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Hal Kirkland on his his sci-fi comedy Please and Thank You

Hal Kirkland on his his sci-fi comedy Please and Thank You

Guest Author Jun 19, 2026 3 min read
australian film short film Articles Hal Kirkland st Kilda Film Festival

Stop Talking Shit to Siri, You Fool. “What are you thinking?!” Surely you realise all these devices are listening. Everything you say, including the names you call them, is being stored somewhere. A…

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Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money

Visar Morina on his devastating Kosovar drama Shame and Money

Nadine Whitney Jun 19, 2026 9 min read
Interview Interviews Reviews Sydney Film Festival Kosovo social realism

My biggest challenge was to create a shift. To start with a social environment, and basically to examine what it does to the people offering themselves every day and being treated like they are treated.…

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Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus

Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus

Nadine Whitney Jun 18, 2026 8 min read
Adrian Chiarella Reviews Interviews queer activism Australian horror south australia Nadine Whitney Queer cinema

The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…

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“Australia. Find out who you are, and you’ll know how to love somebody else.” - Asian-Australian Memories of Film, Identity and Belonging

“Australia. Find out who you are, and you’ll know how to love somebody else.” - Asian-Australian Memories of Film, Identity and Belonging

Carl Gopalkrishnan Jun 18, 2026 7 min read
Reviews Articles australian film Careful He Might Hear You

In 1983 Hungarian-Australian director Carl Schultz adapted Sumner Locke Elliott’s award-winning novel Careful, He Might Hear You into a film Australia itself has largely forgotten. Set in Depression-e…

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Pixar’s Toy Story 5 embraces familiar warmth to tackle childhood in the digital age

Pixar’s Toy Story 5 embraces familiar warmth to tackle childhood in the digital age

Kahn Duncan Jun 17, 2026 5 min read
Toy Story Family Animation Pixar Kahn Duncan Reviews

Toy Story 5 feels like a natural next step for a franchise that has proved its relevance for over three decades.…

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David West on breaking cinema with the hyper independent Lint

David West on breaking cinema with the hyper independent Lint

Andrew F Peirce Jun 16, 2026 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts David West WA Made Film Festival Lint

Lint is the first feature film from Boorloo-Perth creative David West. It's a hyper independent West Aussie film about Iris (Melissa Coci) and Susan (Courtney Swartz), colleagues who work at an en…

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A Return of the Curb Podcast

A Return of the Curb Podcast

Andrew F Peirce Jun 16, 2026 8 min read
Interviews Podcasts

Kaya, wanjoo, hello, welcome. It’s been a while folks. After some months away from the world of the Curb, I’m finally returning to clear the backlog of interviews and discussions that have been…

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Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing

Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing

Nadine Whitney Jun 13, 2026 4 min read
Reviews Documentaries tribeca Marlon Brando Hollywood American History X Mike Figgis

Tony Kaye’s documentary is a vivid portrait of a man so over his head that he’s become more than a little mad.…

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Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism

Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism

Nadine Whitney Jun 11, 2026 3 min read
Steven Spielberg Emily Blunt Science Fiction action spaceships Nadine Whitney Reviews

Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…

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Island nation Nauru debuts its first film ever, Far End of the Sea; in conversation with filmmakers

Island nation Nauru debuts its first film ever, Far End of the Sea; in conversation with filmmakers

Guest Author Jun 10, 2026 4 min read
Interviews Far End of the Sea Matthew Holmes Jamie Coffa Guest Article australian film

Zijian Qi, Managing Editor of China's Xinhua News Agency Sydney Bureau writes for the Curb about Nauru's debut film Far End of the Sea by director Matthew Holmes and writer Jamie Coffa.…

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Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner

Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner

Nadine Whitney Jun 9, 2026 7 min read
Reviews crime Thriller Romance Comedy music Nadine Whitney daniel roher Dustin Hoffman

The highly enjoyable and entertaining Tuner upends a lot of expectations and zigs where many other films would zag, keeping the momentum from sagging.…

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Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny

Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny

Nadine Whitney Jun 8, 2026 5 min read
Reviews horror gothic tribeca

A contemporary Gothic horror where the aspect of dread permeates both the house and the people who spend time there.…

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