Tom Hanks
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood is based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
Toy Story 4 is the finest of the Toy Story sequels, and if it’s the start of a second trilogy, then we’ll follow it to infinity and beyond.
With conspiracies theories and boogeymen on the rise, Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs may be more relevant now than ever before.
The Post will likely be overlooked at this year’s Oscars, but with its historical depiction of the fight for the press and democracy, as well as its similarities to present day, it is still worth watching.
The Post is less than the sum of its parts; an effectively directed and acted film, but its most dramatic story is left in the margins.
25 years later, director Penny Marshall’s A League Of Their Own remains that rare thing: a sports movie with female characters to look up to.
In our latest entry of The Nominated Film You May Have Missed series, we discuss the 1998 War drama Saving Private Ryan.
Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail has been accused of everything from misogyny to being capitalist propaganda – Julia Smith thinks otherwise.
Though with timely themes and a fine cast/director, The Circle attempts to do too much with its material, instead ending up as lost potential.
Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Ron Howard reunite in their third collaboration on a Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno. Small wonder. The Da Vinci Code grossed better than $750 million worldwide, and its sequel, Angels & Demons, based on a lesser known novel that marked the first appearance of globe-trotting symbologist Robert Langdon, pulled in close to $500 million.
I still fondly remember the day that was subsequently christened the “Miracle on the Hudson”, when it was discovered that a plane successfully landed on the Hudson River after an incident in the air when both engines were destroyed. Amazingly, everyone on board survived. It was one of the first times I had heard of something like this happening, and I would say that most of America, if not the world, was equally spellbound.
Is there a term for one-hit wonder film directors? Whilst the idea of the one-hit wonder is quite prevalent within music (I’m a sucker for late ’90s, early 2000s one hit wonders, who doesn’t love Breakfast at Tiffany’s?), it’s a concept that’s becoming quite frequent in cinema as well; filmmakers who coast off the success of one film.
Bridge of Spies is not what I would call a happy film. Gray snow envelopes the dilapidated East German cityscape and we find Tom Hanks’s character interacting with others primarily in poorly lit, often dank rooms. Nearly all of the characters are entirely self-interested with blinders positioned perfectly to block out the undesired effects their actions can have on others.