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Tom Cruise, a man who seems to have spent more time in the air than on the ground, has achieved yet another milestone. He’s known for his dedication to performing cinema’s most death-defying stunts, and he’s mostly airborne during them. Just when we thought his accomplishments could not get any loftier, Cruise got recognition from one of the leading aviation organizations in the world.

On Feb. 8, Tom Cruise was awarded the Grand Medaille of the Aero-Club de France, the oldest and most prestigious aeronautical institution in the world. The award, presented by the institution’s president, Catherine Maunoury, recognizes Cruise “for his significant contribution to the history of aviation and inspiring future pilots” and it is a testament to his passion for flight and his ability to stun the entire world with his aerial exploits.

The Grand Medaille is the highest distinction awarded by the Aero-Club de France.

At this point in his career, it’s almost odd to think of Tom Cruise on the ground. And even when he is, he’s only doing it so he can run somewhere or leap off of a mountain. In other words, the dude is almost always airborne. And it’s not just Mission: Impossible fans that have recognized it over the years, but now he has been honored by one of the leading aviation organizations in the world.

Cited “for his significant contribution to the history of aviation and inspiring future pilots,” Tom Cruise was awarded the Grand Medaille of the Aero-Club de France, described on its official website as the first aeronautical institution and which dates back to the late 19th century. Videos posted online show Cruise receiving the award and greeting others.

Just to give you an idea of who the Grand Medaille has been awarded to,...

Movie lovers, rejoice! Warner Bros. has quietly made 31 full-length movies available to stream for free on YouTube. This move allows viewers to enjoy classic and lesser-known films without a subscription, though they do come with ads unless you have YouTube Premium.

Over the years, Warner Bros. has experimented with different ways to make money from its vast catalog of films. It launched FilmStruck, a subscription streaming service, in 2018, but shut it down less than a year later. Since then, the company has focused on licensing movies to free, ad-supported platforms like Roku and Tubi.

Now, Warner Bros. is trying a new approach—releasing movies directly on YouTube. This move allows the studio to generate revenue through digital ads while making films more accessible to a wider audience.

The selection of movies is quite diverse, covering different genres and decades. Some of the highlights include:

Classic films: Mutiny on the Bounty...

Star Trek Explorer Magazine will soon release its final issue, and many readers look forward to the short fiction stories inside each magazine. But it doesn't look Titan Magazines/CBS has any intention of stopping the publication of good fiction, at least if its most recent publication, "Star Trek Explorer Presents Star Trek—A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die—and Other Stories," is anything to go by. We've consistently gotten good fiction to choose from with collections like "Star Trek Explorer Presents: Star Trek "Q And False" And Other Stories," which was published in 2022 and "Star Trek Explorer Presents: Star Trek The Mission and Other Stories," which was published in February of this year.

This collection, which I was given a copy to review, includes original short fiction by Walter Koenig, David Mack, Michael Collins, and more. In hardcover, with color pictures, drawn images, and varying monochromed images that enhance each story,...

Liam Neeson fans would have never known he had the grit to play action heroes like Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, or John Wick. This August, Max will start streaming Taken, the film that launched Neeson's string of hard-hitting action movies.

A bevy of feature films and TV series are coming to Max this August, per a Warner Bros. press release. Beetlejuice will be added to the streamer's offerings, one month ahead of the sequel's theatrical release; Max also released curated watchlists of horror subgenres. The teaser also confirmed a few features will soon be added to Max at a later (unconfirmed) date: Ishana Night Shyamalan's Watchers, Kevin Costner's Horizon, and George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Brick Mansions, the US remake of District 13, also joins Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and Pierre Morel's Taken on the streamer's action bucket list. Taken's addition offers action...

Scarlet Johansson, one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, has a style that I have long admired. While embarking on the promotional trail for her new film, Fly Me to the Moon, Johansson looked every bit the leading lady. Her gorgeous outfit selections, which wonderfully complemented her ageless, feminine beauty, demonstrated her penchant for timeless, classic silhouettes.

While she may not be fully adopting the method dressing trend—which has evolved over the past year into the official dress code for high-profile media tours—her clothing choices are as classic as the conspiracy theory that serves as the basis for her new film.

Scarlett Johansson showcases her retro-modern style at the Fly Me to the Moon promotional tour wearing an Lbd, an embellished midi dress, and a gingham crop top and column skirt (Credit: Sean Thornton / Frederic Kern / Future Image / Cover Images / Janet Mayer / INSTARimages)

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Cillian Murphy, Kin season two and Paul Mescal were among the winners of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024, which were handed out during a ceremony in Dublin on Saturday.

Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family, led the nominations for the movie portion of the awards with 13 and went home with three. It was followed by That They May Face the Rising Sun, which took home the best film prize, and Double Blind, with 11 each. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel about passion, war and migration, while Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes wrong.

Among the lead acting nominees were such big names as Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson and Jessie Buckley. Murphy took home the best actor...

"Made in Italy" stars a wide variety of actors and actresses from Italy, Ireland, and Scotland. Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson star as father and son, mirroring their real-life relationship. The movie revolves around a complicated father-son relationship and the sale of their old Italian home.

Made in Italy features a cast of mostly Italian actors, which shouldn't surprise most, given the title of the movie, and two related stars from Ireland. The 2020 comedy-drama was directed and written by James D'Arcy, and the film revolves around a complicated relationship between a father and his son, who come together to sell their old Italian home and confront demons from their past. The movie had a limited theatrical release in August 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, so it only grossed a little under $3 million at the box office.

Made in Italy was also released on video on demand (VOD) in August 2020, where it performed well.

Liam Neeson in The Grey Image: Open Road Films The winter movie season is often a time of treasure to trash. It begins with a progressively lavish banquet of prestigious awards hopefuls and holiday event films, then peters out as January approaches and the studios offload their castoffs and leftovers...

Liam Neeson in The GreyImage: Open Road Films

The winter movie season is often a time of treasure to trash. It begins with a progressively lavish banquet of prestigious awards hopefuls and holiday event films, then peters out as January approaches and the studios offload their castoffs and leftovers into...

Bursting with unruly energy that practically escapes the confines of the screen, “Kneecap” is a riotous, drug-laced triumph in the name of freedom that bridges political substance and crowd-pleasing entertainment. The three members of the eponymous Irish rap group — Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh — play themselves in this liberally fictionalized reimagining of their origin story set in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Cornerstone to the trio’s artistic ethos is the use of the Irish language (sometimes referred to as Irish Gaelic), to which writer-director Rich Peppiatt (a Brit) remains faithful. The island’s ancient native tongue — once banned by the British and only recognized as an official language in the U.K. in 2022 — is intrinsically tied to the identity of the colonized Irish people, often seen as an emblem of their enduring culture and defiance against British imperialism.

Oscar-nominated “The Quiet Girl,” a quaint drama in Irish,...

When it comes to action movie stars of the 21st century, few actors have become as recognizable and synonymous with the genre as Liam Neeson. While not initially an action star, with his earliest breakout roles being the likes of war dramas such as Michael Collins and Schindler's List, the later years of his career have seen him revitalized as the old but capable action movie star.

A classic element of UFO lore exists within the Star Trek universe, as revealed in 1998’s Star Trek: The Untold Voyages #5, which featured Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise, near the end of their second five-year mission, encountering an alien species which bore a direct resemblance to the mysterious Greys of UFO culture.

Star Trek: The Untold Voyages #5 – written by Glenn Greenberg and drawn by Michael Collins – finds the Enterprise coming into contact with a massive mothership hanging over the planet Lycos IV, abducting its people on board saucer-shaped vehicles.

Kirk, Spock and an away team beam over to the ship; the aliens make contact with Mister Spock, who explain their history, offering a Trek explanation for UFO visitations and alien abductions on Earth.

Related: Star Trek Confirms the Dark Side of the Kobayashi Maru

Star Trek Has Not Leaned Into UFO Lore As Much As It Could

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It's easy for Liam Neeson's post-"Taken" movies to start blurring together if you're not paying close attention. Are we talking about the film where he plays a vengeful snowplow driver or the one where he plays a heroic ice road trucker? Does he play a hitman dealing with dementia or a potential terrorist with amnesia? Is he fighting bad guys on a plane or on a train? Has a member of his family been kidnapped or has he himself been kidnapped (or both)? Is he playing a Jesuit priest who has renounced his religion after trying to spread Catholic Christianity across Edo-era Japan, no longer willing to allow others to suffer so that he might cling to his personal faith? 

Okay, you probably won't mix that one up with any other Neeson movies, but the point still stands.

In all seriousness, it's hard to fault Neeson too much...

A handful of awards season frontrunners is starting to emerge with the announcement today of the IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists.

All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, from Laura Poitras, and The Territory, from Alex Pritz, made the 25-film shortlist of features, a day after securing nominations for the Gotham Awards. Three other strong contenders – Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love, Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream, and Daniel Roher’s Navalny also made the IDA shortlist. See the complete features and shorts shortlists below.

‘Fire of Love’

The shortlisted films will be culled to a maximum of 10 nominees for Best Documentary Feature and 10 max for Best Short Documentary. Nominees in those and a variety of additional categories – including Best Director,...

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Julia Roberts was one of the dominant Hollywood stars for a good twenty-year period. From her breakout role in 1988’s Mystic Pizza, Roberts skyrocketed to the top of the A-list when she starred opposite Richard Gere in Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman. An unlikely Cinderella story about an escort that falls in love with a high-powered executive, it’s a movie that is definitely a Hollywood fairytale, but one that a lot of people loved in 1990, with it being one of the year’s top-grossing movies. From there, Roberts made a string of hits, including Flatliners, The Pelican Brief, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill and many more, but respect in more heavy vehicles eluded her. Movies like Mary Reilly and Michael Collins were embarrassing for how miscast she was, and for awhile, it looked like she would be stuck doing...

Open Road Films is joining forces with Liam Neeson for Marlowe, a noir crime thriller boasting a star-studded cast that will make your head spin. Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Daniela Melchior, and Francois Arnaud join Neeson as cast members, with Academy Award winner Neil Jordan directing from a script by William Monahan.

Based on Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s book The Black-Eyed Blonde, Marlowe presents “a gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930’s Bay City, centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), daughter of a well-known movie star (Jessica Lange). The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he’s determined to bring to light.

Exclusive: Open Road Films has acquired North American rights to Marlowe, a noir crime thriller that stars Liam Neeson atop an ensemble that includes Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Daniela Melchior and Francois Arnaud. Neil Jordan directed the film from script by The Departed’s William Monahan. The film will be released theatrically December 2 through Open Road/Briarcliff Entertainment.

In what is Neeson’s 100th film, the star plays detective Philip Marlowe, the protagonist from the hardboiled Raymond Chandler mysteries that included The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye. This one is based on author John Banville’s book The Black-Eyed Blonde, an original novel authorized by the Raymond Chandler estate. The action is set in late 1930’s Bay City, centering around the brooding, down on his luck detective Marlowe. He’s hired to find the ex-lover of...

Peyton Manning wants to go to the mat in his ongoing bid to create a sports-content empire.

The football legend, who gained notice last year when he and his brother Eli launched an accompanying “ManningCast” for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” is backing a similar concept for ESPN’s UFC pay-per-view streams. Fans who opt to watch Saturday night’s welterweight bout between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards via ESPN+ will also have access to a second stream featuring Rob Gronkowski and his brothers Chris, Dan, Glenn and Gordie Jr. along with father Gordon, who will host what is being called “ UFC 278 with The Gronks. The show will mark Rob Gronkowski’s first appearance on ESPN in a host role. Guests will include UFC legend Chuck Liddell, and up-and-coming UFC stars Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann.

“You could not get a more perfect group of guys to host it,” Peyton...

Exclusive: Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show), Halston Sage (Paper Towns), Andrew Richardson (The Independent) and Aidan Quinn (Elementary) have signed on to star in Daughter of the Bride (w/t), an indie comedy from MarVista Entertainment and Particular Crowd, which has entered production

The film directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (Savannah) centers on Diane (Harden) and Kate (Sage) — mother and daughter and inseparable friends, whose lives are turned upside down when mom announces her engagement to a mystery man (Quinn) that she’s been dating for only a few weeks. In a series of comical events, Kate must come to terms with letting her mother be happy with someone else while she navigates her own love life and career aspirations. Kate subconsciously tries to sabotage the wedding plans, despite officiating the ceremony, and unexpectedly meets a mystery man (Richardson) of her own that seems too good to be true.

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Omaha Productions is going from Manningcasts to podcasts, all as part of a wide-ranging content deal with Caesars Entertainment, the parent company of the casino and resort brands, as well as the Caesars Sportsbook digital betting firm.

The production company, founded by former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, has inked a multiyear deal with Caesars that will see Omaha producing video and audio content for Caesars platforms, and launching a podcast business through a new division, the Omaha Audio Network.

Manning and the Omaha team will also help develop digital and social content for Caesars, kicking off with a new series called Mayne on the Street to be hosted by former ESPN host Kenny Mayne, who joined Caesars last year. The deal also includes live events at Caesars locations across the U.S., following the success of a Super Bowl party hosted by the...