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You’d be forgiven for thinking that Miki Magasiva’s feature film debut Tinā is based on a true story. Sure, elements are pulled from truth, with Magasiva utilising the tragedy of the 2011 Christchurch…
Some films don’t just unfold—they breathe. The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s latest offering, is one of those rare works that moves with the quiet rhythm of something deeply sacred. Set against the sun-…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about…
It reminded me of a summer I once spent by the French seaside, lying on warm sand with a book in hand, the waves whispering nearby, the sun soft and golden overhead. There’s a similar stillness here,…
The Accountant 2 is a mishmash of tone that has surplus of entertaining laughs but a deficit of consistency and genre coherence. The action thriller is a direct sequel to 2016's The Accountant, in…
This is the feature film debut of writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt—and what a stellar debut it is. Taking inspiration from the grim origins of Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister spins a haunting, he…
Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miy…
There is a quiet terror that follows us, always, just beneath the surface. It’s not the kind of fear we speak of in hushed tones, nor the kind that keeps us up at night. No, this fear lingers in the u…
It’s the Snake’s time to shine on the zodiac calendar, yet it seems 2025 is the Year of the Monkey. With the dulcet tones of Better Man and the howling screeches of Osgood Perkin’s aptly named The Mon…
Hardware is a multi-genre collision of post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque action, Cronenbergian body horror, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man-style techno-fetishism, wrapped in a late 1980s/early 1990s cyberpunk…
There is a kind of stillness to life in a small Irish village, the kind that settles into the bones and becomes part of the air. The lake ripples softly in the morning light, the wind hums through the…
There’s a discomfort in Gazer—a subtle yet persistent unease that lingers well after the credits roll. The film begins with an invitation, or rather, a command: “What do you see? Focus.” It's the…