Thanks to looks, personality or general demeanour, actors can very easily be typecast in certain roles. Owen Wilson makes the perfect beach bum, Michael Cera is always the awkward indie teen and Christopher Lee can’t be anything but a crazy supervillain. But what about when movies get weirdly specific with their typecasting? Sean Bean is notorious for (almost) always dying …
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: …
IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME! The famous battlecry of Aunt Petunia favourite blue-eyed nephew was applied and then some to the latest big screen incarnation of The Fantastic Four. Opening up in a pitiful second place, Fantastic Four took home just $26.2 million in North American ticket sales. Compared to director Tim Story’s original duo of flicks from the mid-2000s, that was …
This week, Tom Cruise rocks another Mission Impossible movie, an Academy Award nominated actress teams up with Jennifer Lopez of all people on a vigilante mission of justice, and some French-Canadians have jaded critics salivating over their popcorn. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation With the IMF disbanded, and Ethan (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, the team now faces off against …
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 …
Agent Cruise, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to hit the box office and reach the number one spot. Oh, you’ve already done that? Good job Tom Cruise! Unlike several other summer tentpole movies with big, aging names attached to them, Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation did gangbuster numbers at the box office. With an opening weekend …
I’ve got a confession to make: I haven’t exactly seen the previous Mission Impossible film, Ghost Protocol. That’s primarily due to the fact that I had a severe distaste for the franchise after Mission Impossible III, easily the weakest film in the series when compared to the stellar first 1996 flick and the actiongasm that was the sequel. Apparently I’m an even bigger idiot …
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 …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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