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Image: Top L-R: Yousef Jubeh, Brahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Phil Cox; Bottom L-R: Giovanna Stopponi, Rawia Alhag, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed; Photo Copyright: Native Voice Films Five lives. One city. The fat…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's…
I’m unsure if anyone has coined the term ‘cinematic determinism’ – a term that could be used to describe a film that speaks to unavoidable tragedy from the moment the protagonist appears on screen. If…
Infinity Pool arrives in Australian cinemas on May 11th 2023. In Infinity Pool, Brandon Cronenberg’s third feature film, the idea of boundaries becomes both meaningful and meaningless. The film itsel…
Award-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams’ narrative feature debut Cassandro is an ode to embracing one’s authentic self. Based on the life of Saúl Armendáriz an American-born Mexican luchador (…
Director Laura Moss’ modern gothic birth/rebirth begins with a woman going through a difficult and ultimately fatal delivery of a baby. In the background she hears a doctor say, “I think we can save t…
This review contains spoilers. On January 17th, I visited one of the last remaining Sanity stores in Perth to scour their shelves for bargain prices as the clocked ticked over to the nationwide closu…
Writer and director Nida Manzoor broke out with her hit television show We Are Lady Parts that followed a bunch of British Muslim girls who formed a punk band. Manzoor’s debut feature Polite Society c…