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‘Street Fighter’ Review: Kitao Sakurai’s Uneven Love Letter Explodes the Screen

October 17, 2026 Maxance Vincent Action Films & Shows, Capcom, Game Adaptations, Paramount 7 min read

It feels great to not only see a major blockbuster that looks and feels like a movie—with heightened colors, expressive camerawork, baroque lighting compositions, A-list actors giving boisterous, theatrical performances—but also to see great reverence expressed for the source material it’s adapting. In fact, Kitao Sakurai’s transposition of CAPCOM’s Street Fighter might be the first live-action film entry in a franchise

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‘By Any Means’ Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Shines in Uneven Drama

September 4, 2026 Maxance Vincent Drama Films & Shows, Paramount 5 min read

After an incredible feature directorial debut with The Inspection, Elegance Bratton returns with a more politically charged drama by recounting the unlikely alliance between the FBI and the mob in By Any Means. While this partnership has never been officially confirmed by the bureau, historical records indicate that the agency hired notorious mob enforcer Gregory Scarpa Sr. (Mark Wahlberg) to perform

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‘Mission: Impossible’ Theory: Ethan Hunt Could Be New Head Of IMF

December 1, 2023 Wiktor Reinfuss Mission Impossible, Paramount 6 min read

Tom Cruise’s roles are some of the most iconic. He played Maverick in Top Gun, Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible films, Barry Seal in American Made, and Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men amongst others. This year Cruise’s Ethan Hunt was again in the spotlight in a new Mission: Impossible film with a part two still on the