We look at the Oscar nominations. The surprises, the nods to celebrate and some glaring omissions… The Oscar nominations for the 2023 ceremony were announced this week. It’s time to warm up your slapping hands, sorry, clapping hands and ready yourself for the main event. As with every year, there are predictable choices, and pleasing […]
Top Gun: Maverick and the Success of Simplistic Cinema
Anghus Houvrouas on the success of Top Gun: Maverick… Top Gun: Maverick is the kind of massive, crowd pleasing blockbuster that felt almost extinct after a global pandemic threatened to end the theatrical experience. Loved by both audiences and critics, the movie has become a phenomenon and the most successful movie of 2022. I always […]
Quentin Tarantino goes full cinema fanboy and calls Top Gun: Maverick a “true cinematic spectacle”
We all know Quentin Tarantino has a passion for all things film. Yet, it’s rare for him to dive into his feelings on a new movie in public. Well, that’s changed this week as he offered up his take on the smash hit that is Top Gun: Maverick. The filmmaker was asked about the Top […]
Movie Review – Spiderhead (2022)
Spiderhead, 2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich, BeBe Bettencourt, Angie Miliken, Joey Vieira, Nathan Jones, Ron Smyck, and Mark Paguio. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable […]
Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at two of the best action films of the last decade, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick… There are great films. There are great action films. Attaining greatness through your action amounts to nailing your set pieces and imbuing proceedings, with just enough characterisation to give the propellant action some […]
Top Gun: Maverick hits Mach 10 at the box office with $248 million worldwide
Top Gun: Maverick became not only one of the biggest pandemic-era box office successes, but it also gave Tom Cruise the largest opening of his illustrious career, as the 36-year in the making sequel soared to $248M worldwide over the weekend. Paramount have estimated that the critically revered sequel will end the Memorial Day weekend […]
Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Manny Jacinto, Peter Mark Kendall, Jean Louisa Kelly, Lyliana Wray, Jake Picking, Kara Wang, and Raymond Lee. […]
First trailer for Spiderhead starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett
With just a month to go until Spiderhead arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a poster and trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s (TRON: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick) upcoming thriller. Based on George Saunders’ New Yorker short story, the film reunites Netflix with Extraction star Chris Hemsworth, who stars as a brilliant visionary experimenting on […]
Top Gun: Maverick gets a new trailer and poster
Paramount Pictures has released a new poster and trailer for the long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film sees Tom Cruise returning as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains a new detachment of graduates for a specialized mission; check them out here… After more than thirty years of service as one […]
Warner Bros. to adapt graphic novel Chariot, with Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski set to direct
With Top Gun: Maverick sat on the runway awaiting its pandemic delayed release this November, director Joseph Kosinski has moved onto his next vehicular-centric project with the news that Warner Bros. are set to adapt the recently published graphic novel Chariot, and want the Oblivion helmer to direct. Based on the graphic novel written by […]
