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steven-robert-travers's picture
Jan.11.2013
Jerry Maguire should have won the Best Film Academy Award for 1996. Rock’n’roller Cameron Crowe, who wrote Fast Times At Ridgemont High for Rolling Stone, infuses Maguire with some terrific musical selections, including The Who’s raucous version of “Magic Bus” from the “Live at Leeds” album. ...
gloria-oliver's picture
Dec.21.2012
  Jack Reacher     Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Robert Duval, Werner Herzog, Jai Courtney, Vladimir Sizov, Alexia Fast, Joseph Sikora, and more.   Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie Screenplay by: Christopher McQuarrie...
michael-seidel's picture
Nov.26.2012
Lee Childs' character, Jack Reacher, is making his screen debut this December.   My group of beer buddies are big Jack Reacher fans.  Jack Reacher travels light, with a toothbrush, wearing the same clothes for a few days before shedding them and donning replacement clothes that he buys at...
lisa-jey-davis's picture
Jul.18.2012
  I’m not often one to draw from celebrity news when I write, especially the unfortunate or heartbreaking scenarios of a-list celebrities that often play out in the public arena.  But I recently found myself reading an article on the painful and unhappy split of Tom Cruise and...
farzana-versey's picture
Jul.12.2012
Can religion make couples drift apart? It would seem so, and the Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise divorce has put this in the public arena, although other factors might well have played a role. "There's a gorilla in the room, and it's Scientology," said a famous attorney. It is about control, apparently....
michael-barry's picture
Jul.03.2012
On this day in 1962, actor Tom Cruise is born in Syracuse, New York.                                       ...
steven-belanger's picture
May.12.2012
photo: from the movie's Wikipedia site   One of my favorite movies, it's gotten stuck in my mental flypaper recently, for reasons that I couldn't even begin to tell you.  But the good thing about being a writer who writes a lot is that I am used to unabashedly getting my thoughts down...
randy-mitchell's picture
Jan.24.2012
I haven't been to the movies for a while, but being the red-blooded guy that I am, two recent releases advertising some adrenaline-filled action caught my eye causing me to head back inside the darkened rooms of the silver screen. I've seen both of these movies within the past few days and...
steven-belanger's picture
Jan.08.2012
  Photo: Movie poster, from the movie's Wikipedia page.   Not a bad movie, with plenty of unbelievable stunts and pacing just good enough for a nearly 2 1/2 hour film.  The worst part of the movie, in fact, were the idiots I sat near.  Every unbelievable scene got a verbal...
gloria-oliver's picture
Dec.16.2011
  Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol     Starring: Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Michael Nyqist, Vladimir Mashkov, Samuli Edelman, Josh Holloway, Lea Seydoux, and more.   Directed by: Brad Bird Written by: Josh Appelbaum and Andre...