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We love it when a new movie is released on streaming early so we can watch it — or rewatch it — from the comfort of our own home. This week, The Royal Hotel dropped onto Binge.
The Aussie outback thriller, which was directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant) and stars Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving and Toby Wallace, follows two American backpackers who take a bartending job at a remote WA pub after they run out of money in Sydney.
Hanna and Liv plan to work at the pub for a couple of weeks, save up some money, and return to drinking vodka and sodas and snogging sweaty, beery-breathed boys on floating nightclubs on Sydney harbour (that in itself seems like a horror movie to anyone over the age of 30) as quickly as they possibly can.
But as soon as the bus drops them on the side of a red dirt road, the girls realise they’re in a precarious situation, and as they spend their nights slinging beers for the already inebriated FIFO workers and being shown the ropes by The Royal Hotel’s stumb…
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