Caoilinn Springall – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE BEAST WITHIN – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Alexander J. Farrell, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall, child actors, horror genre, James Cosmo, Kit Harrington, spooky movies, Stopmotion, The Beast Within

Told from the perspective of a little girl called Willow, The Beast Within follows a family on a ramshackle rural farm who harbor a great secret the child is slowly beginning to understand. Aided by her mother Imogen , Willow begins to make sense of her father Noah’s unusual behaviour, which includes unexplained excursions into the woods at night and strange absences. With the support of her doting grandfather Waylon, Willow discovers the truth about her father, testing both her loyalty and Imogen’s when it comes to just how far they will go to keep the family together.

Interviews

Caoilinn Springall chats Puppets, Horror and THE BEAST WITHIN – Nadine Whitney interviews

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 Nadine Whitney Alexander J. Farrell, Caoilinn Springall, child actors, horror genre, spooky movies, Stopmotion, The Beast Within

Caoilinn Springall is only eleven years old and already she has an impressive resume of genre films. She starred with George Clooney as Iris in the science fiction dystopian film The Midnight Sky and was in an episode of Doctor Who. Her most recent starring role is as Willow Avery, an isolated young girl who finds out a terrible secret about her family, in The Beast Within. She shares her take on all of it with Nadine Whitney.

Reviews

THE MIDNIGHT SKY – Review by Diane Carson

December 29, 2020December 30, 2020 Diane Carson Caoilinn Springall, felicity jones, george clooney, the midnight sky

Two storylines compete for attention in director George Clooney’s sci-fi film The Midnight Sky. The central plotline begins with onscreen titles: Arctic Circle, 2049, three weeks after what is called the Event. That means Earth is now uninhabitable from an unspecified cause. However, the astronomer scientist Augustine Lofthouse and eight-year-old stowaway Iris survive in an Arctic research station.

Reviews

THE MIDNIGHT SKY – Review by Susan Granger

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Susan Granger Caoilinn Springall, felicity jones, george clooney, the midnight sky

Part outer-space epic/part bleak Arctic survival story, George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky follows a lonely astrophysicist as he races to stop American astronauts from returning to Earth after a global catastrophe. When the maintenance crew of a remote outpost departs to face doomsday with their loved ones, terminally-ill Dr. Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) remains at his post, eating a microwaved meal in the deserted cafeteria.