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Best Picture

Which Best Picture Do People Actually Still Like?

March 8, 2023March 12, 2023 Stephen Macaulay 1 Comment Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Citizen Kane, Forrest Gump, Francis Ford Coppola, Gone With The Wind, How Green Was My Valley, James Cameron, John Avildsen, John Ford, Rain Man, Robert Zemeckis, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Tom Cruise

Movies are like a box of chocolates

Walmart

Walmart Enters the Streaming Wars

August 16, 2022August 18, 2022 Jake Harris 0 Comments Amazon Prime, Beavis and Butthead, Discovery, HALO, HBO Max, Paramount, Paw Patrol, Spongebob Squarepants, Star Trek, Tom Cruise, Walmart

Retail giant takes shot at Amazon with Paramount+ deal

Bromance

The Year of the Bromance

July 28, 2022August 1, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Bromance, Carey Williams, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, Emergency, Glen Powell, Miles Teller, Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, RRR, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick

Complicated male friendships thrive on film in 2022

How to Make a Great Legacy Sequel

June 23, 2022June 27, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman, Joseph Kosinski, Jurassic World: Dominion, Laura Dern, Miles Teller, Sam Neill, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick

Why ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ succeeded where ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ failed

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #058: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Outer Range’

May 30, 2022June 4, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Outer Range, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick

Our editor and critics ride the highway to the Danger Zone

Top Gun: Maverick

Return to the Danger Zone

May 26, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Joseph Kosinski, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick, Val Kilmer

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is a corny and awesome sequel to an 80s classic

Cannes

With a Capital C

May 23, 2022May 25, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time, Cannes Film Festival, George Miller, Idris Elba, James Gray, Quentin Dupieux, Ruben Östlund, Smoking Causes Coughing, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tilda Swinton, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Volodymyr Zelensky, Woody Harrelson

Cinema comes roaring back at Cannes 2022

Reacher

Hot for ‘Reacher’

February 24, 2022April 3, 2022 Jonpaul Henry Guinn 0 Comments Alan Richtson, Lee Child, Ozark, Reacher, Tom Cruise, Willa Fitzgerald

Amazon serves up a faithful adaptation for Lee Child’s anti-bullying side of beef

Val

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Val Kilmer: Man of Mystery

August 6, 2021August 17, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Anthony Edwards, Kevin Bacon, Lee Scott, Real Genius, Sean Penn, The Doors, Ting Poo, Tom Cruise, Tombstone, Top Secret!, val, Val Kilmer

Documentary is a window into one of Hollywood’s great eccentrics

Tomorrow War

Government Bad, Science Good

July 12, 2021July 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Chris Pratt, Edge Of Tomorrow, J.K. Simmons, Joe Haldeman, Sam Richardson, Starship Troopers, The Forever War, The Tomorrow War, Tom Cruise

Explaining the popularity of ‘The Tomorrow War’

Golden Globes

FILM TELEVISION

The Golden Globes: a History of Scandal

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Jennifer Jones, Johnny Depp, Mark Ruffalo, Pia Zadora, Scarlett Johansson, The Tourist, Tom Cruise

The timeline of a doomed awards show

Cobra Kai

FILM TELEVISION

Gen-X Never Dies

September 7, 2020September 16, 2020 Neal Pollack 4 Comments Brian Austin Green Mark-Paul Gosselar, Cobra Kai, Friends, Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Johnny Lawrence, Mario Lopez, Maverick, Ralph Macchio, The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, Tom Cruise, Tori Spelling, William Zabka

Cobra Kai, Bill & Ted, Top Gun, and the third-greatest generation’s endlessly expanding universe of nostalgia

Deadpool

What Sucked In Movies This Year

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Deadpool, Fantastic Beasts, Game Night, Incredibles 2, Mission Impossible, Ready Player One, Roma, Solo, The Predator, Tom Cruise

Some Things Were Good, But More Things Weren’t. Like These Things.