AroView: An Australian beach-set crime thriller from the director of Vivarium that’s defiance of expectations perfectly suits the peculiar talents and cult status of star Nicolas Cage.

It’s a film that gleefully messes with you as it does with Cage’s unsettled divorcee dad, who’s put into a stranglehold by a gang of territorial surfer thugs who’ve got more in mind than kickin’ sand in his face. A direct descendent of the Oz classic ‘Wake in Fright’, its critique of toxic masculinity and ‘meninist’ culture make it a paranoid black comedy for our times.

“It’s a low-budget, hard-hitting comic bruiser of a picture: a midlife-crisis movie dressed up as a 1970s exploitation flick.” ~Xan Brooks, The Observer

“The Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on and this unsettling Ozpoiltation thriller provides a perfect sandbox for “Nicolas Cage”, the actor who enjoys a good metatextual jape.” ~Tara Brady, The Irish Times