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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – One Final Adventure

Released: 17th May
Seen: 25th May

The Mission: Impossible franchise has been a part of the cinematic landscape since 1996. Some people who were conceived on the opening night are now weeks away from turning 30, that’s a staggering amount of time for us to have been watching the ever-growing world-ending adventures of Ethan Hunt and his pack of associates who are as expendable as they are available for the shooting schedule required. No matter what your stance is on the franchise, it’s hard to deny that it’s been an iconic action franchise the likes of which we will not see again for quite a long time. Partially we won’t see it because we just will never see another star like Tom Cruise again who, despite how you might feel about him deciding to be a spokesman for one of the most evil organizations ever to exist on Planet Earth (WHERE IS SHELLY!?), is an undeniably charismatic superstar who can make even the flimsiest of action premises enjoyable thanks to his utter devotion to the craft. So here we are, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which is allegedly the final film in this franchise… I’ll believe that when I don’t see it but if this is the note that the franchise is going out on, I’m not gonna be mad about it.

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The Mummy (2017)

Seen June 26th

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In 1932, Boris Karloff brought us “The Mummy”, one of the classic Universal movie monsters that reigned for a large part of the early period of cinema between the 20’s and the 50’s

In 1999, Brendan Fraser appeared in “The Mummy”, one of the most enjoyable films of the 90’s and one of the few remakes that is at least as enjoyable at the original.

Then in 2017 Tom Cruise appeared in “The Mummy”… it was a movie.

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