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Reviewed by Jacob Powell

Little Fish. Small time. Small fry. Those little plastic ‘bottles’ filled with soy sauce you’ll find at any number of sushi outlets – though in this film the ‘little fish’ come filled with a more ‘expensive’ condiment. A pun, seemingly without end, Little Fish works well as the title for this very enjoyable piece of cinema. Forget ‘big fish in a little pond’ or even ‘little fish in a wide ocean’. This is more like ‘little fish in an even smaller, muddy, weed choked pool’.

Reviewed by Catherine Bisley

JANE AUSTEN’s Pride and Prejudice is an addictive drug. Joe Wright’s adaptation is tolerable I suppose, but when compared to the novel or the 1996 BBC mini-series, it is a mediocre hit.

Reviewed by Tim Wong (2nd take)

RELOCATING premises from contemporary urban Japan to contemporary urban New York makes reasonable sense when considering the All-American J-horror makeover. Going that one step further and taking the sky tram over the East River to Roosevelt Island makes even better sense, and Walter Salles knows it. H20 might be the title character of Dark Water – yet another Hollywood remake of yet another Hideo Nakata film – but the real star on display here comes in towering, foreboding, ghettoized form.