Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning?

Prince William and Princess Catherine AKA Kate Middleton aren’t too thrilled about Prince Harry‘s upcoming appearance in the UK!

Jane McDonald isn't afraid to get her kit off if it's all in the name of cultural traditions, and she did just that in her most recent travel show, Lost in Japan.The 60 year old former Loose Women star stripped naked to bathe in a natural pool at Mount Fuji in the Far East. She can be seen with her brunette locks piled on top of her head as she swims out in the pool and overlooks a stunning view beyond the natural rock formations framing the edge of the water.

James Marsters, best known for his role as the spunky and punky vampire Spike in the beloved Nineties TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has left fans pleasantly surprised by his unchanging looks.The California-born actor, now 60 years old, sported a familiar appearance during an interview on the KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a comedy-drama supernatural TV show that first aired in 1997, starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a teenage vampire hunter.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It’s a clockwork ritual of awards season. A movie in contention, one based on a true story, will be dinged for presenting a version of reality that isn’t real enough.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One director Christopher McQuarrie has explained why a major character had to die – warning spoilers below.Ilsa Faust played by Rebecca Ferguson, who has been in the franchise since 2015’s Rogue Nation, was surprisingly killed off by the lead villain Gabriel (Esai Morales) during a fight scene in Venice.In a new interview with Empire, McQuarrie discussed why he and Tom Cruise felt the need to kill off Ferguson’s character.“We knew that that emotional arc was of a certain emotional tone… Ilsa is a wonderful character, and a character of which I am enormously proud, and Rebecca is an actor of such unmitigated power and presence,” the director said.“And yet, where we had gone with the character from Rogue to Fallout…[the] place you took that character would either make less of her, it would suddenly become frivolous… or she would just become a romantic interest, and it was never about creating a character who was defined by her love story with Ethan Hunt.“Their relationship transcends a traditional loving story… They’re doomed to be together and yet doomed never to be together… It felt like that story was looking for its resolution and so we said this has got to happen.”McQuarrie went on to explain the decision to conclude her story dovetailed with their desire to give a sense of genuine stakes in the movie.“What really needs to happen in the story is the stakes have to be real, they can’t be implied,” he added.

The Haunting of Bly Manor” are reuniting. The gang will get together again for a brand new terrifying project on Netflix. This time around, filmmaker Mike Flanagan is adapting one of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic horrors, “The Fall of the House of Usher.”Fans who wanted “The Haunting” series’ will recognize many cast members including Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Carla Gugino, Samantha Sloyan, T’Nia Miller, Henry Thomas, and Annabeth Gish.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic On July 19, the MPA ratings board handed an NC-17 rating to “Passages,” Ira Sachs’s acclaimed drama about a very unusual love triangle (a man, a woman, and a megalomaniacal romantic sociopath). The film was set to be released just two weeks later; Sachs and his distributor, MUBI, were understandably upset. The scene that triggered the NC-17 rating, as is often the case in situations like this one, was an extended sex scene (the MPA does not like things that are long).

William Earl Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has faced many demons since the release of the 2017 album “Villains”: cancer, divorce, rehab and court battles. And the new Queens record, the just-released “In Times New Roman…,” definitely adds weight to the band’s woozy, bluesy rock — a dour energy far removed from the dancier sound conjured by producer Mark Ronson on “Villains.” “Roman,” self-produced by band founder Homme and one of his strongest QOTSA lineups ever, is one of the rawest and heaviest albums the band has delivered, and during Saturday’s Queens, New York stop of their “The End Is Nero Tour,” they proved that sometimes the new material can be a live standout, even as the band approaches its fourth decade of existence.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” arrived in theaters last month with plenty of intrigue.

The latest “Mission: Impossible” really shocked fans.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” arrived in theaters last month with plenty of intrigue.

Catherine Tyldesley has taken to social media for the first time since she branded claims she was involved in trying to bag free cakes for her upcoming birthday as 'cakegate'. The row ensued when a bakery owner hit out after it revealed it had declined a PR company's request on behalf of an unidentified 'well-known' celebrity asking for the sweet treats for a 40th birthday in September.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” has a terrible title, but in theory the film sounds intriguing. It wants to be an old-fashioned monster movie, the kind they used to produce back when horror films were actual movies, made with the stodgy well-carpentered rhythm that any movie was made with. “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is set in 1897, and for most of it we’re aboard a large wooden ship with multiple sails — the Demeter, a handsome relic, since this is already the era when metal ships were coming in — that’s sailing from Bulgaria to London.

Friendships always come and go on The Real Housewives of Orange County, but Heather Dubrow might be ready to stop trying with costar Shannon Beador.

Sophia Scorziello editor Netflix has released the first trailer for the erotic thriller “Fair Play,” which the streamer acquired for $20 million in one of the biggest deals out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “Bridgerton” star Phoebe Dynevor and “Oppenheimer” actor Alden Ehrenreich star in the film, which unravels the complex relationship of a power-hungry couple contending for power at a cutthroat financial firm.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Gran Turismo” is a race-car movie that gives the audience a contact high. That’s what you tend to want from an action drama about souped-up sports cars snaking their way around labyrinthine tracks at 300 kilometers per hour. But there’s an innocence to this one, and a surprise authenticity.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The saga of American movies in the 1970s is now a mythology. In the first half of the decade, the movies that emerged from the New Hollywood were unprecedented in their realism, their immersion in the gritty side pockets of everyday life, their perception of the darkness hidden in the American Dream. Then, of course, came Lucas and Spielberg, who kicked off the blockbuster revolution — the transformation of movies from reality into fantasy.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” didn’t fare as well commercially as Paramount expected, taking in $452 million in its theatrical run so far. And most of that comes from overseas, particularly China, where the film is a big hit.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The movie-mad phenomenon of “Barbenheimer” has been a thrilling reminder that audiences can still embrace the movie-theater experience, turning up in awesome droves when they’re offered something new and adventurous. It’s also been powerful evidence that films that aren’t formulaic sequels can succeed in a way that too many recent cookie-cutter franchise films have not. But will all that go down as a lesson for the future? Or a giant anomaly? We probably shouldn‘t kid ourselves.

Tom Cruise's former love interest in "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" almost looked totally different. The movie features a brief flashback to 1989 for a scene that involves Cruise and his character's girlfriend.