Opens Friday, Jun 28, 2013 Synopsis: A devoted father fights a ruthless paramilitary group that has seized control the White House in this high-stakes action thriller from director Roland Emmerich (2012) and writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man). Dejected after being turned down for a position with the Secret Service but unable to break the news to his adoring daughter, Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) is taking her on a tour of the White House when a powerful explosion rips through the building sparking mass chaos. When the smoke clears, Cale learns that heavily-armed rebels have taken both his daughter (Joey King) and the president (Jamie Foxx) hostage. As news of the attack sparks mass panic and fear of total collapse, Cale realizes that the fate of his daughter, the Commander in Chief, and the entire nation rest in his willingness to fight back against the terrorists who have brought the most powerful nation on the planet to its knees. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, and James Woods co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins Movie Details Play Trailer
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...more and more obnoxious. Django refers not only to the lead character, a slave-turned-bounty hunter played by Jamie Foxx, but also to a series of cheap spaghetti westerns from the sixties and seventies that Quentin Tarantino obviously loves...
...intimate knowledge of the L.A. highways and bi-ways. Jamie Foxx is Max, just such a cabbie, and when Vincent hires...villainous role since Interview with the Vampire , and Jamie Foxx proves once again that there is a remarkable actor hidden...
...Obviously they need to go to a really bad part of town and speak to someone who deals with murder on a regular basis.Enter Jamie Foxx, whose character sports a name that, while offensive, is one of the funnier bits in the movie. Foxx signs on as a...
...necessary? Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg are good as Jewel and Blu, respectively, but why did we need will i am or Jamie Foxx, neither of whom were particularly recognizable in the roles of goofy side-kick birds. "Flight of the Conchords...
...the film doesn?t suffer much for it. A big part of the reason this film works as well as it does is the casting of Jamie Foxx as Tubbs, and a surprisingly good Colin Farrell as Crockett. Farrell is unquestionably an actor of immense talent, but between...
...oil workers, Saudi police and a two FBI agents on assignment in Saudi Arabia. The FBI sends in a crack team led by Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, but getting answers won't be as easy as it seems. "The Kingdom," unlike our friendly film-fan...
...performances are equally good, specifically Jon Voight disappearing into an amazing Howard Cosell impersonation, and Jamie Foxx's Drew 'Bundini' Brown, who provides welcome comic relief, as well as one of the film's more moving performances...
Opens Friday, May 2, 2014 Synopsis: The web-slingin' wall-crawler hits the screens once again in this follow-up to Marc Webb's 2012 reboot of the series. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti Movie Details
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...movie everyone's waiting for, yet it doesn't lack for variety. There's the timely biopic ''Ray,'' starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, which arrives just four months after the beloved singer-pianist's death. (''He broke down all...
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