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Scott seems to be going through the motions with The Dog Stars by not greatly concerning himself with pacing (the first act is tediously long), not particularly interested in adding to the whisper-thin characterisation and only seems to come alive during scenes of violent interactions…
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
How should we view our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What if AI was like a child, and part of how we train AI algorithms relied on the basics of good parenting? This is the fundamental moral question at the centre of Aranya Sahay’s debut feature, Humans in the Loop.…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Garth Davis is a filmmaker who has explored the human need fo…
Audiences are crying out for original science fiction films that aren’t attached to pre-existing IPs. Gareth Edwards The Creator seemed to be the opportunity for the writer/director to build a world o…
The year is 2041, the Earth has exhausted its resources and nations are looking into space colonisation. Twin brothers Lazaro (Pablo Cobo) and Tristan Guerrero (Louis Peres) are students at an elite S…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Prey stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a Comanche woman livi…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Director Kogonada’s first film Columbus was a meditation on what constitutes family and…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Allowing the events of the 2016 Paul Feig reboot to sit unanswered in voicemail, Ghostbu…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. How do you even approach something like Dune? An “unfilmable” 1965 novel by Frank Herbert that has had one film in…
If you had told thirteen-year old me clutching a battered copy of Asimov’s short stories that there would be whole festivals devoted to science fiction films in my future, I would have stared at you f…
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…