Come Away with Me: Miguel Gomes and Grand Tours
Portuguese cineaste Miguel Gomes’ latest film Grand Tour is an odyssey through Asia using a constructed narrative about a couple in 1918 who chase and elude each other through multiple countries. Gome…
Grand Tour is a striking yet at times impenetrable docufiction made with love by a cineaste
Grand Tour poetically travels across space, time, and form to create a comedic melodrama of ethnographically sweeping proportions. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes mixes the aesthetics of the early 2…
90s All Over Me Part 1: 1989 - From Batman to Weekend at Bernie's
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
Quiet Reclamations: Payal Kapadia on Malleable Cities, Friendship and the Boy Next Door in Contemporary Indian Cinema
As I wait for my interview with filmmaker Payal Kapadia to commence, I hear the clouds cackle. And right on cue, on a warm summer evening in Sydney, it begins to rain. I smile, thinking that perhaps t…
Sundance Film Festival: View from the Floor Directors Mindie Lind & Megan Griffiths on Bringing Their Animated Short to Life
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. If there's a minor blessing that has emerged from the pandemic, it's…
"The most important thing that remains is that we love each other": Karla Sofía Gascón on the Past and Future of Emilia Pérez
Karla Sofía Gascón made Academy Award history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award for her performance as the titular character in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.…
‘To make lightness, you have to have darkness’: Dougal Wilson on Directing Paddington in Peru
How do you follow up a film which managed to dethrone Citizen Kane as the best film of all time? Well, if you’re first-time feature filmmaker Dougal Wilson, you approach directing Paddington in Peru w…
Voices in Deep: Jason Raftopoulos on the Purpose of Personal Filmmaking
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Jason Raftopoulous is a filmmaker who I owe my continued writing career to. I…
Adelaide Film Festival: Albert Mwangi on Making it Look Real in Australian Cinema
Let's take a moment to look ahead in 2025 to a few of the Australian films that will get people talking. Two particular films had their world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2024, where…
Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man underwhelmingly howls through a tired reimagining
Wolf Man is a disappointing reboot of the 1941 lycanthrope horror The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr, struggling to build momentum despite a promising prologue. After an estranged father leaves his Or…
Leigh Whannell on Wolf Man and what sets his film apart from other werewolf stories
Australian director Leigh Whannell has taken two of Universal’s classic monsters and put his own spin on them. First, he updated the tale of The Invisible Man in 2020, and this year he takes on the ly…
Sing Sing | Magic Beach | Parthenope - the Curb Review Podcast
Subscribe to the Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Andrew F Peirce and Nadine Whitney head to prison with Colman Domingo and Cla…