Tag: tom cruise
-
Are the Holidays Over for 80s Action Heroes?
There’s a saying that in Hollywood there are only two seasons: summer and not summer. This is only partially true. While summer is still the brass ring every budding film production aspires to, of equal importance has always been the Christmas holiday season. Since Star Wars premiered the Wednesday before Memorial Day in 1977, in… Read more
-
Guns, guts and gadgetry
Brad Bird loves James Bond. This was evident in the Sean Connery-era 007 touches he infused into his Pixar hit The Incredibles. It is even more evident in the director’s recent Mission: Impossible episode (gone is the numerical increment, instead we’re given an honest-to-god subtitle, Ghost Protocol), an enjoyably absurd spectacle that hearkens back to… Read more
-
Son of 31 Nights, 31 Frights: Interview with the Vampire
After gaining some notoriety with his controversial The Crying Game, director Neil Jordan was picked to film the first of Anne Rice’s popular novels featuring the vampire Lestat. After some casting controversy regarding Tom Cruise, Rice completely reversed her opposition to him after viewing the finished film. Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.