Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith

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  • Abigail

    ★★★★★

  • Cold Blows the Wind

    ★★

  • The Vourdalak

    ★★★★★

  • Working Girl

    ★★★★

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  • Abigail

    Abigail

    ★★★★★

    You Need a Time Out Young Lady… Abigail (2024)

            Happy halfway-to-Halloween everyone! At this time of the year (when many people just ignore Walpurgis Night) what better way to celebrate than dressing up like a Monster High doll, grabbing my complimentary commemorative lunchbox (hell yeah, #merchalert) and going to see a new horror movie? I know that’s what I did!
             Just like last year’s fun springtime treat “Renfield” Universal Pictures has decided…

  • Cold Blows the Wind

    Cold Blows the Wind

    ★★

    Bumpy Night: Cold Blows the Wind

    About halfway through the short runtime of “Cold Blows the Wind” I found myself intrigued by my favorite passtime “what could have been theatre” —starring the people I was watching but going in a completely different direction. That’s because for a film with a few good scenes, and two genuinely spooky performances, the film that “Cold Blows the Wind” is blows right in one ear and out the other.

    The plot is a simple,…

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  • Day Shift

    Day Shift

    ★★★½

    As someone who has a family member that works as a house call-making service technician, I may have found the central conceit of Netflix’s summer action/horror/comedy crowd-pleaser “Day Shift” more fun than I should have. What if your pool cleaner, stereo installer, hvac technician, or plumber was really hunting down and slaughtering the undead, using their rusty trucks and branded vans as cover? 
             In “Day Shift” producer/star Jamie Foxx is Bud—a man who cleans pools, drives…

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