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News18
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Akshay Kumar Dodges Tom Cruise Comparisons: ‘My Stunts Are Inspired By Tom & Jerry'
Last Updated: Akshay, who has long performed his own stunts, laughed when asked about his viral aeroplane sequence from Khiladi 420, which resurfaced around the release of Dead Reckoning. Akshay Kumar, known as Bollywood's original action star, recently credited an unexpected source for inspiring some of his most daring stunts – Tom & Jerry! In a new interview with Pinkvilla, the Housefull 5 actor opened up about drawing action ideas from the classic cartoon duo and also reacted to comparisons with Hollywood icon Tom Cruise. Akshay, who has long performed his own stunts, laughed when asked about his viral aeroplane sequence from Khiladi 420, which resurfaced around the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. While fans noted similarities between the two plane stunts, Akshay humbly dodged the comparison and instead credited his love for Tom & Jerry as his true influence. 'You know where I draw all this inspiration from? You will not believe it from Tom & Jerry," he said with a smile. Calling it 'the most violent thing," Akshay added, 'It is apparently made for children, but actually, if you look, there is so much action." Recalling how the cartoon influenced specific scenes in his films, Akshay shared, 'I remember Tom coming from the helicopter, hanging and picking up Jerry – I did that in Sabse Bada Khiladi. Then, Tom is hanging on a plane, which is there in Khiladi 420." He even noted a Khatron Ke Khiladi stunt was inspired by a moment where Tom and Jerry enjoy wine mid-air while lying in a hammock beneath a plane. 'It is so violent. Please try to understand — it is a violent film you are showing your children," he quipped. First Published:
India Today
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Tom Cruise sets Guinness World Record for parachute stunt in Mission Impossible 8
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has added another major milestone to his already action-packed career. The actor has officially been awarded the Guinness World Record for the 'most burning parachute jumps by an individual'. This comes after his jaw-dropping stunt in his latest film, 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'.Known for doing his own daring stunts, Cruise took things to a whole new level for the final instalment of the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise. According to reports, he jumped out of a helicopter 16 times with a flaming, fuel-soaked parachute. The stunts were filmed in Drakensberg, South Africa, after weeks of preparation by Cruise and his the intense shoot, Cruise even carried a 50-pound camera rig on his body to capture close-up shots while performing the dangerous mid-air sequence. He jumped from over 75,000 feet, detached the burning chute mid-air, and deployed a backup parachute - all while being filmed in real-time. Guinness World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday praised the actor, saying, 'Tom doesn't just play action heroes - he is an action hero! His focus on authenticity and fearlessness sets him apart.'Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' marks the conclusion to the long-running spy series, which began back in 1996. The story continues from 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning', with Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, trying to stop a powerful AI known as The Entity from falling into the wrong film also stars Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, and Pom Klementieff, among others. It hit theatres on May 23 and is being hailed as a high-octane farewell to the iconic Reel
Hype Malaysia
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
From 'Squid Game' 3 To 'Mission: Impossible' – 12 Netflix Shows & Movies You Don't Want To Miss In June
We're approaching the halfway point of the year, and the hits just keep on coming. From a highly-anticipated sequel to a cultural phenomenon, to a big screen blockbuster action thriller – here are 12 movies and shows you gotta binge on hard in June! Once More Unto The Games Squid Game: Season 3, Premiering 27 June Devastated after losing his friend, Player 456 presses on — challenging the Front Man's scheme in the final season of the globally most-watched series. Must Watch Mercy For None, Premiering 6 June After severing ties with his gang, a former gangster returns to uncover the truth behind his brother's death — embarking on a relentless path of revenge. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Premiering 7 June With time running out and enemies at every turn, Ethan Hunt and his IMF team race to prevent a rogue artificial intelligence from taking over the world. FUBAR: Season 2, Premiering 12 June Eager to return to action, Luke, Emma and the crew get more than they bargained for when a mysterious terrorist threatens to unleash worldwide chaos. WWE Night of Champions: 2025, Premiering 28 June Champions and challengers make history with all eyes on the biggest prizes in WWE. Binging With The Seasons Chucky: Season 2, Premiering 1 June Ginny & Georgia: Season 3, Premiering 5 June The Rookie: Seasons 1 – 6, Premiering 15 June Somebody Feed Phil: Season 8, Premiering 18 June Animation Sensation The Creature Cases: Chapter 5, Premiering 9 June The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish: Season 2, Premiering 12 June KPop Demon Hunters, Premiering 20 June What's your Reaction? +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0
Cosmopolitan
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' Ending, Explained
If you came to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to have a nice time and watch Tom Cruise jump on and off of things, and honestly feel so attacked by concepts like "the podkova" and a "decompression chamber" and "the Entity," we got you covered. Here's your guide to the explosive devices, time crunches, and daring escapes that make up The Final Reckoning's ending. The stakes are catastrophically high in this movie. An evil AI called "The Entity," introduced in 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, has seized control of nuclear weapons from all world powers, except the United States, and is prepared to blow up the world and start Earth over with a blank slate run by the few survivors. Ethan Hunt wants to destroy the Entity before this happens. Doing so would save the world but destroy all of cyberspace with it. So not the ideal solution. Other parties, including the United States government and a guy named Gabriel, want to control the Entity. Before he died towards the beginning of the film, Luther created a "poison pill" for the Entity that would trap and corrupt it (similar to a computer virus) if connected to the Entity's original source code (a.k.a. the "podkova" that Ethan retrieved from a submarine at the bottom of the Bering Sea). Simply put: they have to put the thing in the other thing. The problem is that the Entity is very good at predicting human behavior and might just bomb everybody if it senses someone is trying to mess with it. Ethan's plan is to get Gabriel, the villain who used to be the Entity's human proxy, to do it for them—because the Entity would never see that coming. They determine that the Entity is planning to infiltrate a bunker in South Africa which would protect it from the nukes it plans to deploy. The bunker hosts computer servers containing an archive of human knowledge expansive enough to ensure our history survives a nuclear holocaust. They decide to let the Entity into the vault, because once the Entity is trapped there it can be contained there. Grace and Benji, at least, don their best Indiana Jones/National Treasure-inspired attire for the warmer climate. When they get to the bunker, Gabriel is waiting for them with some cronies and a nuclear weapon of his own. Briggs and Kittridge also show up. (Earlier in the film, like much earlier, the two agents agreed to go rogue and meet the IMF team at their final destination. How they figured that out is classified.) The feds hit the bricks when they realize that Gabriel has armed a nuclear bomb. But the damage is already done. The plan is wrecked. Gabriel flees with Ethan in pursuit and the others stick around to try and keep the bomb from going off. By forming even smaller teams, of course! Donloe, the former CIA agent from the very first Mission: Impossible movie that the team reunited with on St. Matthew's Island in the Bering Sea, stays outside with his wife and Brigg's former partner Degas, to deactivate the bomb. Meanwhile Grace, Benji, and Paris go inside the bunker to try and download the Entity onto a drive as soon as Ethan and/or Gabriel plugs that poison pill into the podkova. While this is happening, Paris also performs an emergency tracheotomy on Benji with whatever materials they have hanging around... no biggie! While his team splits up on the ground, Ethan takes to the sky to get the poison pill from Gabriel and plug it into the podkova himself if he can't get Gabriel to do it. Gabriel just happened to have an escape buddy, providing Ethan with the perfect opportunity to commandeer his biplane and chase after him. Ethan manages to catch up to Gabriel's plane and climb onto it... and then, after pulling some dramatic faces that would have made Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard jealous, Gabriel smashes his head into his own plane's rudder and dies. Right before that happens, Gabriel taunts Ethan by saying that only he has a parachute. No matter what happens with the podkova and the poison pill and the Entity, according to Gabriel, Ethan is going to fall to his death. This turns out to be far from true. Ethan may not have been wearing a parachute when Gabriel made his attempt to escape, but there is another one in the plane. Ethan puts the parachute on his back, jumps, and even when it fails he manages to deploy a back-up parachute while inserting the poison pill into the podkova and saving the world. So, basically, Gabriel died making an empty threat. How embarrassing for him! Meanwhile, at another secure location, President Sloane is grappling with the information that she is the only human person with autonomy over nuclear weapons in the world. Her military advisors want her to launch a preemptive strike, which includes bombing one domestic location. We will never know which United States city President Sloane chose. That's probably for the best. I certainly don't want to think about which city the filmmakers think is expendable! We also don't find out what happens to the Entity's cult following. I'd keep an eye on them if I were the IMF or government of literally any nation. At the very last second, as is the way with these movies, she goes against the advice of her male advisers and takes America's nuclear bombs off-line completely. Sure, that means that the country is defenseless... but it also means that an evil AI can't take control of them. She also survives an immediate assassination attempt, because the men literally cannot deal and one panics and shoots at her. The movie and its marketing sure act like this is the de facto "series finale" of the Mission: Impossible franchise. However, there's no reason why the story can't continue. Ethan Hunt is alive. While Ethan's number one bestie Luther died towards the beginning of the film, the team is bigger and more capable than ever. He even gets a handshake from Briggs at the end of the film, implying that the U.S. Government won't be after him. At the end of the film, everyone gathers in London's Trafalger Square. ("Just like the ending of Cats," said nobody.) Grace hands Ethan the drive that now houses the Entity, and one by one the team vanishes into the crowd. It's up to him whether he destroys the Entity–which would, again, destroy the entire internet–or just hands on to it. It's the happiest, and most ambiguous, ending we could have hoped for in a Mission Impossible film.
Man of Many
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Man of Many
Samsung OLED S95F 83-Inch TV Review: A Big, Bright, Beautiful Blade of Glass
By Rob Edwards - News Published: 27 May 2025 Share Copy Link Readtime: 9 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. I recently had the opportunity to check out Samsung's latest TV offering, which meant an afternoon of very hard work: watching a movie, chucking on a little footy, and seeing if there's some kind of televisual revolution in the works — remember when tech companies tried to convince us that curved TVs were the future? What an insane time that was. Happily, upon entering the plush suite at Sydney's Kimpton Margot hotel, booked by Samsung for the occasion, I was greeted by the entirely flat and impressively thin 83-inch OLED S95F TV. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, it was clear that Samsung has designed this panel to elevate your in-home viewing experience via a range of upgrades that, while subtle individually, noticeably enhance the whole affair when combined. Now, if you've bought a TV in the last couple of years, you probably won't feel compelled to upgrade at this stage — a good TV should last you at least five years these days, maybe even a full decade. Having said that, I love the 65-inch Samsung OLED I purchased just a few years ago, and yet there are some upgrades here that I wouldn't mind taking home if I happened to stumble across a spare AUD$9,999. With that, let's take a closer look and see if Samsung is still the TV brand to beat. It's hard to tell from a photo, but the S95F is massive at 83 inches | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many Why Trust Us? Here at Man of Many, we use a wide variety of technology. We're not fans of any one brand, and we like to get our hands on the latest and greatest tech before we proclaim any product the next great thing. Over the past 10 years, we've built up extensive experience in reviewing tech as a publication. The author of this article, Rob Edwards, is one of Man of Many's technology journalists and has followed the industry for over a decade. He's previously reviewed competitors' devices and spent a few hours with the Samsung S95F for the purposes of this feature. No money exchanged hands, and all opinions expressed are those of the author and haven't been seen by Samsung ahead of time. For more information on our independence, testing and review guidelines, you can read our full editorial policies here. Even at this resolution, ol' Tom looks pretty good | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many The Good: Image, Design, User Interface, and Glare-Free Viewing Blockbuster-Ready Settling in to put the S95F through its paces, I started scrolling through the catalogue of streaming services via Samsung's intuitive user interface. Coming across Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning—a timely refresher for the then-upcoming Final Reckoning sequel—I sat back to see if Samsung's panel could make the most of Tom Cruise's attempts to land himself in an early grave. First, I should say that it was immediately apparent that the visual impact of the 83-inch behemoth was on another level, offering 30 per cent more brightness than that of Samsung's previous flagship model. Contrast, colour saturation, sharpness, and the rest of those pesky picture settings one can be forced to fiddle with for hours to get them just right, were also perfectly balanced. No adjustments were required on my behalf, as the picture offered a natural, yet rich and vibrant depiction of whatever image was on screen. Jumping into the settings to return things to the factory setup, I was pleasantly surprised to find whoever set the S95F up initially hadn't made any tweaks at all, so it should perform this well for anyone straight out of the box. The picture was also beautifully crisp. Samsung's NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor does a commendable job managing picture quality at all times. While I'm sick of talking about AI, here it actually works, responding to whatever you throw up on the screen. While most of the sources I used during my viewing were 4K, I tested out some lower-res content on YouTube and a few other places and found the TV's upscaling impressive. From my position on the couch, I could not tell the difference between a 4K source or one that was merely HD. Even sub-HD pictures performed surprisingly well. Anyway, back to Cruise's shenanigans, the S95F deftly handled the frenetic action of the Mission: Impossible franchise's (for now) penultimate instalment. Whether the Hollywood icon's skin was flapping in the wind—having ridden a motorbike off the edge of a sheer mountaintop—or he was weaving through pedestrians on the streets of Rome in a battered BMW, the drama always looked clean and clear. Come on, Wests! | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many A Good Sport While one would expect cutting-edge images from a contemporary Hollywood blockbuster, I also felt compelled to give some sport a try — in my experience, a considerably less reliable performer when it comes to in-home viewing. Having previously had some nightmares with TV testing using this kind of content—on one occasion the upscaling achieved little more than making the players look like melted wax figures—I'm always apprehensive at what I might discover. However, I'm happy to report that the NRL and NBA games I streamed from Kayo during my time with the S95F were comparable to the Hollywood blockbuster in terms of crispness. In fact, I was surprised to find that the NRL game (Wests Tigers vs Brisbane Broncos, for anyone who's wondering) was actually the better-looking of the two. I have to confess to being less invested in this game. It looked great, though | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many A Glaring Difference To be honest, while the above results are impressive, anything less would be disqualifying for a TV with an almost five-figure asking price. Saying that, there was one feature that really struck me. In fact, it was the first thing I noticed when entering the Kimpton Margot suite. I'm referring to how the S95F performed under the extremely well-lit conditions of the suite. Not only were the lights on at full brightness, but large windows running down the wall of the room where the TV was set up enabled bright sunlight to come streaming in. For many panels—included my beloved 65-inch model at home—this would present a massive issue when it comes to glare and reflections. But not for the S95F. Thanks to Samsung's anti-glare technology, the TV looked as if it was occupying a dark room. While most TVs would have you struggling to see past your own reflection in the panel—rather than Tom Cruise's nip-tucked visage—the S95F's image was in no way obscured by either the room's artificial lighting or the rays of sunlight pouring through the adjacent window. Not the most glamorous photo, but you get a sense for how thin this panel is | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many Can TVs Get Any Thinner? Finally, I should also call out the impressive build of the S95F. Despite its enormous 83-inch span, it measures just 12.6mm thick. That means that it essentially looks like a giant blade of glass, and until you stand right up beside it, you'd be mistaken for thinking you could cut yourself on it. This makes it perfect for wall mounting, although it looks elegant sitting on its stand as well. For those unfamiliar, this thinness is made possible by Samsung's One Connect Box, which contains all the bulky innards that would normally add depth to your TV's construction and enables you to place it elsewhere in your viewing space, giving you welcome flexibility in terms of your layout. For an authentic cinema experience, you're going to need a soundbar at the very least | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many The Bad: Price and Audio Options To describe any of the below as 'bad' is harsh, but this is Man of Many's review format and I'm sticking with it! For a cutting-edge 83-inch OLED TV, an asking price of AUD$9,999 is perfectly reasonable, particularly when you consider it was AUD$11,499 a few short weeks ago. However, no matter how you justify it, it's still a big wad of cash and can in no way be described as a bargain. This is exacerbated when you consider that the audio performance of a TV as thin as this is going to be passable at best. It's just the nature of skinny TVs. As such, to make the most of this impressive panel, you're going to want to fork out even more for an equally impressive soundbar. During testing, Samsung had the Q-Series HW-Q990F Soundbar installed and it did a bang-up job. That's another AUD$1,999 right there. Worth it, but something to consider. However you slice it, it's a great TV | Image: Rob Edwards / Man of Many Many of Many's Final Verdict on the Samsung OLED S95F 83-Inch TV It should come as no surprise that the new flagship TV from one of the most formidable tech brands on the planet is an outstanding piece of kit. It looks spectacular while displaying a wide range of content, boasts an extremely refined design (how much further can these things go?), and feels like it was designed specifically for well-lit Australian homes. It'll cost you, but once it's mounted on your wall it'll do a phenomenal job for years to come.
