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Andrew F Peirce·December 24, 2021·15 min read

A Love Letter to the Australian Films of 2021 and an Announcement for the Future

They say that limitation breeds creativity. They’re not wrong. A year ago, I made the decision that from January 2020...

Andrew F Peirce·September 7, 2021·1 min read

Interview with Coming Home in the Dark Actor Erik Thomson – Reflections on a Thirty Year Career, How to Manage Dark Material, and Working with Debut Filmmakers

Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The great Erik Thomson joins Andrew to discuss his latest film,...

Andrew F Peirce·January 6, 2021·33 min read

Best Australian Films of 2020

2020, as has been heavily documented, was a difficult year for cinema as a whole. Australian cinema in particular was...

Andrew F Peirce·October 31, 2021·15 min read

Australian Stories Are Back in Force with the 2021 AACTA Award Nominations

A decade after relaunching the AFI (Australian Film Institute) awards under a new banner, the AACTA (Australia Academy Cinema Television...

Andrew F Peirce·January 7, 2021·8 min read

The Furnace Review – A Long Subdued Journey into the Golden Unknown

This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut,...

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14 hours 42 minutes ago

Lonely Spirits and the King is a 700 page book about Australian films. Through in-depth interviews with over seventy Australian

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Megan Park’s Lake Muskoka set coming-of-age tale MY OLD ASS is feisty, tender, and hilarious. Maisy Stella is gorgeous as

My Old Ass in an Enriching Gift of a Coming-of-Age Tale - The Curb

“I’ll show you what you’re worth (that’s what I’m gonna do) If you let me inside your world.” – Canadian folk poet Justin Bieber Elliott (Maisy Stella) is about to turn eighteen and in twenty-two days she will be leaving her home, a cranberry farm, on an island on Lake Muskoka for life...

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2 days 5 hours ago

Today is #AACTA Award winner Baz Luhrmann’s birthday. Baz won Best Film and Best Director at the 2022 Australian Academy