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Grand Tour poetically travels across space, time, and form to create a comedic melodrama of ethnographically sweeping proportions. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes mixes the aesthetics of the early 2…
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
Wolf Man is a disappointing reboot of the 1941 lycanthrope horror The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr, struggling to build momentum despite a promising prologue. After an estranged father leaves his Or…
Subscribe to the Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney head to prison with Colman Domingo and Cla…
In I’m Still Here (Ainda estou aqui), Walter Salles takes the true story of the arrest and disappearance of Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) and creates a potent narrative about courage, resilience, tenaci…
Subscribe to the Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney delve into the darkness of Robert Eggers l…
It has been a difficult year for Australian film with few films making it to cinemas for exhibition. Nevertheless, we cannot give up hope for our stories being told. Making lists is always difficult…
Right, there’s no beating around the bush: 2024 was a hard year for Australian films. An engaged film critic should hold their local film industry to account, with the following piece delving into th…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Welcome to the first episode of the Curb review podcast, where Andrew F Peirc…
So, what of the best Australian films of 2024 then? The below list talks a look at thirty-one of the best Australian films of 2024. Collectively, those thirty-one films highlight the future state of…
“I am the trace of the trance… what if they don’t remember me?” – Number 26. Mati Dop knows about ghosts. The multiple spectres haunting cultures and continents. The voices assembled in the dark whic…
But isn’t everyone in pain somehow. I mean, look at what happened to our families. Look at where we came from. I mean, who isn’t… you know, who isn’t wrought? David Kaplan Jesse Eisenberg’s first fe…