Matthew Jackson

It’s fitting that Christopher Nolan uses the opening minutes of Oppenheimer to evoke the myth of Prometheus, the legendary titan who stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humanity, only to suffer terrible consequences. Nolan’s film is, after all, adapted from Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer-winning biography American Prometheus. But there’s more to the allusion than a nod in the direction of the source material.

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Bias

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  • The double-edged sword of horror films like Night Swim is that the audience has a version of the film in their head even before the projector lights up and the movie starts. If you’ve seen a trailer for Night Swim, you have a very clear idea of what this movie is,

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Contradictions

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  • Eve and Izzy are hesitant about moving to a new house but eventually join Ray in swimming in the pool
  • Ray Waller, the father of the family, hopes that daily swims in the pool will help him get better after an illness
  • The movie follows the Waller family who moves into a new home with a dilapidated swimming pool out back

Deceptions

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New Supernatural Thriller 'Night Swim' Hits Theaters in January 2024

New Supernatural Thriller 'Night Swim' Hits Theaters in January 2024

Broke On: Sunday, 31 December 2023 A new horror film, Night Swim, is set to hit theaters on January 5, 2024 The movie follows the Waller family who moves into a new home with an ideal pool for Ray’s physical therapy but encounters supernatural occurrences that harm them. Directed by Bryce McGuire and starring Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon, Night Swim is a supernatural thriller about a ghost-plagued pool. The film was initially released as a short in 2014 and has since been expanded to feature length It boasts practical effects to make the ghostly encounters more tactile and unsettling Night Swim marks the first nationwide release of 2024 and won’t face competition on the horror front until March’s haunted-teddy-bear-inspired Imaginary. Despite this, January tends to be a box office dead zone The movie is the first release from Jason Blum's Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster since they officially merged on Jan. 2.