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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and with special guests Graham Day and Luke Dunne, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 166th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 13th August 2018.
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• Alex Abad-Santos and Constance Grady at Vox explain the concept of Big Dick Energy.
• Christopher McQuarrie talks to The A.V. Club about writing Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Christopher McQuarrie talks to Empire about being offered the opportunity to return for the next Mission: Impossible film.
• Christopher McQuarrie talks to IndieWire about his desire to return to independent cinema.
• Christopher McQuarrie explains to Empire why Jeremy Renner did not return for Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Christopher McQuarrie talks to ComicBook.com about taking influence from The Dark Knight for Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Christopher McQuarrie talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his darker original plans for Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• CinemaBlend presents a compilation of every mask rip in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Jonathan Hetterly at Shrink Tank on the moral psychology of Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the box office performance of Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Jen Chaney at Vulture on how Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the film of the summer of unreality.
• Sean Fennessey at The Ringer on the great movie-going fever of 2018.
• Sean Fennessey talks about “the summer of sequels” at The Ringer.
• Richard Brody at The New Yorker on how Mission: Impossible franchise tends to “transform daring and enthusiasm into a feat of skill.”
• Matt Mira and Matt Gourley on James Bonding.
• Grant Pardee at Vice on the unique position of the Mission: Impossible franchise in the modern action canon.
• Jason Bailey at Vulture ranks the ten best Mission: Impossible action sequences.
• Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood talks to Vox about how the Mission: Impossible set-pieces come together.
• Joe Sommerlad at The Independent on the importance of Tom Cruise’s stunt work to the Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Nick Pinkerton at BFI on the idea of Tom Cruise as the auteur of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Tom Cruise shares footage of how he broke his ankle filming Mission: Impossible – Fallout with Vanity Fair.
• Rebecca Fergusion on Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review.
• Owen Gleiberman at Variety on how Tom Cruise leverages his stardom on stunts.
• A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club on the morbid star power of Tom Cruise.
• Owen Gleiberman at Variety talks about Tom Cruise’s declining star power.
• Kyle Buchanan at Vulture on the decline of movie stars like Will Smith.
• Rich Hall on the archetypal “Tom Cruise movie.”
• Roger Ebert discusses the archetypal “Tom Cruise Picture” in his review of Days of Thunder.
• Kate Knibbs at The Ringer on Tom Cruise’s infamous couch-jumping in 2006.
• Emily Yahr at The Washington Post on whether Tom Cruise’s declining public image has impacted the Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Emily Yahr at The Washington Post on how carefully Tom Cruise manages his image.
• Greg Murphy at The Irish Examiner on how the first shot of Mission: Impossible – Fallout became a viral meme.
• Henry Cavill on Instagram sharing some moustache memories.
• Brian Raftery at Wired on how Tom Cruise has weaponised viral videos in the last decade.
• Tom Cruise learns to make finger hearts at Vulture.
• Tom Cruise’s very strange answer when asked to pick his favourite film.
• Hunter Harris and Ethan Sapienza at Vulture outline twenty-two unsettlingly nice Tom Cruise stories.
• Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright, Paul Haggis and Mike Rinder discuss how Tom Cruise had Nicole Kidman’s phone tapped with Vanity Fair.
• Aly Weisman at Business Insider discusses the relationship between Tom Cruise and Nazanin Boniadi.
• Ned Zeman at Vanity Fair on the curious case of David Miscavige’s wife.
• Andy Daly plays L. Ron Hubbard on the Dead Authors Podcast.
• Alec Baldwin talks with People Magazine about working with Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill.
• Darren’s review of Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
• Darren on the idea of Mission: Impossible – Fallout as a bridge between classic and modern filmmaking.
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