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Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Marvel Studios have occasionally made some canny choices with directors for its major franchise features. Giving th…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Writer/director Michael Bentham’s first film Disclosure centres around two couples who come together to deal with the repercussions of a po…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Ryan Andrew Hopper’s debut feature The Toll gleefully wears it’s influences on its sleeve yet still manages to crea…
Biographical films can be unwieldy beasts. If the subject is well known enough the audience has set expectations on what the film will cover and how it will achieve an authentic portrait of its subjec…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow is quite simply a masterwork of gentle filmmaking that through the lens of a small stor…
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Writer/director Julia Leigh’s 2011 film Sleeping Beauty is a work of art that is easier to respect than enjoy. Like…
Powered by JustWatch In a seaside cottage in 1975 Alice Lamb (Penelope Wilton) hunches over a typewriter and is disturbed by a knock at the door. Two children are asking for donations for the el…
Powered by JustWatch The year is 1970 and early stirrings of the Women’s Liberation Movement are coming to life in Britain. Women from different classes and backgrounds are starting to form orga…
The first feature film from director Samuel Van Grinsven pulls no punches in identifying that it is a homosexual film. The title card claims the film’s orientation and doesn’t wait for the audience to…
Accomplished Melbourne stage director Peter Blackburn has worked on some of the best loved plays in contemporary Australian theatre. When Melbourne went into lockdown he didn’t let the lack of a live…
Jayro Bustamante’s new slow burn horror film La Llorona is less interested in what most would call traditional horror and more concerned with a political spectre that hangs over the country of Guatema…
As Melbourne streets empty and the city shuts down, so too many of the creative industries that have given Melbourne the enviable title of Australia’s foremost City of the Arts. COVID-19 has pushed cr…