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So here we are, almost a round thirty years since Tom Cruise redefined cinematic action with Mission: Impossible by fighting a helicopter with a train in a tunnel. That franchise spawning creation was…
“What would Tom Cruise do?” That is the question ninety-three-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) asks herself when she falls victim to a phone phishing scam. Thelma’s day-to-day routine post her rela…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to wade through the distinctly overlong and uneven Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, or MI7. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns after the eve…
Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. This was incredibly difficult to write. It’s not a good sign if a 2000 word spoiler review for Jurassic World: Dominion can come so easily f…
Early in Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick, the belated sequel to Tony Scott’s Eighties action classic, Tom Cruise’s Pete Mitchell (yes, that’s his actual name) aka Maverick is delivered an offhande…
Available to Watch Here: Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In 1986 director Tony Scott made Top Gun, a film that changed the landscape of military…
The unlikeliest of bedfellows, Scott Morrison and Tom Cruise share a key goal in 2022: Both are chasing successful sequels. While the matter of the election remains up in the air, the votes are in on…
In 1988, director Stewart Raffill released his follow up to the moderately successful The Philadelphia Experiment. Raffill’s career has never been one to garner awards attention, having delivered most…
Stunts, Stunts and – Stunts. The only way to begin a review about this film, in my opinion, is with those three simple words. Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the latest insertion in the Mission: Imp…
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back returns Tom Cruise to the role of the ex-U.S. Army Military Police Corps Officer turned drifter, Jack Reacher, and supplants him into a story already in motion. Through som…