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'Swallow' is the genre-bending treat to break your bingeing rut


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'Swallow' is the genre-bending treat to break your bingeing rut

Few things delight me more than a multi-hour trailer binge. With a laptop on my desk and cup of tea by my side, I'll swim though YouTube's cinematic pool with no intention of watching the movies being marketed. It's a reliable way to pass the time, an endless nowhere-to-be activity that alludes to the possibility of adventure but revels in monotonous sameness. It's comforting, frivolous, relaxing, safe.

But every once in a while, my scroll will be disrupted by a teaser so startling I've got to watch the full film right then. Such was my experience with Swallow, a psychological thriller from writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis as inexplicably seductive as it is repulsive.  Read more...

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