Bigger than Titanic? Top Gun:Maverick flies through Australian box office records

Bigger than Titanic? Top Gun:Maverick flies through Australian box office records

The long-delayed sequel is closing in on the all-time top five in cinemas.

  • byGarry Maddox

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Mind the gap:Calling out movies pairing men with much younger women

Mind the gap:Calling out movies pairing men with much younger women

How did a nearly 30-year-old film spark a global kerfuffle about huge age gaps in Hollywood films? Some say it’s the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning.

  • bySamantha Selinger-Morris
The Tom Cruise effect

The Tom Cruise effect

Visiting a cinema for the first time in four years brought on a startling high.

  • byAmelia Lester
When travelling to Japan these days it helps to be Tom Cruise

When travelling to Japan these days it helps to be Tom Cruise

High-profile appearances in Tokyo have brought into sharp focus the discrepancies in Japan’s slow reopening from COVID. Group tours are resuming but not individual tourism.

  • byMichelle Ye Hee Lee andJulia Mio Inuma
Aussies feel the need for more speed as Top Gun:Maverick takes off at the box office

Aussies feel the need for more speed as Top Gun:Maverick takes off at the box office

The Tom Cruise sequel has taken almost $350 million around the world on the weekend,and is on track to be Tom Cruise’s biggest release in Australia.

  • byGarry Maddox
Who’s the bad guy? What happened to Meg Ryan? Top Gun:Maverick questions answered

Who’s the bad guy? What happened to Meg Ryan? Top Gun:Maverick questions answered

Why no Kelly McGillis or Meg Ryan? Does Val Kilmer really speak like that? And did the filmmakers delete the Taiwanese flag?

  • byGarry Maddox
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It’s still cheesy,but the new Top Gun has heart – and an older,wiser Tom Cruise
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It’s still cheesy,but the new Top Gun has heart – and an older,wiser Tom Cruise

Once again,egos feature prominently in the film’s storyline,which centres on the edgy relationship between teamwork and competitiveness.

  • bySandra Hall
It’s time to stop pretending Top Gun,and its sequel,are good movies

It’s time to stop pretending Top Gun,and its sequel,are good movies

I honestly don’t think I have ever seen a movie with less imagination than Top Gun:Maverick.

  • byKarl Quinn
‘It was crazy before’:Jennifer Connelly on how movies have changed after #MeToo

‘It was crazy before’:Jennifer Connelly on how movies have changed after #MeToo

It’s the sequel decades in the making. Michael Idato speaks to Jennifer Connelly about reviving the Top Gun story and how times have changed since the original – both on and offscreen.

  • byMichael Idato
Tom Cruise through the years
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Tom Cruise through the years

A compilation of some of Tom Cruise's most iconic cinema moments.

Tom Cruise by the numbers:What makes him one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars?

Tom Cruise by the numbers:What makes him one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars?

With Top Gun:Maverick about to open we look at what the box office shows about Cruise’s star power,and how his relationships and stunts have shaped his career.

  • byGarry Maddox