Right-wing filmmaker Clint Eastwood’s Sully movie is a tribute to ‘old-fashioned all-American heroism.’ Tom Hanks plays US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger.
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Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record: Smirky mother in August: Osage County. Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced earlier today at the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Golden Globes’ hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (photo © HFPA). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler funny & daring enough at the 2014 Golden Globes telecast? Acting as a lighter…
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Paul Greengrass’ less than satisfying political thriller Captain Phillips places its focus on the less intriguing character. Tom Hanks stars.
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Tony Awards: ‘Lucky Guy’ with Tom Hanks. Tony Awards 2013: Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron & Cicely Tyson among nominees April 30 update: The Tony Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier…
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Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks’ Cloud Atlas box office: One of Hanks’ weakest wide-release debuts ever Oct. 28 update: Featuring Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan…
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Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile, as the inmate John Coffey. ‘The Green Mile’ actor Michael Clarke Duncan dead following heart attack hospitalization Michael Clarke Duncan, a Best Supporting…
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Toy Story 3 box office: About to become the year’s biggest domestic release, the animated adventure shattered Pixar’s opening-weekend record.
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Indie Spirit Awards: Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station ‘Indie’ Spirit Awards’ mostly mainstream winners The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie…
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Gordon Willis, Roger Corman, and Lauren Bacall: Honorary Oscars. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather: Part II, All the President’s Men, and The Purple Rose of…
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Animator Adam Beckett Salute Animator and visual effects artist Adam Beckett will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the special program “Infinite Animation: The…
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Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks. Tom Sizemore, and Matt Damon. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 Best Picture nominee Saving Private Ryan will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
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From NBC News Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin: “The FBI does not have a pornographic home movie of actress Marilyn Monroe in its files and never did, FBI officials tell…
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A 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, will take place on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Give North American audiences what they want: During Hollywood’s prestigious Oscar season, critically derided adventure becomes the biggest winter box office hit.
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Erotic movie Destricted Erotic movie ‘Destricted’ allowed to be screened outside British sex shops Quentin Thomas, head of the British Board of Film Classification – that’s the United Kingdom’s censorship…
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‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber. ‘Back to the Future’ actress Wendie Jo Sperber dead at 47 Wendie Jo Sperber, best known for her roles as Amy Cassidy…
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What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them, and how you define ‘comedy.’
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An animated Pixar hit, a costly motion-capture fantasy and an ‘end of the world’ disaster flick are among eligible entries for next year’s Academy Awards.
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Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks can’t save Nora Ephron’s unromantic and unfunny (but commercially successful) 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle.
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Gaping narrative issues hinder Sam Mendes’ gangster noir Road to Perdition, otherwise a great showcase for stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.
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Venice Festival: The Golden Lion victory of Mike Leigh’s abortion drama at the snafu-plagued Biennale has angered Italian nativists rooting for local father-son tale.
Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. Tom Hanks’ Captain Phillips weekend box office: One of actor’s biggest domestic openings in the past decade Oct. 13 update: Starring two-time Oscar winner Tom…
The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe. In The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe may not have a mega-blockbuster on the scale of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part…
The 2009 box office is evidence that domestic audiences are eager for ‘good movies’ - as long as you take a ‘glass half full’ approach to the issue.
Apollo 13 movie with Bill Paxton, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, and Kevin Bacon. Ron Howard’s 1995 Best Picture nominee Apollo 13 will be the next film in the Academy of…
Paris, France, middle of the night. An old man is walking alone in a darkened gallery in the Louvre. He approaches a painting. Another man – the evil twin of…
A first-rate Tom Hanks learns no one is indispensable in Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis’ adventure flick exalting the Triumph of the Human Spirit nonsense.