The actor has been many things over the years, from a self-mythologising movie star to the unlikely inspiration for Christian Bale in ‘American Psycho’. As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ hits cinemas, Tom Murray explores the reasons why Cruise remains Hollywood’s biggest mystery
As Ruben Östlund’s biting satirical comedy, ‘Triangle of Sadness’, about obnoxious billionaires on an ocean cruise becomes a huge hit at Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at films about the uber-rich and says it’s a topic filmmakers return to again and again in times of inflation and soaring bills
As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at fighter jet films, and says if it hadn’t been for directors like Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes who reached for the sky before him, Cruise’s Top Gun films would never even have left the ground
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