Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
Science Fiction
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Aranya Sahay: Child's Play
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.…
Foe Director Garth Davis Talks About Creating a Human Connection on Screen with Saorise Ronan and Paul Mescal in This Interview
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…
The Creator is Gareth Edward's Shiny Science Fiction Spectacle That is Too Derivative to Completely Captivate
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…
Tropic (Tropique) Review - A Haunting Character Study About How Reaching for the Stars Comes with a Cost
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…
PREY review - A Refreshing Thrill Breathing New Life
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…
After Yang Review - A Refreshing Slice of Sci-Fi Filmmaking from Filmmaker Kogonada
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…
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review - An Exorcise in Reboots
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…
Dune Review - The Ultimate Cinematic Experience
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…
From Say Yes Again, to Tales of Tomorrow: The Sci-Fi Film Festival Brings You Genre Filmmaking From Around the World
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…
Somewhere in Time Review - The Special Christopher Reeve Film at 40
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…
Lucy in the Sky Review - A Strange and Wild Film, and Not in a Good Way
Written and directed by Noah Hawley, Lucy in the Sky stars Natalie Portman as Lucy Cola, a brilliant yet deeply troubled astronaut who begins to have an affair with the charming and handsome fellow as…