Samuel Brace on the five highest-grossing movie stars not in a Star Wars or superhero movie… Film’s landscape has changed dramatically over the years – as is to be expected. Gone is the age of the traditional American movie, the sweeping drama, the movie star led original tale that could drive audiences to cinemas just […]
Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
Fox and Amblin Entertainment have set Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post, a drama which details The Washington Post’s role in exposing the Pentagon Papers, a classified study into the United States involvement in Vietnam, and the newspaper’s legal struggle over the right to publish the report. The Post will […]
Will Smith and Tom Hanks in talks to join Tim Burton’s Dumbo
Tim Burton has been planning his live-action remake of Disney’s Dumbo for quite a while now and it looks like he may have found actors to play the human leads. Sources say that Will Smith and Tom Hanks are in talks for the film, with Hanks eyed to star as the villain, a rare role for him […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot. […]
Second Opinion – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Sidse Babbett Knudsen and Irrfan Khan. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: Robert Langdon must regain his memory and his problem solving skills in order to save the world’s population from a deadly new plague. Full disclosure: I read the book Inferno when it first came […]
Tom Hanks returning to World War II for Greyhound
It looks like Tom Hanks could be heading back to World War II, with Deadline reporting that the Saving Private Ryan star has written the script for Greyhound, which is being directed by Aaron Schneider (Get Low). Greyhound will see Hanks as a career naval officer given the command of a destroyer, who along with […]
Movie Review – Sully (2016)
Sully. 2016. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Anna Gunn, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Michael Rapaport, and Laura Linney. SYNOPSIS: The story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after gliding his plane along the water in the Hudson River, saving all of the airplane flights 155 crew and passengers. Sully unexpectedly […]
Tom Hanks – A Retrospective
A Hologram For The King, directed by Tom Tykwer, is due for release on both Blu-ray and DVD come the 19th September 2016 from Icon Film Distribution. Based on the novel by Dave Eggers, Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, a man who has lost everything now finding himself desperate and directionless within a strange and foreign land, searching for […]
Disney’s Splash remake to star Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell
Just this past June, producer Brian Grazer teased during an interview that a remake of his over three-decade-old surprise hit Splash, which starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, was in the works with an interesting twist; today, that project has been revealed, as Deadline reports that a remake of Splash starring Jillian Bell and Channing […]
