Tag: Tom Cruise
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Denzel Washington Has the Action Legacy Liam Neeson Wanted
Although the action genre is traditionally associated with younger stars who are at the peak of their physicality, the most successful action films of the 21st century have been those that feature older heroes. Movie stars like Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, and Harrison Ford have dominated the action genre, despite being slightly past…
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Venice Fresh Faces: ‘Sky Peals’ Star Faraz Ayub
British actor Faraz Ayub is in virtually every frame of Moin Hussain’s “Sky Peals,” world premiering at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.Ayub plays Adam, who works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a lonely life. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers. Piecing…
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A Critical Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Scene Was Written Just Hours Before Shooting
Christopher McQuarrie’s 2015 film “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” is arguably the best film in the series. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was getting a little older and was considered decreasingly trustworthy by his sour-faced bosses at the Impossible Missions Force. “Rogue Nation” saw him tracking down the identities of a rogue nation of ex-spies who…
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Mission: Impossible 3’s Maggie Q Accidentally Crashed A Car Her First Day On Set
The “Mission: Impossible” series has become easily my favorite film franchise over the course of the last decade. Not only is its consistency unmatched in today’s Hollywood blockbuster landscape, but the franchise has pulled off the remarkable feat of remaining consistent; the later entries of the series are actually the best of the bunch. As…
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Wolf Blitzer’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout Cameo Earned Him A Creepy Souvenir
The sixth “Mission: Impossible” film, “Fallout,” has the most fun toying with its audience. The first time it does so is one of the best surprises I’ve ever experienced in a movie.The set-up: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Mission Force (Imf) team fail to stop a terrorist group called the Apostles from stealing…
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This Tom Cruise Performance Was Written With Tom Hanks in Mind
Although Tom Cruise is most closely associated with the action genre due to the success of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, in the 1990s, it feels like he made it a goal to work with nearly every great filmmaker on a prestige project. Between Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Neil…
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Big Budgets, Big Headaches: Why ‘Indiana Jones 5’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ are Struggling to Make a Profit
Not even time-tested adventurers like Indiana Jones and Ethan Hunt are immune to the shifting sands of the movie business. Those action heroes, played by Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise, returned to theaters in Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” with the hope that…
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One Mission: Impossible 2 Stunt Could’ve Cost Tom Cruise His Eye
There are breathtaking stunts throughout the “Mission: Impossible” series, like when Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff or climbs the Burj Khalifa, but “Mission: Impossible 2″ — considered the weakest despite having the most subversive visuals — includes a memorable stunt on a much smaller scale. It’s far more intimate but incredibly visceral.On…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Crawls Past $500 Million At Worldwide Box Office
Last weekend, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” was creeping up on the half-billion mark at the worldwide box office with a running total of $493 million. Now, the latest installment in the Tom Cruise-led franchise has passed that milestone, but the fact that it took a week to do it is not a…
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Mission: Impossible 4 Took A Major IMAX Risk, But It Paid Off In One Key Scene
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” was not the film that turned the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise into the “Tom Cruise Stares Death in the Face” show. No, that honor belongs to “Mission: Impossible II,” which opens with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt free solo rock climbing in Moab, Utah (which Cruise did for real wearing a harness…