Category: Reviews
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (2023)

Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) are tasked with finding and securing two halves of a key. The key supposedly controls an A.I. known as “The Entity” and uses data to learn and predict human outcomes. Every government…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is on the run from his own government after he receives a typical “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” message but from an organization called The Syndicate. CIA Director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) aims to shut down the IMF, cutting off Hunt, William Brandt (Jeremy…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is in a Russian prison for killing six men who killed his wife (Michelle Monaghan). After an IMF team loses one of their own in a nuclear launch code theft, they’re ordered to break Hunt out so he can aid in the mission. The new team of…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible III (2006)

Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) has spent the past few years training new IMF agents but is now retired. As he’s about to settle down and marry Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), he’s contacted by IMF Assistant Director and old friend John Musgrave (Billy Crudup) and pulled back in. One of Hunt’s trainees, Lindsey Farris…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible 2 (2000)

A scientist at Biocyte Pharmaceuticals has developed a biological weapon called Chimera in order to profit from a cure they’ve also developed. Rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (played by Dougray Scott) confronts the scientist under the guise – literally – as his old friend Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and steals the cure in a plane…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible (1996)

An Impossible Mission Force team is sent to Prague on a quest to capture footage of a rogue agent stealing the CIA NOC list. As members of the team mysteriously die off one by one, Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) finds out the whole operation was a set up. He goes underground and contacts…
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Celebrate Independence Day With These Quirky, Patriotic Movies and Series!

It’s the 4th of July. It’s time to celebrate the land of the free and the home of the brave. How about a movie marathon and binge-watching series filled with a mix of patriotism, adventure, and a touch of quirkiness? I will be, as I sit with my dog Wally to keep him from freaking…
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REVIEW: Past Lives (2023)

As 12 year olds, Na Young (played by Seung Ah Moon) and Hae Sung (Seung Min Yim) are classmates in South Korea. Young’s family decides to immigrate to Canada, breaking apart the budding friendship and developing love interest. Over a decade later, Young (now played by Greta Lee) lives in New York City and has…
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REVIEW: Confidential Informant (2023)

An NYPD narcotics agent recently diagnosed with stomach cancer, Tom Moran (played by Dominic Purcell), hears a retired cop go on a rant about how his pension is mere pennies compared to what his family would’ve received had he died in the line of duty. After hearing this, he convinces his partner, Detective Michael Thornton…
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REVIEW: Shooting Stars (2023)

A young Lebron James (played by Mookie Cook in his acting debut) grows up playing organized basketball in Akron, Ohio with his three best friends. When they start the transition to high school ball, they realize they may not be able to play together anymore and set out to fix that problem. The self-proclaimed “Fab…
