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James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water passes Top Gun: Maverick to become 2022’s biggest movie

January 6, 2023 by Gary Collinson

James Cameron has proven time and again that its foolish to write him off, and the legendary filmmaker has done it once more with his long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Way of Water surpassing the box office haul of Top Gun: Maverick to become the highest grossing movie of 2022. As of close of play on […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Disney, James Cameron, Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise teases another death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

December 19, 2022 by Ricky Church

Tom Cruise is no stranger to performing crazy stunts on any number of his films and he just teased another major death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two. In the video, Cruise is seen in a helicopter and thanks fans for their support for Top Gun: Maverick’s huge success along with the […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise gets back in the cockpit for Top Gun: Maverick Super Bowl TV spot

February 3, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Following a batch of images showcasing Top Gun: Maverick’s new recruits, Paramount Pictures has now unveiled a Big Game spot for the long-awaited action sequel during last night’s Super Bowl, and we have it for you here… SEE ALSO: Will Top Gun Maverick crash and burn? After more than thirty years of service as one of […]

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

Top Gun: Maverick images show off the sequel’s new recruits

January 29, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Paramount Pictures has unveiled six new images from the long-awaited action sequel Top Gun: Maverick featuring new recruits Rooster (Miles Teller), Hangman (Glen Powell), Payback (Jay Ellis), Phoenix (Monica Barbaro), Fanboy (Danny Ramirez), and Bob (Lewis Pullman); take a look here… SEE ALSO: Will Top Gun Maverick crash and burn? After more than thirty years […]

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

Is “Cinema” turning the tide against “Theme Park” blockbusters?

November 20, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

With 2022 particularly impressive so far, we look at whether great films which might pass the Scorsese “cinema” test might be turning the tide against formulaic blockbusters… 2022 has been pretty horrible all told. From a cost of living crisis to the war in Ukraine to skyrocketing energy bills and a farcical political landscape, real […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: black adam, Black Phone, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hellraiser, mad god, Nope, pearl, Piggy, Smile, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Batman, The Northman, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Thor: Love and Thunder, Top Gun: Maverick, X

Rumoured casting breakdown for Top Gun 2 reveals new characters, including Goose’s son

November 5, 2017 by Gary Collinson

With the long-gestating Top Gun sequel seemingly moving forward at speed ahead of its 2019 release date, That Hashtag Show has posted a series of rumoured casting breakdowns for the supporting characters who’ll be joining the returning Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. Included in the list of characters are Penny Benjamin, a new love […]

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Top Gun, Top Gun 2, Top Gun: Maverick

The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

June 11, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, James Cameron, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema

June 8, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at two of the best action films of the last decade, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick… There are great films. There are great action films. Attaining greatness through your action amounts to nailing your set pieces and imbuing proceedings, with just enough characterisation to give the propellant action some […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Charlize Theron, George Miller, Jennifer Connelly, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Tom Hardy, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick and the Success of Simplistic Cinema

October 31, 2022 by Anghus Houvouras

Anghus Houvrouas on the success of Top Gun: Maverick… Top Gun: Maverick is the kind of massive, crowd pleasing blockbuster that felt almost extinct after a global pandemic threatened to end the theatrical experience. Loved by both audiences and critics, the movie has become a phenomenon and the most successful movie of 2022. I always […]

Filed Under: Anghus Houvouras, Articles and Opinions, Movies Tagged With: Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Jake Picking, Jay Ellis, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Joseph Kosinski, Kara Wang, Lewis Pullman, Lyliana Wray, Manny Jacinto, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Peter Mark Kendall, Raymond Lee, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick, Val Kilmer

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

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