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Turner & Hooch ***½ (1989, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3824

Tom Hanks stars in Roger Spottiswoode’s sweet and amusing, sit-up-and-beg-to-love-me 1989 comedy as meticulous and fastidious cop Detective Scott Turner who investigates a brutal murder with the help of a big, messy mutt called Hooch (Beasley the dog), […]

Jun, 08

Splash! **** (1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 3145

Director Ron Howard’s 1984 fantasy romantic comedy is a wonderfully engaging hit funny fishy tale in which Tom Hanks made his biggest splash in the movies up to that time as the goofy guy in […]

Dec, 11

A League of Their Own *** (1992, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 3134

An excellent comedy drama idea about the founding of the All-American Girls’ Baseball League in 1943 when the men were away at war comes close to being chucked away in the popular high-profile 1992 movie […]

Dec, 06

Bachelor Party ** (1984, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Wendie Jo Sperber, Michael Dudikoff) – Classic Movie Review 3133

Co-writer-director Neal Israel’s 1984 comedy showcases the young Tom Hanks, then aged 28 and on his way to super-stardom, who leads a smutty, not very funny film about an accident-prone bachelor party. Not even the […]

Dec, 06

Bridge of Spies **** (2015, Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda) – Movie Review

Tom Hanks’s sterling performance as Cold War-era American lawyer James B Donovan, who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court so American justice can be seen to be being done, is in many […]

Nov, 27

The ‘Burbs *** (1989, Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman) – Classic Movie Review 2981

Director Joe Dante’s entertaining, quietly frenzied 1989 comedy stars the funny and charming young Tom Hanks, who shows his consummate comedy skills as down-to-earth, if overstressed suburbanite Ray Peterson. His peaceful existence is shattered when he joins […]

Oct, 12

The Ladykillers ** (2004, Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1764

Oh, no! In 2004 America’s the Coen Brothers have remade our menacingly funny 1955 British gem of a movie, with Tom Hanks miscast and struggling in an over-calculated character turn as Professor G H Dorr, […]

Oct, 12

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