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Channing Tatum

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JOSEPHINE (Sundance FF 2026) – Review by Leslie Combemale

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Josephine isn’t “an easy sit”. As hard as it is to watch the fallout from 8 year old Jo’s witnessing sexual assault, audiences and jurors at Sundance approved of her cinematic take. They awarded the experience with the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the US Dramatic category. A raw and insightful examination of female fear and male aggression, the plot begins with the moment in which the title character becomes wildly and permanently aware of the dangers this world presents.

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ATROPIA – Review by Nadine Whitney

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Actor and journalist Hailey Gates initially set out to make a documentary about Californian desert military bases that were set up as enemy towns so soldiers could train with role-players acting as potential insurgents. The towns are real fakes, they exist, but the U.S. Military weren’t keen on Gates potentially revealing sensitive information. Thus, the scattershot fictional satire Atropia came into being. In her debut feature Gates manages to hit some targets with comedic, and at times, sincere barbs. However, when it comes to the film as a whole the comedy and satire goes through the attrition of repetitiveness and the sincere concerns about the ludicrous nature of putting army cadets through such a misguided and useless exercise gets lost in the mix.

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ROOFMAN – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

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Roofman hypes its true-story roots but might have worked better as a documentary. The ads with star Channing Tatum, sporting an inner tube and toting a giant plush bear and a gun, highlight the quirks—“based on actual events and terrible decisions,” the poster says—but there’s little here to show why audiences should care for this guy. I’m not saying every protagonist needs to be likeable, but the film leans on Tatum’s considerable charm instead of fleshing out the motivations and flaws of its main character.

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BLINK TWICE – Review by Nadine Whitney

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Zoë Kravitz has her finger on the pulse with some extremely pertinent contemporary ideas and is using genre cinema to explore them. The film is competently directed with some excellent set pieces but lacks a final polish. However, better an imperfect film swinging with big ideas and sometimes misses than a safe movie with limited ideas. Blink Twice is chilling, turning all too real daily concerns women face into a fight some men enjoy a little too much. Keep an eye on Zoë Kravitz, one day she’s going to blow you away.

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BLINK TWICE – Review by T.J. Callahan

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Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut with Blink Twice, a film which she also wrote. It stars her fiancé, Channing Tatum, as tech billionaire Slater King. The megalomaniac invites a group of men and a bevy of beautiful women to vacation on his Love Island one Midsommar day, but the ladies soon realize THEY are on The Menu and they can’t Get Out.

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FLY ME TO THE MOON – Review by Susan Kamyab

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1969 is greatly remembered as the day when man first walked on the moon. Well, the new romantic comedy, Fly Me to the Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, twists the true story of how that mission came to be. Director Greg Berlanti captures our attention with his focus on an engaging story, a humorous cast, and some exciting shots — making Fly Me to the Moon a light-hearted, blast everyone can enjoy.

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News 

WEEK IN WOMEN: Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut BLINK TWICE in theaters this summer — Brandy McDonnell reports

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The Batman actor Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Blink Twice, will be released globally in theaters on August 23, 2024. The suspense thriller, formerly titled Pussy Island, is being released by Amazon MGM Studios. Along with helming the film, Kravitz penned the script with E.T. Feigenbaum, one of the writers of the 2020 Hulu series High Fidelity, which Kravitz wrote on, starred in and executive produced.

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MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

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His last dance? Magic Mike’s last dance? Promise? I am not a Channing Tatum fan, and I am not a fan of these Magic Mike movies. But even I can see that many of the things that so many people liked about the first two movies are simply missing here. There’s no comedy. There’s no buddy bromance.

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THE LOST CITY – Review by Susan Granger

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The formulaic script by Oren Uziel, Dana Fox and co-directors Adam and Aaron Nee – from Seth Gordon’s story – is remarkably reminiscent of Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, even the first Mummy movie with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.

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THE LOST CITY – Review by T. J. Callahan

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Loretta’s well manicured, but shaky hand slowly inched closer to Alan’s creamy white bare buttocks. Yes, his perfectly shaped derrière was covered in leeches engorged with blood from his muscular body, but she secretly was attracted to him and knew she must overcome her fear and free him from his throbbing pain if their relationship was to survive.” This is The Lost City.

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