Tom Hanks

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Saving Mr Banks (2013)

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Mary Poppins is a special film for me.  The first film I ever went to see at the cinema, perhaps even at the age of 3 when it first came out in 1964.  And after that first experience I couldn’t get enough of it:  I dragged my poor dear departed mother to that cinema so … Read more

One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Captain Phillips (2013)

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Zowie!  Tom Hanks plays Captain Rich Phillips in what is definitely my favourite film of the year to date.    The fact that this is a true story, and based on a book by Captain Phillips, rather gives the game away that ‘things will be alright in the end’, but – boy oh boy – … Read more