Top Gun: Tom Cruise still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll follow-up

n the first Top Gun, released in 1986, the US Navy’s fighter pilot Lt Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is accused of letting his ego write cheques his body can’t cash. But in the sequel, it’s clear that Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, has been cashing cheques with abandon for decades.

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Brad Pitt  stars in Bullet Train

There are plenty of big, dumb action movies out there that can deliver thrills without taxing the mind. And then there are films that are so outrageously stupid that they transcend guilty pleasure and become a danger to themselves and those around them. Bullet Train is in the latter category. It’s so stupid that you wouldn’t trust it to cross the street alone, let alone navigate Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network.

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House of the Dragon: Struggle for power continues

Young Princess Rhaenyra, the sole child of King Viserys I, is the focus of the first five episodes (played by Milly Alcock) (Paddy Considine). Rhaenyra is a young woman of strength, ambition, and bravery who would make a perfect heir had it not been for the Lords’ previous declaration that tradition requires a king, not a queen, to sit on the Iron Throne.

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