3 d. ago The good, the bad and the ugly: Clint Eastwood’s interview debacle reveals bleak truths about film journalism

An Austrian newspaper ran an interview with the cinema legend which he denied ever giving. What actually happens in the world of movie reporting can be yet more murkyIt is no surprise that Austrian newspaper Kurier’s Clint Eastwood interview went viral over the weekend. An audience with a 95-year-old film legend containing stern words about the current state of cinema was always going to go like a rocket. Particularly during cinema’s dregs season: the thin period post Cannes and pre the summer proper, with Mission: Impossible fever fading fast and Lilo & Stitch ruling the box office – a success from which only so many stories can be spun.Further evidence of this thinness comes from a quick scan of the news stories run over the past week in some of the trade magazines – Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Screen International – who must keep producing them, regardless of actual material. These include a write-off of an interview in which Michael Cera says he didn’t think Jacki...

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1 week ago Impossibly frustrating: why Mission: Impossible 8 was a major letdown

Audiences may have flocked to the Final Reckoning but Tom Cruise’s latest mission ends up being incredibly underwhelmingIf the title is sincere, and this really is the final reckoning, then it’s been a franchise of two halves. Mission: Impossible diehards tend to underrate the first half (which ran from Brian De Palma’s brisk 1996 original to 2011’s fun Ghost Protocol) as much as they overrate the second (which launched with 2015’s Rogue Nation). Yet the rumbles and grumbles emanating from public screenings suggests a disgruntled consensus is forming around the concluding instalment: that this is an altogether disjointed way to resolve the affairs of Ethan Hunt and his IMF crew, and a shaky way to ignite the movie summer season. Ninety minutes in which nothing happens over and over again, followed by 70 minutes of M:I B-roll.To better diagnose this latest glitch in the Hollywood machine, we need to return to the relighting of the fuse. This was the franchise to which Tom Cruise retr...

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1 week ago Biggest Films of 2025: Here are the 11 hit films topping the box office charts so far this year

‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ is out this week and is likely to be one of the biggest films of the year - but can it beat these 11 titles?

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise caught off guard with awkward question amid estrangement from daughter Suri

Tom Cruise was caught off guard when he was asked a Father's Day question during Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning premiere in New York

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise says it ‘took decades to figure out’ latest Mission Impossible stunt

Cruise debuted the latest installment of the ‘Mission Impossible’ franchise at the Cannes Film Festival

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2 w. ago Most epic stunts in movie history from Buster Keaton's house to amazing James Bond jump

Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning may be the last outing for Tom Cruise but it has some amazing set pieces – but do the stunts compare to the best in history?

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise exposes future of his acting career with seriously unhinged promise

Hollywood legend Tom Cruise has made a wild confession about the future of his career ahead of the release of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning on 21 May

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2 w. ago ‘I will never stop’: Tom Cruise wants to make movies into his 100s. Why not his 1000s? | Stuart Heritage

Cinema’s sprightliest senior citizen is not one to give in to obstacles easily and looks set to outpace time’s wingèd chariot for a good while yetMuch of the discourse around Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning revolves around that penultimate word. This, we’re told, is it. This is the last time that Tom Cruise will leap out of various modes of high-speed transport in pursuit of some nebulously defined MacGuffin. The last time he’ll grit his teeth and run across a major global landmark. The last time he’ll give Simon Pegg work. This is it.Except, not to spoil anything, but it probably isn’t. After years of avoiding the press and letting his work do the talking, Tom Cruise is actively promoting Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He’s doing junkets. He’s giving red-carpet interviews. He’s giving talks at the BFI. For those of us who enjoy Tom Cruise, this is a rare gift. But over the course of these appearances, a message has started to form. That message is: Tom Cruise ...

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2 w. ago Hayley Atwell shares an affectionate moment with leading man Tom Cruise as they attend the New York premiere of Mission: Impossible 8

The mutual affection was clear as Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell attended the New York premiere of Mission: Impossible 8 - The Final Reckoning on Sunday evening.

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2 w. ago ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ London Premiere: Menswear Edition

‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ London Premiere: Menswear Edition  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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2 w. ago Celebrities at the ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ London Premiere

Celebrities at the ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ London Premiere  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 w. ago Mission: Impossible ranked – All eight Tom Cruise blockbusters, from worst to best

As the perpetually building-climbing Ethan Hunt faces ‘The Final Reckoning’, Adam White and Louis Chilton rank all eight of the Mission movies (so far?) – from the one with Philip Seymour Hoffman to the one with all the slow-motion doves

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3 w. ago The Guide #191: After three decades, Tom Cruise is done with Mission: Impossible – so what’s next?

In this week’s newsletter: In retiring his messianic action hero schtick, a return to challenging, messy roles could lead to a late-era flowering of his careerIs Tom Cruise finally free? That’s what I asked myself, watching Hollywood’s last movie star cling to the undercarriage of a biplane like a sloth in the climactic scene of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Even by the standards of the long-running action franchise, this stunt – which sees Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt shimmy into the cockpit of one moving plane before wing-walking on to another, mid-flight – seems particularly masochistic: the crew were worried that he had passed out during its filming. What’s more, Cruise doesn’t even look particularly cool performing it: at one point the wind resistance plasters his hair into a Dumb and Dumber bowl-cut, jowls flapping about like a basset hound. You would have never caught Paul Newman committing such clownery. Surely Tom Cruise doesn’t have to do this sort of thing a...

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3 w. ago Every Mission: Impossible film: Here are all 8 of the Tom Cruise action films rated best to worst

The latest (and maybe last) of one of the most successful film franchaises of all time is about to hit cinemas.

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3 w. ago Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible

The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?Tom Cruise spends about 30% of the final Mission: Impossible movie in his knickers. It being a very long film, that’s a lot of time spent looking at his body, glossy and gnarled and expensive as a walnut armoire, possibly in high-definition Imax and, even if not, certainly as big as a bus.In The Final Reckoning, Cruise unbuttons to wallop goons (twice), wriggle from the Arctic seabed towards the waves, hop on a treadmill and take a long hot shower in front of the crew of a strikingly camp US military submarine. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' World Premiere In London With Star

'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' World Premiere In London With Star-Studded Glamour  Hollywood Outbreak

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3 w. ago Princess Andre dazzles in red at 'Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning' premiere with Peter Andre

Princess Andre looked stunning in a red off-the-shoulder maxi dress as she attended the Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning premiere in London alongside her famous family

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3 w. ago Princess Andre wows on Mission Impossible red carpet in Leicester Square alongside dad Peter

Princess Andre posed for pictures on the Mission Impossible red carpet as fans brace for the final film in the Mission Impossible series, 'The Final Reckoning'

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3 w. ago Tom Cruise: It takes decades to prepare for Mission: Impossible stunts

The actor was speaking at the global premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in London.

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3 w. ago Tom Cruise climbs on planes as he hits red carpet at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning London premiere

The film marks the eighth, and possibly final, instalment of the action spy franchise, with other stars of the film expected on the red carpet

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