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2020 was one of the most significant years in modern cinematic history. Not because of an overwhelming wealth of great films, but because of the insane upheaval of how films were marketed, released an…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. This review contains discussions of sexual assault and abuse. It might be cliché to say, but some movies just rock…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On January 6th 2021, Jacob Angeli partook in an act that would confirm his place in the culture of memes. With the…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. For the 2016 Archibald Prize competition — awarding the best portrait paintings in Australia — the top honour was gi…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Continuing the trend of notably female-led films comes a story taking place during early WWII. A Call to Spy (a var…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Going into Liselle Mei’s superb documentary Love Opera, I was, admittedly, ignorant about the art form of opera, with my exposure being mo…
Powered by JustWatch Sound of Metal is directed and co-written by Darius Marder, whose previous work included directing the 2008 documentary Loot and writing The Place Beyond the Pines. Here, Ri…
This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
Powered by JustWatch From Photon Creative’s fauna-focused series, Tales from Sanctuary City, to the iconic Emmy award winning series Bluey, there’s been a steady increase in the amount of Austra…
Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…
Powered by JustWatch In a seaside cottage in 1975 Alice Lamb (Penelope Wilton) hunches over a typewriter and is disturbed by a knock at the door. Two children are asking for donations for the el…