Valkyrie: Not Bad
weblogs.variety.com 12/12/2008 — Valkyrie is a well-made, entertaining thriller that had me on the edge of my seat in its second half. It's old-fashioned, in the sense that Hollywood used to make more movies like this: straight-ahead, engrossing World War II action dramas that pit an alliance of noble heroes against ...

Early Reviews of Valkyrie Label Tom Cruise As Laughable
slashfilm.com 11/19/2008 — Despite a solid pedigree, with Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie taking up directing and writing duties respectively, Valkyrie has taken a drubbing on the PR front, mostly because of people’s poisonous initial reactions to Tom Cruise ...

'Valkyrie' Star Tom Cruise Talks Killing Hitler, Serenading Katie Holmes
mtv.com 12/18/2008 — Long-delayed film, directed by 'X-Men' helmer Bryan Singer, opens Christmas Day. By Josh Horowitz Tom Cruise Photo: MTV News To answer your first question, he is exactly how you'd expect him to be. Sit down for a chat with ...

Industrial Symphony No. 1
seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com 5/21/2009 — Most of David Lynch's feature films are of course well-known, even though Lynch himself has over the years passed in and out of the public eye as either a quasi-mainstream eccentric or a maker of outright art films. Lesser known is the director's ...

big, bright, shining stars
lightpalimpsest.blogspot.com 12/10/2008 — The opening shot of PT Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2002) confronts us less with an auteurist perspective, and more with a star, the star laid bare. Stardom and authorship as modes of textual film analysis are both very popular among film scholars ...

Tom Cruise Working on 'Mission: Impossible 4'
getthebigpicture.net 3/19/2009 — Is Tom Cruise working on Mission: Impossible 4 ? If you ask Cruise, the answer is yes. Or at least it is on Japanese TV. An Ain't It Cool News reader passed along the story that Cruise was appearing on the Japanese program SMAP SMAP and the subject of the M:I franchise came up. ...

Valkyrie First Six Minutes
filmofilia.com 1/11/2009 — United Artists have unveiled the first six minutes from the Bryan Singer ’s “ Valkyrie ,” probably to get more people to go see it. The opening scene shows how Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( Tom Cruise ) lost his eye and a total of seven fingers. In the movie, Cruise ...

On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in Risky Business. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
slate.com 12/23/2008 — Tom Cruise. Illustration by Charlie Powell. A worry shadows the forthcoming Tom Cruise thriller Valkyrie . The worry is that, upon seeing Cruise done up in an eye patch and Nazi jackboots— trick or treat!— audiences will laugh . This is not a high bar ...

Tom Cruise Gets Picky About Next Project to the Tune of Millions
filmschoolrejects.com 4/22/2009 — Oh, Tom Cruise. I’ve run out of jokes about you because all of the good ones have been picked clean to the bone. And yet, I feel uneasy writing something straightforward about you - especially considering the possible narcissistic nature of this recent news. It’s pretty clear ...

Valkyrie (Bluray Review)
atomicpopcorn.net 5/9/2009 — Main Feature Valkyrie is blessed with some fine acting, especially from the fantastic supporting cast which includes Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, and Tom Wilkinson. I’m a huge fan of Bryan Singer, mainly for what he did with the incredible The Usual Suspects, but despite Kevin ...