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Reading While Eating for May 7: More Impossible Missions
In today's must-read links for your lunch break: Mission: Impossible 5 is a go, three women are freed after a decade-long abduction and we explore the...

Tom Cruise Controls the Weekend with Oblivion
The 50-year-old star proves his continued clout with this sci-fi epic

Friday Flicks: Tom Cruise Leaps into the Future in ‘Oblivion’
TIME breaks down which films to see and which to avoid this weekend.

Tom Cruise in Oblivion: Drones and Clones on Planet Earth
One of Hollywood's last stars wins battles against enemy spacecraft, but he can't infuse this artsy sci-fi film with emotional vitality

Where Are Our Bright Science Fiction Futures?
Why does science fiction so often seem to mean future dystopias? Have we forgotten how to imagine happier futures for ourselves?
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Top 10 Colorful First Spouses
Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of Japan's future Prime Minister, claims to have been to Venus and knew Tom Cruise in a previous life (when he was Japanese). Here's a...

Christmas Week Movies 2008
Seven films to while away the holiday, from Brad Pitt's Benjamin Button to Tom Cruise's Valkyrie


