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Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Watch Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites on RevOnDemand here. The act of connect…
As far as indie filmmakers go, Chris Elena's philosophy melds past and present in both form and content. He shoots on Super 16 film for a certain look and texture, but his narratives are very much…
Peter Strickland is a distinct director whose works can equally alienate and seduce. In his latest effort Flux Gourmet Strickland has lost none of his polarising energy yet has created perhaps his mos…
The central question of cinema is the extent to which it is an authentic representation of reality. With a global pandemic, a war in Europe erupting and the disproportion between rich and poor becomin…
Writer/Director Craig Boreham is one of the leading filmmakers working in Australian queer cinema right now. His 2016 film Teenage Kicks echoed the work of Ana Kokkinos’s Head On, with Miles Szanto’s…
It’s every filmmakers dream to have their film screened at the prestigious South By South West film festival in Austin, Texas, and that honour is doubled when your film is a horror film and gets a lat…
Perth's finest film festival, the excellent Revelation Perth International Film Festival, celebrates its 25th year in 2022. The press release of the full programme is below, and let me tell you...…
The 25th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival returns to Luna Cinemas Leederville from 7 – 17 July. As always, the curated programme celebrates independent filmmakers and boundary push…
We love supporting short films here at The Curb, and one of the better ones of this year is the Perth made short film, The World of Riley. Made with the help of the City of Vincent and Revelation Film…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Perth's Revelation Film Festival has been partially delayed due to lockdowns, but that doesn't stop the films being talked about.…
As I’m sitting here writing this review, I stare out at a vacant suburban street. Australia is in the midst of yet another lockdown, trapping us in our homes, making us all the more aware of the sile…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Set within a rundown gothic house in some nondescript suburb in Sydney, We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders is a found footage film that follow…