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Athina Rachel Tsangari’s fourth feature film Harvest is also her first in English. Set in an indistinct historical period it is the story of a small crofting village that faces extinction due to the E…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Nadine Whitney had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Karan Kandhari and…
Ina Weisse’s psychological drama Zikaden (Cicadas) begins as a portrait of two very different women at the edge of their patience with the demands that claim their sense of self but ends as something…
Released in fairly quick succession this year have been two distinct “throwback” mainstream slashers. Hell of a Summer and Clown in a Cornfield. The two movies also come on the heels of Josh Ruben’s r…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about…
Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miy…
Alex Scharfman’s debut feature Death of a Unicorn riffs on three main themes: a satire about the venality of the ultra-rich, a hyper-violent creature feature, and a Spielbergian fractured and healed p…
The women sit sweltering on the beach with their burkas black and shrouding. Only metres away the men swim and laugh. Under the robes are dangerous objects: guns and bare legs that long to stand in th…
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso - Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vi…
An unbelievable $320 million USD is reportedly how much the Netflix Russo brother’s streaming title The Electric State cost. It’s expensive in the manner that a Chanel boomerang is expensive: a produc…
Agnieszka Holland has always led a political life. She has witnessed the impact of multiple occupations and dictatorial regimes. She was present for the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. She is consider…