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…
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Five Great Ida Lupino Films to Celebrate This Aquarian Icon's Birthday
There was an absolute and iron-clad system in the film capital in the 1940s and 1950s which, it seems to me, had its primary purpose to exclude females – Ida Lupino She wasn’t wrong. It’s hardly an e…
Coming Home in the Dark Review - A Scintillating Drama About the Punishment of Past Misdoings
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. James Ashcroft’s debut feature length film, Coming Home in the Dark, which played at this year’s Sundance film festival, shows that humans…
A Quiet Place Part II Review - A Superior Sequel Crafted with Superb Skill
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. It’s been a long time coming. A Quiet Place Part II is finally here after more than a year of delays and postponem…
Run Review - Representation in an Impressive Thriller
Aneesh Chaganty made a solid footprint in Hollywood in 2018 with his tense, computer screen-based thriller Searching, starring John Cho as a father looking for his missing daughter. It used the kind o…
The Dry Review - A Towering Achievement, A Damning Condemnation of Morrison's Australia
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Robert Connolly’s masterwork thriller, The Dry, transfers Jane Harper’s best-selling novel to the silver screen wit…
The Xrossing Review - Impressive Microbudget Indie Amplifies Tension in the Perth Suburbs
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
Tenet Review - Excess Impresses, But Leaves One Hoping for a Smaller Nolan Film
Most of what follows will basically be a “Confession of a Nolan Fanboy”, which is what I am. Christopher Nolan is the filmmaker I credit with actually getting me into movies as Inception hit me at the…
Unhinged Review - Russell Crowe Leads A Brutal, Well-Acted Thriller, a Fitting Return to the Cinema
Powered by JustWatch Trigger warning: this review discusses aspects of domestic violence. Unhinged is the newest Russell Crowe feature, and one of the biggest films opening in select cinemas si…
Black Water Review - Effective Croc-Shock in the Mangroves
Powered by JustWatch Ask any foreigner about their impressions about Australia, and odds are you’ll get a response about everything wanting to kill you here. Snakes, sharks, spiders: whether you…
Come to Daddy Review - What the F**k Did I Just Watch?
This review contains spoilers. Every first sentence I’ve tried to write for this review I have ended up deleting in frustration. I don’t know where to begin with New Zealander Ant Timpson’s first ful…
Come to Daddy Review - A Tonally Confused Work of Gunk and Grime
You ever watch a movie and think “what was that really supposed to be?” or “how am I supposed to feel?”. That was Come to Daddy for me, plain and simple. I would say that going into a movie knowing a…