Cooperation with the U.S. Navy was critical to the production of Top Gun and its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Without support from the Navy, neither film would have been as…
Top Gun: Maverick was a 2022 box office smash hit. It was the second movie to gross over $1 billion post-COVID and is the 11th highest-grossing movie in history unadjusted…
Today, with its prevalence in pop culture and its sequel waiting in the wings, it’s difficult to imagine that Top Gun was anything but a surefire hit. But, in the time leading up its 1986 release, Top Gun‘s production had its sha…
Tom Cruise is known for going balls out with his stunts and film training. Over the course of the Mission: Impossible franchise alone, Cruise climbed the world’s tallest building (the…
A few weeks into 2016, Keanu Reeves lit up the internet (and a few targets) when video of his John Wick-level shooting skills hit YouTube. Rightf…
If there’s one criticism fans of the Jack Reacher book series had with its movie adaptation and its sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, it was the star of the series. In the novels, author Lee Child’s former Army MP protagonist …
The new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick has got that lovin’ feeling, if by lovin’ feeling you mean hot sho…
A few weeks ago I posted a video by DCS player Forest Rat who recreated the aerial scenes in the very first minutes of “Top Gun” (when the two F-14s piloted by Mav and Goose and Cougar and Merlin are vectored by the aircraft carrier to intercept t…
On July 18, 2019, after a 33-year wait, the trailer for ” Top Gun: Maverick” finally debuted. While Tom Cruise’s Maverick may have aged, TOPGUN recruits are still singing in bars, playing beach volleyball, and performing exhilarating feats in F/A…
The sequel to “Top Gun,” a film that boosted US Navy aviation recruitment by 500%, appears to have bowed to China’s powerful Communist party by changing the jacket of its titular character, Maverick, played by Tom Cruise.
In the trailer for…