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Buy Lanny from Booktopia here. Sitting on the Booker Prize longlist alongside Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Talesequel, and a book titled My Sister, The Serial Killer, is Max Porter’s Lanny. At once,…
In the still of the night, a daring damsel returns to the town that exiled her decades before. Dressed in silk that stuck to her in the wind, like a rumour to a small town. She wore a gaze as strong a…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Director Ari Aster exploded on the horror scene with his unsettling, performance driven flick Hereditary. Encompass…
It’s been a while since I’ve immersed myself in the field of ‘edutainment’ – that is, entertainment that educates. While I like to consider myself fairly ofay with all forms of cinema, the realm of fi…
For #AUSgust – the Australian Film Month – I’ve decided to write about a film that I saw for the first time only recently. It’s seventeen years old, and I have no idea why I haven’t seen it by now. It…
Quentin Tarantino is at a stage in his career where he could film someone clipping their toe-nails and have it be called a masterpiece by the film community. And going by the number of feet featured i…
Creature features have made something of a comeback in recent years, whether it be the surprisingly solid alligator tale Crawl, or the outrageous, but admittedly entertaining Jason Statham blockbuster…
What does the word ‘traditional’ mean? Long-lasting? Habitual? Conventional? Customary? At the very least, nothing should stump tradition. For example, when a random white guy says because he and his…
Powered by JustWatch It’s been forty years since the brainchild of director George Miller burst onto cinema screens, with a baby-faced and leather-clad Mel Gibson hunting bikers in a lawless Aus…
If you stand over a certain grate on a fairly innocuous concrete island in Times Square, New York City, you’ll experience something unique and memorable. This grate looks exactly like every other subw…
To the CHILDREN OF AUSTRALIA In the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many Beautiful and frolicsome creatures of their fair land; Whose extinction through ruthless destruction is surely be…
Irish Director Lorcan Finnegan flew in to introduce his film, Vivarium, at its Australian premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival, and when he said it was a “mind-bending” film, he wasn’t ly…