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Fantastic Film Festival Australia is here once again and with it, a program blending strange and exciting new genre films with a slew of retro romps like never before. From Salt Along the Tongue’s mix…
There is a quiet terror that follows us, always, just beneath the surface. It’s not the kind of fear we speak of in hushed tones, nor the kind that keeps us up at night. No, this fear lingers in the u…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. In December 2013, Australian journalist Peter Greste, alongside fellow Al Jaz…
Filmmaker Michael Facey knows what it’s like to live as an artist in Australia. He knows the journey a film undergoes from the initial concept to honing the script to being on set bringing an emotiona…
It’s the Snake’s time to shine on the zodiac calendar, yet it seems 2025 is the Year of the Monkey. With the dulcet tones of Better Man and the howling screeches of Osgood Perkin’s aptly named The Mon…
Broad Sound Dispatches is a podcast which features 'a cornucopia of audio goodness from the contributors to the journal of arts and culture.' Andrew F. Peirce was recently invited to be a gues…
Hardware is a multi-genre collision of post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque action, Cronenbergian body horror, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man-style techno-fetishism, wrapped in a late 1980s/early 1990s cyberpunk…
There is a kind of stillness to life in a small Irish village, the kind that settles into the bones and becomes part of the air. The lake ripples softly in the morning light, the wind hums through the…
I keep on saying that there’s something in the air in Adelaide. Over the years, the city has become a cultural hotbed for creative folks of all kinds: film, digital media, street art, sports. It’s eve…
Guest Author - Roger Graham VP Master of Science and Technology in Aviation Safety - UNSW, GradDip Safety Science - UNSW, SPQ - UNSW, CPMAIHS, RSP (Aust), ASSP, Dip Emergency Medicine - EMT Over the…
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Aussie band Kingswood are rock royalty, having played shows with AC/DC and Th…
There’s a discomfort in Gazer—a subtle yet persistent unease that lingers well after the credits roll. The film begins with an invitation, or rather, a command: “What do you see? Focus.” It's the…