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Tom Hanks month 4 – Mazes and Monsters
While Splash is generally considered to be Tom Hanks’s breakout performance (along with several others), it’s not his first starring role. Before Splash, he landed the starring role in a made-for-TV film, Mazes and Monsters. This movie was part of … Continue reading
Tom Hanks month 2 – Splash
For this week’s look into Tom Hanks’s early career, I was split between this movie and Big. Both are comedies with a touch of romance. Both are also movies that helped propel him into stardom. As much as I remember … Continue reading
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Tom Hanks month 1 – Forrest Gump
Most people who have even been casually watching movies at some point between the mid-80s and today would at least recognize Tom Hanks if they saw him in a movie, whether they know him by name or not. His movies … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, comedy, comedy movie, dick cavett, drama, elvis presley, forrest gump, gary sinise, haley joel osment, historic fiction, kurt russell, lieutenant dan, movie review, movies, mykelti williamson, peter dobson, robin wright, sally field, siobhan fallon hogan, tom hanks, vietnam war, winston groom
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True Story Movies 2: Apollo 13
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Cold War was the space race. The United States and the Soviet Union competed for years to see who could achieve various first in their spaceflight capabilities. This race began with ballistic … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, apollo 13, astronauts, bafta, cgi, cold war, docudrama, ed harris, gary sinise, gene kranz, jack swigert, jim lovell, kansas cosmosphere and space center, kathleen quinlan, ken mattingly, kevin bacon, lost moon, marilyn lovell, movie review, movies, nasa, roger ebert, ron howard, rotten tomatoes, space race, space travel, sputnik 1, the moon, the rolling stone, tom hanks, true story movies, ussr
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Disney Associated Movies 13 – Saving Mr. Banks
The first movie I did for this blog series, The Reluctant Dragon, was more of a dramatized behind the scenes look at the animation process than an actual movie. This movie isn’t anything like that, but there are a few … Continue reading
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Tagged bbc, bradley whiteford, brian sibley, chicago tribune, colin farrell, diane disney miller, disney, disney animation studios, disney associated movies, emma thompson, jason schwartzman, mary poppins, movie review, movies, new york post, p.l. travers, paul giamatti, sherman brothers, tom hanks, walt disney
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Pixar Movies 21 – Toy Story 4
Toy Story 3 felt like the perfect way to end the Toy Story franchise. It took background themes from Toy Story 2 and brought them to the forefront in the third movie. The toys realized in Toy Story 2 that … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew stanton, animated movies, animation, anne potts, bo peep, bonnie, buzz lightyear, cgi, christina hendricks, disney, don rickles, forkie, gabby gabby, john lasseter, jordan peele, josh cooley, keagen-michael keen, keanu reeves, mr. potato head, pixar, pixar movies, stephany folsom, tim allen, tom hanks, tony hale, toy story, toy story 4, woody
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War movies month 1: Saving Private Ryan
Well, I’m in the middle of my first week of living on my own, in a house that I own. I’m planning on doing some sort of “Adventures in home ownership” blog post this weekend, possibly turning it into a … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, captain john h. miller, d-day, dreamworks, edward burns, john williams, matt damon, movies, niland brothers, normandy, omaha beach, paramount pictures, paul giamatti, private ryan, robert rodat, roger ebert, saving private ryan, second world war, stephan e. ambrose, steven spielberg, tom hanks, tom sizemore, vin diesel, war movies, world war 2, ww2
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Pixar Movies 11 – Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3. In a way this movie doesn’t need an introduction. But in another way, it deserves a good one. Among its unique distinctions, it earned Pixar’s fourth Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in a row, their … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, animated, animated movies, animation, buzz lightyear, cgi, circle 7 animation, disney, entertainment weekly, how to train your dragon, i see the light, jessie, john lasseter, john ratzenberger, lee unkrich, movies, mr. potato head, owen gleiberman, pixar, pixar movies, randy newman, tangled, tim allen, tom hanks, toy story, toy story 2, toy story 3, we belong together, woody
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Pixar Movies 3 – Toy Story 2
Sometimes when writing these blog posts, especially for movies as famous as Toy Story and its sequels, it’s more interesting to talk about their backstory than it is to talk about the movie itself. After all, Toy Story might actually … Continue reading
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