🎥 Cruise vs. DiCaprio: Edge of Tomorrow & The Revenant

This week on Mostly Film, we’re putting two powerhouse performances under the microscope: Tom Cruise’s action-heavy, time-looping Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Leonardo DiCaprio’s brutal, Oscar-winning The Revenant (2015).

We dig into how Cruise flipped his usual hero persona on its head—starting out as a cowardly PR officer before evolving into a battle-hardened soldier—and why his chemistry with Emily Blunt made this one of his most entertaining roles in years.

Then we trek into the icy wilderness with DiCaprio, exploring how he endured bone-chilling conditions, ate raw bison liver, and gave a raw, nearly wordless performance that finally brought him his first Academy Award.

It’s a head-to-head between two very different kinds of survival stories: one fueled by sci-fi spectacle and do-overs, the other by grit, pain, and sheer willpower.