Tag: Channing Tatum
Argylle, Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” of a Movie Still Not Ultimately as Layered as The Lost City
Upon watching the first thirty-five seconds of the trailer for Argylle, it doesn’t take fans of 2022’s The Lost City very long to immediately spot [Read More…]
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Takes A Pretty Woman Route (With More Sexist Implications)
Just when you thought you had seen the last of “Michael Jeffrey Lane” (Channing Tatum), he comes along and decides to surprise you. As perhaps [Read More…]
Shotgun Wedding: J. Lo’s Attempt at Sandra Bullock Greatness in The Lost City
In the spirit of “action-adventure rom-coms” that have lately come back into favor, Shotgun Wedding continues the tradition of this niche with the “twist” of [Read More…]
Like Guy Ritchie Trying to Do Murder on the Orient Express: Bullet (to the Brain) Train
Brad Pitt may have recently admitted to GQ that he knows he’s “on his last leg” with regard to his career (ergo, apparently, his life), [Read More…]
Laughter is Found in The Lost City, Starring Channing Tatum(’s Wig and Leech-Pocked Ass)
In the spirit of The Woman in the Window, The Lost City’s middle-aged protagonist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock, crushing it in the rom-com genre at [Read More…]
She’s The Man Is Strangely Anti-Feminist
Karen McCullah (once known as Karen McCullah Lutz, but perhaps changed it because of being associated with Lutz on 30 Rock) founded her entire screenwriting career [Read More…]
Before Channing Tatum Was Magic Mike He Was…The Son of No One
Channing Tatum has been percolating in people’s minds at least since 2000, when he appeared in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” video (an appropriate debut for [Read More…]
Magic Mike XXL: XXtra Unnecessary
When considering the near perfection of 2012’s Magic Mike (one of the last films Steven Soderbergh would direct), it should be no surprise that the studio, [Read More…]
Comparing and Contrasting Magic Mike and Burlesque
The critically unclaimed Burlesque came out in 2010, two years before Magic Mike would grace the screen as one of Steven Soderbergh’s final movies. The [Read More…]
The MTV Movie Awards Continues to Reflect the American Filmgoer’s Stupidity
The MTV Movie Awards has never been something that “the industry” takes seriously. However, since its inception in 1992, it seems the executives at MTV [Read More…]