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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.

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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.

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MELODY HURD on FATHERHOOD, childhood acting and success – Leslie Combemale interviews

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021 Leslie Combemale child actors, fatherhood, higher ground, Matt Logelin, Melody Hurd, netflix, paul weitz

Nine year old actor Melody Hurd plays Kevin Hart ‘s daughter in Fatherhood, based Matt Logelin’s memoir about the challenges of single parenthood and grief after his wife died only hours after his daughter was born. Leslie Combemale asked the enthusiastic young actor a few questions about performing in her first feature film.