Tag: tomhanks
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Official Trailer: Benicio del Toro And Mia Threapleton Lead an All-Star Cast in New Wes Anderson Film
Tis the season for another dose of the distinctiveness that is Wes Anderson. Variety got the jump on the official trailer for Anderson's new film. The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton take the lead on this one, and...
FREAKY TALES Review: Four Freaky-ish Tales From The East Bay
A mysterious green fog leads to a wild week in the East Bay in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales. Narrated by legendary Oakland rapper, Too $hort, Freaky Tales is an interconnected anthology of bizarre, violent goings-on occurring over...
HERE Review: Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis Reunion Disappoints, Underwhelms
As a commercially oriented, artistically ambitious, innovation-embracing filmmaker, Robert Zemeckis (Death Becomes Her, the Back to the Future trilogy, Romancing the Stone) enjoyed an unparalleled pre-21st century career where box-office, critic-approved hits far outweighed the occasional misses or missteps. Awards...
Review: A MAN CALLED OTTO, Grumpy Old Remake Remains Funny, Lovable
Tom Hanks stars as a grumpy old man in a remake of the Swedish original, directed by Marc Forster.
Now Streaming: In PINOCCHIO, Wood Becomes You
Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in a new live-action/CGI adaptation, directed by Robert Zemeckis, now streaming on Disney Plus.
Review: Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS Rings Incredibly Hollow
I’m having a really hard time with Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. I would like to apologize in advance for my own personal biases leaking into this review, but with my affinity for the subject it is very hard to be completely...
Review: FINCH, Tom Hanks Brightens a Bleak Future
Tom Hanks stars as the one person you would want to survive the Apocalypse. Miguel Sapochnik directs the sci-fi road trip, soon to stream on Apple TV+.
SXSW 2021 Interview: WE ARE AS GODS Directors Jason Sussberg And David Alvarado On The Man Who Wants To Revive The Mammoth
The documentary We Are As Gods focuses on Stewart Brand, a fascinating man whose main current obsession is de-extinction. Brand supports the idea of bringing back various extinct species and restoring ecosystems. His most ambitious project involves the woolly mammoth,...
Review: GREYHOUND, Tense, Suspense-Filled, Character-Driven Action
As of late, Tom Hanks has been semi-jokingly referred to as “America’s Dad,” partly for playing a seemingly endless series of benevolent paternal figures, but also for a long-running public persona that projects a combination of self-assurance, tranquility, and most...
Review: THE POST, a Ticking Time Bomb
Steven Spielberg's best thriller since Jaws, and his most 'of the moment' movie ever, The Post is also an unexpected sort of 'coming of age' tale. Rather mysteriously beginning during the Vietnam War before jumping forward in time and location,...
Review: CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER, 50 Million Mechanical Keyboard Fans Can't Be Wrong
I am typing this on a keyboard attached to my laptop computer because the laptop's own keyboard started acting up shortly after I purchased it in 2015. This never happened with my Smith-Corona electric typewriter, which my father gave me...
Tribeca 2017 Review: THE CIRCLE, Where All Are Trapped in the Social Media Web
The subject of our hyper-connected, social media-based cultural landscape is a fruitful and relevant one for filmmakers, and one with great potential for mass audience interest, given how pervasive this is in our daily lives. David Fincher’s Facebook origin story The Social Network can be looked upon as the gold...
Critical Distance: INFERNO, Why It's Good to See Bad Movies
The word is out on Ron Howard's Inferno. Only 20% of critics gave it a positive review, per Rotten Tomatoes. Visitors to that site were kinder, as 43% gave it a positive nod. Yet audiences in general were not interested...
AnarchyVision: Talking MOONLIGHT, THE HANDMAIDEN and More
In this weekend at the movies chat, I talk about the fantastic Moonlight, Park Chan-Wook's terrific The Handmaiden, the great music doc Oasis: Supersonic and, uh, Inferno....
Review: Hanks Sticks the Landing, But SULLY Fails to Soar
Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood helms this big screen reenactment of the “Miracle on the Hudson", when US Airways flight 1549 made an emergency landing on New York’s Hudson River in January 2009. Tom Hanks plays Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who...
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING: Tom Tykwer Talks Tom Hanks And Breaking Borders
With a career that’s been nonstop since setting off cinematic sparks with the kinetic Run Lola Run, director Tom Tykwer spoke to us about his latest film, A Hologram for the King. Tykwer talks of depicting realistic Muslim characters, breaking...
The Many Faces Of Tom Hanks
There is a new cold war thriller in cinemas called Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg (one of his finest works even, according to Christopher Bourne), written by a team including the Coen brothers, and starring Tom Hanks. And...
New York 2015 Review: BRIDGE OF SPIES, A Thrilling Throwback To An Earlier Era
The New York Film Festival's transition in the past few years from being more or less purely a showcase for the crème-de-la-crème of world cinema (which it still largely is) to being an increasingly prominent stop on the way to...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks HOBBIT, MR. BANKS, and Peter O'Toole
Today marks the loss of one of the greatest actors in Hollywood history, who rocketed to fame in one of the finest films ever made. O'Toole's Lawrence may tower over his other films, but with seven other Oscar noms and...
