Patient conversations at the edge of cinema.
The Curb follows filmmakers and culture-makers into the emotional and practical work behind screen stories. Its conversations move from process to politics to lived experience, with special attention to independent film, documentary, horror, queer storytelling, and care-led cinema.
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The Curb is an Australian film interview series built around long, attentive conversations with filmmakers, creatives, and cultural figures. Its center is independent screen work, but the real subject is often the human pressure behind the finished frame. Recent episodes trace a wide range of Australian and festival cinema. Miley Tunnicliffe speaks about moving from shorts into feature-length horror with Proclivatus, where grief, addiction recovery, family history, and grounded fear sit close together. Jordan Giusti and Rachel Forbes talk through Floodland, a documentary shaped by Lismore, climate crisis, government inaction, and the limits of asking a community to survive the same emergency again and again. Sophie Hyde and Aud Mason-Hyde bring Jimpa into a conversation about queer family life, non-binary stories, liberation, memory, and change. Haydn Green discusses Hear My Eyes, where contemporary musicians create new live scores for existing films. Lucy Coleman is framed through admiration for fearless stories about women in modern Australian cinema and television. Damien Power’s Return of the Champ opens a path into sibling rivalry, masculinity, comedy, vulnerability, and the strange tenderness around loud cars and family distance. Lianne Mackessy’s Tuesday Tuesday leads to care work, younger-onset dementia, advocacy, humor, and the ordinary texture of a final day before a move into a facility. Shalom Almond’s Songs Inside brings the series into prison, music, rehabilitation, performance, and the effort to keep humanity visible. The show’s strength is its patience. It does not treat films as press-cycle objects only. It lets craft questions become moral questions, and it lets moral questions return to concrete choices made in writing, directing, producing, shooting, and performing. The tone is warm, informed, and gently probing. It suits listeners who like their film conversations spacious, local, politically aware, and emotionally literate. The result is a cinema podcast that feels close to the work, close to the makers, and alert to the communities that films carry with them.
Made for: For listeners who follow independent film, Australian screen culture, documentary, queer cinema, horror, and craft-led interviews. It especially suits people who want generous conversations about process, representation, and emotional stakes rather than quick review chatter.
What sets it apart: The Curb stands apart through its grounded Australian focus and its willingness to let interviews breathe. It connects film craft to lived experience, social context, and care without losing the plain pleasure of talking about cinema.
Welcome to the Curb. This is the podcast where we bring you in depth interviews with filmmakers, creatives, and curators of culture. This podcast is recorded in Boorloo, Western Australia. Support The Curb on Patreon, and make sure to follow us on Facebook. Contact with us via our email. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Filmmaker interviews turn choices about genre, performance and lived experience into clear, grounded screen criticism.
Andrew F. Pearce treats the interview as a route into how a film is made and what its choices carry. Conversations move easily between production decisions and emotional intent, with filmmakers given room to explain the thinking behind genre, performance and representation.
The credits roll; Andrew F. Pearce is asking how grief became horror, and you're glad he did.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid debut-feature conversation on grief, memory, and turning grounded experience into horror.
A debut-feature interview turns into a thoughtful study of horror as something rooted in lived feeling rather than simple genre machinery. Miley Tunnicliffe talks through her move from comedy into horror, the shaping of Proclivatus around grief and trauma, and the effort to make…
A grounded conversation about Lismore, Floodland, and the limits of calling resilience a solution.
The Curb places Floodland where careful documentary work meets a disaster that is not safely behind anyone. Nadine Whitney's conversation with filmmaker Jordan Garcia and producer Rachel Forbes follows the film's focus on Lismore: homes swept away, friends and family lost, and…
A warm, searching conversation about Jimpa, non-binary storytelling and the freedom to keep changing.
The Curb's conversation with Sophie Hyde and Aud Mason Hyde frames Jimpa as a film about liberation, identity and the right to keep becoming. Andrew F.
A candid conversation about how family history turns a short car-crash story into a study of masculinity.
Damien Power's conversation about Return of the Champ begins with a compact docudrama premise, then settles into a broader family portrait. What first sounds like a crash story becomes a study of his bond with his brother Will Power, a world champion and Indy 500 winner, where…
A warm craft conversation about younger-onset dementia, support work and finding humanity in an ordinary day.
A young support worker's final day with her long-time client opens into a thoughtful conversation about care, recognition and life with younger-onset dementia.
A thoughtful, music-led conversation about queer storytelling, indie-rock texture, and the choices behind We Forgot to Break Up.
Nox and Lane Webber's conversation about We Forgot to Break Up is strongest when it turns toward the music, and the way a fictional Canadian indie-rock band can hold queer and trans storytelling without flattening it into labels.
A warm, thoughtful conversation about care, dementia, work, hope, and humor.
The Curb's conversation with Leanne McKessie keeps Tuesday Tuesday at a human scale: a short drama about a young support worker's last day with a long-time client living with younger-onset dementia before he moves into a care facility.
Friendly interviews from inside pop culture.
Culture, conversation, and weekend momentum.
Fan-first interviews with genre creators.
Creative work, traced back to its sources.
Interview with filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven about his new film Went Up the Hill, a gothic possession drama exploring grief.
Host Andrew F.
Host Andrew O'Pierce interviews filmmaker Leanne Mackessy about her 2026 short film 'Tuesday Tuesday', which premiered at Flicker Fest.
Nadine Whitney of The Curb interviews Toby Poser and John Adams about their horror black comedy The Glorious Dead, which she says is "gross as hell" and also funny.
The Curb host Andrew F.
The Curb’s Andrew F.
["Floodland and Lismore's 2017 and 2022 floods anchor The Curb interview with Jordan and Rachel Forbes.", "Nadine Whitney, who lived in Austinville from 1977 to 1987 and again from 2010 to 2018, uses her own Lismore memory to question the town's flood history.", "Jordan says the film was cut down into a butterfly structure around Eli, Harper, and Carly Atkinson rather than an essayistic map of the crisis.", "He and Rachel Forbes argue that the impact campaign must keep pressure on housing, insurance, and government action because the recovery problem is still unresolved."]
Hayden Green discusses ten years of Hear My Eyes, a project that combines films with new live music compositions to create unique sensory experiences.
Andrew Pearce interviews filmmaker Lucy Coleman about centering fearless stories about women in modern Australian cinema and TV.
The Curb host Andrew F.
Host Andrew F.
Interview with documentarian Shalom Almond about her film Songs Inside, which follows women prisoners in Adelaide as they prepare a musical performance with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
An interview with co-directors William Jaka and Fraser Pemberton about their short film Faceless, which critiques the class system through three parallel realities on the Yarra River.
Andrew F.
An interview with filmmaker Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama about her debut feature Têtes Brulées, exploring healthy masculinity and the Tunisian community in Brussels.