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Subscribe and listen to previous episodes via the Auscast Network here. Lakesedge is the debut novel from Australian author Lyndall Clipstone, and it's a great one. Steeped in gothic romance and…
Content Warning: This review contains discussions of sexual assault. In the nineties, if you wanted your fill of underground entertainment, then you’d slip on SBS on a late Saturday night. Amidst the…
Documentaries are often made in the editing room, where the point of view and directorial intentions are honed, finessed and corralled into the final product that we call a ‘complete movie’. In the ca…
For nineties kids, Eric Bana will be forever known as the revhead, mullet wearing, car loving bogan, Poida, or the kickboxing loving boyfriend in The Castle. For folks around the world, he might be kn…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Every so often the Academy Awards get it right, and for the 16th Best Picture winner they chose one of the great…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The air of familiarity – quite literally – bursts in the air in the opening of the low-fi, low-budget Dry Winter, as a night in a remote,…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. James Cagney danced and sung his way to a Best Actor Oscar for Michael Curtiz's Best Picture nominated film, Ya…
Content warning: this review discusses self harm, ECT , and mental illnesses. Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Within the first five minutes of the…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. There’s a phenomenal majesty to Margot Robbie’s cocaine-cloud, sugar high, ultra-violence loving anti-hero Harley Q…
ABC iView has launched a new fascinating series called Strong Women. Co-directed by Corinne Innes and Alexandra Gaulupeau, this series follows four resilient women who empower each other while rivalli…
Welcome to the fourth anniversary of AUSgust: the month dedicated to celebrating all things Australian cinema! We here at The Curb dedicate the month of August to highlighting a wide array of Aussie…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. As we arrive at the 15th Best Picture winner, Mrs Miniver, we find ourselves in the depths of the cinematic output…