In Roland Emmerich’s latest blow-em-up-good White House Down, a Capitol Hill police officer played by Channing Tatum he teams up with President Jamie Foxx to battle the terrorists.
“Tatum is such a likable actor — handsome, athletic, and accessible in a self-effacing way,” Karen Martin writes in her review. “He’s a welcome addition to almost any movie cast.” But will muscular affability enough to save this movie? Tune into Friday’s MovieStyle for the answer.
Meanwhile, in Boston, America’s Sweetheart emeritus Sandra Bullock, a strait-laced FBI field agent, joins with Melissa McCarthy’s hard nose police detective to take down a savage drug lord. Our Philip Martin reports on The Heat. (Not the NBA champions. The other one.)
And finally, in other news, Greta Grewig prances blithely from apartment to apartment in the Woody Allen-meets-Lena Dunham indie film Frances Ha. But what does Piers Marchant think of it?