Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:56AM - By Travis Woods
The Magnificent Seven—it’s one of the greatest remakes of all time. Taking the original premise of Akira Kurosawa’s indelible Seven Samurai (in 1587, village farmers in feudal Japan hire seven samurai to fight the bandits who are stealing their crops) and recasting it into a Western in which seven outlaws protect a Mexican agricultural village, it’s a remake that actually attempts to do something new with a preexisting premise. And of course, The Magnificent Seven is now being given a straight remake that won’t have a new spin, and it will star Tom Cruise for whatever reason. Details below.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:02AM - By Travis Woods
I’d like to just take a moment, if I could, to thank the universe itself for being such a random and meaningless expanse of haphazardly interconnecting systems of chaos that it would allow me to write, after all the random pieces fell into place, the most random entertainment news headline I’ve ever penned, concerning Tom Cruise, a Van Helsing reboot, and the team behind the Transformers franchise.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:46AM - By Travis Woods
The best thing that can be said about the new trailer for Rock of Ages, a modern musical about ‘80s Sunset Strip rock/hair metal, is that, um, well gosh, it sure is shiny and bright. That’s something, right? I mean, someone must want to see Tom Cruise play an amalgamation of Jon Bon Jovi, David Coverdale, and Steve Perry, backed by a soundtrack that sounds like the cast of Glee discovering a mixtape cassette in the back of a 1985 Toyota Hatchback parked a block down from the Whiskey a Go Go. Right?
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:00AM - By Damon Houx
Though he took his licks for his public insanity, Tom Cruise is now back as a movie star in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. But perhaps more exciting for film geeks is the launch of Brad Bird as a live-action director. The two work together to create a stunning action movie that’s lightweight but filled with all the great action one hopes for in an event film.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:28AM - By Damon Houx
The hit musical Rock of Ages took many of the kitschy but lovably sincere rock anthems of the 1980′s and Broadway-ized them. So who better to head up the film adaptation than Adam Shankman, who gave Hairspray a similar stage-to-screen treatment? The film – which stars Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand and Malin Ackerman – hits theaters June 1, 2012, but now there’s a trailer. Check it out.
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Friday, October 28, 2011 1:49PM - By Damon Houx
The final Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol trailer has debuted, and the word is Bond. James Bond. That seems to be what stars Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner, and director Brad Bird are going for in this action packed-looking film. That’s always been the word, in some ways, as it deals with special agents and spy toys, but all the previous films have been saddled with mole hunts. Here- at least from the trailer – it seems to be all about the action. Check it out
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:09PM - By Damon Houx
The pattern to this point with Mission: Impossible posters is the giant floating head of Tom Cruise. But that pattern has been dashed as the latest poster for Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol has Cruise sharing his poster with Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, and Simon Pegg. The full size poster for the film follows after the jump, check it out…
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:09PM - By Travis Woods
Well, I guess now you actually have a reason to fork over the money to see Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocal (a.k.a., Mission: Impossible If You Pay To See This They’re Just Gonna Keep Making This Crap) in an IMAX theater—IMAX prints of the new Tom Cruise film will also feature the first six minutes of the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises film!
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Monday, September 12, 2011 11:52AM - By Damon Houx
Tony Scott‘s Top Gun was released in 1986 and was the most successful film of that year. It launched Tom Cruise into leading man status (or at least cemented it post-Risky Business), and also featured Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and a host of young actors like Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins. It was the ultimate example of the Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson vehicle – slick, formulaic, but winning. But does the film has a lasting legacy? We’ll see in 2012 when the film is supposed to be released in 3-D.
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