Looks like the NWA is having the final laugh, as one the founding corners of rap and hip hop has made not only for a great movie but a runaway success. Straight Outta Compton opened up on 2757 screens around the US, taking first place with a haul of $56 million according to studio estimates. Not only did that make …

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a fantastic film, boasting some of the best action the franchise has ever seen. More importantly than that though, it boasts probably the best female character the franchise has ever seen in Rebecca Ferguson’s complex secret agent Ilsa Faust. This being 2015 though, we really should not have to make that distinction as good …

It really has been a crazy year for great action movies. From the fast paced madness of Mad Max: Fury Road, to the teeth of Jurassic World we have not been wanting! But we were missing a special kind of action with a special kind of mad actor, one willing to fall off an airplane doing his own stunts, yes, Tom Cruise and yes, Mission Impossible: …

Much fuss has been made, and justifiably so, about Tom Cruise’s latest death-defying stunt in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The risky aerial jape finds Cruise clinging for dear life to the side of a cargo plane hundreds of feet in the air for real. It’s a ballsy stunt which could have gone wrong in so many ways, leading to …

We’ve still got quite a few big movies to look forward to for the rest of 2015. If you caught James’ article last week predicting the rest of the 2015 blockbusters, there are some seriously big movies coming soon.  The Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with Ant-Man, The Hunger Games franchise concludes with Mockingjay: Part 2 and Star Wars gets a …

Tom Cruise is crazy. We all know this. There is a partially destroyed couch standing around on an abandoned Oprah set that attests to this. More relevantly though, he is infamous for sending insurance companies’ blood pressures through the roof as he insists on doing all his own insane stunts in his movies. In Mission: Impossible II, that was really …

I was already pretty psyched for the new Mission: Impossible movie – subtitled Rogue Nation – after seeing that incredible first trailer and that jaw-dropping aerial stunt that sees Tom Cruise clinging onto a gigantic cargo plane for dear life thousands of feet in the air. Apparently though, Cruise and writer/director Chris McQuarrie thought that my hype levels were still …

Over the past weekend, in anticipation of the fifth Mission: Impossible movie (which we’ll be getting 5 months earlier than expected!), I went and marathoned all the previous movies in the franchise. Viewed back to back like this, it becomes abundantly clear just how fluid this series has been in terms of tone and scope, with every different director bringing …