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Movie Review – American Made (2017)

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American Made, 2017.Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, E. Roger Mitchell, Jesse Plemons, Lola Kirke, Alejandro Edda, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones, and Jayma Mays.SYNOPSIS:A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s.There’s an unshakeable feeling that Tom Cruise is actually trying […]

Mark Wahlberg tops the list of the world’s highest-paid actors

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Transformers: The Last Knight star Mark Wahlberg has topped Forbes‘ list of the highest-paid actors in actresses in the world for the period of June 2016 and June 2017, knocking last year’s champ Dwayne Johnson down into second place.Wahlberg earned $68 million thanks to the latest instalment in the Transformers franchise, as well as the […]

Exclusive Interview – Doug Liman talks American Made and Live Die Repeat and Repeat

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Ahead of the release of American Made this Friday (August 25th), Flickering Myth’s Amon Warmann caught up with director Doug Liman to discuss his latest Tom Cruise collaboration, as well as sharing a few words about their next project, the Edge of Tomorrow sequel Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Watch the interview in the player […]

Mission: Impossible 6 production shut down for 9 weeks as Tom Cruise breaks ankle

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A couple of days ago some video from the set of Mission: Impossible 6 emerged online showing Tom Cruise injuring himself whilst performing a stunt for the spy sequel where he had to jump between two buildings. And now, Paramount Pictures has confirmed that Cruise has broken his ankle, forcing production to be shut down […]

Tom Cruise suffers an injury during Mission: Impossible 6 stunt

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It appears that Tom Cruise has suffered a (seemingly minor) injury filming a stunt for the currently-in-production Mission: Impossible 6.TMZ has released a video showing Cruise attempting a stunt in London where he jumps between two buildings, only to fall short of the leap and crash into the side of one of the buildings. The […]

Doug Liman talks Live Die Repeat and Repeat, Edge of Tomorrow title saga

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Despite being critically acclaimed, the 2014 sci-fi Edge of Tomorrow was only a modest success at the box office, so it was a little surprising when it was officially announced that Doug Liman and stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt would be returning for the sequel, titled Live Die Repeat and Repeat.Ever-modest, director Doug Liman […]

Mission: Impossible 6 will feature multiple death-defying Tom Cruise stunts

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Spider-Man sure does whatever a spider can, and so does Tom Cruise who has a seemingly addictive habit of staring death in the face during many of his risky yet spectacularly entertaining Mission: Impossible stunts.Generally, each movie contains one massively dangerous action sequence (think of Cruise darting across that plane for real in Mission: Impossible […]

Christopher McQuarrie teases major Mission: Impossible 6 stunt sequence

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The Mission: Impossible series has become well known for its jaw-dropping stunt set pieces, and with the currently-in-production sixth instalment, director Christopher McQuarrie has promised something that will top the insanity of the Burj Khalifa and plane sequences in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. What this sequence we don’t […]

How to Save the Dark Universe

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Harrison Abbott on how Universal can save the Dark Universe…Whilst its international take is admittedly surpassing its domestic performance by quite some way, it is still reasonable to suggest that The Mummy hasn’t been the mega-hit that Universal were hoping for. Weighed down by astonishingly clunky exposition, countless instances of tonal whiplash and a certain […]