Tag: Tom Cruise

  • Digger (2026)

    A lot of film critics are experiencing near-orgasmic schadenfreude over the high-profile commercial tanking of Digger. There’s no question that director Alejandro González Iñárritu is a polarizing filmmaker, despite—or perhaps largely because of—his two Academy Awards for Best Director (Birdman and The Revenant). To be sure, there is plenty to critique: Iñárritu’s movies can be…

  • Mission: Impossible (1996)

    Loosely based on the espionage TV series of the late 1960s, Mission: Impossible finds Tom Cruise as secret agent Ethan Hunt, the point man for a team of IMF spies headed by Jim Phelps (Jon Voight reprising the only character originally from the TV show). Trouble ensues when Phelps’ team is assigned to keep a list of…