The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema podcast. My name's Brian Sauer. I am joined, as always, by the wonderful Edward Kane. Mr. Kane. What are we talking about today? Well, as we are the stars of this podcast

because we're the only ones here. By default, we are the stars. Yeah, well, a little bit of

inspiration from some of our previous shows. We have been talking about director missing

pieces a lot last year. Then we moved into Danny Perry's cult movie stars where we

started filling in some of our missing

pieces of some of our favorite cult stars, but we hadn't talked about the big guns, the big

movie stars really much on the show except when they come up, you know, through their films.

And I was listening to an episode of The Big Picture where they were speculating about Tom

Cruz's career.

And it was kind of bummed me out because we are obviously in a sore lack of,

you know, real movie stars now.

Just the nature of Hollywood has changed a lot.

But they're still there.

There's still a handful left, I would say.

And they were talking about Cruz in terms of Maverick.

And they were predicting that all we'll ever see

from here on to the end of his career is him playing the the maverick top gun character who I've already

forgotten and Mission Impossible's character for the rest of his career like he'll just keep playing

those two characters because it's safe because for whatever reason he's got burned on certain

periods. And then there was a line, a throwaway there like, oh, you know, I wish he would be making more

movies, you know, more Edge of Tomorrow's room. And it reminded me that I have a friend who's been telling

me for about 10 years to watch Edge of Tomorrow always telling me. You realize it's like the best modern, like, you know, sci-fi action movie.

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