The Surfer starring Nicolas Cage
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“The Surfer” (2024) – Nicolas Cage and the Beach Cult of Australian Masculinity

Australian cinema has long flirted with ferality, sun-bleached nihilism, men unraveling, and landscapes too vast to contain their collapse. Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer doesn’t just participate in that tradition; it detonates it from within. With Nicolas Cage at its trembling, half-mad center, this film is not merely a slow-burn thriller. It’s a sunstroke hallucination about…

In Vitro - Mother of Movies review courtesy of Saban Films
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In Vitro: When Biotechnology Meets Betrayal in the Australian Outback

In Vitro (2024) review: This Australian sci-fi thriller explores biotechnology gone wrong in the outback. With only three cast members, directors Will Howarth and Tom McKeith create a claustrophobic psychological horror about livestock cloning that turns personal. Featuring excellent cinematography by Shelley Farthing-Dawe and distributed by Saban Films, this indie gem delivers genuine tension. A minimalist and intimate horror film.