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“The worst of men, they’ve got a little bit of good in them and that will be their undoing.” Charles Williams’ brutal and blazing Australian prison drama Inside is underscored by its immense humanism…
Desire Lines screens at Queer Screen on 23 February 2025 and will be available on demand for those who cannot attend in person. Find all the details via the Queer Screen site here. In Jules Rosskam&#…
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature Armand is often inscrutable. A psychological drama with a distinct theatricality wherein reality and the projected interior crises of the characters bleed into e…
Steven Soderbergh’s body of work shows an auteur who engages in the art of exploring how the form and function of cinema impacts narrative. Soderbergh’s process of embedding filmmaking techniques with…
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…
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…
“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…
Reinas (Queens) is a caring, tender, and joyous Peruvian drama that celebrates those who strive for a better life. Following two young sisters, Aurora and Lucía, who reconnect with their absent father…