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6 days ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce |Nadine Whitney
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. And we’re back with another review discussion with myself, Andrew, and my colleague Nadine Whitney.
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1 week ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Filmmaker Michael Facey knows what it’s like to live as an artist in Australia. He knows the journey a film undergoes from the initial concept to honing the script to being on set bringing an emotional truth to life, and finally, to running the theatrical and streaming release gauntlet. Michael has worked as a producer on shorts and features, with the queer drama Sunflower seeing him journey across Australia with the entourage of filmmakers and actors in tow.
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1 week ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Broad Sound Dispatches is a podcast which features ‘a cornucopia of audio goodness from the contributors to the journal of arts and culture.’ Andrew F. Peirce was recently invited to be a guest on the show to discuss his book Lonely Spirits and the King: An Australian Film Book.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
I keep on saying that there’s something in the air in Adelaide. Over the years, the city has become a cultural hotbed for creative folks of all kinds: film, digital media, street art, sports. It’s even become a surrogate home for a group of global elephants without a herd to call home. There’s a cultural foundation that is pushed for and cultivated by the people who call the city home.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in discussion with Netscout’s Jim McNiel, Werner Herzog made the statement that in the next four and a half thousand years, ‘no computer will make a film as good as mine.’ Polish artist and director Piotr Winiewicz took this statement as a major challenge and embraced the notion of computer driven quality filmmaking to create his debut feature film, About a Hero, seeking approval from Werner Herzog to utilise an artificial intelligence, deepfaked version of...
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1 month ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
When it comes to outlining the plot or character traits of Jellyfish, the feature debut from West Aussie based filmmaker Giles Chan, it’s hard to escape critically applied terms such as ‘slacker’ or ‘masochist’ that are used to define Aidan Rynne’s lead character Henry, a depressive twenty-something guy living in Perth who solicits strangers to beat him up for cash. The early scenes of Jellyfish brings the character of Henry into focus as a husk of a human who passively exists in life.
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1 month ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. In 2024, director Natalie Bailey and writer Lou Sanz unleashed Audrey onto audiences in Australia and America. Here’s a film that I called a caustic comedy that rains like refreshing acid rain.
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1 month ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. At just twenty years old, transgender wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay has crafted a filmography that would make most seasoned professionals envious. Alice’s filmography is built within a defiantly independent space that centres queer stories on screen.
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1 month ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. For decades, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz were Australian film reviewing royalty, having built up a loyal following with their weekly show on SBS, The Movie Show. The 90s and early 00s was the peak of David & Margaret’s influence over Australian audiences. What they recommended, people would head out and go and see.
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1 month ago | 
thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Carmen & Bolude marks something of a first for Australian films. Here is a comedy about two close friends, Carmen (Michela Carattini) and Bolude (Bolude Watson), who both call Australia home. Carmen proudly embraces her Latin heritage, while Bolude navigates the line between Western values and her Nigerian roots.
