Tag Archives: Tom Hanks

Asteroid City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liv Schreiber, Aristou Meehan, Ethan Josh Lee, Sophia Lillis, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Ella Faris, Gracie Faris, Willan Faris, Deanna Dunagan, Vandi Clark, Pedro Placer, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson.

Asteroid City. Film Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

1883. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Audie Rick, Marc Rissmann, James Landry Hébert, Anna Fiamora, Malcolm Stephenson, Amanda Jaros, Jordan Walker Ross, Stephen Austin Long, Konstantin Melikhov, Eric Nelsen, Noah Le Gros, Josef Bette, Eric Bear, James Jordan, Rob Mello, Martin Sensmeier, Sacha Seberg, Neal Kodinsky, Daen Olivieri, David Midthunder, Billy Bob Thornton, Rita Wilson, Graham Greene, Tom Hanks.

1883. Television Drama Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Elvis. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thompson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Luke Bracey, Dacre Montgomery, Leon Ford, Gary Clark Jr., Yola, Natasha Bassett, Xavier Samuel, Adam Dunn, Alton Mason, Shonka Dukureh, David Gannon, Shannon Sanders, Charles Grounds, Gareth Davies, Chaydon Jay, Nicholas Bell, Josh McConville, Cie Morgan, Charles Allen.

The public face of an enigma is one in which all who profess they knew the figure well, actually understood him even less than the occasional fan.

Elvis. Film Review. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

The Post. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Meryl Steep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Poulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Zach Woods, John Rue, Rick Holmes, Michael Stulbarg, Philip Casnoff, Jessie Mueller, Deborah Green, David Aaron Baker, Dan Bucatinsky, Davis Costabile, Johanna Day.

The Post. Film Review. full post

(577 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Sully: The Miracle On The Hudson, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Mike O’ Malley, James Sheridan, Anna Gunn, Holt McCallany, Ahmed Lucan, Laura Linney, Katie Couric, Jeff Kober, Blake Jones, Molly Bernard, Chris Bauer, Jane Gabbart, Ann Cusak, Molly Hagan, Purva Bedi, Max Adler, Sam Huntington, Christopher Curry, Vincent Lombardi.

Sully: The Miracle On The Hudson, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Inferno, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ana Ularu, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Ida Darvish.

If there was ever an example in the world of cinema of a truly superb idea being driven down the wrong street then unfortunately Inferno would have to be one of the most disappointing examples of them all.

Inferno, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

A Hologram For The King, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Tom Skerritt, Jane Perry, Michael Baral, Lewis Rainer, David Menkin, Christie Meyer, Megan Maczko, Ben Whishaw, Kahalid Laith.

A mid-life crisis is to be expected, perhaps in many cases looked forward to as a chance to wreck havoc on the world around you and take apart your own life one carefully stacked brick at a time.

A Hologram For The King, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Bridge Of Spies, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, Eve Hewson, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons, Will Rogers, Sebastian Koch, Dakin Matthews, Edward James Hyland, Mikhail Gorevoy, Joshua Harto, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, Rebekah Brockman.

If a film can offer a lesson to be learned, if it can open a window, no matter how small, into a world where the sheer grasp of enlightenment can be gleaned and nurtured, then that film has succeeded where so many have failed.

Bridge Of Spies, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Saving Mr. Banks, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Buckley, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, B.J. Novak, Bradley Whitford, Ruth Wilson, Melanie Paxson, Victoria Summer, Kathy Baker, Rachel Griffiths, Dendrie Taylor, Kimberly D’Armond.

Saving Mr. Banks is a film that exemplifies the thought that somewhere between novel and film the life of the author is lost in the complexity of producing a cinema hit. The life of the writer, whose soul is poured into the painful birth of producing something that in a lot of cases is a cathartic way of exorcising a childhood memory, is overlooked. Cinema audiences, perhaps comforted in many cases by the end result, neglect the person who gave them the character in the first place.

Saving Mr. Banks, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Captain Phillips, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M.Ali, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez, Max Martini, Omar Berdouni, Mohamed Ali, Issak Farah Samatar, Catherine Keener.

It seems that no matter what, Tom Hanks is able to draw the viewer in completely into his world, whether in the imagination of a child but in the body of a grown man, a corporate lawyer who contracts HIV in a time of misunderstanding and fear or as Captain Phillips, a veteran freight captain, he has it all.

Captain Phillips, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(604 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)