Tom Hanks won back to back Best Actor Oscars for 1993’s “Philadelphia” and 1994’s “Forrest Gump”. The next year he starred in the acclaimed “Apollo 13” and groundbreaking “Toy Story”. Hanks was already well-known for “Bosom Buddies” and his Academy Award nominated performance in “Big”. And even before he won his FIRST Oscar, he already […]
At the beginning of 2020, Tom Hanks received the Golden Globes Cecil B. deMille Award. The person who presented Hanks with this honor: his friend Charlize Theron. “Tom gave me one of my first roles when he directed ‘That Thing You Do!’ I remember my audition. After my first read, I thought I completely blew […]
The trolley car continues to move along the track with “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”. This is not a standard biopic on Fred Rogers. Nor is it an overview of his life (as with last year’s Focus Features and PBS documentaries). Instead, this is an “inspired by actual events” story of a relationship between […]
One of the most highly-anticipated movies of the rest of the year is “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (out Nov. 22). Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers, and Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) is journalist Lloyd Vogel, who meets Rogers and writes an article about him in the late ’90s. That character is inspired by real-life […]
Award-winning journalist Tom Junod wrote a 1998 Esquire article on Fred Rogers that serves as the framework of a highly-anticipated new movie. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’, starring Tom Hanks as Rogers and Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel (based on Junod), opens November 22nd. Junod, who returns to alma mater UAlbany this week to […]
It’s almost unfair. Hanks, Streep, Spielberg, Williams all together on the same film? Arguably, these four make-up the Mount Rushmore of modern cinema. Well, here’s the good news for fans and the bad news for every other movie competing this Awards Season: “The Post” is even better than the sum of its parts. It’s 1971. […]
This month, to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve, we are being treat-ed to three new animated Halloween specials: First, on Friday the 13th (how appropriate), Nickelodeon will air “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom”, the second stop-motion animation episode in the show’s history (following a very successful holiday special that aired on both CBS and […]