Movie Cruise

Episode 11 – Far and Away In Far and Away, Ron Howard loads up the wagon with Irish accents straight out of a Lucky Charms box. Tom Cruise’s Joseph Donnelly flees a torched Irish tenancy and a half-baked murder plot to chase free land in America, while Shannon Christie (Nicole Kidman) trades aristocratic boredom for adventure, staking her entire future on a tragically doomed set of spoons. In this...

Tom Cruise hits the oval as Cole Trickle, a cocky Nascar rookie who can’t explain a carburetor but absolutely believes he should win Daytona. In Days of Thunder, he trades paint with a psycho rival, survives a pileup of concussions and clichés, and still crosses the finish line a champion. Ready yourself for Top Gun on wheels. In this episode of Movie Cruise, we talk about Tony Scott shooting an a...

Episode 08 - Rain Man Tom Cruise dials his inner jerk to 11 as Charlie Babbitt, a slick L.A. hustler who discovers his long-lost brother is an autistic savant and, more importantly, the one who actually got the inheritance (but Charlie definitely got the rose bushes). Their cross-country odyssey is a quest to answer the big questions: Who’s actually on first? How many minutes till Wapner? And is V...

Episode 7 - Cocktail Tom Cruise becomes the flashiest bartender in Manhattan — at least by TGI Fridays standards — flipping bottles, chasing dreams, and taking his act all the way to Jamaica and back. In the film that made “Kokomo” a hit and accomplished little else, Cruise and his mentor trade shots over what it means to be successful, and over the women who get caught in the mix. We talk flugelb...

Episode 6 – The Color of Money When Tom Cruise swaps fighter jets for pool cues, he somehow makes the world of underground hustling look like one long hissy fit. In this episode of Movie Cruise, John and Marty rack 'em up for The Color of Money - Martin Scorsese's slick sports drama where Cruise plays a flaky, petulant pool prodigy dragged along the road to stardom by his teetering mentor,...

Episode 5 – Top Gun Tom Cruise takes to the skies – and the showers – in one of the most aggressively bathroom-oriented action movies ever made. In this episode of Movie Cruise, John and Marty strap in for Top Gun – a sweat-soaked ode to American bravado where Cruise flirts, flies, and flexes his way through Navy flight school. We talk about the movie’s obsession with showers, the unintentionally...

You’ve got Tim Curry as a horned demon plotting to murder unicorns, and Tom Cruise as a glittery wood elf. What could go wrong? In this episode of Movie Cruise, John and Marty wade into Legend — a pollen-infused, cottagecore fever dream where Tom Cruise battles goblins and swamp hags in an epic showdown between light and darkness. We talk about the movie’s ambitious grab-bag of fairy tales, from f...

What happens when your entire future depends on your football scholarship, and your coach doesn't have your interests at heart? In this episode of Movie Cruise, John and Marty break down All the Right Moves, where Tom Cruise plays a high school player caught between the gridiron and a shot at something bigger. We dig into the movie’s gritty coming-of-age vibe, the way ambition collides with sm...

What happens when you don’t set the parking brake on your dad’s Porsche? Or when you accidentally turn your family home into a brothel? In this episode of Movie Cruise, John and Marty dive into Tom Cruise’s breakout role in Risky Business — a movie about sex, college applications, and the awkward leap from childhood to adulthood. We talk about the movie’s surprising depth compared to Losin’ It, th...

On this episode we delve into Tom's debut movie Losin it. Spoiler, we don't like it. But this isn't a weekend cruise we're here for the long haul! Keywords Losing It, Tom Cruise, 1980s movies, character analysis, Tijuana, masculinity, psychological themes, film review, movie trivia, comedy

In this episode of movie cruise we still don't know why we're doing a podcast about Tom Cruise movies and we ponder what we've been doing with our lives over the last 8 years. --- Tom Cruise, Movie Review, Podcast, Film Analysis, Movie Cruise, Filmography, Cinema, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Movie Discussion