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Tag: Top Gun

Top Gun Is Not the Best 1980s Movie, but It Is the Most 1980s Movie Tom Cruise Navy American exceptionalism restored masculinity after Vietnam War
Movies & TV

Top Gun Is Not the Best 1980s Movie, but It Is the Most 1980s Movie

Very few movies embody their decade as effectively as Top Gun. Critics weren’t exactly enthused by the aerial blockbuster. At The Los Angeles ...
By Darren MooneyMay 28, 2022
Gemini Man Depicts the War Between Hollywood's Past and Future
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Gemini Man Depicts the War Between Hollywood’s Past and Future

Ang Lee’s Gemini Man displays a tension between past and present that goes beyond the obvious face-off between Will Smith and his younger, ...
By Darren MooneyOctober 18, 2019
Top Gun: Maverick First Trailer Tom Cruise
Movies & TV

Top Gun: Maverick First Trailer Flies in with Plenty of Nostalgia

Tom Cruise is returning to one of his most iconic roles when Top Gun: Maverick comes to theaters. And the first trailer has landed ...
By Matthew RazakJuly 18, 2019
MovieBob - Intermission

Are Too Many Heroes Coming to the Big Screen at Once?

In a lukewarm review of last week’s big new movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis dismissively quipped ...
By Bob ChipmanApril 11, 2014
MovieBob - Intermission

Remembering Tony Scott – Part I

This past Sunday, the film world lost a legendary figure when director Tony Scott shockingly committed suicide in a leap from the Vincent ...
By Bob ChipmanAugust 24, 2012
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