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The Top 100 Thrillers of All Time, According to Critics By Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News AND Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 6/30/21 at 8:00 PM EDT What is a thriller exactly? Unlike the sci-fi or comedy genres, a film can fit into this corner of cinema if it manages to keep viewers on the edges of their seats with intense thrills and palpable suspense. As long as the movie is able to build tension, it's fair game. Of course, there are plenty of subgenres within, which filmmakers use to craft excellent thrillers, from war-time stories like The Hurt Locker to social alle...

Tom Cruise & Christopher McQuarrie Reflect On The First MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE In New 25th Anniversary Clips For the 25th Anniversary of Mission: Impossible, star Tom Cruise and MI7 director Christopher McQuarrie recently sat down to reflect on the release of the now-iconic franchise launching pad. KingPatel | 5/20/2021 Earlier this week, we shared details on the  Mission: Impossible 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray, and ahead of Saturday's celebration, Paramount Home Entertainment has now shared six exclusive interview clips with 3x Academy Award-nominated star/producer T...

After 25 years and six movies, it’s still one impossible ‘Mission’ By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 13, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Actually, there have been six "Mission: Impossible" movies, not five, but close enough. Tom Cruise filming "Mission: Impossible 7" in Rome last October.Andrew Medichini/AP/file On May 22, 1996, the first “Mission: Impossible” movie was released. Yes, this month marks the silver anniversary of the franchise based on the ‘60s CBS series. Five more films have followed. According to IMDb, a seventh is set for release on Ma...

In  Mank, there’s a scene where screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played by  Gary Oldman, awakens disoriented in a California mansion. He soon wanders out back to a film set, where he encounters two studio bigwigs. One of them is Louis B. Mayer, the co-founder of MGM. The other is Irving G. Thalberg, a producer who has his own Academy Award named after him. Thalberg has to explain to Mayer who “Mank” is, even though he co-wrote one of their movies (just as he co-wrote, or depending on who you ask, wrote  Citizen Kane, often considered the greatest movie ever made).

Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up During a fight with his girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn), hairdresser George (Warren Beatty) pleads with her to understand: “I’m trying to get things moving.” She screams, “You never stop moving! You never go anywhere!” It’s a devastatingly truthful remark, skewering the go-go-go energy of Shampoo (1975), a Los Angeles-set sex farce in which the undercurrents of melancholy and cynicis...