Tag Archives: Tom Hanks
From the Earth to the Moon to Launch in HD

From the Earth to the Moon to Launch in HD

SoHo has confirmed one of HBO’s blasts from the past will screen here for the first time in HD. The stellar miniseries From the Earth to the Moon will screen on Sky’s premium drama channel Sundays at 6.30 from June 22 and during the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s historic walk on the moon. Even […]

Read more
HDTV Movie Premieres: December 4-10

HDTV Movie Premieres: December 4-10

Philadelphia: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Jonathan Demme’s tepid potboiler with a conscience stars Tom Hanks, in Oscar-winning form, as a hotshot lawyer who is fired from his heavyweight firm because he has contracted Aids — or so he claims when he hires homophobic, streetwise attorney Denzel Washington to take senior partner Jason Robards to […]

Read more
Blu-ray of the Day: Saving Private Ryan

Blu-ray of the Day: Saving Private Ryan

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel, Ted Danson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Score: John Williams. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. To paraphrase a line from the highly decorated, 1998 D-Day dramatisation, this Ryan upgrade is worth it, with an HD transfer as jaw-dropping as the combat sequences that […]

Read more
Blu-rays of the Day: Toy Story and Toy Story 2 - Special Editions

Blu-rays of the Day: Toy Story and Toy Story 2 – Special Editions

Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Annie Potts. Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich. Screenplays: Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb. Scores: Randy Newman. Cinematography: Sharon Calahan. The original hi-tech ‘toon about an old-school cowboy doll that gets pushed off […]

Read more
Blu-ray of the Day: Apollo 13

Blu-ray of the Day: Apollo 13

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris. Director: Ron Howard. Screenplay: William Broyles Jr, Al Reinert. Score: James Horner. Cinematography: Dean Cundley. At last – the Apollo has landed on Blu-ray. This tense, exciting yet gracefully heroic account of how three astronauts barely survived a mission to the moon when their […]

Read more
The Pacific Rides Hollywood Reporter Rave

The Pacific Rides Hollywood Reporter Rave

The first published review of The Pacific calls it “as sensitive and realistic portrait of American combat in the Pacific as you ever will see”. The hotly anticipated follow-up to Band of Brothers will screen in HD on TV One from April 5. The Hollywood Reporter today acclaimed the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg collaboration as “a […]

Read more