Channing Tatum

Reviews of the The Lost City starring Channing Tatum, Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt and Learn To Swim starring Thomas Antony Olajide.

And then he meets Selma (Emma Ferreira), a singer on the way up. Or maybe it’s not that different: like his character in Mariner, Olajide’s Dezi is a gifted young man who can’t get out of his own head. He’s such a knowing and clever actor fully aware of what the audience expects of him and relishing every opportunity to play with it. It’s just basking in the glow of its stars. It’s not like The Lost City is even trying to be convincing. Tatum plays Alan, the Fabio-like model gracing the cover on all her adventures.

Channing Tatum is in a good mood while arriving on the set of Magic Mike 3 in London, England on Friday (March 25). The 41-year-old actor kept it casual in ...

That’s kinda a thing of the old.” I think we’re going to change with the times. Channing said, “I’m not going to do waxing this time.

Kristen Bell's over-the-top response to watching the gyrating hunks at "Magic Mike Live" has led the show's founder, Channing Tatum, to issue a ...

It felt so good and the dancing was so beautiful and I just felt like I was on fire for it!” “Yeah, sorry, Dax.” “I felt electric,” Bell said of the experience.

Hollywood's best underwear model–cum–comedic actor took a break, but making his return in 2022 with 'Dog' and 'The Lost City,' it's clear that the time off ...

(“I fucking hate that movie,” Tatum has since said about The Rise of Cobra.) But Tatum has emerged from his hiatus by working on a passion project—Dog was inspired by his own dog Lulu’s death from cancer—and reviving the big-budget studio comedy alongside one of Hollywood’s most enduring rom-com stars. And if his comments to Variety about Marvel and the “traumatizing” experience of trying to make a Gambit movie are any indication, Tatum has no intention of navigating the kind of Hollywood ecosystem that could lead to another Rise of Cobra. Nor should he. But while Dog does have some amusing detours, including a sequence in which Tatum’s Jackson Briggs befriends a couple of backwoods hippies who mistake him for a federal agent, the film also focuses on how the horrors of war have left permanent (and sometimes literal) scars on those who served—man and canine alike. And with that—an exposed ass covered in leeches—Channing Tatum announced his glorious return to movie stardom like he was answering a himbo Bat Signal. After starring in Logan Lucky and Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017, Tatum underwent a self-imposed hiatus, doing only voice work (Smallfoot, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, America: The Motion Picture) and making a cameo in Free Guy over the past four years. It’s a sentiment that embodies the best of Tatum’s career on-screen: It doesn’t matter whether the work is highbrow or lowbrow—or, in the case of Magic Mike XXL, a “lowbrow subject with a highbrow creative team”—as long as it makes people happy. After Alan escapes a trio of henchmen by jumping into a river, several leeches latch onto his back, a predicament that gets worse when he pulls down his pants and realizes that even more leeches are feasting on his bare ass.

It turns out Sandra's Laila and Channing's Everly butted heads in school, and both parents were called in. Advertisement. channingtatum ...

The school came up with the idea of giving the girls a challenge: "who can be the nicest to the other one." Channing chimed in, "'Please let it be Laila!' Like, of all the people... Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock met in the principal's office of their kids' school.

Sandra Bullock in a sparkly outfit with Channing Tatum in khakis and a t-shirt Sandra Bullock, left, and Channing Tatum in The Lost City. Kimberley French.

Pairing Tatum alongside Bullock, who played Annie Porter in Speed, one of the most famed action hero girlfriends in the action hero girlfriend pantheon, is a meta role reversal that the movie loves and leans into. Sweet, kinda wimpy Channing Tatum has become the silver screen’s go-to Channing Tatum. Similarly, Bullock, a human charm offensive if there was ever one, is giving us a variant of her past performances as gruff agent Gracie Hart from Miss Congeniality and rigid agent Sarah Ashburn from The Heat. Like Tatum, the character is right in Bullock’s wheelhouse, but the material here isn’t really pushing her or her co-star to any fresh places. Tatum has the muscular, chiseled, rugged (but soft in the lips and eyes) look phenotypical for a Marvel superhero, but it’s impossible to say he’s playing against type. In a split-second decision, Loretta steals Fairfax’s ancient parchment for herself, stuffs it in the cleavage of her fuschia jumpsuit, and then spends the rest of the movie piecing together where it leads. Alan is not good at punching and can only slap, and Alan also has the movie’s only nude-ish scene. Yet, thanks to its stars, there are still moments of genuine laughter and buoyancy in The Lost City that made me glad it exists — enough to convince me that Bullock and Tatum should be in more mid-budget rom-coms, and that there need to be more, not fewer, movies like it. If there were a more pleasant or reputable person capable of translating the document he needs Loretta to look at, Fairfax assures both her and the audience that he would have pursued other, less zany options. We get about 10 minutes setting up Loretta’s loss — looking longingly at old photos of her and her husband in archaeologist garb but also see her groaning, scolding, and rolling her eyes at the various people trying to make her life easier, to establish that perhaps she always had grumpy vibes about her and that her husband’s death pushed her into this scornful place. That inversion isn’t particularly clever (the movie’s stars blurt out the phrase “damsel in distress” at one point), and doesn’t feel like a breakthrough, as we’ve seen Bullock and Tatum play versions of their characters before — Bullock has already played a hero in waiting in Miss Congeniality and Tatum a sensitive galoot in the 21 Jump Street franchise. She hates doing publicity for her new book, The Lost City of D, even though said publicity gets said fans to buy said book. But it also says a lot about Bullock’s and Tatum’s star power (Tatum was involved with a movie about the X-Man known as Gambit, but that ultimately fizzled out) and, reflexively, how rare it is that a movie like The Lost City exists. The Nees and their movie are more concerned with showcasing Bullock and Tatum’s chemistry, and inverting at least one of the genre’s tropes.