PREVIEW: Day Shift (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist), Snoop Dogg (Starsky and Hutch), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Guns Akimbo), Scott Adkins (The Legend of Hercules), Steve Howey (Stan Helsing), Meagan Good (Jumping the Broom), Karla Souza (Everybody Loves Somebody), Oliver Masucci (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore), Eric Lange (Wind River)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

J.J. Perry (film debut), director; Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead) and Tyler Tice (film debut), writers; Shaun Redick (BlacKkKlansman), Yvette Yates Redick (Malicious), Jason Spitz (film debut) and Chad Stahelski (Bruised), producers; Toby Oliver (Get Out), cinematographer; Paul Harb (The Expendables), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Bud Jablonski (Foxx) is a hard-working blue collar father who works a mundane pool-cleaning job to support his quick-witted daughter (???). However, his job is actually a front for a much more exciting venture: hunting and killing vampires as part of an international vampire hunting league…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Jamie Foxx takes a big ol’ bite out of the supernatural in this awesome-looking action-comedy, which also marks the directing debut of long-time Hollywood stunt master J.J. Perry.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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