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Welcome to the Curb's first reader survey. Oddly, I've (Andrew, the guy who runs the site) never run a reader survey in the eight years we've been trucking along. Not that I haven't w…
This article was previously published in October 2022. It hasn't been updated to include such horrifying films as Talk to Me, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism, Bring Her Back or Penny Lane is Dead,…
Welcome to the seventh instalment of the Noughts Report. Each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and trends that ignited or flam…
One of the most glaring errors of The Social Reckoning is the title itself. What reckoning? Mark Zuckerberg has managed to dodge any true repercussions for turning Facebook into a platform that encourages engagement with the far right and other harmful groups.…
The Illustrated Family Doctor almost ended Kriv Stenders' career before it got started. A surreal comedy about white-collar office life with subtle body-horror elements. Doctor was unusual in Aust…
Revisiting HBO’s famously male and hyper-sexualised Hollywood fantasy made me question my own ambitions as a woman in the film industry – those within reach, and those that remain untouchable. When I…
The star-studded thriller about two authors caught in a precarious entanglement is funny in all the wrong ways. And you know what? That might not be a bad thing.…
The Adams Family’s dark comedy horror take on contemporary America: The Glorious Dead is chilling, gruesome, and all too real. Toby Poser and John Adams talk about their personal film.…
When I think of the sounds of Western Australia, the licks of Wide Open Road by the Triffids hits my mind, or maybe The Waifs yearning to be back in London, or occasionally it'll be a wistful memo…
Welcome to the sixth instalment of the Noughts Report. Each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and trends that ignited or flamed…
The Great Arch is both surprisingly relatable and a fascinating character study of the men and women who built the past with an eye to the future.…
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a bunch of characters, hopefully you like them, sometimes you don't.…