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4K Ultra HD Review – Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection

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The decision whether or not to pick up the eight-film Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection probably depends on whether you have all or most of these movies on 4K Ultra HD already and, if so, how important a collectible like this is to you. It’s a nice presentation, with SteelBooks for all the movies — […]

Top Gun at 40: The Story Behind the Iconic Tom Cruise Action Blockbuster

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As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Top Gun… Top Gun can best be described as the quintessential 80s summer blockbuster. Filled with high-octane aerial cinematography, an infectiously charming Tom Cruise and one of the most iconic movie soundtracks of all time, Top Gun simply redefined “popcorn cinema” all […]

Mission: Impossible III at 20 – The Story Behind the Underrated Action Sequel

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Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Mission: Impossible III as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary… Despite the box-office success of Mission: Impossible 2, the film was a significant departure from Bruce Geller’s original espionage television series as well as Brian De Palma’s twisty-turny 1996 suspense thriller which launched the big screen franchise. However, […]

What’s Next For Tom Cruise?

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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. […]

Tom Cruise is a shovel wielding saviour in the teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger

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Tom Cruise has put down the gun and picked up a shovel as his weapon of choice for saving the world in the first look teaser for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s latest film Digger.  Warner Bros. has dropped the title announcement teaser trailer, which features a largely silhouetted Cruise dancing with his shovel, seemingly channelling Tropic […]

The Cinematic Crossovers We Need To See

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20 years on from the release of Freddy vs Jason, here are more cinematic crossovers we really need to see… It doesn’t happen too often in cinema but when it does, the crossover special definitely tickles the viewers’ curiosity. Whether it was Freddy vs Jason bringing two horror universes crashing together or the first bout […]

I Watched Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning So You Don’t Have To

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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 […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

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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, […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

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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, […]

Ana de Armas set to join Tom Cruise in Doug Liman’s Deeper

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Having been the subject of many a tabloid article over the past few weeks, Deadline is reporting that Ana de Armas and Tom Cruise are set to star together in Deeper, an underwater supernatural thriller from Cruise and his Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. Deeper has been circling Hollywood for almost a decade and […]