In a Violent Nature is one of the most gruesome and gory horror films of the year. It's also a film that Nadine Whitney has called a pure slasher death trip. Director Chris Nash takes audiences on the slasher ride of the year, with his camera following the gnarly Johnny (Ry Barrett) as a silent brute slaughtering an array of college kids who possibly deserve their squishy demise. In the following interview, recorded ahead of the films Australian release on 1 August 2024, Nadine discusses the fil...
Jul 31, 2024•23 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Ruby O'Sullivan-Belfrage is a writer and critic who works and plays on unceded Wurundjeri land. In the wake of Afterwar’s screening at Sydney Film Festival, Ruby O’Sullivan-Belfrage spoke with director Birgitte Stærmose about the impact she hopes the film has, the nature of truth, and how truly annoying the question of genre can be. Afterwar screened at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, with a release to come in the future. For more interviews and reviews, visit The Curb.com.au. The Curb is proudly...
Jul 10, 2024•38 min•Season 13Ep. 6
Taylor Broadley's feature debut film Stubbornly Here is a welcome blast of indie filmmaking inventiveness with the Perth-based filmmaker presenting a sci-fi-adjacent story about three teens who live in an apathetic society where teenagers sometimes vanish into thin air. Stubbornly Here speaks to the anxieties of the day, focusing on a generation of kids who have grown up in a world that does not support their future and who the vitality of youth has been robbed of them. Yet, for all of its moder...
Jul 03, 2024•55 min•Season 13Ep. 5
There's space in this Bluey obsessed world for two Aussie animated canine stories, with Alexs Stadermann's utterly delightful and wonderfully inventive series 100% Wolf following the exploits of one Freddy Lupin, a werewolf who turns into a puffy pink poodle when the moon comes out. Kicking off in 2019 with the bright and brilliant 100% Wolf which saw Freddy at odds with his pack as he had to prove that he had the heart of a wolf, a hugely successful TV series spawned, following the story of Fre...
Jun 12, 2024•40 min•Season 13Ep. 4
The boxing film subgenre gets an esteemed new entry in the form of Paul Goldman's Kid Snow . Set in the 1970s, Kid Snow follows Billy Howle as the titular character, a washed-up fighter who has one last shot at glory. Shot in the red dirt of WA, Kid Snow also features an impressive line-up of Aussie actors including Phoebe Tonkin, Hunter Page-Lochard, Mark Coles Smith, and Nathan Phillips. Nadine Whitney spoke to Paul Goldman ahead of the World Premiere at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, with the...
Jun 12, 2024•23 min•Season 13Ep. 3
One of the finest films having its Australian premiere at the festival is Jaydon Martin's stunning feature debut film Flathead . This fiction-documentary hybrid film follows Cass Cumerford, a bloke near the end of his days who returns to Bundaberg, the region he grew up. Swaying into the town, he finds consolation and support with various religious sects that have sprung up in the land before he flows into the life of Andrew, a Chinese-Australian fish and chip shop owner who is dealing with his ...
Jun 09, 2024•55 min•Season 13Ep. 2
In Vitro is the highly anticipated follow-up from Will Howarth (Bombay Beach) and Tom McKeith (Beast, SFF 2016) after their debut feature Beast was nominated for Best First Feature at Toronto International Film Festival 2015. Starring the director Will Howarth, Ashley Zukerman (Fear Street) and Talia Zucker (Lake Mungo). On an isolated cattle farm, Layla and Jack's life takes a dark turn when a storm exposes the unforeseen repercussions of Jack’s animal breeding technology. Nadine Whitney chats ...
Jun 05, 2024•20 min•Season 13Ep. 1
The 2024 German Film Festival is currently underway across Australia with screenings taking place from 7 May to 5 June. The poster film for the festival is From Hilde, With Love , by director Andreas Dresen. In the following interview, Nadine Whitney and Andreas talk about his interest in telling the story of Hilde Coppi on screen. Hilde was a young German women who was drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War Two. Andreas Dresen is in attendance at the festival as a festiva...
May 08, 2024•32 min•Season 12Ep. 13
Roger Ungers is a documentarian who continually presents a new perspective on the world around us. His 2020 documentary Finding Creativity saw him explore the complex nature of creativity, and in turn, he reflects on his own creativity. That personal touch is brought to his latest documentary, Shape . This is a film about physicality and the at times exclusionary manner that the gay community can exhibit prejudice against different body types. Shape explores how a community that is often vocal a...
May 01, 2024•26 min•Season 12Ep. 12
There's something in the water in Perth that leads to a creative movement from local filmmakers who push through microbudget limitations to tell engaging and inventive stories on screen. For emerging filmmakers Katherine Grace and Holly Dodd, that drive for creativity comes in the form of working together as actors and directors on a duo of short films. For Holly, it's the short horror Consumed , a story of a young woman who suffers from sleep paralysis, while for Katherine, her short film Aliso...
Apr 10, 2024•35 min•Season 12Ep. 11
As a young man, Matty Hannon explored the world, sinking roots in the Southeast Asian region. Here, he made lifelong friends, became part of families, and fostered a connection with the land that was ultimately severed when he had to return home to Australia to kick off a 'career'. The towering metal structures that became the home for his monotonous office life played a major role in an emerging mental illness that saw Matty at a crossroads: continue on with this corporate career life and possi...
Mar 17, 2024•21 min•Season 12Ep. 10
Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer whose work has spanned creative formats, from documentaries like The Reason I Jump where she won an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition, to TV series like Funny Women , to video games like Telling Lies and Immortality . With over 150 credits to her name, Nainita is nothing short of prolific. In the following interview, Nainita talks about her journey into becoming a composer and how Peter Gabriel impacted her career. While we don't touch on her educa...
Mar 02, 2024•55 min•Season 12Ep. 9
Daniel Monks is an award winning theatre and film actor who hails from Perth, Western Australia. He received an AACTA nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the feature film Pulse , a story about a disabled teen who undergoes radical surgery to turn into a beautiful woman in a bid to be loved and embraced. Daniel wrote the script and worked with his close friend, Stevie Cruz-Martin, as a director. It's a film that helped launch his career as an actor in both Australia and London, where ...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Listeners should note that the following interview contains discussions on childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Writer-director Carl Joseph Papa's The Missing follows Eric (Carlo Aquino), a young man who lives alone, maintains a crush on his coworker Carlo (Gio Gahol), and has a strong bond with his mother Rosalinda (Dolly De Leon). Rosalinda's request for Eric to check in on his uncle who they haven't heard from in some time coincides with the presence of an alien. These unexpected events cause E...
Feb 17, 2024•37 min•Season 12Ep. 7
Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer whose work spans from critical analysis, to theatre, to the new ABC Kids series, Planet Lulin, where she plays Principal Cruz. Carissa's critical work has appeared in publications like Kill Your Darlings, IndigenousX , and Witness Performance , where her writing examined culture and the arts through an Indigenous lens. In her must read piece on Kill Your Darlings, How Acting Saved My Life , she talks about the complexity that comes with navigating class ...
Feb 08, 2024•45 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Robert Connolly is one of Australia's great modern directors, having exploded onto the film scene some twenty years ago with The Bank , which was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the AFI awards, which he swiftly followed up with an impressive body of work that includes Paper Planes, The Turning, Balibo, Blueback , and the 2021 adaptation of Jane Harper's best seller, The Dry . That film, which featured Eric Bana as Detective Aaron Falk, set the box office afire in 2021 alongside H...
Feb 07, 2024•23 min•Season 12Ep. 5
For as long as I've been a devotee of cinema, I've followed the career of Patricia Clarkson. Patricia is a genuine queen of the screen, featuring in films like The Station Agent, Far From Heaven, The Green Mile, and Pieces of April, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Her latest films is the magnificent drama film Monica, featuring Trace Lysette (Transparent, Hustlers) who plays the titular character, a trans woman who poses as a support worker to visit her dying mother, Eugenia ...
Feb 01, 2024•29 min•Season 12Ep. 4
Jon Bell's unsettling 2021 short film, The Moogai , receives the feature film treatment with his 2024 horror of the same name. Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival , The Moogai follows in the steps of other Australian horror films ( Talk to Me, Relic, You Won't Be Alone ) to have left their mark at the fest. It follows the story of Indigenous couple Sarah (Shari Sebbens) and Fergus (Meyne Wyatt) as they welcome their new child into the world. However, Sarah's birth is a trauma...
Jan 26, 2024•26 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Australian horror is experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment with the box office boom of Talk to Me , and the critical success of Godless , Monolith , You'll Never Find Me , Birdeater , and so many more. As we leave 2023 in the dust and we head into 2024, we want to start the year by continuing this celebration of ocker horror with the new short film Bad Vibrations, which makes its world premiere at Flickerfest on Saturday January 20 in the Best of Australian Shorts bunch. Writer/D...
Jan 17, 2024•42 min•Season 12Ep. 2
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Jan 17, 2024•11 min•Season 12Ep. 1
Aussie indie filmmaker powerhouse Heath Davis is back with his fourth feature film, Christmess . This seasonally appropriate flick follows on fom his grounded work with his solid debut film Broke , in 2016. Heath quickly followed this up with the black comedy Book Week , before swerving into thriller territory with Locusts . Here we follow washed up alcoholic actor Chris Flint - the never better Steve Le Marquand - who's getting out of rehab just in time for Christmas. He arrives at the halfway ...
Dec 01, 2023•41 min•Season 11Ep. 26
Much of what I do with The Curb is in a bid to shine a light on voices that may not often get the chance to be heard. That mindset carries through with director Marion Pilowsky's tenderly empathetic and joyfully curious documentary Isla's Way . Here we meet Isla Roberts. Isla isn't a lesbian. She's not a lezzo. She's not a dyke. She's just Isla Roberts. She lives with her 'friend' Susan and throughout the course of the film we hear their stories. Isla is persistent and resilient, living for her ...
Nov 29, 2023•38 min•Season 11Ep. 25
When the short story Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian was published in The New Yorker in 2017, it immediately went viral with readers resonating with the way modern day dating can quickly turn toxic. It's a compelling place for director Susanna Fogel to build from with her adaptation of the short story, scripted by Michelle Ashford. Here, Cat Person follows Emilia Jones' Margot, a ticket person at a cinema in America. She awkwardly encounters Robert, played by Nicholas Braun, and eventually the t...
Nov 22, 2023•17 min•Season 11Ep. 24
Scott Hicks is an Academy Award nominated director, with his Best Picture nominated film Shine bringing his work to international attention, alongside the work of the films subject, pianist David Helfgott. We're now some twenty-six years removed from the release of Shine , and the echoes of its impact continues to resonate within the creative minds of those who have become vessels for music. In Scott's latest film, The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process , he explores just how that well of creat...
Nov 17, 2023•25 min•Season 11Ep. 23
Every so often a presence swirls into our lives in an unexpected manner and changes it just a little bit. For many Australians, whether they be wealthy or not-so-wealthy, that presence is David Bromley. Here is a celebrated artist whose work features on the walls of galleries and private art collectors, while the same artwork adorns cologne labels, reusable water bottles, and more. As mentioned in Sean McDonald's raucous and energetic documentary Bromley: Light After Dark, in Australian cinemas ...
Nov 15, 2023•37 min•Season 11Ep. 22
Madeleine Dyer is a writer, actor, director, and producer, whose body of work includes the 2017 comedy series Sexy Herpes , the acclaimed comedy series Colin from Accounts , where she worked with her sister Harriet Dyer, and now her latest film, A Savage Christmas , out in cinemas on 16 November 2023. A Savage Christmas tells the story of the Savage family as they meet for a sweaty summer Christmas in Queensland. After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina, played by Thea Raveneua, returns h...
Nov 15, 2023•36 min•Season 11Ep. 21
Radheya Jegatheva is a Perth based filmmaker. His work includes the award winning short Pacing the Pool , about Perth local Richard Pace, and The Quiet , an animated film about an astronaut contemplating existence. His latest short animated film, Bird Drone , is a collaboration with writer Clare Toonen and producer Hannah Ngo. It tells the story of a seagull who finds an unexpected connection with a human-operated drone. Presented in a striking painterly style, this animation features a wonderfu...
Nov 09, 2023•28 min•Season 11Ep. 20
With her delicate and gentle drama Damage , director Madeleine Blackwell has crafted a parable that layers grief, trauma, a sense of location and what it means to live away from home, and more into an emotionally enriching experience. Damage follows Ali, played by Ali Al Jenabi, a refugee in Australia using a friends taxi license to earn some small aspect of a living. As he drives the streets of Adelaide at night, he picks up Esther, played by Madeleine's mother Imelda Bourke. Esther is a lost s...
Nov 08, 2023•27 min•Season 11Ep. 19
Filmmaker, critic, and cultural historian Bill Mousoulis has forged a career as, in the truest sense of the word, an independent filmmaker in Australia. His filmography spans over decades, with his works showcasing a keen sense of curiosity for the world around him, whether it be Greece, Melbourne, or as in his latest film My Darling in Stirling , the humble city of Stirling in the Adelaide Hills. In the following interview, recorded ahead of the world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival, Bil...
Nov 02, 2023•36 min•Season 11Ep. 18
Garth Davis is a filmmaker who has explored the human need for connection in his films. Whether it's in his Best Picture nominee Lion , or in his latest film, Foe , that sense of being one with the person you love is a tangible thread throughout his career. In the following interview, Garth talks about that sense of connection, while also talking about one of the core themes of the film: Artificial Intelligence. Foe stars Saoirse Ronan as Hen and Paul Mescal as Junior. They are Midwest lovers in...
Oct 31, 2023•23 min•Season 11Ep. 17
