Before Dawn is a Generic Anti Anti-War Film
The word ‘limitation’ isn’t in director Jordon Prince-Wright’s vocabulary. His first feature film, 2018’s The Decadent and Depraved, saw him tackle the Meat Pie Western alongside co-director Axel Aug…
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The Great Escaper is a Welcome Send Off for Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine
Director Oliver Parker and screenwriter William Ivory’s true-life incident story The Great Escaper is not at all the film one goes in expecting. The preconceived notion is that it will be a fairly sli…
Sisu Review - The Genre Mash Up, Nazi Killing Action Spectacle That Will Have Audiences Howling
SISU is a Finnish word that can’t be translated. It means a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination. Sisu manifests itself when all hope is lost. Finnish director Jalmari Helan…
The War Nurses Author Anthea Hodgson Talks About Bringing Lost Stories of Perth’s Nurses to Life in This Interview
Anthea Hodgson is a Perth based author who reminds readers of the importance of remembering the stories of the many nurses who supported soldiers and fought during World War II with her latest novel T…
A Remarkable Woman Book Review – Jules Van Mil’s Debut Novel is an Impressive Memory-Elevating Work of Historical Fiction
A Remarkable Woman is available now via Pan Macmillan The power of storytelling is immense. Fantasy and science-fiction tales can transport readers to worlds that don’t exist, to experience mystical…
Benediction Review - Terence Davies Gives Siegfried Sassoon an Elegant and Moving Biography
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Liverpudlian director Terence Davies once again turns his intimate filmmaking focus to i…
Shooting Wraps in Western Australia on World War I Epic Before Dawn
Prince-Wright Productions has wrapped principal photography in Western Australia with a stellar Australian cast. The World War I feature film Before Dawn will bring to the big screen the untold story…
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1938 Best Picture Nominee: Grand Illusion [La Grande Illusion] (Jean Renoir) - Awards Don't Matter
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. <br <center> 'This is why I'm obsessed with movies' - Dave We reach a monumental moment in t…
Shadow in the Cloud Review - Two Competing Ideas Fail to Blend Cohesively
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Shadow in the Cloud stars Chloe Grace-Moretz as Flight Officer Maude Garrett who boards a B-17 bomber in 1943. She…
A Call to Spy Review - A Wonderful Example of the Spy-Genre
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Continuing the trend of notably female-led films comes a story taking place during early WWII. A Call to Spy (a var…
Da 5 Bloods Review - A Timely, Powerful, yet Flawed Film
Powered by JustWatch Spike Lee is on something of a roll as of late. Perhaps it was the complete commercial and critical failure of 2013’s Oldboy (of which Lee is not proud of [the usual “Spike…
64th BFI London Film Festival Diary - Day Six: Another Round, Notturno
It is day six and Mads Mikkelsen drinks himself into a stupor but, you know, for science, in Another Round, while award-winning documentarian Gianfranco Rosi looks at life during wartime with Notturno…