• May 17, 2023
• Moviepie Musings

He keeps running… and running… and running. Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, as we all know, is unstoppable. After all, no mission is truly impossible, otherwise this series would have...

• May 25, 2022
• Action, At Home, Drama

From the opening moment the modern Paramount logo shows up on screen with the original 80s Top Gun score by Harold Faltermeyer playing over the soundtrack, I couldn’t help...

• July 27, 2018
• Action, At Home

Tom Cruise’s special agent Ethan Hunt is back for another seemingly impossible mission—that of course turns out to be impossibly possible, in no small part to his loyal IMF...

• January 27, 2018
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

My expectations really weren’t that high, and I guess you could say they were met, but as the inaugural film in what Universal hopes will become a massive “classic...

• July 31, 2015
• Action, At Home

Here I was, looking forward to a Tom Cruise movie! After his highly enjoyable sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow, and the equally impressive Mission: Impossible IV (aka Ghost Protocol),...

• January 27, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Alas, where would the world be without Rain Man?  What would we call our friends when they rattled off some obscure fact or showed signs of obsessive rigidity?  What...

• October 14, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction

In the not-too-far future, an alien race has come to Earth to destroy humanity. The alien infestation has spread across Europe, obliterating all the poor humans in its path,...

• April 19, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a service tech working on a decimated Earth some 65 years in the future, who’s plagued by dreams of a dark-haired woman in...

• December 21, 2012
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

Unlike the millions of fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books, I had never heard of the guy. I may as well be the equivalent of Richard Jenkins’ jaded...

• September 25, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Music

Oozing 80s Velveeta cheese out of its 80s bare-chested pores, Rock of Ages is harmless, silly, sing-along fun. Though at two-plus hours, it admittedly wears out it’s welcome when...

• 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...