Revenge Review
Rape Revenge movies. Do we need them? From I Spit On Your Grave 1 through 4 to Big Driver to Bound to Vengeance, they seem to be here to stay – and they all have one thing in common. Even straight up…
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Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em Review
When the rest of the world was making Threads, Miracle Mile and The Day After, Australia was busy making Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em. Writer/director Ray Boseley plugs in the amp, loads up the bong, a…
Instant Family Review - A Wonderful Embrace of the Family in All Forms
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. On paper, Instant Family has all the ingredients for being a mess. It’s directed by Sean Anders – he of That’s My B…
Cold War Review
Director Pawel Pawlikowski is no stranger to brevity. All of his films have clocked in at under ninety minutes each, with an apparent concept of ‘get in, get out’ being employed. His latest effort, Co…
Sweet Country and the Annual Death of Australian Cinema Discussion
Each year, a post appears on a news website sounding the alarm that Australian cinema is dead. It’s dying! It’s all going down and you better start selling the furniture now because how else will you…
Pick of the Litter Review
I’ll be clear from the get go - it’s hard for me to objectively review Pick of the Litter. After working eight years a vet nurse, and having worked alongside organisations that train guide dogs, I’ve…
The Domestics Review
A dystopian future, gang violence and road trips. It’s a formula so familiar that I don’t even need to list any familiar examples because those three plot themes just had fifty plus film titles runnin…
Bumblebee Review
As a course correct after five very successful Michael Bay directed Transformers films (making a gross figure of $1,449,356,365at the box office), Travis Knight’s Bumblebee is a strange affair. It’s b…
The Road Movie Review
When the Lumiere brothers crafted Arrival of a Train in La Ciotat, they would never have envisaged that the format they worked with would be used to tell the story of Russia as captured via dash cam f…
Aquaman Review
Look, it’s a fools errand to try explain where the DC movie universe is up to at the moment. Either, you’re up to speed with the frayed narrative threads or you’re like me and you decided it was easie…
Vice Review
In nature documentaries, there are always two narratives working at once. You have the prey – a terrified gazelle fleeing across the Savannah, pulling every trick it knows in a bid to simply stay aliv…
Overlord Review
In 2004 Zack Snyder released his remake of Dawn of the Dead. It was a great film. One of the positives for me was that it was straight into it – not flinching for a moment after the first neck being t…