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2021 Wipe: The Director's Cut | The Journal

Watch it exclusively here on TheJackSmit.com. Deemed too risky for YouTube by the lawyers at UEFA and the US Tennis Association, Jack Smit returns to …
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First Take: Spider-Man: No Way Home - the film we needed from Sony

Spoiler free as usual.  Because this is a film that doesn’t deserve spoiling. SYNOPSIS: With Spider-Man’s identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Stra…
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First Take: Ghostbusters Afterlife - science is cool

SYNOPSIS: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the sec…
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First Take: Eternals - are Marvel moving away from ‘fully family-friendly’ movies?

SYNOPSIS: The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations. The MCU has always had some…
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Projection Room: a welcome return to the Renata... five years later

“If Lost Highway, Lost In Translation and Exterminating Angel were to procreate, this would be their bastard offspring”. Director Ed Greenberg on The …
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First Take: Petite Maman - the Screen Unseen charm strikes again

SYNOPSIS: Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores t…
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First Take: Dune - this is only the beginning.

SYNOPSIS: Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valu…
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First Take: Ron’s Gone Wrong- a kids film that has a few malfunctions

SYNOPSIS: The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device. Ron’s malfunctions set again…
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First Take: No Time To Die - we really have been expecting you, Mr Bond

Spoiler free as usual . Because our industry has waited so long for this. SYPNOSIS: James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when F…
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First Take: Gunpowder Milkshake- this ain’t a vanilla action movie.

SYNOPSIS: Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them. If you watch any programme on a Sky channel, you’ll…
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First Take: Copshop - does this belong in 1971 or 2021?

SYNOPSIS: On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station-but when the hitman tu…
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First Take: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - forget everything you ever knew about the MCU

SYNOPSIS: Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization. A…
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The Marathon Man Returns | The Journal

The mid-series finale for Series 3, and our first Journal to be shot on-location since July 2019 Marathons. Feats of endurance. They definitely involv…
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First Take: Reminiscence - a poor man’s Memento

SYNOPSIS: Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. …
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First Take: Jungle Cruise - puntastic family fun

SYNOPSIS: Based on Disneyland’s theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and…
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First Take: People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan - back on the air like the renegade master

SYNOPSIS: Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches th…
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First Take: Space Jam: A New Legacy - is *that* all, folks?

SYNOPSIS: A rogue artificial intelligence kidnaps the son of famed basketball player LeBron James, who then has to work with Bugs Bunny to win a bask…
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First Take: Free Guy - don’t have a good day, have a great day

SYNOPSIS: A bank teller discovers that he’s actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game. Screen Unseen, how you continue to surprise us. La…
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First Take: The Suicide Squad - the reboot done right

SYNOPSIS: Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady T…
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Reviewing the Reviews | The Journal

It’s a double bill of Journals this month, and we’re starting off with some spice. Letterboxd is a big social media site for film nerds - and it’s a …
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First Take: The Croods 2: A New Age - Hot Vue Summer has well and truly begun

SYPNOSIS: The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved. 2013. A summer o…
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First Take: In the Heights- best enjoyed loud.

SYNOPSIS: A film version of the Broadway musical in which Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and…
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First Take: Black Widow- the MCU returns to the big screen at last

Spoiler free as usual.  Because we’ve waited nearly 2 years to say that again. SYNOPSIS: A film about Natasha Romanoff in her quests between the films …
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First Take: Fast and Furious 9- just how much faster and furiouser can it get?

SYNOPSIS: Cipher enlists the help of Jakob, Dom’s younger brother to take revenge on Dom and his team. During the refurb of my local cinema, Fast 8 hi…
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First Take: Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw - the marathon begins here

SYNOPSIS: Lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically e…
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First Take: Another Round - if Carlsberg made a film...

SYNOPSIS: Four high school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives. Screen Unseen retur…
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First Take Classics: Shrek- cue that song.

SYNOPSIS: A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to…
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First Take: The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard- insert obligatory Samuel L Jackson swearing joke here.

SYNOPSIS: Four years after the events of the original film, bodyguard Michael Bryce is on a company mandated sabbatical when Sonia Kincaid, the wife …
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First Take: Cruella - the blockbusters are coming back to where they belong

SYNOPSIS: A live-action prequel to 101 Dalmatians, following a young Cruella de Vil. Disney have, well, a bit of a fetish for the live action reboot/r…
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First Take: Tom and Jerry: The Movie - it’s a game of cat and mouse.

SYNOPSIS: A chaotic battle ensues between Jerry Mouse, who has taken refuge in the Royal Gate Hotel, and Tom Cat, who is hired to drive him away be…
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First Take: Nomadland - on the road again, but not as we first thought

SYNOPSIS: A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-d…
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First Take: Peter Rabbit 2- welcome back to the big screen experience

SYNOPSIS: Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, wher…
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Nine Lives... in Lockdown | The Journal

The Journal returns for its third series, and as ever, we’re going deep with a rant. This time - Jack breaks apart the worst kids film he’s reviewe…
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