Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill
The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…
Vicky Krieps
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The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan and Milady Are Brash, Bold, and Frequently Ridiculous
Although discrete films, Martin Bourboulon’s Musketeer series is an epic which can be considered a single entity. Beginning with D’Artagnan and (perhaps) ending with Milady the two films are in some m…
Corsage Review - Perth Lotterywest Film Festival
For many, the first time that we engage with historical figures is through the medium of film and television. The truth of a monumental figure is skewed, adjusted, morphed, critiqued, or adored via th…
66th BFI London Film Festival Diary - Day One – Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, The Eternal Daughter, Corsage
The first day of LFF2022 finds two women and a young girl on a journey of self-actualization with Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, Joanna Hogg’s gothic drama The Eternal Daughter, and period drama,…
Old Review - There’s Trouble in Paradise in Solid Shyamalan Body Horror
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The internet has made a running joke out of M. Night Shyamalan’s career; throwing ridicule at his films willingness…
Phantom Thread Review
Born from a fever dream, Phantom Thread is the story of a dressmaker falling in love with a waitress. Fairly basic stuff really. It’s also a Paul Thomas Anderson film. And it’s also set in the 1950’s.…