Mission: Impossible's Secret Weapon Is Luther Stickell

Mission: Impossible's Secret Weapon Is Luther Stickell

Tom Cruise’s blockbuster action spy franchise Mission: Impossible is ostensibly about his character, agent Ethan Hunt, pulling off extremely dangerous missions to save the world from terrorists and other evildoers. So it’s not surprising that Hunt appears in ever Mission: Impossible movie. But you know who else…Read more...

The Mainstreaming of the Spy Genre... - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Some interesting observations here: In all the years of the Emmys, only two shows about espionage have ever won the Outstanding Drama Series award: Mission: Impossible in 1967 and 1968 (it was the 1960s) and Homeland in 2012 (we’d just killed Bin Laden). It’s not that the Television Academy lacked for spy series, from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Alias to The Hour and The Americans. But for some reason, Emmy voters pre-2000 seemed to prefer show…

Ethan Hunt's last great adventure (we cross our fingers) and his impossible mission force reaches the cinemas on May 21, and if you have any doubts as to whether to go we can ensure that it is a good end for this franchise, full of flashbacks, complicated plans to save the world, Tom Cruise running miles without getting tired and much muuuuucha unbraided action of the one that is saga has accustomed us.

Presented out of competition in Cannes, the eighth part of the franchise inspired by the TV show of the 1960s comes out this Wednesday. Tom Cruise continues his fight against artificial intelligence seeking to destroy humanity, just that... A successWhen he realized in 1996 Mission: Impossible, spectacular adaptation of a spy show produced by CBS between 1966 and 1973, Brian De Palma had no idea that he would then lay the foundations for what wo…