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The CurbAustraliaYou See How This Looks: Robert Pattinson on being Chris Hansen in Primetime Although Dateline NBC’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ only ran segments for three years, Chris Hansen became a phenomenon in the reality television world.
The CurbAustraliaAmy Goodman & Carl Deal on the importance of a free press media and the documentary Steal This Story, Please! Amy Goodman is one of the founding minds behind the vital independent media organisation Democracy Now! Over decades, Democracy Now!
The CurbAustraliaStuart Buchanan & Madeleine Cocolas on bringing the horror of Hellhouse to the Sydney Opera House A venue where we experience art can be transformed by the art that is presented there. That's what will happen with the upcoming horror film screenings at the Sydney Opera House from 27 October to 31…
The CurbAustraliaWired for weird: How Laika’s Wildwood put Portland on screen By almost any measure, Laika’s Wildwood is one of the most spectacular films of its type. It took six years, 142,000 printed faces and 715 miles of brass wire to make.
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The CurbAustraliaJared Nicholson and Ben Lawrence on their documentary Aftermath Jared Nicholson and Ben Lawrence’s fascinating documentary Aftermath is a unique and powerfully convincing meditation on how vulnerability can become gullibility leading to those who were directly…
The CurbAustraliaNatalia Laska on her tender and gentle documentary The Piano Tuner Natalia Laska's tender and gentle, yet deeply humorous and charming, documentary The Piano Tuner follows her partner, Martin Tucker as he traipses across Australia, from Hobart to Darwin, tuning…
The CurbAustraliaWhose right to write? Kuba Dorabialski on Agata the Writer Mia Wasikowska is Agata, a Polish-Australian novelist who is struggling to come up with her next book.
The CurbAustraliaThe changes to the AACTA Awards they didn’t tell you about Right. Ahead of reading this piece, you should know that I have not reached out to the AFI/AACTA [1] for a comment as each time I have, I have received no response.
The CurbAustraliaFrom Body Melt to Wolf Creek: These Are Twenty of the Scariest Horror Movie Moments in Australian Cinema 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…
The CurbAustraliaNoughts Report Part 7: 2007 – From Across the Universe to Zodiac 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…
The CurbAustraliaThe Social Reckoning is ploddingly obsolete Aaron Sorkin is one of America’s most feted screenplay writers while simultaneously being one of its most underwhelming directors.
The CurbAustraliaKriv Stenders on Resuscitating The Illustrated Family Doctor 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.
The CurbAustraliaI Watched Entourage as a Woman in 2026 — and Loved It 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.
The CurbAustraliaVerity knows it’s not high art and revels in camp When do you surrender to a work that knows exactly how shallow and gawdy its premise is? Director Michael Showalter makes it fairly easy with the trash-tastic Verity , a film that embraces its own…
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