Tom Cruise
Cinema has reached a nadir in the new Mission: Impossible
You have to time your arrival at cinemas carefully if you want to avoid the high-volume, rapid-fire edits of trailers…
A gasp and a guffaw
Blockbuster action movies are designed to stun the audience into submissive acceptance. Complexity, humanity, emotion and beauty are reduced to…
Cruise control
Top Gun is back, nearly 40 years after the original, with reprised roles for Tom Cruise (59) and Val Kilmer…
Gimme shelter
In the Covid-19 crisis the calamity-howlers have found a vindication: go back to survival mode and bunker down because nobody…
Thetans under threat
At last! It has taken over two years, but a British publisher has summoned up the nerve to bring out…
