The sequel to the 1986 smash-hit Top Gun has been decades in the making, but after years of delays, the air-combat movie is finally soaring into theaters this week behind a promotional blitzkrieg led by Tom Cruise. Every poster for the new ...
The young prankster from Jaws — seen scaring Amity Island beachgoers with a fake great white dorsal fin — is all grown up, and he will soon be made a police chief on Martha’s Vineyard. Nearly 50 years after starring in the iconic hoax scene from ...
Chris Pratt emerges from the surf, ready to deliver violent retribution in the new teaser for The Terminal List. The latest trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime series, starring Pratt and Taylor Kitsch, just dropped, and it looks brutal. The two ...
Jon Bernthal delivers one of television's most accurate and humanizing performances of a corrupt cop in HBO’s new hit-miniseries We Own This City. The Hollywood A-lister, best known for his roles in The Punisher, Fury, and The Walking Dead, spent ...
Just about every generation in America has its own war, and its own war songs along with it. While most of the American public will never directly experience war, they can get some sense of what combat is like through art, photography, and ...
Nearly a decade after Phil Klay’s debut book Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the bestselling author and Iraq War veteran returns with his first venture into ...
Fans are screaming for Top Gun: Maverick to hit theaters in a couple of weeks after years of delays. The long-awaited sequel stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, and will also see Val Kilmer return as Iceman, although it's unclear ...
By traditional standards, Matt Smythe is as manly as they come. If he weren’t a dedicated father, he might live alone in a cabin in the woods or on a mountain. That doesn't arise out of a disdain for other people, but his insatiable desire to be ...
Bono and the Edge, frontmen for the Irish rock band U2, performed a surprise concert in Ukraine yesterday. The two rock stars traveled to Kyiv, where they put on a concert in the Khreshchatyk metro station to show solidarity with the embattled ...
Actors are often known for their unorthodox behavior. Just look as far as this week's MetGala and you won’t need any more convincing that actors aren’t like the rest of us. Wild outfits and peculiar lifestyles are nothing new when it comes to ...
Hollywood often portrays military leaders as crotchety old men, incompetent snot-nosed kids, or authoritarian assholes that just get in the way. Spot on! We’re kidding. Well, mostly. (We’re looking at you senior leaders who continually fail to ...
In less than a month, Tom Cruise will finally soar back into theaters in Top Gun: Maverick, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve probably been chomping at the bit to see some badass dogfights. With Maverick getting pushed back several times ...
Everyone’s favorite dog-avenging action hero is back, and this time he’s toting an iconic Okinawan weapon: nunchaku. Keanu Reeves seems to have found the role he was made for in the form of John Wick. The 57-year-old Canadian actor has starred in ...
At 6 feet 4 inches tall, Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård’s towering figure makes for a perfect on-screen Viking berserker. In Robert Eggers’ new film The Northman, Skarsgård dons his wolfskin and teams up with Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole ...
If you like your military movies to be even remotely plausible, then you probably think Top Gun is the gold standard for on-screen aerial combat. But if you prefer your 1980s action with extra cheese, then you likely already know Doug Masters and ...
Masters of the Air — the long-awaited World War II miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg — wrapped filming, and Hanks already has his sights on another World War II project. In addition to being an executive producer for the upcoming ...
When he served as supreme allied commander of NATO, Adm. James Stavridis spent a lot of time worrying about the potential for nuclear conflict between superpowers and the grim realities of how a third world war might shake out. Against the backdrop ...
Leaving the war behind nearly killed Kiefer Luttrell. Before the Green Beret finally committed his life to music, the Nashville-based American folk artist had to take a lot of painful detours along the way. After an injury cut his college football ...
There is absolutely no logical reason Point Break (1991) should have become a classic. The plot is absurd. The dialogue is goofy. Almost every frame is over the top. Yet many, many people list it as a favorite movie of all time. Or at least one of ...
In a display of solidarity with Ukraine, legendary rock band Pink Floyd teamed up with Ukrainian rock star Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band Boombox to release their first single in nearly 30 years. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers created a unique ...
HBO’s award-winning miniseries The Pacific is widely considered one of the best television shows ever made about World War II. Following in the wake of the groundbreaking miniseries Band of Brothers — which follows a company of American paratroopers ...
After years of delays, Top Gun: Maverick is finally soaring into theaters this May, and with it comes the two biggest stars of the original high-flying blockbuster. Tom Cruise is set to reprise his role as hotshot fighter pilot Maverick, and flying ...
Since leaving the military 16 years ago, David Rose has locked people up as a police officer, gotten himself placed on house arrest (anklet GPS and all), fought Muay Thai professionally, been committed to a VA psych ward, contracted in Afghanistan, ...
It looks like the next generation bad guy jet in Top Gun: Maverick will be Russia’s stealthy Su-57. The long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick is finally slated to reach theaters this May, and its toy lines are still moving ahead at full steam. Among the ...
On Friday, March 25, Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) confirmed that the award-winning book Redeployment by Marine veteran Phil Klay was pulled from school libraries, citing “many instances of violence, drugs and ...
In January 2003, Chappelle’s Show premiered on Comedy Central and planted itself firmly in America’s collective consciousness, quickly exploding as a titanic cultural phenomenon and one of the greatest sketch comedy shows ever produced. Anyone ...
To conclude his combat memoir Beyond Band of Brothers, retired major and World War II veteran Richard “Dick” Winters reiterates the truism that war simultaneously brings out the best and worst in people. There are few mediums better for understanding ...
The Wire writers David Simon and George Pelecanos have teamed up again for HBO’s upcoming drama We Own This City, and the recently released trailer suggests the highly anticipated miniseries will be a gritty portrayal of Baltimore’s notoriously ...
Brittney Griner, the superstar American basketball player who was arrested and detained by customs agents at a Moscow airport a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, could face up to 10 years in prison if a Russian court convicts her of drug smuggling ...
In a now-viral video posted across multiple media platforms Thursday, March 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger begged Russia to end its war against Ukraine. During the nine-minute video, Schwarzenegger pleads for his “dear Russian friends” to accept the truth ...
