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10 Movie Franchises That Need To End

October 17, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Alien: Romulus, Aliens, Evil Dead, fast and furious, Furiosa, Ghostbusters, indiana jones and the dial of destiny, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Star Wars, Star Wars: Andor, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Fast and the Furious, The Mandaloran, XXX 3

Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels

April 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dune, Dune: Part Two, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Timothee Chalamet, Tom Cruise

A Beginner’s Guide to Brian De Palma

October 24, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe begins a series of features focused on iconic directors. Those whose work has influenced many younger directors who have followed them. First up is Brian De Palma… The 70’s saw a group of exceptional directors coming to the forefront of cinema. It’s an era where I could all too easily cover Martin Scorsese, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Brian De Palma, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, Scarface, Sisters, The Untouchables

A Little Bit Of Love For Tom Cruise

July 3, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe shows his appreciation for Tom Cruise on the actor’s 57th birthday… Approaching 40 years in the industry. Tom Cruise has spent over 30 of those as a superstar. He’s been a box office behemoth. A star turn, a headliner and a poster boy for blockbuster pulling power. He’s also been maligned and dismissed. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Tom Cruise

Mission: Impossible 8 lands Twisters actor Stephen Oyoung

July 17, 2024 by EJ Moreno

After appearing in this summer’s Twisters, Stephen Oyoung has another blockbuster on his hands as Deadline reports that the actor is the latest to join Mission: Impossible 8. Plot details for this eighth entry remain under wraps, as does Oyoung’s role. Christopher McQuarrie will return to direct and is producing alongside lead star Tom Cruise. […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 8, Stephen Oyoung

Jeremy Renner keen on Mission: Impossible return

May 30, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

Having survived his own real-life Mission: Impossible following his near-fatal snow-plough accident, Jeremy Renner has hinted that he’d like to take another assignment with the IMF in a future installment of the blockbuster espionage franchise.  Renner, who played William Brandt in 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and 2015’s Mission: Impossible -Rogue Nation, was speaking with […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Jeremy Renner, Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise

Simon Pegg teases Pom Klementieff return in Mission: Impossible 8

December 7, 2023 by Ricky Church

With the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise having been delayed until 2025 – and undergoing a name change as it drops ‘Part Two’ from its title – it may be a while before we hear any news about Mission: Impossible 8, but series star Simon Pegg did tease the return of a familiar face. Taking to […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 8, Pom Klementieff, Simon Pegg

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

November 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Expend4bles, Expendables, Harrison Ford, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Mission: Impossible, Sylvester Stallone, taken, The Equalizer, The Matrix Resurrections, Tom Cruise

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One sets 4K, Blu-ray and Digital release

September 13, 2023 by Amie Cranswick

Paramount Pictures has announced that the seventh instalment in the action-packed blockbuster franchise Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One arrives on digital on October 10th, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD release on October 31st; check out the cover artwork and details below…   Bonus content includes:  Commentary by director Christopher […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise

Exclusive Interview – Lorne Balfe on Gran Turismo, Mission Impossible, Tetris and more

August 18, 2023 by Chris Connor

Lorne Balfe has had an incredibly exciting 2023 working on some of the most successful blockbusters including Dungeons and Dragons, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and now Gran Turismo. We sat down with Lorne to discuss the scores for the films, how he balances his workload and moving from films to video games… Were you […]

Filed Under: Chris Connor, Exclusives, Interviews, Movies, Video Games Tagged With: Argylle, Dungeons & Dragons, Gran Turismo, Lorne Balfe, Matthew Vaughan, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Neil Blomkamp, Tetris

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