Tom Cruise has finally entered The Criterion Collection. While technically, “Cocktail” has been available on the Criterion Channel in the past (no, really), in announcing its July titles today, Criterion made Cruise’s inclusion with a DVD/Blu-Ray title official today with the addition of 1983’s classic comedy, “Risky Business,” the actor’s breakthrough film. Directed by Paul Brickman, the coming-of-age comedy film, sometimes said to be modeled after a more risqué, “The Graduate,” centers on a Chicago teenager (Cruise) and his sexual exploits while his parents are away on vacation, including spending time with prostitutes.

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Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker that is easily on the Mount Rushmore of American directors, including the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and others. But unlike those men, Scorsese hasn’t gone back to his films over the years to release new cuts or reformat them in some way. And as explained in a new interview with EW, the filmmaker has a very good reason for not wanting to release a director’s cut or extended cut of his previous films.

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In this Bob Dylan skewed biopic clip, Cate Blanchett/Jude/Dylan and the Band goes electric at the New England Folk Festival and the folk fanatical crowd isn’t’ having it jeering and giving disappointed boos. “Sorry for everything I’ve done and I hope to remedy it soon,” (a line straight from “Eat The Document”) Blanchett’s Dylan composite character says (it sounds like they’re playing “Maggie’s Farm”; we just saw it and can confirm).

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