Bridge of Spies – Review
DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg - CAST: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, Austin Stowell, Dakin Matthews, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jesse Plemons, Mikhail Gorevoy, Scott Shepherd, Sebastian Koch, Will Rogers...
2013 has been another busy year for UK Screen, with more than a hundred theatrical releases reviewed and the usual mix of big celebrity interviews and reports from awards, such as the Oscars and the Golden Globes, and festivals including Cannes, Toronto and the London Film Festival. The best release...
Director: John Lee Hancock - Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitford, Jason Schwartzman, BJ Novak, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson, Rachel Griffiths, Kathy Bates...
In an exclusive interview for my BBC show Alternative Cinema, Tom Hanks, who openly supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US elections and made donations to many Democratic politicians, denies being a political guy. He is only interested in examining the process. “I admit it! I voted ...
The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being broken, with the figure passing the 150,000 mark for the first time. Sandwiched between two Tom Hanks films, the piracy drama Captain Phillips at t...
Coming late in the year, the London Film Festival is continuing its modest streak of bringing some of the best films of the year’s other festivals – including Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto – to Britain. Many festivals insist on screening the world premieres for their films, ...
The BFI has announced the 57th London Film Festival will close with Saving Mr Banks, the story of how Mary Poppins was brought to the big screen. Emma Thompson stars as the author PL Travers with Tom Hanks playing Walt Disney. The film is directed by The Blind Side’s John Lee Hancock and co-st...
The director best known for the Bourne Supremacy and the Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass, will be the first British director to open the London Film Festival since Andrew Macdonald had the honour with The Last King of Scotland in 2006. Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, about the first American ...
Now that Argo has won the award for best picture it would seem that the Oscar campaigns are finally over for another year. But not a bit of it. Already buzz is beginning to circulate around possible contenders for next year’s honours. And this time the ubiquitous Tom Hanks, missing from this y...