Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Friday 16 August

Captain Phillips (Greengrass, 2013)

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Dan Slevin
Aug 16, 2024
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Still from the 2013 thriller film Captain Phillips featuring Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks’ career was in a weird place by 2013. His only non-animated feature film credit between 2009’s terrible Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons and Captain Phillips are the 9/11 misfire Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the misunderstood Cloud Atlas and the awful Larry Crowne, in which Mr. Hanks seemed to be so botoxed that he could hardly mov…

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