A new movie starring Tom Hanks usually is an event. Through the years the man has earned his stripes and that means he’s usually in great movies. Still this movie kind of crept under the radar. Should that have been different? Continue reading
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks is one of those actors I love watching in anything. Not all movies he stars in will always be good, but I will see a movie if I know he is in it. In Captain Philips he plays the titular role of a captain who has to deal with Somali pirates who want to take control of his ship. The movie has been directed by Paul Greengrass, who is best known for his work in the Bourne movies. He’s a director who knows how to frame action in a way that involves you and in this case that is a good fit for the type of story that’s being told. Continue reading
Cloud Atlas (2012)
The Wachowskis made a big splash in the movie world when they made The Matrix, which blew away audiences. It was visually stunning and the siblings have made some interesting movies after it, like V for Vendetta and Speed Racer. With Cloud Atlas they again try to bring a spectacle to the screen, but will it wow audiences? Continue reading
The Many Faces of… Tom Hanks
Today is my birthday and of course this means a party. As a visitor you will get a present today in the form of a new “The Many faces of…”. This time I’ve selected Tom Hanks. No particular reason, heard his name in some podcast and thought it would be interesting. Searching for pictures I quickly found out these were not as versatile as Samuel L. Jackson’s ones as he only started to change his appearance in later movies. This made me think what Jason Statham looks like in the various movies. I’d almost bet it would be exactly the same.
Now on to this week’s star, Tom Hanks. Going through his acting career I noticed that he played a lot of small roles in big TV shows like Family Ties, Taxi, The Love Boat and Happy Days. He started acting in 1979 in a small slasher movie called He Knows You’re Alone. It wasn’t until his role in Big that his career really took off. Click here to view his many roles
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
It’s not often that movies based on someone’s life are funny. I Love you Philip Morris is one example I can think of, but so is Charlie Wilson’s War, despite the serious subject of the tension that was brewing in Afghanistan between the local people and the invading Russian army.
Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a politician from Texas who lives a very luxurious life while he has his seat in the American Congress. He likes his women, booze and drugs and really has fun with it all. When he sees the situation in Afghanistan on TV something changes. He decides to do something about it and finds out that America is hardly spending any money on getting the Russians out of Afghanistan.
He’s helped by Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts) who, although she’s not a politician, does know the right people to get things done. There is also help from CIA agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who really doesn’t care what the people within the CIA think of him. Together they try to make some money available for Afghanistan. Continue reading
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toys are back for the final part of the Toy Story trilogy. The toys already have been through a lot in the first two movies. In the first one we saw the start of the friendship between Buzz en Woody, which they almost lost during the second movie because Woody was taken away by a collector. Because of their adventures the toys are a tight-knit group, who know that they can depend on each other.
Their owner Andy is getting older and is about to leave the house to go to college. He has lost interest in his toys and they are tucked away in a chest. Of course the toys are not happy, but it’s something they knew would come one day. Like in every relationship, they too enjoy the attention and affection they get, but those times seem to be a thing of the past. Continue reading