Christopher McQuarrie First impressions of Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One Some off-the-cuff thoughts that ran through my mind as I emerged—dizzy and exhausted and smiling—from the latest McQuarrie/Cruise "spectacular-spectacular."
Film Review Maverick (2022) (Part Two) As an action movie, Top Gun: Maverick is compelling entertainment. As art, it exists more as a celebration of Tom Cruise, exalting a version of reckless masculinity and whiteness that I might have hoped we'd left behind.
Film Review Maverick (2022) (Part One) Before diving fast and furious into a review of Top Gun: Maverick, I should probably provide some personal history about me and Maverick.
On Movies & Media Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) While Mission: Impossible—Fallout played, I loved every minute of it. But afterward, I had an itch that I couldn't scratch. I wrote this to scratch it.
On Movies & Media War of the Worlds (2005) In Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise runs for his life. Of course he does. That's what Tom Cruise was born to do. Somewhere, somebody's adding the latest scenes of Cruise pounding the pavement to an already impressive career-spanning montage. It seems
On Movies & Media Cruise, "Sin City"; Leary and Loy on Eastwood and "Closer" So, here are a few pieces I stumbled across today... A mind-boggling update on director Todd Haynes' spectacularly weird concept for a movie about Bob Dylan. I cannot wait to see this. I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan Congratulations, Peter Jackson! King Kong filming
