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10 Great Val Kilmer Performances

April 7, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

The late, great Val Kilmer had an eclectic career full of memorable roles and films. Here are ten of his standout performances… Val Kilmer’s time as a Hollywood icon was never less than interesting. Depending on the film set, he was either an enigmatic genius, a fun presence, or a director’s nightmare. What can’t be […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Batman Forever, Heat, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Doors, The Salton Sea, Tombstone, Top Gun, Top Secret, True Romance, Val Kilmer, willow

The Essential Tony Scott Movies

June 21, 2024 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on the essential Tony Scott movies… Apart from being the younger brother of the legendary Ridley Scott, filmmaker Tony Scott too boasted his fair share of critically acclaimed box office efforts. And so, on what would have been his 80th birthday, we dive in to look back at Scott’s career to pick out […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Beverly Hills Cop 2, crimson tide, Days of Thunder, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Spy Game, The Last Boy Scout, Tony Scott, Top Gun, True Romance, Unstoppable

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

January 12, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Glenn Powell, Joseph Kosinski, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, top gun 3, Top Gun: Maverick

The Maestros of 80s Action Movie Music

October 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at a golden period in action movie scores and some of the maestros who composed them… What is the golden age of action movies? This is of course a rhetorical question. It’s undoubtedly the 1980s. A time of such unique flair and style. Big, bold, brash, silly, sometimes ironic. It was a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 48 Hours, Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, Beverly Hills Cop, Bill Conti, Commando, Die Hard, First Blood, Harold Faltermeyer, Highlander, James Horner, jerry goldsmith, john carpenter, Lethal Weapon, Masters of the Universe, Michael Kamen, Predator, RoboCop, Top Gun, Total Recall

Top Gun 2-Movie 4K Steelbook Superfan Collection landing in December

September 16, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the December release of the Top Gun 2-Movie 4K Steelbook Superfan Collection which includes both the 1986 Tony Scott-directed classic and Joseph Kosinski’s smash hit sequel Top Gun: Maverick, along with various collectible merchandise; check out the details below… The #1 film of 2022, with over $1.4 billion at the […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick flies onto 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD in November

August 18, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

Paramount Home Entertainment have announced that the acclaimed box office hit Top Gun: Maverick is set to fly onto digital platforms on August 23rd, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD release on November 1st; check out the cover artwork and details below…  Tom Cruise stars in the global phenomenon TOP GUN: MAVERICK, […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Quentin Tarantino goes full cinema fanboy and calls Top Gun: Maverick a “true cinematic spectacle”

August 5, 2022 by EJ Moreno

We all know Quentin Tarantino has a passion for all things film. Yet, it’s rare for him to dive into his feelings on a new movie in public. Well, that’s changed this week as he offered up his take on the smash hit that is Top Gun: Maverick. The filmmaker was asked about the Top […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Joseph Kosinski, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Is Tom Cruise the Last Great Big Screen Movie Star?

July 15, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the enduring star power of Tom Cruise. In an age where concept and franchise rules over star, is Cruise the last great big screen movie star? From marriages in the public eye, to couch jumping, to being a poster boy for scientology, the career of Tom Cruise has brought with it […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: born on the fourth of july, Edge of Tomorrow, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible, Oblivion, Rain Man, Risky Business, the color of money, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Miles Teller says he’s spoken to Tom Cruise about Top Gun 3

July 11, 2022 by EJ Moreno

Top Gun: Maverick is a box-office and pop culture juggernaut. After nearly two months, it’s still dominating in cinemas and has comfortably passed the billion dollar mark at the box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2022 so far. A sequel is one of the most obvious moves ever, and it seems as if […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, top gun 3, Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s self-aware movie stardom in Top Gun: Maverick

July 1, 2022 by admin

Wesley Stenzel on Tom Cruise’s self-aware movie stardom in Top Gun: Maverick… About twenty minutes into Top Gun: Maverick, a disheveled Tom Cruise is surprised to find himself in the most generic American diner imaginable. It’s filled with featureless white bread normal people who gaze upon his tattered otherworldly figure with amazement and disgust. Cruise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Wesley Stenzel Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

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