They take a deep dive into the origins of modern policing, combating weaponized information, and protecting human rights in the age of surveillance. Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, Gyllenhaal gets to be the voice of sanity and constitutional rules while the madman in their midst reveals himself - a look at the cast list might give it away. One of NBC’s best ever series, the White House drama won 26 Emmy’s over its seven-year run. Silva joins Matthew Guariglia, a historian and Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. While daughter is in the bathroom, the tour is taken hostage. Dad and daughter decide to take the tour.īad move.

It doesn't go well because the interviewer is an old college flame (Gyllenhaal). Tatum is a cop at the Capitol with a military background who wants to step up from protecting the Speaker of the House (Richard Jenkins) to being part of the POTUS' Secret Service detail.īecause his pre-teen daughter is a White House fangirl, he brings her along to his West Wing job interview. Of course, the main draw for many people to the city is the world famed White House, which is home to the president of the United States. And so it is here, with Jamie Foxx as an amusingly Obama-esque President and Channing Tatum as 'John Cale' as the prez's only hope and, eventually, the wearer of the John McClane memorial white singlet. Washington DC is more than just the Capital city of the United States of America, it is also home to some of the most famous monuments and landmarks in the world. But Emmerich's epics have always had decent actors - or at least decent double-acts - helping make the wildly implausible mildly entertaining. This, on the other hand, is a better-appointed Die Hard knock-off that isn't as bad or as dumb as it could have been. It was a cheap and nasty Die Hard knock-off.

That was Olympus Has Fallen from earlier in the year, which had a home invasion of North Koreans. The assault is something to do with Sawyer's peace plan which involves pulling US troops out of South Korea.

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