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It almost seems unfair to discuss Mel Eslyn’s brilliant Biopshere. Star and co-writer Mark Duplass has been urging people to go in completely blind to the film, and frankly this is the best way to exp…
The Vast of Night is a clever, tightly shot and scripted low budget science fiction thriller that takes on the topic of New Mexico alien abductions in a style that falls somewhere between the uncanny…
I can’t recall how old I was the first time I watched Byron Haskin’s genre-defining 1953 classic The War of the Worlds, but what I do recall is the impact of seeing the chrome ships of Martians emergi…
Time is the greatest film critic. We have no absolute way of knowing if something is a “classic” until it has existed for an age. A “modern classic” is a fallacy, a hyperbolic fantasy of a film automa…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a one-man shop, writing, directing, shooting, scoring his films fr…
Ivan Sen – the director of Beneath Clouds, Toomelah, Goldstone and Mystery Road – returns with his most ambitious film yet. “Every frame encourages life and emotion, an optimism as much as heartache,…
Aussie author, screenwriter, and critic, Anthony O'Connor, has landed on the bookshelves of the nation with his debut novel, STRAYA, a post-apocalyptic look at the Australia of the future. I won&#…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Written and directed by Neil Burger (Limitless, Divergent), Voyagers stars Tye Sheridan, Lily Rose-Depp, and Fionn…
Powered by JustWatch Every year or so, there’s at least one feel-good movie that everyone loves and can’t stop talking about (if only for a week or so in this streaming age). You hear of it and…
Powered by JustWatch I miss Christopher Reeve. I don’t say that in a fanboy “I miss my favourite Superman” way, though that’s certainly a factor. In his four film performances as the Man of Ste…
Every so often, two similar films arrive in the same calendar year. In 1997, Dante’s Peak and Volcano erupted onto screens. In 1998 there were triple bill double ups with Armageddon and Deep Impact se…
Powered by JustWatch Tenet is exhausting. Featuring lead performances from John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, and Elizabeth Debicki, Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuste…