Watching these McQuarrie entires three nights in a row it’s remarkably obvious that they’re all basically the same movie. Not that the series isn’t formulaic, but with our big bads of Solomon Lane, John Lark, and ‘the entity’ they’re all the same good guy turned bad genius playing 4D chess that makes someone proclaim whatever it is the IMF is planning that’s exactly what the bad guys want them to do because they predict all the IMF’s movements ten steps…

I've seen this before, and I've always loved it, but I'm doing some research at the moment about autism in the movies and this film kept coming up - I had to watch it straight away, it had never occurred to me, but once seen I couldn't un-see it. Barry Egan has Asperger's.
The fixation on details and rules, the awkwardness in social situations, not knowing how to engage in physical appropriately, the violent meltdowns, the literal interpretation of…

I spent much of my teenage years (and beyond) watching horror movies, starting with the standard stuff from the local video shop years before I was meant to be seeing it, on to getting hold of NTSC copies of the then still-banned-in-the-uk classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then DVD came along and multiregion players and internet ordering and pretty much anything was available and I enjoyed extreme cinema from around the world, but even now as…