Tom Cruise is indestructible, it seems. After escaping unscathed out of the Paramount fiasco, he now teams up with Universal to help create a sci-fi blockbuster that's ambitious and breathtaking. In any case, that's what was promised on paper. Because "Oblivion" did hold promise, yes--on a large scale. All the elements were there for serious, high-brow sci-fi entertainment: a namesake graphic novel adapted by the don dada of sci-fi geeks

“Jack Reacher," based on the Lee Child novel “One Shot," begins chillingly enough with the stigma of the recent tragedy in Connecticut. A sniper looks through his scope and guns down five people in cold blood. But while “Reacher” is far from perfection it doesn’t deserve this kind of relevance, either. The shooting inquiry brings Reacher (Tom Cruise) to Pittsburgh. He’s an investigative officer acquainted with the suspect believed to be

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Less than two weeks after announcing their separation Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached an agreement to settle their divorce amicably and seem determined to remain discreet about the role of Scientology, the church of which Cruise is the most visible member, in their breakup. "The matter is settled and an agreement was signed, "said Jonathan Wolfe, counsel for Katie Holmes, in a statement on Monday. "We

There's a new movie on the horizon from Paramount Studios. It's an adaptation of a newsworthy novel by an author named Lee Child, the story echoing recent and tragic events. Playing the character of Jack Reacher, former U.S. Army investigator, actor Tom Cruise gets caught up in a dark story surrounding an army sniper gone rogue: he's shot and killed five people. The body of evidence piling up against the man is

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Rock of Ages, this week’s hair metal spandex singalong, asks a basic question: what’s the point of a musical? More specifically, it asks a pair of underlying questions about musicals: is enjoyment a worthy artistic goal? Is sentimental simplification acceptable in the name of fantasy and fun? On one level Rock of Ages does to the metal years of the late eighties no more or less than what Singin' in the Rain did to the twenties or Grease to the

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Kurt Cobain died April in 1994 in Seattle. If someone then had told you that eighteen years later Tom Cruise might be picked to play him in a biopic, would you have believed them? According to Variety, Cruise was tapped to play the grunge rock legend in an upcoming biopic to be produced by Warner Brothers, based on a screenplay adapted from the 1937 movie A Star is Born by writer Will Fetters of Remember Me fame. Previously there had

I am a sucker for spy movies. Whether it is the Bourne series, the revitalized Bond series or the Mission: Impossible series, and even though I have a love/hate relationship with the latter. The first one was really good with a lot of double-crossing and excellent action, but the second one was a train-wreck, from the script to John Woo’s over-the-top directing. And J.J. Abrams’s third film got the train back on the tracks