Tag: military

Top Gun: Maverick Too Patriotic for China

Tom Cruise isn’t just facing on-screen enemies this weekend. The Wall Street Journal reports that Tencent Holdings, a Chinese multimedia conglomerate, has pulled its investment in Top Gun: Maverick because the film is too patriotic. (The Journal is behind a paywall, but JoBlo has a rundown.) Tence...

REVIEW: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)

The Starbucks latte of first-person shooters is back again, and similar to last year’s soft reboot/prequel of Modern Warfare, in 2020, we have a soft reboot/sequel to Black Ops. Call of Duty campaigns never fail to deliver the big-budget thrill moments, but their quality varies pretty widely when ...

Chris Pratt to Star in Jack Carr Adaptation The Terminal List

Chris Pratt is going from Star-Lord to soldier. Deadline reports that The Terminal List, an adaptation of the bestselling book series written by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr, has been picked up by Amazon. Pratt, who optioned the project a while back, will star and co-produce alongside The Magnificent ...

New Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Arrives Online

It’s time to ride into the danger zone as the new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick has flown online. Directed by Tron: Legacy filmmaker Joe Kosinski with a script by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Eric Warren Singer, and frequent Tom Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, Top Gun: Maverick brings bac...

REVIEW: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)

I have been a fan of Call of Duty my whole life, but I sadly stopped purchasing the games in the past couple of years because I wasn’t a fan of buying yearly installments. Now, after four years of not playing Call of Duty, I have sunk multiple hours into Infinity Ward’s newest addition to &helli...

Awesome Cheese: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was a film I had very much been looking forward to for a myriad of reasons. Apart from the fact that it starred Step Up’s Channing Tatum, of whom I was a big fan, this was a chance to get in on the ground floor of a brand new …

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