To coincide with the release of The Nice Guys, Kieran Fisher recommends 10 other buddy cop movies worth checking out… This weekend marks the release of Shane Black’s new film The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a law enforcement duo investigating a missing persons case. It also sees Black return to […]
Tom Hanks to star in sci-fi robo drama Bios
The nicest man on the planet, Mr. Tom Hanks, stepped into the sci-fi flecked world of The Circle earlier this year with pretty disastrous results. Now Variety are reporting that he is to have another crack at the genre with Bios. Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik is attached to direct the story of a robot that […]
Emma Watson joins Tom Hanks in The Circle
Variety is reporting that former Harry Potter star Emma Watson has signed on to appear alongside Tom Hanks in The Circle, director James Ponsoldt’s (The Spectacular Now) upcoming adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel. “Emma Watson is one of my favorite actors, and her incredible talent, sensitivity and deep intelligence will bring an electric energy […]
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 […]
Felicity Jones confirmed for Inferno, more cast members added
Columbia Pictures has revealed the cast for the adaptation of the Dan Brown novel Inferno, which will reunite The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) has now been confirmed for the role of Dr Sienna Brooks after months […]
Splash remake is on the way, says producer Brian Grazer
In an interview with CNBC, producer Brian Grazer (Inferno, A Beautiful Mind) has said that one his earliest films Splash is getting the remake treatment. Released in 1984, Splash was Grazer and producing partner Ron Howard’s first significant hit, with Howard also directing. Tom Hanks (A Hologram for the King) and Darryl Hannah (Kill Bill) starred in […]
Tom Hanks to play Captain Sully in Clint Eastwood’s Miracle on the Hudson movie
He’s played Captain Phillips, and now it looks like he’s going to play Captain Sully… According to Deadline, Tom Hanks has entered negotiations to star as Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming biopic of the veteran pilot who became an American hero in 2009 thanks to the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, where he […]
Two new promos for Toy Story That Time Forgot
Before they return to cinemas for 2017’s Toy Story 4, Woody, Buzz and the gang will all be back on the small screen for ABC’s holiday special Toy Story That Time Forgot, and two first-look promos have arrived online, which we’ve got for you right here… During a post-Christmas play date, the Toy Story gang find […]
Tom Hanks to star in News of the World
According to Deadline, Fox 2000 has tapped Lion screenwriter Luke Davies to adapt Paulette Jiles’ novel News of the World as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks, who is producing alongside Gary Goetzman and Gail Mutrux (The Danish Girl). News of the World takes place in 1870 and revolves “around a road trip through the […]
Blu-ray Review – Bridge of Spies (2015)
Bridge of Spies, 2015. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons, Sebastian Koch and Alan Alda. SYNOPSIS: During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the […]
