Tag: 21 Jump Street
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How ‘The Family Switch’ Pokes Fun at Classic Body Swapping Movies
Netflix will attempt to bring its own voice to a classical comedy trope with Family Switch, their upcoming comedy about a family that switches bodies on the worst day imaginable. The movie took inspiration from other stories that followed similar premises, with some of the most notable examples being 13 Going On 30 and 21…
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Will There Ever Be a ‘23 Jump Street’?
It’s been over ten years since Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill first went undercover as high schoolers trying to bust a drug ring in the R-rated comedy hit 21 Jump Street. Unsurprisingly, the duo returned for a sequel in 2014, along with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who have since exploded with projects such…
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‘Strays’ Review: This R-Rated Talking Dog Comedy Delivers
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The R-rated comedy isn’t what it used to be. It’s not that it declined in quality, as recent films like No Hard Feelings and Joy Ride have…
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Channing Tatum on First-Time Filmmaker Frustrations and How Soderbergh Talked Him Into ‘Magic Mike 3’
Channing Tatum has a new movie in theaters. That in itself is something of an event, given that the last time the “Magic Mike” stripper extraordinaire starred in a somewhat prominent movie was “Logan Lucky” in 2017, which came one year after the Coen brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!” For the most part, Tatum has been fairly…
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The Afterparty’s Xavier Drops New Music Video And Launches Website, All While Being A Fictional Character
Step aside Olivia Rodrigo, the newest pop icon has arrived and he’s… Dave Franco?! In an odd turn of events, Apple TV+ just dropped a banger track, “Imma Live Forever,” from pop sensation Xavier, a character in the streamer’s new murder-mystery comedy series, “The Afterparty.”This is a lot to unpack, so I’ll start from the…
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Phil Lord & Chris Miller Will Chronicle Dennis Rodman’s Wild 48 Hours In Vegas
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the filmmakers behind projects like “21 Jump Street,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and “The Last Man on Earth,” have found a new producing gig. Lionsgate has won the rights to distribute “48 Hours in Vegas,” a film about the whirlwind period of time during the Chicago Bulls’ 1998 NBA…
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Jonah Hill Shares Screenwriting Advice & How He’s Writing Movies from Home
Since breaking out in Superbad as a comedy performer of startling vitality, Jonah Hill has transitioned into all kinds of interesting avenues in his career, from Oscar-nominated turns in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street to screenwriting turns in comedies like 21 Jump Street and Sausage Party. Hill made his feature directorial…
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‘Snow Crash’ TV Series in the Works at HBO Max
Neal Stephenson‘s sci-fi classic Snow Crash is getting the TV treatment for HBO Max. Writer Michael Bacall (21 Jump Street) and director Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) are tackling the adaptation. Stephenson’s novel covers a wide range of topics, including “history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.” Deadline has the…
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Phil Lord & Chris Miller Sign New First Look Film Deal at Universal Pictures
Phil Lord & Chris Miller have been behind an impressive array of innovative films over the past decade. They gave the big screen TV adaptation new life with 21 Jump Street, somehow turned a building brick into a viable feature film with The Lego Movie, and helped innovate in animation and comic book stories with…
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Film Review: ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’
Dora the Explorer was seven years old when audiences met her on television, a sing-songy polymath who traveled the map seeking answers and solving puzzles, accompanied by a big-mouthed backpack and equally loquacious monkey, Boots. Nearly 20 years have passed since the adventure show first aired (enough to cultivate a massive global awareness), but only…