Over his long career, Tom Hanks has established a rock-solid screen persona as an affectionate, good-natured father figure. The culmination of this squeaky clean image was perhaps his Oscar-nominated performance as TV host and legendary mensch Fred Rogers in 2019’s “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” But more recent films like “News of the World,” […]
Continue reading(Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)The streaming wars have made it so there are so many players in the game it can be nearly impossible to keep up with everything out there. […]
Continue readingA century of sci-fi films that chart our changing attitudes to AI – from Fritz Lang to Finch“Old-fashioned” is generally not a term you want to hear applied to science fiction, a genre from which one tends to expect the futuristic and unfamiliar. But old-fashioned is very much how Finch (Apple TV+) feels, and not […]
Continue readingIn the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller “Finch,” star Tom Hanks is tasked with carrying the bulk of the human drama: quite literally, as he’s often the only person in sight, save for a handful of co-stars who appear in limited flashbacks. As the titular character in the Miguel Sapochnik film, Hanks is a man living […]
Continue reading“Game of Thrones” and “Altered Carbon” director Miguel Sapochnik pivots to feature filmmaking with the upcoming post-apocalyptic science-fiction film “Finch.” It stars Tom Hanks as a dying inventor who builds an android to accompany him and his dog across the country after a catastrophic event. The film releases on Apple TV+ November 5.Here’s the synopsis […]
Continue readingPablo Larrain’s biographical drama “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart, is coming to theaters in November. The movie, from Neon and Topic Studios, will premiere in competition at the Toronto and Venice film festivals.Originally expected to debut in 2022 to mark the 25th anniversary of Diana’s death, “Spencer” will hit in theaters on Nov. 5, primed for […]
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