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NEWS OF THE WORLD

December 22, 2020 By 1 Comment

NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War, Confederate, Kiowa, Native-American, occupation, Reconstruction, Refugees, Texas, western

THE CIRCLE

April 30, 2017 By 1 Comment

THE CIRCLE

It is possible that those years of my wayward youth spent toiling in the Valley of Silicon have colored my view of THE CIRCLE. The, at least to me, mundane observations about that particular corporate culture fall with a resounding thud as we see the way work and personal life intermingle, with everything one could… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, hi-tech, monitoring, police state, privacy, Silicon Valley, social media

SULLY

September 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

SULLY

As lean and laconic as its director, Clint Eastwood’s SULLY is a gripping but (mostly) unsentimental retelling of how Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely landed his stricken American Airlines plane in the Hudson River after suffering a bird strike on January 15, 2009. To the public, and the lives of the passengers he saved, he was… Read More »

Tagged With: airline pilot, based on actual events, bird strike, media frenzy, New York City, NTSB, water landing

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

April 21, 2016 By Leave a Comment

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

Tom Hanks once again reminds us that he is the quintessential American Everyman with a deeply affecting turn as the symbol of modern American enterprise in A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING, based on the novel of the same name by Dave Eggers, and adapted by Tom Tykwer. Think of it as an updated version of… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, desert, international business, IT, romance, Saudi Arabia, suspicious lump

BRIDGE OF SPIES

October 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

BRIDGE OF SPIES

Clad, metaphorically, in a shining armor of truth, and wielding an equally luminous sword of righteousness, Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan is the embodiment of American virtue, right down to the meat loaf he has for dinner, the which is not touched until he has said grace with his wife and three kids. There was, no… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, cold war, East Berlin, espionage, plane crash, Soviet Union, spy plane, U2

TOY STORY 3

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TOY STORY 3

Since his introduction by Pixar over a decade ago, Woody the toy cowboy (Tom Hanks) has faced dangers and adversaries of many varieties. In TOY STORY 1, it was Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) stealing the number one position in owner Andy’s heart, and that psychotic kid next door who did unfortunate things to the toys… Read More »

LARRY CROWNE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Somewhere in LARRY CROWNE, there is a darker, more robust film lurking. Fortunately, with director and co-writer Tom Hanks in the title role, rather than hopeless piffle, this lightweight bit of escapism almost takes on the grander trappings of an optimistic fable for our times. A slight one, to be sure, and certainly not one… Read More »

CLOUD ATLAS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CLOUD ATLAS is an ambitious film plagued with problems that garbles its overarching themes. Some of these problems stem from its makers attempting to adapt the six novellas of the original book into a film with a running time of only(?) three hours. Others are of a more puzzling nature, troublesome and unforgivable for being something… Read More »

SAVING MR. BANKS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I have three problems with SAVING MR. BANKS, only one of which springs from knowing how much of the story has been Disney-fied. A feature film is not real life, even when based as this one is on actual events if for no other reason, as someone once said, real life doesn’t have to make… Read More »

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

You can see how Steven Spielberg and company would have salivated at the prospect of bringing this story to the screen. Inspired by actual events in the life of Frank Abignale, Jr., it’s got a 16-year-old runaway conning his way around the world with forged checks and eluding the FBI for three years back in… Read More »

Tagged With: forgery fbi chase con man

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