If you haven’t watched at least a few episodes of the new season of the agencyor you haven’t started to see all the Shout movies in order Supreme+ However, then either you’re too busy enjoying the weather (well done) or those selections may simply not be your thing.
So, I really hope this week’s suggestions (or at least one of them) are suitable for movie night and they couldn’t be more different. There’s a double dose of Channing Tatum (one of him in uniform, one of him very much on the wrong side of the law) plus a sharp ensemble that turns the 2008 financial crisis into something you’ll actually enjoy watching.
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Jump Street 22
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are going back to school…again
I wrote about the original film in this fun buddy cop franchise when it appeared on Paramount+ this month. But I found myself going back to their second round, Jump Street 22When Sony recently announced that jump street 24 is officially in the works, with the motto “It took us so long to make it that we had to skip one.” Meanwhile, the 2014 edition Jump Street 22 catches up with mismatched cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) for another adventure in undercover work, this time posing as students at a local college to track the supply of a dangerous new party drug.
Of course, the partners, too old for school, are also terrible at adjusting to college, leading to all sorts of awkward comedic moments the franchise is known for as they get carried away with college life: Jenko hooks up with a dim-witted football player, Schmidt reaches out to the art crowd, and their partnership almost falls apart. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) returns to the helm, taking the opportunity to make a supreme meta mockery of the lazy, money-grubbing sequels; The film’s closing credits take this to another level with its film poster gag.
Of course, some familiar faces return from the first film, including Ice Cube as the ever-furious Captain Dickson, as well as Dave Franco and Rob Riggle, to round out the cast. Come enjoy Hill and Tatum’s incredible chemistry, stay for Tatum’s endlessly narrated “My name is Jeff” scene.
Jump Street 22
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June 13, 2014
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112 minutes
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Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
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The big short
The 2008 mortgage crisis and the men who saw it coming
Adam McKay’s 2015 financial drama The big short has a cast that reads like a long list of leading men (Bale, Gosling, Carell, Pitt, Strong) who deftly take the most tangled and complicated financial disaster of the last two decades and somehow make it sing.
Adapted from the bestseller by Michael Lewis. The big bet: inside the doomsday machinetraces the scandalous mortgage collapse of 2008 and the handful of financial outsiders who saw it coming and bet against the entire American housing market. Nervous, barefoot hedge fund genius Michael Burry (Christian Bale) discovers the bubble first; Furious, self-righteous merchant Mark Baum (Steve Carell) intervenes out of spite; cocky banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) narrates with a permanent smile (and occasionally breaking the fourth wall); and retired guru Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) reluctantly guides two hungry up-and-comers to make money while they can.
Speaking of breaking the fourth wall, McKay uses it brilliantly throughout the film, involving celebrities like Anthony Bourdain, Selena Gomez and Margot Robbie to explain key financial concepts, such as credit default swaps, CDOs and mortgage bonds. With five Oscar nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Bale and Director for McKay, the film only won one for Best Adapted Screenplay. It is a film that will leave you fascinated and furious, earning its score of 89% from critics.
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roofer
Will you root for Channing Tatum’s lovable fugitive thief?
And now, the second Channing Tatum movie on this week’s list, and it’s a good one. Just ask Rotten Tomatoes, where it has an 87% critic score. If you’re looking for a quirky and enjoyable watch that refuses to belong to any genre, roofer is a charming comedy that’s part crime drama, part romance, and part stranger-than-fiction biopic, and it’s an easy yes.
Screenwriter and director Derek Cianfrance (blue valentine, the place Beyond the Pines) build roofer surrounding the truly incredible story of Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester, an Army veteran who spent the late ’90s robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting off their roofs and very politely taking money from employees. And that’s the quiet part: After escaping from prison in 2004, Manchester managed to live undetected for months (mostly on M&Ms) inside a Toys “R” Us in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Tatum has rarely been better, playing Manchester as a sweet, fundamentally decent guy who has simply made a mountain of terrible decisions and just wants some semblance of a normal life. While camping out at the store, monitoring the staff through a network of secretly placed baby monitors, he falls in love with employee Leigh (Kirsten Dunst) and the two begin seeing each other beyond the toy aisles. His double life inevitably gets complicated, but Manchester is so likable deep down that you can’t help but root for him. Dunst brings real warmth and gravitas to single mother Leigh, and Peter Dinklage steals the scene as Mitch, the gloriously sad manager of Toys “R” Us.
Something for everyone
It may be a 90-degree turn to go from one of these movies to the next, but that’s exactly why the week won’t be boring. But if none of my picks suit you, How-To Geek’s transmission section has many more lists of recommendations to help.
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