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Crumb Catcher is a strange little gem of a film—equal parts home invasion thriller, satire, and offbeat dark comedy. It’s the kind of movie that makes you wonder if you should be laughing, panicking,…
The cinematic journey for Marvel’s first family has been rocky to say the least. Three non-MCU films of varying quality (none particularly high) led to the notion that perhaps there just wasn’t a way…
There’s a moment in Sorry, Baby that lodged itself deep in my chest and hasn’t left. Agnes—played with aching restraint by Eva Victor—sits in the bathtub, alone. Her arms are crossed like armor. Her v…
Almost everyone owns a smartphone now. A tiny recording device and track in nearly six billion pockets worldwide. They’ve become a part of our lives to point where we make jokes about the FBI peering…
Too often I have been required to remind myself that as an adult human I should not be getting angry with dinosaur movies. I wasn’t a child in 1993 when Steven Spielberg showed me a T-Rex eating a man…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. On this episode of physical media reviews, Nadine Whitney & Andrew F Peir…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. On this episode of the Curb review podcast, Nadine Whitney takes us deep into…
Two key psychological moments in Danny Boyle’s 2002 masterpiece 28 Days Later happens when Jim (Cillian Murphy), Selena (Naomie Harris), and Hannah (Megan Burns) finally reach the compound of survivor…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Nadine Whitney gets her life thrown upside down with Jane Austen Wrecked My L…
What does magick mean to you? It’s the sum total of my life. “Gen’s most provocative work was unconditional love” – David Jay. Brion Gyson’s Dream Machine spins and Genesis P-Orridge begins to narr…
It hungers. The emptiness, the void, the absence that entropically pulls every molecule of your being when you are grieving an inconceivable loss. It hungers and cannot be satiated by time, comfort, r…
Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati and Ila Firouzabadi’s Universal Language blends absurdist comedy, childlike wonder and alternative history into a cultural melting pot worth digging into. Offering a ten…