Don't Call It A Comeback: Diaz, Anderson, and Danson In This Week's Three Trailers

Cameron Diaz retired from acting in 2018, a few years after she married Benji Madden. Now the couple has two kids, and Cameron has come out of retirement to make an action movie with Jamie Foxx. It’s about former CIA operatives who find themselves back in The Life after settling down and having kids. It’s appropriately titled Back In Acton. No, it’s not part of the Spy Kids franchise.

Action/Comedy is Cameron Diaz’s sweet spot. This could have easily been a Gal Gadot movie, which would have made it absolutely terrible instead of just mid-terrible. Looking at the rest of the cast, it will be a dumb kind of fun, if nothing else.

Along with Diaz and Foxx Back In Acton stars Glenn Close, Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou (The Afterparty), McKenna Roberts (Skyscraper), and Rylan Jackson (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves). It’s directed and co-written by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, Baywatch) and premieres on Netflix on January 17th.

What the world needs right now is the warm embrace of a Mike Schur project. The creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine has heard the universe cry out for him and has created A Man On The Inside for Netflix. Based on a 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature, the series is about a man (Ted Danson) who goes to live undercover in a retirement home to solve a mystery.

Please inject this wholesome goodness directly into my anxiety-constricted veins.

A Man On The Inside stars Stephanie Beatriz, Mary Elizabeth Ellis (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Lilah Richcreek Estrada, Stephen McKinley Henderson (Civil War), and Kerry O’Malley. It begins streaming on Netflix on November 21st.

The Last Showgirl might do for Pamela Anderson what The Wrestler did for did for Mickey Rourke’s career. I’m not sure if that’s important to Pamela. She seems pretty happy living her life moisturized, unbothered, and publishing plant-based cookbooks. This looks good. Maybe Jamie Lee Curtis was right to be ceaselessly sounding off about it on social media all this time.

The Last Showgirl also features Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song (Dollface), Billie Lourd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, and Jason Schwartzman. It opens in theaters on January 10th.

“Comedian” Matt Rife has a new set of cheekbones he needs to pay off so he’s starring in this week’s lagniappe, Trapped Inn. This is the movie you get when a bunch of bros lock themselves in a room for a weekend with a case of Prime Energy Drink and nothing to eat but Mr. Beast’s moldy Feastables.