Tom Cruise’s The Mummy: Because New Ideas Are Hard

Tom Cruise’s The Mummy: Because New Ideas Are Hardby Ned LannamannThere’s a lot riding on the Tom Cruise-starring reboot of The Mummy. It’s the inaugural film in the “Dark Universe” series, a sprawling, Marvel-style movie franchise intended to interweave all of the classic Universal monsters from the 1930s and ’40s into a sparkling, CGI-enhanced mega-narrative. Fortunately, this first installment doesn’t rely on too many dangling threads for future films