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  The Rule of Jenny Pen 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2025

  Old age is horrifying, John Lithgow is utterly horrifying. Some of the tonal shift stop this from 4 star status, but it’s a powerful watch.

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  Hounds of Love 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  Brutal and, along with Snowtown and Wolf Creek, the ultimate Australian Tourist Board ads.

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  Manodrome 2023

  ★½ Watched 19 Nov 2023

  For a film that riffs so hard on Taxi Driver and Fight Club this has absolutely nothing to say.

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  The Stranger 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2022

  From Hanging Rock and Long weekend to Snowtown, Oz cinema has a great tradition of conjuring high tension and impending doom. Edgerton and Harris are impeccable and the cinematography (Sam Chiplin) and music (Sam Chiplin) complete the pitch-black mood.

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