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And we’re back. A full 36 years (including some Covid-related runway delays) after Tony Scott’s big-screen recruitment advert for US naval aviators became an epoch-defining cinema hit, Tom Cruise is back doing what he does best – flashing his cute/crazy superstar smile and flexing his bizarrely ageless body in an eye-popping blockbuster that, for all its daft macho contrivances, still manages to take your breath away, dammit.From the burnished opening shots of planes waltzing off an aircraft carrier to the strains of…

Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more new kinds of aviation vehicles come on the market, from flyboards to flying motorbikes to eVTOLs. So when we saw a video of a hoverboard being flown in Paris this week, we just knew we had to share it with you.  What’s a better fuck you to city traffic than whizzing through the air above it? A video on YouTube by Omni Hoverboard shows a man flying the hovercraft, using a handheld device to steer, over a large…

Top Gun: Maverick — out Friday in cinemas worldwide — is a veritable Tom Cruise movie. For one, his character, the know-it-all Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is right there in the title. And the much more important two, it's Cruise's star wattage that is responsible for Top Gun: Maverick's existence. Here is a sequel, over three decades on, to a movie much poorer than most are willing to admit. Top Gun hasn't aged well either, but Cruise definitely has. He's the biggest actor of his kind currently in Hollywood. Top…

Fast News The state-owned oil producer, which is at par with Apple as the world's most valuable company, reported an almost 82 percent rise in the first-quarter net profit. Sadu Aramco reported a net income of $39.5 billion for the quarter to March 31 from $21.7 billion a year earlier.…

Dir: Joseph Kosinski. Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer. 12A, 131 minutes.Top Gun, released in 1986, might be the most effective and insidious military recruitment ad ever made. Bolstered by the shuddering synths of Harold Faltermeyer’s score and a lifetime’s supply of high fives, Tony Scott’s fighter pilot fever dream represented an amoral, apolitical ideal of navy life. The enemy was unnamed. The war was barely defined. Here, a true…

This week, we take a look at the return of the first Captain America ongoing series since July 2021 in a SPOILER-filled review. Is Sam Wilson’s next tour with the shield all it’s cracked up to be? Plus: after the break, read along for some spoiler-free rapid reviews of Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #1, Shang-Chi #12, and What If…? Miles Morales #3. Captain America: Symbol of Truth #1 Captain America: Symbol of Truth #1 Writer: Tochi OnyebuchiArtist: R.B. SilvaLetterer: VC’s Joe CaramagnaColor Artist: Jesus…