Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

After Mission Impossible III came out in 2006, the series went on a five year hiatus, Tom Cruise worked on several films starting with Lions For Lambs also starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, (my archenemy) Valkyrie, a World War II film directed by Bryan Singer, the action war comedy Tropic Thunder, with his good […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible III

After Mission Impossible earned mixed reception from critics, the series went on hiatus due to Tom Cruise’s busy schedule picking one project to another beginning with reuniting with Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe in Vanilla Sky, then his first collaboration with Steven Spielberg in Minority Report, the epic historical drama The Last Samurai, he played […]

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

In 2012, animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack) animated and directed Hotel Transylvania starring Adam Sandler as Dracula, who owns and operates a hotel for monsters featuring notable iconic monsters such as Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy & The Invisible Man as his guests who are also his close friends. It came out worldwide […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible II

After Mission Impossible was a successful hit among critics and movie goers alike, Paramount Pictures was working on a sequel with Tom Cruise scheduled to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. However, he was busy at the time working with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and also worked with Paul […]

Skyscraper (Universal’s Flops Vol. 1 #5)

When Universal Pictures won a bidding war to produce a screenplay as a spiritual successor to films set in a building like Die Hard, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson officially signed on to star and produce the film titled “Skyscraper.” It is currently out in theaters around the same time as Hotel Transylvania 3. Dwayne Johnson’s […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible

In the year 1966, television network CBS aired a TV series called, “Mission Impossible” inspired by spy films from the decade most notably James Bond, as well as the British spy show “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” The show stars Peter Graves, (Captain Oveur from Airplane!) Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Bain & Martin Landau as […]