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Night Swim Review

Night Swim is the first cinematic horror film of 2024, taking the traditional January horror slot. This film sees a family who are haunted by a malicious swimming film. The Waller family move to Minnesota due to the family patriarch; Ray (Wyatt Russell) being forced to retire from professional baseball. They seem to have found the perfect home […]

Dumbo Review

In recent years Disney has developed a lucrative strategy where they turn their animated classics into live-action films. 2019 sees the Mouse House adapting three animated films with Dumbo being the first to be released. The Medici Brothers’ Circus and the Farrier family have fallen on hard times. Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) lost his arm during the First World War, […]

Jellyfish Review

Jellyfish is a social drama in the British tradition of kitchen-sink realism as it focuses on the struggles of a teenage girl. Sarah Taylor (Liv Hill) is a 15-year-old girl living in Margate. She has to act as the primary carer for her younger siblings and bipolar mother (Sinead Matthews). To make ends meet she works […]