The Toll Review - A Film That Delights in the Absurd
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Ryan Andrew Hopper’s debut feature The Toll gleefully wears it’s influences on its sleeve yet still manages to crea…
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Space Jam: A New Legacy review - Somehow Worse Than Your Lowest Expectations
If there’s one piece of common nostalgia for those born in the 90s and after it’s the fervent love for 1996’s Space Jam. Perhaps the all-out marketing assault and prime commercialisation of the Looney…
Streamline Review - A Masterful Drama Featuring a Career Defining Performance From Levi Miller
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. This review contains discussions of domestic violence and sexual violence. There’s a welcome familiarity to Tyson…
Old Review - There’s Trouble in Paradise in Solid Shyamalan Body Horror
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The internet has made a running joke out of M. Night Shyamalan’s career; throwing ridicule at his films willingness…
Black Widow Review - MCU's Latest is Worth the Wait
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Every single year since 2008, Marvel Studios have had a film in theatres, except for 2009 and last year. 2020 put e…
Some Great Movies from 2021 (So Far)
I had this round-up of great movies from 2021 so far all lined up to be out by June 30. And then WA was hit with a snap lockdown again for the third time this year. Took all the energy out. I don’t t…
A Tale of Three Bonds: Diamonds are Forever (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981), and Almost-Bond #17 (1991)
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, movies were supposed to be for everyone — made that way and seen that way — and were therefore social events that involved a diversified community. Some of…
Tove Review - An Intimate Character Study of a Fascinating Woman
Biographical films can be unwieldy beasts. If the subject is well known enough the audience has set expectations on what the film will cover and how it will achieve an authentic portrait of its subjec…
Neon Across the Ocean Review - A Quiet and Contemplative Glimpse into the Isolation of a Pandemic
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…
We're Not Here to Fuck Spiders Review - A Gritty and Grimy Feature That Shakes With Tension
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…
The Sparks Brothers review - An Ode to the Eternal Beauty of Creativity
“Your favourite band’s favourite band” should go down as one of the best taglines for a movie. It's a perfect encapsulation of whatever the hell Sparks are for the uninitiated, and for those with…
Luca Review - A Perfectly Fine, Three-Star Pixar Movie
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Luca is representing a problem for Disney+. Ever since Mulan, Disney have declared that most if not all of their ma…