EJ Moreno looks at a selection of films the Academy Awards needs to nominate…Last year, the Academy Awards brought in some of its lowest ratings, though improving over the year prior. While the state of the prestige Oscars isn’t dependent on viewership, it’s a sign that interest in the once hotly anticipated event is at […]
James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water passes Top Gun: Maverick to become 2022’s biggest movie
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 Thursday, […]
Tom Cruise teases another death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
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 announcement […]
Tom Cruise gets back in the cockpit for Top Gun: Maverick Super Bowl TV spot
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 the Navy’s […]
Top Gun: Maverick images show off the sequel’s new recruits
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 of service […]
Is “Cinema” turning the tide against “Theme Park” blockbusters?
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 life […]
Rumoured casting breakdown for Top Gun 2 reveals new characters, including Goose’s son
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 interest […]
The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI
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 bad […]
Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema
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 dramatic […]
Top Gun: Maverick and the Success of Simplistic Cinema
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 find it […]
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