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First Take: Ocean’s 8- every heist needs a natural team leader
SYNOPSIS- Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala. 11 years on from Ocean’s 13 (the l…
Projection Room: Five Years In
And here we are. Last week marked 5 years of reviews here on TheJackSmit.com. Wow. A lot’s been done since then. From radio shows, text reviews, Proj…
First Take: On Chesil Beach- I always preferred Blackpool
SYNOPSIS: Based on Ian McEwan’s novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal…
First Take Classics: 2001, A Space Odyssey- a cinematic anniversary, for a blog’s anniversary
SYNOPSIS: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets…