Tagged Tom Hanks

This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular, bedazzled musical biopic, Elvis, follows the life and career of actor and musician...

Like News of the World protagonist Jefferson Kidd (Tom Hanks), Paul Greengrass has made a career spinning headline news into info-tainment for paying audiences. However, Greengrass’ latest is no meditation...

Marielle Heller returns with another unconventional biopic that is more interested in the humanity of its relationships than in worshipful recreations of historical events. That said, the love and care poured...

Is Toy Story 4 anything more than one last wring of the franchise towel to drain those last few dollars out? Disney has decided today’s audiences require "new" versions of their 1990s classics such as The...

Today, it may be a truth universally acknowledged that the internet is Dark and Full of Terrors – but it wasn’t always this way. 20 years ago, Nora Ephron beckoned audiences into a beautiful fantasy world,...

Saving Private Ryan. Catch Me If You Can. The Terminal. Bridge of Spies. And now, The Post. What do they all have in common? Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. As their fifth collaboration – a '70s-set...

Sometimes you take Steven Spielberg for granted. Then you watch one of his films. Nearly 50 years into his professional directorial career, Spielberg has reminded the world that no one else directs this...

Well, we back together to look over another week in film. It's not pretty is it? The last seven days has seen even more allegations arise for Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, Louis C.K. and beyond. It makes for...

1. Ridley Scott has another Alien in him, not like John Hurt did If we asked who’s excited for the new Alien film, we’re sure we’d get a positive response. If we asked who’s pumped for six more...

When you really think about it, Forrest Gump is a weird movie. Pitch it in the abstract - "let’s send this random hayseed careening through recent history like a southern Doctor Who" - and it sounds...

It's incredible that Clint Eastwood can make one of his best films so late into his career and so soon after one of his worst, American Sniper. Both films demonstrate his uncanny ability to create and...

Dan Brown is something of a miracle writer. His books, worldwide bestsellers one and all, are simultaneously light, page-turning romps and heavy art-history swamps. True to form, David Koepp has kept both of...

1. Class is in session for The Academy, looks rather more diverse The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finished licking envelopes and applying novelty stamps to the latest batch of invitations...

Though Tom Hanks’ performance in Ithaca is surely the briefest he’s ever given, it’s one reason why Meg Ryan’s directing debut feels like it could have been a Spielberg movie. Casting repeat co-stars...

Hanks’ Alan is a fish so far out of water that he’s stuck in the middle of the desert, and that’s about as subtle as the metaphors get. This is Tykwer's post-Cloud Atlas fever dream, a messy and...