tom hanks

Nautical But Nice: Tom Hanks Takes To The High Seas In GREYHOUND

History buff and A-lister Tom Hanks has written and produced Greyhound, a WWII action movie which seemingly plays to all his strengths. This Aaron Schneider directed pic sees Hanks as the commander of a destroyer battling U-boats in the North [...]

March 7, 2020

Academy Awards 2020: Joker Leads The Oscar Pack

It’s not really a surprise that the multi-award winning, billion dollar grossing Joker is leading the pack with 11 nominations at the 2020 Academy Awards. If I were a betting man, I’d say that Joaquin Phoenix is a lock to win the Best [...]

January 14, 2020

BAFTA 2020: Nominations For The EE British Academy Film Awards

It looks like Joker is no laughing matter. Todd Phillips’ Blockbusting DC Comics film leads the pack at the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards with 11 nominations. Martin Scorsese’s Netflix produced drama The Irishman and Quentin [...]

January 7, 2020

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

Don’t Do It! Tom Hanks To Play Colonel Tom Parker In Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Pic

We can all agree that Tom Hanks is a great actor and he’ll probably turn in an impressive performance as the villainous Colonel Tom Parker in a movie about Elvis Presley. Parker was the man who made Elvis a star, but he was also a machiavelian [...]

March 30, 2019

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: THE POST, THE COMMUTER, BATMAN NINJA & More

This time around: Tom Hanks And Meryl Streep try to take down Nixon in The Post; Liam Neeson should have taken the bus in The Commuter; the Dark Knight goes to Japan in Batman Ninja; Michael Caine takes you through My Generation; venture back to [...]

May 14, 2018

Jeez… Will Smith And Tom Hanks Starring In Tim Burton’s DUMBO For Disney

I like Will Smith, I like Tom Hanks, I like Tim Burton and I like Disney. I really don’t need to see the four of them join forces to bring me a live action version of the 1941 animated film Dumbo. Burton’s a definite but Smith and [...]

January 12, 2017

Tom Wolfe’s THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Is Coming To Amazon Prime Video

Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities is an epic tome chronicling a diverse set of issues in 1980s New York. Sly, wry and filled with zing, Wolfe’s work is one of the great literary works of the 20th Century. The near 700 page novel (first [...]

October 15, 2016

Trailer For Clint Eastwood’s SULLY Makes An Impressive Landing

I wasn’t sold on the concept of Clint Eastwood‘s Sully to begin with. I admit it’s an impressive true story of how Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed a US Airways Flight Hudson River after the plane hit a [...]

July 2, 2016

New Trailer: Tom Hanks And Ron Howard Tackle Dan Brown’s INFERNO

I can’t believe it’s a decade since The Da Vinci Code and seven years since Angels And Demons hit screens. Where does time go? Anyway, Tom Hanks is back as Robert Langdon in Inferno and Ron Howard is once again directing this adaptation [...]

June 23, 2016

Tom Hanks And Ron Howard Tackle Another Dan Brown Mystery In INFERNO

Movies In Focus kinda digs these Tom Hanks/Ron Howard adventures. I like the potboiler aspect to these Dan Brown mysteries – and they don’t make big budget movies like this anymore for grown-ups – I applaud you gentlemen. [...]

May 10, 2016

Robert Langdon Is Back! New Images Of Tom Hanks In Ron Howard’s Dan Brown Adaptation INFERNO

Tom Hanks is back as Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon in Inferno. Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code/Angels And Demon’s follow-up once again sees Langdon caught-up in a conspiracy that could potentially change the world. These new images give the first [...]

December 30, 2015

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