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Cinema has reached a nadir in the new Mission: Impossible

24 May 2025 9:00 am

You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers…

A stunning work of art: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One reviewed

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Blockbuster action movies are designed to stun the audience into submissive acceptance. Complexity, humanity, emotion and beauty are reduced to…

You certainly don’t watch Top Gun for the script

28 May 2022 9:00 am

Top Gun is back, nearly 40 years after the original, with reprised roles for Tom Cruise (59) and Val Kilmer…

Should we all be prepping for the end of days?

22 August 2020 9:00 am

In the Covid-19 crisis the calamity-howlers have found a vindication: go back to survival mode and bunker down because nobody…

At last – Going Clear is over here

23 April 2016 9:00 am

At last! It has taken over two years, but a British publisher has summoned up the nerve to bring out…