The media control console is attractive and you’ll get a real kick out of manipulating an otherwise flat surface to control chapter, volume and forward/reverse controls. It comes with a host of preinstalled software and if you want full movie or TV playing capability in a mobile computer, you couldn’t do much better right now.

“It was my intention that it’d be this allegorical, hyperreal world,” McNamara says when finally able to relax during his whirlwind publicity tour for Rage in Placid Lake. “It’s one of the reason the movie looks stylised.”

A native of the US, Curran moved to Australia in 1986 to work in advertising, music videos, commercials and shorts, many of which had comic elements. His breakout 1998 feature Praise, the story of twentysomethings in a haze of dugs and emotional issues, swept the Australian Film Institute Awards.