The birth of Tom Hanks, dramatic actor, happened during a table read on "Splash." As the smitten lead Allen Bauer in Ron Howard's 1984 film, Hanks began by going for laughs, an instinct from the ...

A true-story film featuring Tom Hanks is on its way to Netflix viewers. Come July, the streaming giant will be shuffling its lineup, dropping beloved titles while adding new ones. From July 1st, ...

While Captain Phillips hit Netflix on July 1, 2025, this isn’t the first time the biographical drama has come to the streaming service. Captain Phillips first debuted on Netflix nine years after its ...

At first, it feels like there’s a perfunctory quality to the opening scenes of Paul Greengrass’ harrowing true-life drama Captain Phillips. The titular commercial shipping-vessel captain, Rich ...

The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the very first shot: an exterior of Phillips’ Vermont home, for ...

Netflix is set to jettison a boatload of films to begin in 2026, and among the batch is a Tom Hanks favorite. The Saving Private Ryan star's hit biographical thriller, Captain Phillips, will leave the ...

You won't believe the sensible purchase the Oscar-nominated actor just made. Barkhad Abdi speaks onstage during the 25th annual Producers Guild of America Awards on Jan. 19, 2014 in Beverly Hills, ...