Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One & Joy Ride

Tom Cruise is a 61-year-old action hero who still delivers the goods in "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One." HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano acknowledge as much in this podcast episode, but they also wonder about the movie's 163-minute running time - and this is just Part One! Individual sequences are exciting, but maybe it's too much of a good thing. Marie and Mike also discuss "Joy Ride," a raunchy comedy about mismatched friends. Although Marie liked it more than Mike did, they both admire it as a showcase for Asian American actors whose characters have a great time on that joy ride.