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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 — […]

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. Be […]

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 of […]

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 itself.”After […]

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, Katy […]

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, Katy […]

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 is […]

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning gets new posters and behind-the-scenes featurettes

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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

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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 […]