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…

The Rule of Jenny Pen Film Review
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The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) Review – The Puppet Master in the Nursing Home

“The Rule of Jenny Pen” is an unsettling psychological horror featuring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. In a New Zealand nursing home, a former judge must stop a twisted resident who uses a puppet to terrorize patients. Based on Owen Marshall’s short story, the film explores aging, justice, and institutional neglect with grimy cinematography and dread.