Cruise set a 10-year deadline for himself in which to build an acting career. He left school and moved to New York, struggling through audition after audition before landing an appearance in 1981’s Endless Love, starring Brooke Shields. Around this same time, he snagged a small role in the military school drama Taps (1981), co-starring Sean Penn.His role in Taps was upgraded after director Harold Becker saw Cruise’s potential. His performance caught the attention of a number of critics and filmmakers. In 1983, Cruise appeared in The Outsiders , directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He starred alongside Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, and Rob Lowe—all prominent members of a group of young actors the entertainment press dubbed the “Brat Pack.” The film was not well received, but it allowed Cruise to work with an acclaimed director in a high-profile project.The rolls kept coming and so did the accolades. Cruise has been one of the most profitable actors in Hollywood since the mid-80’s. His latest film, Edge of Tomorrow took in $62 million in its opening weekend and has gained steam from word of mouth since. Here is a clip below:
A new movie makes an unlikely hero out of a violent and reclusive man. Set in small-town Texas, Joe is about a hard-working, hard-living ex-con — played by irresistible bad boy Nicolas Cage — who’s trying to stay out of trouble. He finds that the best way to do that is to not get involved with people — until he meets a teenage boy, played by Tye Sheridan, in need of help. The movie is directed by David Gordon Green, who got his start with small films set in the tough, decaying American South. He transitioned to more Hollywood fare, like the stoner comedy Pineapple Express, but Joe feels like a return to his earlier roots. Green has crafted a quietly powerful film that allows Nicolas Cage to lose himself in this character — no small thing for an actor famous for big, theatrical performances.
Based on his best-selling memoir, the film tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax (played by one of our favorite leading men Colin Firth), a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him, and his haunting past. This story has been told several times before, and this latest retelling, from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, wrestles with themes of suffering and redemption as it criss-crosses between Colin Firth’s aging Lomax living a purgatorial existence in late 20th-century Britain, and Jeremy Irvine’s embattled young soldier suffering at the hands of his wartime captors. Nicole Kidman co-stars as Lomax’s wife and love interest. The movie opens nationally on April 25, but you can watch the trailer now.
An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. 
After starting out as a model and music video dancer, actor Channing Tatum shot to stardom as the star of Step Up, a classic high school romance set in the world of competitive dance that gave the unknown Tatum a chance to prove that he had more to offer. 
