Posts tagged "Tom Hanks"

Tom Hanks stars as the titular Otto in A Man Called Otto, a film adapted from the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.  Otto is a grumpy old man, who seems to have taken it upon himself to be the enforcer of all rules and regulations on his gated street.  He seems to […

Vaz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a rollicking guided tour through the highs and lows of Elvis Presley’s life and career, from his childhood as a poor kid in Mississippi to his extraordinary super-stardom as “the king of rock and roll” to his sad final days as a bloated

Let’s kick things off with this spectacular trailer for Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: That trailer is deliriously good. I’ve really loved both the first and second Ant Man films, and I’m so happy to see Paul Rudd & co. back for a third go-round.  I love tha

The film Finch is set some time in the future.  A massive solar flare, combined with other environmental catastrophes, has mostly wiped out mankind.  Tom Hanks plays Finch, an engineer who has survived with his dog Goodyear by living mostly in the sheltered, underground lab of the c

Earlier this week I reviewed News of the World, one of two great Tom Hanks films released in the latter part of 2020.  The other was Greyhound.  Based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, the film depicts several terrifying days in the middle of the Atlantic during

In News of the World, Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a veteran of the Civil War who now eeks out a living by traveling from town to town to read from newspapers for the townspeople’s entertainment and edification.  Captain Kidd winds up entangled with a young girl n