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  In Vitro 2024

  ★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  A young married couple, Jack (Ashley Zukerman) and Layla (Talia Zucker) are living out in the middle of nowhere Australia on an isolated farm where the husband is conducting biotechnology experiments that involve cloning cattle after an ecological disaster decimates cattle production across the land down under.

  While her husband is dedicated to his work, Layla feels isolated from the outside world and misses their son, who has been shipped off to boarding school. When someone/something arrives on the farm,…

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  The Surfer 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  The third movie from Irish Filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan stars Nicolas Cage as the surfer of the title who is attempting to close the deal with his mortgage broker in buying his childhood seaside Australian home but he faces pushback from the local Dude Bros led by Julian McMahon’s Bay boy leader that wouldn’t look out of place at a right-wing rally who won’t let him ride the wave.

  But Cage's character won’t take no for an answer so he holds…

Popular reviews

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  Creep 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2024

  Creep is a 2014 found footage movie from Director/Co-Star Patrick Brice as Videographer Aaron who responds to an online job advert from someone called Josef (Mark Duplass) to shoot a video in a remote mountain town for his unborn child as Aaron’s client has terminal cancer and he wants to have something for them to watch like Michael Keaton in My Life to quote a line from the movie.

  What happens next is a series of weird tension tension-fuelled moments…

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  The Silence of the Lambs 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2024

  Some movies come and go in a person's memory bank, but the 1991 Jonathan Demme-directed adaptation of the 1988 Thomas Harris novel that sold over ten million copies is certainly one that hasn’t left the minds of those who have seen it in the decades since its release.

  Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling a soon-to-be graduating FBI agent who is tasked by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) to interview the late great Hannibal Lecter played by Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins…