Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Tom Cruise

Minority Report
Just short of Genius. It loses nothing on the small screen. With dazzling special effects, some very creepy spider creatures and a great story, this makes Minority Report a welcome change from overly sentimental work that has recently been churned out by Spielberg.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
This is a lavish and beautiful vampire film, with fantastic characters and plenty of atmosphere, that will appeal to audiences far broader than those who usually enjoy the horror genre.

Rain Man
One of the triumphs of the 1980s, this is a movie Tom Cruise’s career is unlikely ever to top.

The Last Samurai
The greatest epic of the year so far. Who cares if it’s only January?

Vanilla Sky
Watchable, provided you’ve got way too much time on your hands.

Magnolia
I’m not saying this is a long film, but you could watch ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ TWICE in an equivalent amount of time. Nuff said.

Risky Business
Pimpin’ most definitely ain’t easy.

Austin Powers in Goldmember
It ain’t solid gold – even if certain parts of it are.

Collateral
A single LA night compacted into two gripping hours of four big hits and one anticlimactic miss.

Collateral
Even Cruise’s dodgy barnet can’t take away from the fact that this is the best thriller of 2004.

War of the Worlds
Spielberg's second holocaust survival feature is an unexpectedly subversive Wells adaptation that puts extreme human behaviour under the microscope.

Top Gun
All the fantastically-shot stunt-flying in the world can’t make up for that fact that this is one of the daftest movies ever to make it big at the box office.

Tropic Thunder
Despite some issues, Tropic Thunder has moments of hilarity and some truly classic lines and performances.

Valkyrie
Sure, you know what didn’t happen, but Valkyrie is still surprisingly suspenseful, boasts some great acting, and still manages to provide an interesting history lesson.

News Items For Tom Cruise

Oscars 2010: Nominee's diary
Irish director Juanita Wilson, who was Oscar-nominated for her short film The Door, tells us about her preparations ahead of Hollywood's biggest night.

Abrams predicts sci-fi Oscar win
Star Trek director JJ Abrams says he has high hopes of a science fiction film winning the best film Oscar on Sunday.

Net attack hits Australian sites
A hacktivist group plans to keep up with attacks aimed at Australian government websites

Cruise to star in fourth Mission
Tom Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt in a fourth Mission: Impossible film to be released in May 2011, US movie studio Paramount Pictures confirms.

Garrett charged over heroin find
Former US teen star Leif Garrett is charged with possession of heroin after being arrested in a Los Angeles underground station.

News feed from BBC News
BBC News for Tom Cruise