With Tom Cruise struggling at the box office in recent years, how long can he retain full creative control over big-budget movies?When it comes to making movies, there are few artists as passionate and obsessive about the craft as Tom Cruise. He’s spent the best part of the 21st century as a creative force driving […]
Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?
After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs?Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer and […]
Paramount firing up the jets for Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski returning
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 the […]
Dust in the Eye: Ten Tear-Jerking Moments in Action Movies
Tom Jolliffe looks at ten tear-jerking moments from an eclectic mix of action movies (with major spoilers)…Action movies are exciting, sometimes empowering, often chaotic and move at a breakneck pace. The primary directive of an action film is to invest you enough into the characters’ quest that you care what happens, but usually only to […]
Is Tom Cruise the Last Great Big Screen Movie Star?
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 plenty […]
2023’s Best Picture Nominees, Ranked By Most Likely to Win
Olly Dyche looks at the Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards and their prospects for winning the Oscar…2022 saw a splattering of phenomenal movies, and the run up to the 95th Academy Awards was beyond exciting. With many unforgettable performances and fantastic scores (among many other highly acclaimed categories), 2023’s Oscar celebration is […]
Steven Spielberg feels Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick “saved the entire theatrical industry”
From one icon to another, it seems like Steven Spielberg respects Tom Cruise’s commitment to the theatrical experience.In a recent video, we saw Spielberg thank Tom Cruise for his work on Top Gun: Maverick, going as far as saying the theatrical release and positive reception of that film could’ve saved Hollywood.“You saved Hollywood’s ass, and […]
The Good and Bad of Indulged Filmmakers
Some filmmakers get full autonomy. Sometimes this is good. Sometimes, not so much…When you hit a level of success in filmmaking as a director (or occasionally a producing star actor) you find that studios increasingly bend over backwards to your every whim. This can even be to the point of risky ventures with huge amounts […]
Three Masterful Technical Achievements from 2022
Tom Jolliffe looks back at three technical marvels of filmmaking which wowed audiences in 2022…2022 was a pretty stellar year for film. We had some great indie films, some spectacular action films, some choice cuts of world cinema and we were also treated to one of the best years in horror for quite some time. […]
2023 Oscar Nominations: Reasons to Cheer and Reasons to Jeer
We look at the Oscar nominations. The surprises, the nods to celebrate and some glaring omissions…The Oscar nominations for the 2023 ceremony were announced this week. It’s time to warm up your slapping hands, sorry, clapping hands and ready yourself for the main event. As with every year, there are predictable choices, and pleasing selections […]
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