With Tom Cruise struggling at the box office in recent years, how long can he retain full creative control over big-budget movies?When it comes to making movies, there are few artists as passionate and obsessive about the craft as Tom Cruise. He’s spent the best part of the 21st century as a creative force driving […]
What’s Next For Tom Cruise?
Is there life after blockbuster action cinema for Tom Cruise?At an age-defying 62 years old, Tom Cruise delivers us his latest action opus with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. It brings to a potential close an eight-film franchise largely built on the stunt du jour that the inimitable Cruise conjures up to perform. Be […]
10 Essential Action Movies of 1996
It’s stunts aplenty with spinning kicks and punches, as we travel back to 1996 with these essential action movies…The action movie landscape of 1996 was pretty interesting. It saw a noticeable shift in the genre, stepping noticeably away from the previous decade and early 90s reliance on muscle-bound heroes. The beefy big boys like Sylvester […]
Brian De Palma: A Career In Pushing Boundaries
Simon Thompson delves into the career of Brian De Palma…Brian De Palma is a filmmaker whose career is a Rorschach ink blot for various commentators to project their own perceptions on. To some he’s a brilliant and daring master of suspense, an American Alfred Hitchcock, while to others he’s a cheap purveyor of sex and […]
Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hit big at the box office
The global box office received a well-needed shot of adrenalin heading into the summer this weekend as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning helped propel cinemas to record numbers over the holiday weekend.Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of its animated classics swept away the bad taste left by Snow […]
I Watched Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning So You Don’t Have To
EJ Moreno with his thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible…Join me for a scathing look at Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. With an admiration for the last film, and for Tom Cruise, the film should be easy to praise, but it barely reaches its potential. To quote the infamous Family Guy clip, ” It insists on itself.”After […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 2025.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Angela Bassett, Marcin Dorociński, Katy […]
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gets new posters and behind-the-scenes featurettes
With just under a month to go until the release of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and tickets now on sale, four new cinema-specific promotional posters have arrived online for the eeight instalment in the spy action franchise, along with two featurettes which give us another look inside at the movie’s impressive stunts and […]
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning character posters highlight huge ensemble cast
We are now just a month away from Tom Cruise’s anticipated Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Paramount has released a huge batch of character posters highlighting the ensemble cast for Ethan Hunt’s next – and potentially final – mission. Check them out here…Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and […]
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the Svalbard shoot
Paramount Pictures has lit the fuse on the marketing campaign for Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning and released another behind-the-scenes video for the epic conclusion to the Tom Cruise headlined franchise.The action is once again orchestrated by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, Hannah Waddingham, Mariela Garriga, […]
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