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The world was shocked by the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. Director Cédric Jimenez’s fictionalised procedural November concentrates on the vast manhunt undertaken by the French security…
Thomas M. Wright is quickly becoming the Australian master of cinematic discomfort. In his debut film 2018’s Acute Misfortune he created an indelible film about the Australian artist Adam Cullen and h…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The influx of Diana-focused content in recent years has ranged from the mortifying tacki…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. When the sound of a notification bell goes off in black-comedy Zola, you know one of two things: 1. A verbatim me…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. All that I had known about Fred Hampton before seeing Judas and the Black Messiah at the preview screening at Luna…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. We head to sea with the 8th Best Picture winner, Frank Lloyd's colonial drama, Mutiny on the Bounty. Featuri…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. 2021 is already proving to be a landmark year for Australian film, with Robert Connolly’s The Dry and Glendyn Ivin’…
Powered by JustWatch I support Josh Trank. At 27-years-old, Trank was the youngest director to have a film open at number one at the US box office, with 2012’s Chronicle, following such heights…
Powered by JustWatch Writer and director Cory Finley burst onto the scene almost out of nowhere with his 2018 debut Thoroughbreds. His career started as a playwright, and impressed Oscar winners…
In the space of two years, three films about the Manson family murders appeared to varying degrees of critical and commercial success. The universally panned 2019 Hilary Duff vehicle The Haunting of S…
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…
Todd Haynes has a filmography full of absolute gems. He’s a director able to balance stories with emotional gravitas and visual wonder; from the glitter splashed rock’n’roll of Velvet Goldmine to the…