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FILM№ 01
The Surfer traps Nicolas Cage on a beach and discovers that the ocean is the real antagonist
Lorcan Finnegan's beach thriller gives Cage nothing but sand and hostility, and what he does with both is more controlled than anyone expected.
BRONTE HAUGHEY16.10.2024
FILM№ 02
Bring Him to Me puts Sam Neill in a car and lets the drive do the work
Luke Sparke's thriller is ninety minutes in a car with a hitman and a target, and the confinement is the point.
BRONTE HAUGHEY16.09.2024
MUSIC№ 03
The Royal Hotel scores its danger in what it refuses to play
The score sits so far back in the mix you forget it is there, which is exactly how the threat in the film works.
KIERAN BOUSTANY04.10.2023
MUSIC№ 04
The score for The Stranger carries the weight the actors are not allowed to show
The score does the emotional work that Joel Edgerton's blankness forbids, and the restraint in both is what makes the film unbearable.
KIERAN BOUSTANY14.11.2022
TV№ 05
Eden drops a backpacker thriller in Byron Bay and lets the paradise rot from the inside
Stan's backpacker thriller uses Byron Bay the way horror films use fog: it looks beautiful and you cannot see what is coming.
RHYS TAVITA24.01.2022
FILM№ 06
The Dry gives Eric Bana a landscape and lets him stand in it
Robert Connolly's adaptation knows the difference between withholding information and withholding feeling.
BRONTE HAUGHEY18.01.2022
MUSIC№ 07
Peter Raeburn scored The Dry with heat and the absence of water
The score is a heatwave set to strings: dry, persistent, and impossible to escape.
KIERAN BOUSTANY08.11.2021