Tom Cruise's need for speed ushered in a series of movies in the 80s and 90s that put his abilities to the test. We had the original Top Gun taking him to new heights (and eventually making him the fastest man alive) and in 1990 audiences were gifted Days of Thunder. Now, a new film is coming to us
Tom Cruise is on a hell of a roll for an actor right now. He's in the middle of Mission: Impossible 8 and he recently put out Top Gun: Maverick. Now, according to THR, he's looking at making a sequel to Days of Thunder. It wasn't as big of a hit when it came out as Top Gun, but Cruise thinks he can
The Apothecary Diaries has Maomao listen to stories of asbestos and then schemes about it in Ep. 50 "The Fire-Rat Cloak". Students of history will even be able to anticipate that plot just from looking at the title. However, you don't need to be a student of history to know that asbestos is highly
By now, you know how much of a sucker I am for wholly embraced absurdity and weirdness in cinema. Movies that know what they are and have no shame in being them will always be for me. Back in Black has that all covered in spades. A pitch black comedy thriller that satirically uses the macabre and
It is hard to imagine that the man who made Argo, arguably one of the best political thrillers of the 21st century, helmed Animals. Unlike the 2011 Oscar-winning drama, Animals is a paint-by-numbers drama that never commits to a single risk or novel idea. Director Ben Affleck takes on the leading
