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Tom Cruise rumored for Quentin Tarantino’s The Movie Critic

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With actors like Paul Walter Hauser and Brad Pitt circling Quentin Tarantino’s final film, all the big names want to be a part of this momentous moment. The Movie Critic is reportedly the final outing for Tarantino as a director, and now there are reports he’s going to work with an actor he’s never collab […]

Paramount firing up the jets for Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski returning

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Paramount Pictures has fired up the engines on Top Gun 3, and are hoping to reunite the team that flew Maverick to $1.5 billion at the worldwide box-office.  According to The Hollywood Reporter Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger is working on a script, with director Joseph Kosinski set to return for a third film in […]

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

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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 […]

Mission: Impossible 8 delayed until 2025 and drops ‘Dead Reckoning – Part 2’ from title

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Paramount Pictures and Skydance have announced that they’re pushing back the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise by a year, and dropping Dead Reckoning – Part 2 from the title.  The shunt for the spy-franchise comes amidst a series of release date changes due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes. Mission: Impossible 8 shut down […]

Risky Business at 40: Tom Cruise’s Breakout Hit Revisited

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We take a look back at Tom Cruise’s breakout hit Risky Business, which turned 40 this month… Tom Cruise is probably the last great movie star and still pulling in the big bucks with the latest in his Mission: Impossible franchise, which despite the naysayers, will still likely tip close to two-thirds of a cool […]

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

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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 […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opens to $235 million worldwide

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Hollywood’s had a bit of a tough time at the box office recently with its big budget tentpoles with the likes of The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny bombing hard and ramping up the pressure on the struggling theatrical industry. However, in a repeat of last year with Top Gun: Maverick, […]

Ranking the Mission: Impossible Franchise

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With Dead Reckoning Part One coming very soon, we look back at the Mission: Impossible Franchise so far to give you our ranking from worst to best… Tom Cruise is about to kick off his latest cinema salvation exercise and stunt show, continuing his awesomely successful franchise. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Shea Whigham, Mariela Garriga, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Anton Valensi, Nico Toffoli, and Frederick Schmidt. […]

Video Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is the perfect blockbuster

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Mission: Impossible 7… Tom Cruise leads what feels like a perfect action movie & summer blockbuster. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One offers everything you’d expect and then some. When your film only suffers from “why can’t I have more” syndrome, you know you’re in for a […]