• July 18, 2013
• Action, At Home

Red 2 is a popcorn movie if I ever saw one. It’s packed with stars (the joke being that they are all supposedly past their prime) and it’s packed...

• February 12, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Thriller

Literally crashing and smashing and bashing his way through the entire film like the Hulk, Bond leaves carnage and destruction in his wake… which, unfortunately, seems fitting given that...

• February 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Television

There is a scene in Page Eight that is a stellar as any you’ll see all year in any film. The fact that it takes place in a board...

• December 21, 2011
• Action, At Home, Thriller

The Mission: Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise blur together for me. I remember something about a hot orange car, Felicity’s eye shattering like glass, some well-known star dying too...

• June 25, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy

Tom Cruise stars as Roy Miller, a CIA agent who may or may not have gone rogue, but who’s nonetheless on the run from his former partner, Fitzgerald (Peter...

• November 18, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Craig for doing something that no other actor playing superspy 007 has ever been able to do before: get me...

• May 5, 2006
• Action, At Home

So, now that you know the “plot”, here are my comments: I’d like to thank director J.J. Abrams. Not for this movie. Not for Lost or Alias. But for...

• May 24, 2000
• Action, At Home

The mission of this film lies in the impossible stunts and effects, not in Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise’s) assignment to save humanity from a killer virus. Indeed, you’d have thought...