Channing Tatum's great butt and Sandra Bullock try to save the studio comedy in 'The Lost City' SXSW
of the pandemic in March 2020. Bullock and co-star Daniel Radcliffe addressed the crowd and acknowledged the poignant pleasures of being together in a movie theater to just have fun. And fun, nothing too much more and definitely nothing less, is exactly what the film delivers.
Bullock plays Loretta Sage, a former academic who, when her Indiana Jones-esque husband died, pivoted into writing romance novels. They’re a smash, much to her dismay and disappointment.30 RockShe’s ignoring voicemails from her publicist about her book tour, procrastinating finishing her new book by soaking in the tub drinking white wine with ice cubes, and passing time in her beautifully appointed attic writing loft by talking to her dead husband.
Loretta loathes Alan. “He’s always glistening all over the place,” she says. “There’s never been an event where his shirt didn’t come flying off.” What she hasn’t bargained for is that the person playing Alan, Mr. Tatum, has perfected the art of himbo comedy unlike any other breathtakingly handsome, body-chiseled-from-stone maestro of ditz humor in his generation. Resistance to the endearing doofiness is futile, especially when there are those abs.