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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
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Oh hey folks.
Chiming in to say the Curb has a brand new look and a brand new way of supporting us.
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Well folks, we've entered our Ghost era of the Curb.
This is the same old site you've known with the same interviews and reviews and the same passionate support for Australian cinema, just a little d...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh hey folks.
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“Game’s haven’t had a price increase since the 90’s”
Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up
Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up
October 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“Game’s haven’t had a price increase since the 90’s”
Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up
Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up
Got an awesome opportunity to help program @envirofilmsaus.bsky.social’s 15th Anniversary! Some incredible stuff lined up from the 16th to the 23rd of October in Melbourne.
Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:
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Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:
environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2...
Environmental Film Festival 2025 — Environmental Films Australia
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October 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Got an awesome opportunity to help program @envirofilmsaus.bsky.social’s 15th Anniversary! Some incredible stuff lined up from the 16th to the 23rd of October in Melbourne.
Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:
environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2...
Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:
environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2...
Sometimes Latin words are just those spell names you’d hear in a porn parody of Harry Potter…
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sometimes Latin words are just those spell names you’d hear in a porn parody of Harry Potter…
Watched Videoheaven for @thecurb.com.au and realised we’re really starved for video essays in the offline world. Just watch any of the talented creators on @nebula.tv / YouTube and you’ll probably have a better time! 📽️📝
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MIFF Review: Videoheaven is a neat look at the cultural impact of video stores, but feels like a relic of the past - The Curb | Film and Culture
It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where ...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Watched Videoheaven for @thecurb.com.au and realised we’re really starved for video essays in the offline world. Just watch any of the talented creators on @nebula.tv / YouTube and you’ll probably have a better time! 📽️📝
www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...
www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...
new blog post up on finnwritesmovies! Doing a bit of solo coverage on MIFF over there for the next few days. but in the meantime, checkout my take on Chain Reactions below 📽️📝:
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MIFF — Chain Reactions (2024)/ Finn Writes Movies
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August 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
new blog post up on finnwritesmovies! Doing a bit of solo coverage on MIFF over there for the next few days. but in the meantime, checkout my take on Chain Reactions below 📽️📝:
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Go there regularly myself and there’s always something cool happening. To the point where each little office feels like stepping into a different dimension. Just a shame a lot of the truly wacky stuff felt unrepresented! 📝📽️
Melbourne's iconic Nicholas Building gets its own documentary.,
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
The Nicholas Building screens at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Reviewed by Melbourne's own Finnlay Dall
The Nicholas Building - FilmInk
The film’s contents may lack the polish or shape, but its tactility – its sounds, colours and characters – are what makes The Nicholas Building priceless.
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July 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Go there regularly myself and there’s always something cool happening. To the point where each little office feels like stepping into a different dimension. Just a shame a lot of the truly wacky stuff felt unrepresented! 📝📽️
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Does that mean competitive spreadsheet competitors are modern day gladiators?
This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*
July 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Does that mean competitive spreadsheet competitors are modern day gladiators?
Feels ironic enough to be a @theonion.com headline…
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Feels ironic enough to be a @theonion.com headline…
Never had a thriller put me to sleep quite like this before unfortunately 😴! But this was fun to write about at least! Thanks @thecurb.com.au for publishing it! 📽️📝
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Stranger Eyes is a padded melodrama that lacks impact - The Curb | Film and Culture
Almost everyone owns a smartphone now. A tiny recording device and track in nearly six billion pockets worldwide. They’ve become a part of our lives to point where we make jokes about the FBI peering ...
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July 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Never had a thriller put me to sleep quite like this before unfortunately 😴! But this was fun to write about at least! Thanks @thecurb.com.au for publishing it! 📽️📝
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www.thecurb.com.au/stranger-eye...
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need someone to convince Ralph Fiennes to record an ASMR video in character as Dr. Ian Kelson for me personally
July 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
need someone to convince Ralph Fiennes to record an ASMR video in character as Dr. Ian Kelson for me personally
Love a great blame game medical drama! And this was just a (depressing) blast to sit through! 📽️📝
"Intriguing, deftly crafted and brimming with Scandinavian talent," Second Victims (Det andet offer) is a medical drama that is screening in July and August at the Scandinavian Film Festival.
Finnlay Dall reviews
Finnlay Dall reviews
Second Victims (Det andet offer) - FilmInk
Intriguing, deftly crafted and brimming with Scandinavian talent, it’s a medical drama not to under-assess or overlook.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Love a great blame game medical drama! And this was just a (depressing) blast to sit through! 📽️📝
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What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?
July 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?
Heyo! For those who don't know I decided to move away from #Substack and decided to set up a fully dedicated site for my film blog. Took awhile but super ecstatic to finally be able to share it! #filmsky 📽️
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July 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Heyo! For those who don't know I decided to move away from #Substack and decided to set up a fully dedicated site for my film blog. Took awhile but super ecstatic to finally be able to share it! #filmsky 📽️
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Shoutout to Davaa for being the both the sweetest goat herder and the sweetest father! 📽️📝
Gabrielle Brady (Island of the Hungry Ghosts) returns with climate-themed hybrid documentary The Wolves Always Come at Night, in cinemas Thursday.
Finnlay Dall reviews
Finnlay Dall reviews
The Wolves Always Come at Night - FilmInk
… a heart wrenching tale of a father and his family facing the results of climate catastrophe.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Shoutout to Davaa for being the both the sweetest goat herder and the sweetest father! 📽️📝
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Nintendo go rid of the gold coins so we couldn’t just bank them up to buy Welcome Tour, I just know it
June 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nintendo go rid of the gold coins so we couldn’t just bank them up to buy Welcome Tour, I just know it
Whoops, accidentally rated this higher that I meant too 😅. But don’t get it twisted, there’s a really trippy film here that’s a real treat to witness with your own eyes. That is, if your eyes actually exist… 📽️📝
Finnlay Dall reviews Sam Dixon and Adam C. Briggs’ scrappy 8mm fever dream, A Grand Mockery, screening at Revelation Perth International Film Festival
A Grand Mockery - FilmInk
… walks a fine line between sophistry and philosophy …
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June 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Whoops, accidentally rated this higher that I meant too 😅. But don’t get it twisted, there’s a really trippy film here that’s a real treat to witness with your own eyes. That is, if your eyes actually exist… 📽️📝
Pained me physically to write a bad review for this cause it has all the things I should like, weird horror, elevated style and a French Female Director. But this felt like it was grasping at tropes and riding on a trend rather than actually joining the conversation of female led horror. 📽️📝
In the tradition of Titane and Revenge (ie. female director dealing in dark, sexually charged, subversive subject matter) comes Aurélia Mengin's SCARLET BLUE, screening at Revelation Film Festival
But is it any good? Depends who's asking...
Finnlay Dall reviews
But is it any good? Depends who's asking...
Finnlay Dall reviews
Scarlet Blue (Bleu écarlate) - FilmInk
… terrible twists, flat archetypes, and uninspired horror imagery.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Pained me physically to write a bad review for this cause it has all the things I should like, weird horror, elevated style and a French Female Director. But this felt like it was grasping at tropes and riding on a trend rather than actually joining the conversation of female led horror. 📽️📝
It’s a little cheesy, and I’m kinda confused why they didn’t market it with the show’s audience in mind, but it’s a fun enough to recommend for an at-home watch 📽️📝
A feature film sequel to a J-Drama, GRAND MAISON PARIS is "… a palatable theatrical drama that goes down easy – as long as you’re willing to embrace it as the soap opera it was meant to be" according to Finnlay Dall's review.
Grand Maison Paris is in cinemas 10 July
Grand Maison Paris is in cinemas 10 July
Grand Maison Paris - FilmInk
… a palatable theatrical drama that goes down easy – as long as you’re willing to embrace it as the soap opera it was meant to be.
www.filmink.com.au
June 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It’s a little cheesy, and I’m kinda confused why they didn’t market it with the show’s audience in mind, but it’s a fun enough to recommend for an at-home watch 📽️📝
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In the latest entry of his Screen Play column, Austin Lancaster wades into a world of vulgarity—the "nasty, cheap, and gratuitous"—with indie game NIGHT AT THE GATES OF HELL, which riffs on the gauche greats of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci & Bruno Mattei.
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‘Night At the Gates of Hell’ Games Horror’s Maestros
Austin Lancaster explores the rough-hewn indie game’s resonances with the cinematic nightmares of Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In the latest entry of his Screen Play column, Austin Lancaster wades into a world of vulgarity—the "nasty, cheap, and gratuitous"—with indie game NIGHT AT THE GATES OF HELL, which riffs on the gauche greats of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci & Bruno Mattei.
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As an AHS fan, I am glad to see Lange, Bates and Rabe performing together again, but this really didn’t do it for me! 📽️📝
Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, The Great Lillian Hall?
Read Finnlay Dall's review to find out.
The Great Lillian Hall is in cinemas now.
Read Finnlay Dall's review to find out.
The Great Lillian Hall is in cinemas now.
The Great Lillian Hall - FilmInk
... you may have enjoyed Lange’s performance, even the equally eclectic supporting cast, but your legs are numb, you’re exhausted, and you feel an extra hour was wasted on something that would have be...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As an AHS fan, I am glad to see Lange, Bates and Rabe performing together again, but this really didn’t do it for me! 📽️📝
There’s nothing like a movie about the fountain of youth to make you feel nostalgic for the good old days! 📽️📝
"At its best, Fountain of Youth makes one happy to be a Guy Ritchie fan, its large and bombastic action set-pieces offering an exhilarating adventure in their own right."
At its worst...
Finnlay Dall reviews Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth, streaming now on Apple TV+
At its worst...
Finnlay Dall reviews Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth, streaming now on Apple TV+
Fountain of Youth - FilmInk
At its best, Fountain of Youth makes one happy to be a Guy Ritchie fan, its large and bombastic action set-pieces offering an exhilarating adventure in their own right.
www.filmink.com.au
May 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
There’s nothing like a movie about the fountain of youth to make you feel nostalgic for the good old days! 📽️📝
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Tune into your podcast player of choice tomorrow to listen to a chat with Matthew Rankin about his film.
May 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Tune into your podcast player of choice tomorrow to listen to a chat with Matthew Rankin about his film.