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Philadelphia: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Jonathan Demme’s tepid potboiler with a conscience stars Tom Hanks, in Oscar-winning form, as a hotshot lawyer who is fired from his heavyweight firm because he has contracted Aids — or so he claims when he hires homophobic, streetwise attorney Denzel Washington to take senior partner Jason Robards to [...]

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel, Ted Danson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Score: John Williams. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. To paraphrase a line from the highly decorated, 1998 D-Day dramatisation, this Ryan upgrade is worth it, with an HD transfer as jaw-dropping as the combat sequences that [...]

Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Annie Potts. Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich. Screenplays: Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb. Scores: Randy Newman. Cinematography: Sharon Calahan. The original hi-tech ‘toon about an old-school cowboy doll that gets pushed off [...]

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris. Director: Ron Howard. Screenplay: William Broyles Jr, Al Reinert. Score: James Horner. Cinematography: Dean Cundley. At last – the Apollo has landed on Blu-ray. This tense, exciting yet gracefully heroic account of how three astronauts barely survived a mission to the moon when their [...]

The first published review of The Pacific calls it “as sensitive and realistic portrait of American combat in the Pacific as you ever will see”. The hotly anticipated follow-up to Band of Brothers will screen in HD on TV One from April 5. The Hollywood Reporter today acclaimed the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg collaboration as “a [...]