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Days of Thunder *** (1990, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, John C Reilly, J C Quinn, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 3334

Director Tony Scott’s 1990 old-style fast-car adventure movie is celebrated, if at all, as the first pairing of the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who then became real-life husband and wife. It reunites Cruise and […]

Feb, 06

Far and Away *** (1992, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 3333

Director Ron Howard’s stirring 1992 epic period adventure Far and Away is remembered for pairing the then real-life husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a poor Irish farm labourer called Joseph Donnelly […]

Feb, 06

Mission: Impossible III *** (2006, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 2739

Co-writer J J Abrams makes his first film as a director in the 2006 third instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, in which Tom Cruise’s agent Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the […]

Jul, 24

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol **** (2011, Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist) – Classic Movie Review 2738

Director Brad Bird’s intense and exciting Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) successfully revives the format and tops its three predecessors, propelled with some astounding and quite spectacular action sequences. It’s a cool movie that bids […]

Jul, 24

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ***** (2015, Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Simon McBurney, Tom Hollander) – Movie Review

Cruise is back in control thanks to McQuarrie. It’s the best yet. M:I 5, or M:I – RN, is a super surprise – it’s incredibly slick, smart and stylish, with writer-director Christopher McQuarrie revivifying the […]

Jul, 24

Rain Man ***** (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 2064

Director Barry Levinson’s four Oscar-winning 1988 drama is a triumph, winning some of the most important of the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also won the […]

Jan, 10

Born on the Fourth of July ***** (1989, Tom Cruise, Raymond J Barry, Caroline Kava) – Classic Movie Review 2063

Director Oliver Stone’s double Oscar-winning 1989 anti-war movie provides Tom Cruise with indisputably one of his best-ever roles as all-American boy Ron Kovic who was paralysed in the Vietnam War and returns to America to find […]

Jan, 09

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