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The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Shahn Devendran is the series cr…
Readers are advised that this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died. There’s a certain level of expectation that comes with true crime documentaries. With the echo of the tone…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Small Axe is the latest creative work from filmmaker Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of Hunger, Shame, 12…
I cannot stress how much of a struggle it was for me to get through this movie. Burden centres around Mike Burden, a prominent Ku Klux Klan member who opens a KKK Museum in a South Carolina town, but…
For Black Americans, being pulled over by police risks more than just an expensive fine. It becomes a matter of life and death. The manner whereby police interaction can escalate into gunfire has be…
There were many memorable moments in 1993. Shane Warne delivered the ‘ball of the century’. Yahoo Serious released Reckless Kelly. And on the 17th of April at Victoria Park, after he and Gilbert McAda…
Neil Patrick Harris would be proud. The legen… wait-for-it… dary Barney Stinson persona that Harris wore so well in How I Met Your Mother has been taken up by none other than – Larrakia actress Mirand…
At the core of David Field’s The Combination Redemption is a performance by Taylor Wiese that is conjured from the guts of hell itself. All muscles and beard, Wiese’s Bryan is a gut churning echo of t…
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out in the world. It’s another mammoth video game from the minds at Rockstar studios (all 3000+of them), putting you right in the middle of 1890’s America. You use a controlle…
Down Under opens with a text message that sparked the fire that was the Cronulla riots. News footage plays out the brutal physical assault on people of all nationalities, wrapping up with a line from…
In Which Andrew Tells… is a series of articles about a certain topic, film or event, where Andrew - the unlikely voice of reason - tells that particular topic, film or event a hard truth. Whether that…