One can also safely discuss its cast, one that includes Jack Quaid of The Boys fame, whose ability to effectively play someone clueless is used to full effect here but not in the way you would think. Equally, Sophie Thatcher whose character in the hit TV show Yellowjackets is known for her resourcefulness gets to play opposite traits until…

The structure of the film is one of its strong points as well and it introduces you to a case of young love that is quite endearing unit it isn’t. It dips its toes into a predictable scenario to lure you into seeing it as something it really isn’t. This forms an engaging slight of hand but one enhanced by a lack of information.

Hopefully so far so good with this review, you should now still know very little but have your interest piqued. With its ever changing perspective, you will only know if Companion is a modern love story or horror story by film’s end. Regardless of its ultimate destination you will be entertained throughout the journey.
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Written and directed by Drew Hancock (“My Dead Ex”, “Suburgatory”), “Companion” stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”, “The Boogeyman”), Jack Quaid (“The Boys”, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”), Lukas Gage (“Smile 2”, “Dead Boy Detectives”), Megan Suri (“Never Have I Ever”, “It Lives Inside”), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”, “Blue Beetle”) and Rupert Friend (“High Desert”, “Asteroid City”). The film is produced by the filmmakers behind “Barbarian”—Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee. The executive producers are Tracy Rosenblum and Jamie Buckner.

The cinematographer is Eli Born (“The Boogeyman”, “Hellraiser”). The production designer is Scott Kuzio (“Dumb Money”, the “Fear Street” trilogy). The editors are Brett W. Bachman (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Pig”) and Josh Ethier (“Don’t Move”, “Orphan: First Kill”). The costume designer is Vanessa Porter (“The Toxic Avenger”, “Archive 81”). The composer is Hrishikesh Hirway (“Song Exploder”, “Everything Sucks!”). The music supervisor is Rob Lowry (“Do Revenge”, “Miracle Workers”). The casting is by Nancy Nayor (“Saw X”, “Barbarian”).

New Line Cinema presents A BoulderLight Pictures Production, In Association With Vertigo Entertainment/Subconscious: “Companion.” The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in Australian cinemas January 30 2025.
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Written and directed by Drew Hancock (“My Dead Ex”, “Suburgatory”), “Companion” stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”, “The Boogeyman”), Jack Quaid (“The Boys”, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”), Lukas Gage (“Smile 2”, “Dead Boy Detectives”), Megan Suri (“Never Have I Ever”, “It Lives Inside”), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”, “Blue Beetle”) and Rupert Friend (“High Desert”, “Asteroid City”). The film is produced by the filmmakers behind “Barbarian”—Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee. The executive producers are Tracy Rosenblum and Jamie Buckner.

The cinematographer is Eli Born (“The Boogeyman”, “Hellraiser”). The production designer is Scott Kuzio (“Dumb Money”, the “Fear Street” trilogy). The editors are Brett W. Bachman (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Pig”) and Josh Ethier (“Don’t Move”, “Orphan: First Kill”). The costume designer is Vanessa Porter (“The Toxic Avenger”, “Archive 81”). The composer is Hrishikesh Hirway (“Song Exploder”, “Everything Sucks!”). The music supervisor is Rob Lowry (“Do Revenge”, “Miracle Workers”). The casting is by Nancy Nayor (“Saw X”, “Barbarian”).

New Line Cinema presents A BoulderLight Pictures Production, In Association With Vertigo Entertainment/Subconscious: “Companion.” The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in Australian cinemas January 2025.
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an exceedingly complex man and one many see as both a saint and a sinner. He was instrumental in putting the brain trust together for the Manhattan Project, The collection of minds that developed the first atomic bomb. When it was used twice to bomb the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it divided both the world and scientific communities.

Oppenheimer the pragmatist saw the bomb as necessary due to the race for its completion between America and Nazi Germany but as a humanist, he was conflicted. He didn’t trust the government’s implementation of the technology and always struggled with the balance between technological advancements and their use and abuse by humanity.

Christopher Nolan tells a powerful tale about a complicated man who was both rewarded and condemned for his genius. He was a man who felt great guilt about his part in inventing the atomic bomb and its subsequent use as a political tool by the world’s governments. He felt deeply for humanity and struggled under being seen as the destroyer of worlds.
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Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) and David Arquette (“Dewey Riley”) return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sonia Ammar.

Scream will be released in Australian cinemas January 13!
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Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) and David Arquette (“Dewey Riley”) return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sonia Ammar.
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Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) and David Arquette (“Dewey Riley”) return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sonia Ammar.

Scream will be released in Australian cinemas January 13!

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But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals.

As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

RAMPAGE is directed by Brad Peyton and stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, P.J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, Breanne Hill, Jack Quaid, Matt Gerald, Jason Liles, Demetrius Grosse, Will Yun Lee.

RAMPAGE releases in Australian cinemas on April 12, 2018.
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As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

RAMPAGE is directed by Brad Peyton and stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, P.J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, Breanne Hill, Jack Quaid, Matt Gerald.

RAMPAGE releases in Australian cinemas on April 12, 2018.
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