Based on the book, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, which was made into a Swedish movie back in 2015 (see review below), we get the Americanized version with everyone’s favorite actor, Tom Hanks, as a verbally abrasive old widower. But really, what was the point? To date, I have never seen an Americanized…
Military-themed movies don’t come more retro than Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks as the captain of a U.S. naval destroyer escorting a convoy of supply ships to WWII-torn England that comes under attack by a wolf-pack of Nazi submarines. I’ve always been a sucker for “submarine” movies. One of my earliest movie memories is of seeing…
As soon as this movie was announced, the internet lit up with Tom Hanks meme’s ranging from his Toy Story Woody character to his Captain Phillips & Sully films. After all, he was kind of a cowboy in a Western whose name is Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd. Based on the novel by Paulette Jiles, this…
What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? You get the clash of the titans in a great new film depicting the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the making of the movie, “Mary Poppins“. Oh sure, you’ve seen this delightful family movie a dozen times, but you would have never guessed that behind the scenes…
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