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Two thrillers in 2024: One directed by JT Mollner (second feature), the other by Zoë Kravitz (directorial debut). One is a non-linear narrative twisting the crime thriller/slasher genre on its head wi…
This review contains slight spoilers. There’s a fair bit to admire about Luke Sparke’s work as a director. His debut monster flick Red Billabong (oddly re-released in the US as The Devil Beneath in 2…
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This review discusses sexual assault and torture. Matthew Holmes searing vigilante thriller The Cost asks, what do we lose when we enact violence on one other? It provides no easy answers as it opens…
Director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green made a canny choice in deciding to adapt one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known works for A Haunting in Venice. Although, to call it an adaptatio…
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
Robert Hloz’s debut feature Restore Point (Bod Obnovy) which premiered at Karlovy Vary is the first science fiction film made in the Czech Republic for near forty years. Although it wears its Philip K…
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Reality screens at the Sydney Film Festival on June 11, 12, and 17, ahead of a national release later in 2023. “I knew it was secret. But I also knew I had pledged service to the American People.”…
PRESS RELEASE Sparke Films has released first images for the electrifying new crime-thriller, BRING HIM TO ME. Directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation, Occupation Rainfall), the first images reveal Barr…
It’s LFF day four and Sarah Polley shows us some Women Talking, in her gripping character driven drama, Aubrey Plaza employs some desperate measures to make ends meet in Emily the Criminal, and Patton…
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…