If Tarkovsky’s Solaris was a cinematic contretemps to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then Spaceman can be seen as Johan Renck’s riposte to Solaris. Both Solaris and Spaceman (from the novel ‘The Spa…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer whose work has spa…
When Todd Haynes' May December premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, it was a major talking point along the Riviera. While immediately revered, it was a film that disturbed audiences as much…
“We agreed at the outset we didn’t want to make an earnest drama,” says director David Yates of his latest film Pain Hustlers. It’s a line that leads one to wonder who is “We?” Is “We” just a bunch of…
David Fincher’s darkly comic hitman film The Killer can almost be read as an apologia for everyone who had to suffer through other people not understanding Fight Club was a satire and not a guidebook…
In a novel published in 1578 John Lyly used the phrase “The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” Although the novel itself has vanished from collective memory, the phrase “All’s fair in l…
In 2017, Luke Buckmaster asked in response to the launch of OzFlix – a premium video on demand (PVOD) service created by Australian film industry veterans Ron Brown and Alan Finney - whether we really…