'Maverick' delivers crowd-pleasing adrenaline rush

June 2, 2022

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Tom Cruise still feels the need for speed, as he outraces his own obsolescence, in "Top Gun: Maverick."

My review of "Stranger Things" Season 4, Part 1, will be forthcoming next week. I wasn't about to binge seven episodes in a single weekend. Instead, we'll be looking at another recently released tribute to the 1980s.

Even speaking as a self-confessed generational chauvinist on behalf of the Eighties, I keep expecting everyone to get sick of that decade, and to move on from reviving its pop culture.

Since the start of 2020, "Bill & Ted" and "Ghostbusters" released critically and commercially successful cinematic sequels, and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" saw its characters brought bac...

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