Nonsensical retelling of the Dan Brown best-seller, premised on "the greatest cover-up in human history," namely the murderously guarded secret that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and multiplied. (The additional premise that the disclosure of the secret would have the immediate effect of liberating the oppressed worldwide and bringing …
Our shaggy soldier story finds Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) assigned the task of driving Lula, the Hannibal Lecter of Belgian Malinois, from northern Washington to Arizona for the funeral of the beast’s dead master and fellow Ranger. Every dog has their day, many a genial box office star their …
A burlesque of the same-named television series of the Fifties, or at least a burlesque of the main character of it. Dan Aykroyd has exactly the nail-file voice and fresh-mown hair to pass as the nephew of Jack Webb's Sgt. Friday, and the walking-anachronism brand of humor makes him rather …
Not the feature-length montage generally associated with Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby), nor is it a patch on the Kurt Russell, John Carpenter TV biopic from 1979. Austin Butler reported to work on time and fit the costumes, but for all impractical purposes, they might just as well …
Extremely ambitious and incredibly pretentious. Also false. A brainy, yappy New York boy (Thomas Horn) feels guilty about not answering the WTC calls of his doomed dad (Tom Hanks) on 9/11/01. He walks around New York looking for fishy clues, and a mute, grizzled man (Max von Sydow) tags along …
A post-apocalyptic amalgamation of Tom Hanks’ greatest hits (notably Turner and Hooch and Cast Away) lies at the heart of this wake up call to climate change deniers. (Perhaps the non-believers in the crowd might finally face reality if the message comes cloaked in sci-fi trappings and with the Walter …
Three decades in the life of a mental midget (I.Q., 75) who leaves giant footprints on his twisting path, in rather sharp contradiction of the feather-on-the-wind visual motif at movie's beginning and end. The traversal of so much history permits the filmmaker, Robert Zemeckis, to resume his wrong-end-of-the-telescope examination of …
Affectionate and amiable portrait of a fading mentalist (a blissfully hammy John Malkovich) modelled on The Amazing Kreskin, whose fortunes have been on the downslide since Johnny Carson left The Tonight Show. Colin Hanks, as a law-school dropout hired to be the new road manager, is our innocent eyes and …
Overpraise The Shawshank Redemption, and this is what you deserve. Frank Darabont, the writer and director of both, raises an eyebrow of interest for his apparent dedication to breathing some life into the prison genre (pretty well flatlined since Escape from Alcatraz), but the eyebrow might decline into a scowl …
Overpraise The Shawshank Redemption, and this is what you deserve. Frank Darabont, the writer and director of both, raises an eyebrow of interest for his apparent dedication to breathing some life into the prison genre (pretty well flatlined since Escape from Alcatraz), but the eyebrow might decline into a scowl …
Toward the outset of World War II, a devoutly religious but in-over-his-head Navy captain (Tom Hanks) leads a military escort of Allied ships though the North Atlantic — with a wolfpack of six Nazi U-boats hot on their tail. At a time when starring roles for middle-aged heroes are at …
Following his embodiment of American foreign policy in Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks looks to embody American economic policy as Alan Clay, a man who once voted to move Schwinn’s bicycle production to China, and who now finds himself trying to hawk IT for an unbuilt city of the future in …
Gender-bender comedy inspired by Tom Hanks's thanks to his gay high-school teacher during his Oscar acceptance speech for Philadelphia. What if a teacher "outed" on the Oscarcast were scheduled to be married at the end of the week? The movie has steady fun with sexual stereotypes, Hollywood types, TV types, …
A thoroughly pedestrian adventure that might have been better titled Hell is Lots and Lots of Other People.. At least, that's the belief of the billionaire bad guy in Ron Howard's latest adaptation of Dan Brown's series featuring symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks). What to do about overbreeding humanity? Well, …