the Curb

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...

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 have...

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 D...

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...

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 th...

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 Fer...

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 w...

To help support The Curb on Patreon, please visit Patreon.com/TheCurbAu. Sign up for the latest interviews, reviews, and more via https://www.thecurb.com.au/subscribe/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 S...

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 throug...

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...

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 Sc...

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 mentio...

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 Christma...

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...

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 A...

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....

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: Artificia...

Filmmaker Anupam Sharma talks about his new documentary Brand Bollywood Downunder in this in depth interview which touches on the cross-cultural relationship between India and Australia on screen, what makes a Bollywood film a Bollywood film, and about the Australian Indian Visual Co-Production treaty. Anupam is the director of cross-culture films like UNindian and The Run , and has worked on a li...

In this episode, Andrew interviews celebrated author Paullina Simons about her latest novel, Light at Lavelle . It tells the story Finn Evans, a Bostonian banker who at the end of the 1920s finds his life unexpectedly swirling into the orbit of Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer. Light at Lavelle takes readers on a journey over the breadth of its five hundred plus pages of romance fiction th...

On this episode, Andrew chats with director Matt Vesely about his feature film debut Monolith . Monolith is a chilling sci-fi thriller follows a journalist, played by Lily Sullivan, whose livelihood is at stake after a defamation case threatens her career. In a bid to escape the pressure of the case, she heads to her parents remote home and starts working on a podcast called Beyond Believable , a...

In this double interview episode, Andrew chats with two of the creative minds behind Ben Affleck's latest film, Air . Air tells the story of how sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) pursued Michael Jordan and changed history for Nike and basketball with the creation of the iconic Air Jordan shoe. First up is Academy Award winning editor William Goldenberg who reunites with Affleck...

On this episode, Andrew chats to writer, director, and editor Adrian Powers about his new film Love is in the Air . This romantic drama tells the story of Dana, played by Delta Goodrem in her return to acting. Dana is a seaplane pilot in Far North Queensland and when she's not monitoring the region from the skies, she's delivering much needed supplies to remote communities. Her job is thrown into...

In this episode, Andrew interview filmmaker Heidi Lee Douglas about her new film Suka . Written by Tsu Shan Chambers and Lily Cheng, this neon-soaked action flick tells a story that spans decades, detailing the the fury that rages between two feuding families in Western Sydney. Suka is both a multi-cultural Romeo and Juliet style revenge film, with a touch of real-life events thrown into the mix....

Listeners are advised that this podcast includes mention of sexual assault and trauma. In this episode, Andrew interviews writer and director Matthew Holmes about his latest film, The Cost . This is a searing vigilante thriller that tells the story of two men, David and Aaron, who abduct the newly released felon Troy to inflict their own version of justice and retribution. While on paper The Cost...