Kim's Video Review - Sundance Film Festival
This review contains spoilers. On January 17th, I visited one of the last remaining Sanity stores in Perth to scour their shelves for bargain prices as the clocked ticked over to the nationwide closu…
Andrew F Peirce
My Old School Review – Perth Lotterywest Film Festival
With My Old School, filmmaker Jono McLeod retells the story of his classmate ‘Brandon Lee’ (not real name) at Bearsden Academy in Glasgow in the early 90s, and the curious and ‘legendary’ (their word,…
Flickerfest Director Bronwyn Kidd Talks About the 2023 Festival in This Interview
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Flickerfest is one of the leading Academy Award accredited and BAFTA…
<em>Everybody Loves Jeanne</em> (<em>Tout le monde aime Jeanne</em>) Review – Perth Lotterywest Film Festival
Jeanne (Blanche Gardin) is having a very bad year. Her pivotal marine-cleaning invention is an instant-disaster, failing at launch and sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Jeanne turns into a social me…
Tips for Indie Filmmakers: How to Get Your Film Noticed, Social Media, Interviews, and More...
Being a filmmaker anywhere is hard. It’s a miracle when an idea for a film manages to go through the effort of being thought up, being turned into a script, then have funding sought, followed by casti…
The Great OzFlix Experiment is Over – What Went Wrong and What Could Happen for Australian Films Going Forward
In 2017, Luke Buckmaster asked in response to the launch of OzFlix – a premium video on demand (PVOD) service created by Australian film industry veterans Ron Brown and Alan Finney - whether we really…
The War of the Worlds Imprint Films 4K & Blu-ray Limited Edition Release Review
I can’t recall how old I was the first time I watched Byron Haskin’s genre-defining 1953 classic The War of the Worlds, but what I do recall is the impact of seeing the chrome ships of Martians emergi…
Five Films to See This January… That Aren’t Avatar: Way of Water
If you vaguely follow film news at all, you’ve likely seen the mildly obsessive tracking of the box office take of James Cameron’s latest film, Avatar: Way of Water. While it is – by all accounts – a…
Frances O’Connor On Her Feature Debut Film 'Emily' About Wuthering Heights Author Emily Brontë
Frances O’Connor is no stranger to costume dramas and period films, having featured in an impressive array of notable films such as Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park (1999), Oliver Parker’s The Importa…
Best Australian Films of 2022
With over 170 Australian features, documentaries, and short films released theatrically, on streaming platforms, and at festivals during 2022, it’s safe to say that the Aussie film industry is shruggi…
Return to Seoul Review - Perth Lotterywest Film Festival
Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou continues to pull at the thematic thread of familial reconnection that he started picking at in Diamond Island in his latest film Return to Seoul. Where Diamond Is…
Noongar Wongi Rappers Inkabee and Flewnt MC Talk About Creating Hip Hop With Family in This Interview
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Emerging Noongar Wongi rapper Ethan Eggington, also known as Inkabee…