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seven live lions. ruffalo hologram not pictured. Are you looking closely? Well that’s a shame, because you’re looking at one of the steepest downgrades of a franchise whose greatest peak could best be described as “foothills”. 2016’s Now You See Me 2 introduces Lizzy Caplan in place of Isla Fisher, which is a delightful addition (it also gives Woody Harrelson more to do with the introduction of a...

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what is going on with ethan’s hair in this movie? It’s not the crewcut-adjacent trims of 1,3,5 and 7. it’s not the gorgeous flop of 2,4 and 6. this shaggy deal looks like it’s trying to integrate both sides of the hunthair persona. pick a lane, hunt. a solomon lane. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is unhinged. It insists that it’s a separate entity from Dead Reckoning Part One but spends...

woah fellas, let’s not bother hayley atwell, she’s blameless here The best thing about the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible is its strange status as ‘Part One’ of a one-part story. The eighth movie, when it eventually arrived, had grown a protective shell around itself during the many delays in its production, leaving part one wriggling and vulnerable, a larva of pure setup crawling...

footloose, footloose, kick off your sunday shoes Children, gather ‘round, and I will tell you of a time before plagues and strikes, before LLMs crawled over our data like soul-eating spiders, back when greedy corporations made honest blockbusters, the kind you could see in an actual movie theatre. The very last of those films was called Mission: Impossible - Fallout, and it starred a man who fell...

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ethan hunt struggling with ethan hunt for ethan hunt supremacy. More like GOAT Protocol, amirite? The last MI installment before the McQuarrie half of the franchise, Ghost Protocol is a banger of a blockbuster. A blocker of a bustbanger? A buster of a bangblocker? Whatever, it’s great. Let me outline the greatness for you: Tom Cruise has let his hair grow out again. This is always a win. The actio...

“Threes! They’re absolutely impossible!” is a thing no one in Mission: Impossible III says at any point. Instead, characters say things like “Copy” and “Roger that” and “I’m going to die unless you kill me”. M:I 3 is a bit of a paradox: both the platonic ideal of a Mission Impossible film and a frozen remnant of the Abrams era, it ends up in an unsatisfying middle zone. The stunts are inspired but...

tom cruise looking like he’s just lost a battle with his bowels at a crucial moment. Mission: Impossible II. Is it the best movie in the franchise? The most coherent? The coolest? The most enjoyable? The one entry that isn’t openly misogynistic? The one that didn’t decide on Dougray Scott as a plausible villain? No! But it may be the most significant entry in the franchise for its introduction of...

not flying but hovering Has Tom Cruise ever been younger than he was in the first Mission: Impossible movie? In the literal sense, yes. But in the very specific rhetorical sense that I’m asking you to accept here, no. He has never looked more baby-faced and callow than he does in the first installment of this improbably long franchise. Are there really 29 years between this film and M:I - Dead Rec...

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finally, a dead lion. Just in time for Marchoween (or Marchowe’en for your purists), it’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Richard O’Brien’s culsterpiece (that’s a word now) of queernema (that’s also a word now). Once more, friend of the show D.J. Kirkbride pops by to talk about the movie and debate the moral worth of Frank N. Furter’s actions. How do Adam and Aidan respond to D.J.’s outrageous accu...

Is Marvel back in 2026? Was it back in mid-2025, when Fantastic Four: First Steps hit theatres? If it’s back, where did it go? Under the ocean with the corpse of the Celestial from The Eternals ? Off in some other numbered dimension of the multiverse? Is there, as we speak, another universe in which Marvel makes a blockbuster every other week, to such acclaim that society has reorganized itself co...

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a live dog with a live dog sidekick. Joining us! On this week’s podcast! Is comics editor and writer D.J.! Kirkbride! D.J., our resident Superman co-authority (along with Adam) is following up on his triumphant appearance on our Superman (1978) episode. What did we think of James Gunn’s take on the big blue palooka? Find out by listening below, or on your podcaster of choice. DAC Episode 404 - Sup...