Spiderhead, 2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich, BeBe Bettencourt, Angie Miliken, Joey Vieira, Nathan Jones, Ron Smyck, and Mark Paguio. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable […]
Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at two of the best action films of the last decade, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick… There are great films. There are great action films. Attaining greatness through your action amounts to nailing your set pieces and imbuing proceedings, with just enough characterisation to give the propellant action some […]
Top Gun: Maverick hits Mach 10 at the box office with $248 million worldwide
Top Gun: Maverick became not only one of the biggest pandemic-era box office successes, but it also gave Tom Cruise the largest opening of his illustrious career, as the 36-year in the making sequel soared to $248M worldwide over the weekend. Paramount have estimated that the critically revered sequel will end the Memorial Day weekend […]
Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Manny Jacinto, Peter Mark Kendall, Jean Louisa Kelly, Lyliana Wray, Jake Picking, Kara Wang, and Raymond Lee. […]
First trailer for Spiderhead starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett
With just a month to go until Spiderhead arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a poster and trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s (TRON: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick) upcoming thriller. Based on George Saunders’ New Yorker short story, the film reunites Netflix with Extraction star Chris Hemsworth, who stars as a brilliant visionary experimenting on […]
Top Gun: Maverick gets a new trailer and poster
Paramount Pictures has released a new poster and trailer for the long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film sees Tom Cruise returning as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains a new detachment of graduates for a specialized mission; check them out here… After more than thirty years of service as one […]
Warner Bros. to adapt graphic novel Chariot, with Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski set to direct
With Top Gun: Maverick sat on the runway awaiting its pandemic delayed release this November, director Joseph Kosinski has moved onto his next vehicular-centric project with the news that Warner Bros. are set to adapt the recently published graphic novel Chariot, and want the Oblivion helmer to direct. Based on the graphic novel written by […]
Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett set for Netflix’s Spiderhead
Back in February of last year it was announced that Tron: Legacy and Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski is set to direct Spiderhead for Netflix, and now we have word that Chris Hemsworth (Avengers: Endgame), Miles Teller (Whiplash) and Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country) have signed on to star. As revealed by Deadline, Spiderhead takes place in […]
Tom Cruise’s Maverick will have to confront his past in Top Gun 2
Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, says that Tom Cruise’s character will have to confront his past during the movie. Top Gun is one of Tom Cruise’s most iconic films and more than three decades after its release, fans will be getting a full-fledged sequel, catching up with the like of Cruise’s Maverick. […]
Twister reboot in the works at Universal with Top Gun: Maverick director eyed to direct
Universal Pictures is developing a reboot of the classic 1996 disaster movie Twister with Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski being eyed to helm the project. According to Variety, Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future) will produce the reboot and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the script. Although […]
