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Top Gun

January 2024

  • US Marines at the Top Gun: Maverick premiere in 2022.

    In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed?

    A century ago, the new artform was welcomed as an harbinger of universal harmony. Although it’s been pressed into service for darker aims since, some of that utopian spirit survives
  • Tom Cruise at a press conference for Top Gun: Maverick in Seoul, South Korea in 2022.

    Tom Cruise to return to skies for third Top Gun movie

    Film is expected to reunite Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell with protege fighter pilots played by Miles Teller and Glen Powell
  • Hrithik Roshan as Squadron Leader Shamsher ‘Patty’ Pathania in the Indian film Fighter

    The need for speed: why China and India are fast-tracking their own Top Gun remakes

    State of the art tech, exciting action sequences, swaggering young heroes … it’s no surprise that the world’s new superpowers have fallen for blockbuster air force films. But can they be anything more than military propaganda?

December 2022

  • Stuart Heritage with his latest coconut cake gift from Tom Cruise, December 2022

    Top bundt: how I made Tom Cruise’s Christmas cake list for the second year running

    Two more deluxe coconut gateaux winged their way to me this year, without any begging. Evidence if ever it was needed of Cruise’s very hectic year

August 2022

  • He feels the need … Tom Cruise as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick

    Plane sinks ship as Top Gun: Maverick overtakes Titanic in US ticket sales

    The belated sequel to 1986’s Top Gun moves to seventh in the list of highest domestic grossing movies and is Tom Cruise’s first film to top $1bn globally

June 2022

  • Emma Brockes

    In need of light relief? Top Gun: Maverick is a reminder that Tom Cruise has still got it

    Emma Brockes
    The sequel is a nostalgic, fun comeback for an actor whose real-life persona makes it easy to forget how good he is on-screen, writes Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
  • RELEASE DATE: May 27, 2022 TITLE: Top Gun: Maverick STUDIO: Paramount Pictures DIRECTOR: Joseph Kosinski PLOT: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. STARRING: TOM CRUISE as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. (Credit Image: © Paramount Pictures/Entertainment Pictures)<br>2J282YE RELEASE DATE: May 27, 2022 TITLE: Top Gun: Maverick STUDIO: Paramount Pictures DIRECTOR: Joseph Kosinski PLOT: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. STARRING: TOM CRUISE as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. (Credit Image: © Paramount Pictures/Entertainment Pictures)

    No, Top Gun: Maverick’s success isn’t down to being pro-America and anti-woke

    Jesse Hassenger
    Rightwing pundits have tried to claim the sequel’s box office success as their success but there are enough examples to show that this isn’t the case
  • Advertising for Top Gun-Maverick in Hong Kong

    Top Gun: Maverick sparks joy in Taiwan after its flag features on Tom Cruise jacket

    Reports of cheers at an advance screening as Hollywood risks anger in Beijing at depiction on apparel of Cruise’s Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell

May 2022

  • Tom Cruise as Capt Pete Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Top Gun: Maverick to Dennis Rodman and The Outsiders?

  • Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise

    Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

  • 1986, TOP GUN<br>TOM CRUISE &amp; KELLY MCGILLIS Character(s): Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood Film 'TOP GUN' (1986) Directed By TONY SCOTT 12 May 1986 SAJ38789 Allstar/PARAMOUNT (USA 1986) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PARAMOUNT and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To PARAMOUNT is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    A question of style: will Top Gun’s apple-pie nostalgia work its magic in 2022?

  • ‘Would you ask Gene Kelly that?’: defiant Tom Cruise dazzles Cannes

  • Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise is still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll sequel

  • Will Lady Gaga help Top Gun: Maverick take everyone’s breath away?

March 2022

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise portraying Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in a scene from "Top Gun: Maverick." Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of the film, sending another of the fall’s top movies out of 2021 due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the delta variant. Instead of opening Nov. 19, the “Top Gun” sequel, starring Tom Cruise, will instead debut Memorial Day weekend next year, on May 27. (Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures via AP)

    No need for speed: does anyone care about a Top Gun sequel?

    The much-delayed follow-up to the 1986 fan favourite is almost here, with Tom Cruise back as mentor, but it remains to be seen if audiences are willing to return to the skies

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top: Lingui, Top Gun: Maverick, Ali &amp; Ava, The Batman.

    2022 culture preview
    Chaplin, Elvis and Batman return: 25 films to look out for in 2022

    Baz Luhrmann takes on the King with Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent steals a masterpiece and Jessica Chastain plays an eccentric televangelist … all in 2022’s must-see movies

February 2021

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise portraying Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in a scene from “Top Gun: Maverick.” The film will open Dec. 23. (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Paramount to launch streaming service for new and old films

    From 4 March, Paramount Plus will carry new titles, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick, shortly after release

December 2020

  • From left: West Side Story, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick.

    2021 culture preview
    Dune, Bond and Top Gun reloaded: films to look out for in 2021

    Daniel Craig hands in his licence to kill, Frances McDormand delivers her best ever performance, Carey Mulligan unsettles in a rape-revenge drama and Tom Cruise reaches for the skies … this year’s must-see films

November 2020

  • ‘The song is my favourite work’ … Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise in the hit 1986 film that Take My Breath Away was written for.

    How we made
    How we made: Take My Breath Away, the Top Gun theme tune by Berlin

    Giorgio Moroder: ‘The lyrics were written by a guy who came to fix my Ferrari. It won me my third Oscar’
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