Tag: Tom Cruise

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel TOP GUN: MAVERICK review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT review

It’s no coincidence that the Mission: Impossible franchise really took off, in terms of widely agreed upon quality from both the critics and the fans, when Christopher McQuarrie was hired on to direct the Tom Cruise-led espionage action adventure. The McQuarrie/Cruise symbiotic cinematic cohesiveness began ten years ago with Valkyrie (2008) which starred Cruise and …

List, News

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – IMF Antagonists Revealed

The Mission: Impossible film franchise should get ready to celebrate. With Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth installment has eclipsed the legal age of alcohol consumption in the U.S. This is no small feat considering that fanbases are quick to jump ship these days with so many other options now available. What is it that …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel AMERICAN MADE review

American Made review

It would seem that drugs jumped to the front of every mainstream publication and outlet throughout the 1980s. Illicit drugs have been around, well since always but they reached new highs (forgive the pun) during this timespan. Television shows, movies, novels; they were all sensationalizing the addictive trend. Art was truly imitating life and there …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE MUMMY review

The Mummy review

Universal first unwrapped The Mummy franchise back in 1932 with Boris Karloff playing the title role. There have been a couple of series reboots since then with the Brendan Fraser-led version being the most recent starting in 1999. Now Universal is ready to move forward again with another reboot but they’ve also decided to go …