Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning & Secret Mall Apartment

Tom Cruise is a 62-year-old action movie hero still capable of dangling from airplanes and punching out bad guys. In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano talk about "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning," and, of course, they wonder if it will indeed be the final reckoning for this venerable franchise. Marie and Mike carp about the 169-minute running time, implausible and formulaic story, stilted acting and other things, but also readily acknowledge that it's an enjoyable popcorn movie. Just make sure you have a big bucket of popcorn to see you through it.

They also discuss a movie that is its polar opposite. "Secret Mall Apartment" is a low-budget, quirky documentary about eight Rhode Islanders who as an art project set up a totally illegal apartment inside a Providence shopping mall and then live in it for four years. This film raises all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of art, commerce, and surreptitious cinderblock construction.

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