Published Jun 6, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell upwards into a senior position despite his best efforts.
For reasons unknown, he enjoys analyzing box office receipts, giant sharks, and has become known as the go-to man for all things Bosch, Mission: Impossible and Christopher Nolan in Collider’s news division. Recently, he found himself yeehawing along to the Dutton saga on the Yellowstone Ranch.
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His obsession with the Apple TV+ series Silo is the subject of mockery within the Senior News channel, where his feelings about Taylor Sheridan’s work are enough to make his fellow writers roll their eyes.
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There’s no other way to describe this movie, and indeed, the series from which it spawned, than as pure popcorn entertainment. And the man behind all of them would be utterly overjoyed to hear that, particularly given his proclivity for a box or two of popcorn himself. But jaws will be on the floor when you witness that moment in this movie; hopefully it won’t trigger vertigo.
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol is streaming for free on Pluto this month, bringing one of the franchise’s most enjoyable outings to our homes for the low, low cost of absolutely nada. Directed by **Brad Bird **(The Incredibles), the movie follows Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his disavowed (of course, they’re always disavowed) IMF team as they try to stop a nuclear threat after being blamed for an attack on the Kremlin.
Alongside Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Ghost Protocol also stars Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) as William Brandt, Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) as Benji Dunn, Paula Patton (Déjà Vu) as Jane Carter, Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Kurt Hendricks, Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die) as Sabine Moreau, **Anil Kapoor **(Slumdog Millionaire) as Brij Nath, and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) as Luther Stickell.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Financially, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol was a huge success, and arguably the movie that fully revived a franchise that had seemed on its last legs following the muted reception to Mission: Impossible III. It grossed about $694.7 million worldwide against a reported $145 million budget, making it the highest-grossing Mission: Impossible movie at the time, and in today’s cash that’s $970 million worldwide. So yeah, this was a breakout hit because people wanted to see Cruise hanging off a building, especially on IMAX. We were there, too.
Critically, it was just as big a hit, importantly, because that told Cruise he was doing something right on-screen. It also helped change the series around practical stunt spectacle, which became the franchise’s main selling point from that film onward, rather than straightforward spying and subterfuge. Its critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 93%, with praise going to Bird’s ability to transition from animation to live action spectacle.
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol is streaming for free on Pluto this month.
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