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First look at Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ WWII series Masters of the Air as January premiere set

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After years in development, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ second Band of Brothers follow up Masters of the Air is set to premiere on Apple TV+ on January 26th, 2024. Along with the announcement, Apple released a batch of first look photos showing the cast that includes Austin Butler (Elvis), Callum Turner (The Capture) and Barry Keoghan (The Banshees […]

Movie Review – Asteroid City (2023)

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Asteroid City, 2023. Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia […]

Movie Review – Asteroid City (2023)

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Asteroid City, 2023. Written and Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori, Grace Edwards, Aristou […]

Johansson, Hanks, Schreiber and Schwartzman feature in clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

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Hoping to make an impact when it receives its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Focus Features has dropped a series of clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, an off-kilter comedy with the requisite large ensemble that is centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention […]

Movie Review – A Man Called Otto (2022)

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A Man Called Otto, 2022. Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Kailey Hyman, Rachel Keller, Truman Hanks, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Mike Birbiglia, Elle Chapman, Lavel Schley, Josefine Lindegaard, Kelly Lamor Wilson, Spenser Granese, Juanita Jennings, Christiana Montoya, Julian Manjerico, Jon Donahue, Peter Lawson Jones, Alessandra Perez, Greg Allan Martin, Robyne Parrish, […]

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City trailer is very Wes Anderson

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Focus Features has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Wes Anderson’s next film Asteroid City, a comedy centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention is disrupted by… a visitor from outer space?  That doesn’t seem to matter, as the focus instead is on the usual Wes Anderson […]

Tom Hanks is A Man Called Otto in new trailer for comedy drama

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Ahead of its theatrical release this January, Sony Pictures has shared a new trailer for A Man Called Otto, director Marc Foster’s upcoming adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s New York Times bestselling novel A Man Called Ove. The comedy drama stars Tom Hanks as Otto Anderson, a man grieving the loss of his wife who is […]

4K Ultra HD Review – News of the World (2020)

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News of the World, 2020. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson, Andy Kastelic, Ray McKinnon, Mare Winningham, and Elizabeth Marvel. SYNOPSIS: News of the World stars Tom Hanks as a Civil War veteran who finds himself trying to take a young girl home after she’s been freed from […]

Are the days of the big name headliners disappearing?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at whether the days of the superstar headliner are disappearing with audiences more drawn to franchises or film concepts than the stars attached… You could say it started in Hollywood’s classic era. The movie star. The big name. They were in some ways manufactured, or at least their image was. Rock Hudson […]

Blu-ray Review – Dragnet (1987)

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Dragnet, 1987. Directed by Tom Mankiewicz. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Alexandra Paul, Jack O’Halloran, Harry Morgan, Elizabeth Ashley and Debney Coleman. SYNOPSIS: Police Sergeant Joe Friday and his new partner Pep Streebeck investigate a pagan cult causing havoc in Los Angeles. It was the 1980s and buddy cop movies were coming at you […]