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Tom Hanks

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    The 84th Academy Awards: a Timeline

    ​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

  • Film

    January 18, 2012

    "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close": Bald Eagles Are Weeping

    ​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

  • Film

    July 6, 2011

    "Horrible Bosses": Mediocre Black Comedy Mildly Comforting, Rarely Funny

    ​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

  • Film

    June 29, 2011

    "Larry Crowne": Tom Hanks Too Eager to Please in Feel-Good Pap

    ​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Billie Joe Armstrong, Movie Star: Green Day Singer to Act in American Idiot Film

    Billie Joe Armstrong​First it was an album. Then it was a musical at Berkeley Rep. Then it was a Broadway musical. Soon, Green Day's American Idiot will be a film. And no one other than Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong -- Rodeo native, ex-snotty Berkeley punk, and ridiculously talented ... More >>

  • Film

    May 18, 2011

    Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

    Billie Joe Armstrong​First it was an album. Then it was a musical at Berkeley Rep. Then it was a Broadway musical. Soon, Green Day's American Idiot will be a film. And no one other than Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong -- Rodeo native, ex-snotty Berkeley punk, and ridiculously talented ... More >>

  • Film

    June 16, 2010

    "Toy Story 3": Pixar's juggernaut turns morose

    Billie Joe Armstrong​First it was an album. Then it was a musical at Berkeley Rep. Then it was a Broadway musical. Soon, Green Day's American Idiot will be a film. And no one other than Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong -- Rodeo native, ex-snotty Berkeley punk, and ridiculously talented ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Bay Area Beard Luminary Jack Passion to Host National Facial Hair Championships

    Jack Passion in recent years; his beard has grown bigger, though no redder​Jack Passion is, quite simply, the John C. Holmes of beards. The Walnut Creek native's facial hair resembles a rhododendron bush. He's the only person we know who could smuggle a bottle of champagne into a ballpark in his b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Bay Area Music Links: Tom Hanks Making Green Day Movie?

    Angela George Tom Hanks: Giving Green Day the "Big" Treatment?​Tom Hanks may produce the movie version of American Idiot [Deadline NY] Pitchfork likes what it sees in The Art Museums [Pitchfork] Who had a better mustache than John Oates? Call it right and win a copy of Bird and the Bee's new Ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Berkeley Rep Continues Broadway-Bound Streak with American Idiot

    Image Courtesy of: Courtesy of mellopix.comJohnny (John Gallagher Jr.) and St. Jimmy (Tony Vincent) in American Idiot. ​I wasn't crazy about Berkeley Rep's latest offering, but there's no denying that the company is a leading developer of nationally significant plays. Sarah Jones's Bridge & Tu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Can You Legally Stand in a Parking Spot and Reserve It? Survey Says...

    This image is relevant to this story, amazingly​Parking in San Francisco is such a rare commodity that people have literally killed each other over a spot. Spend 45 minutes cruising around late at night looking to get out of the car and even the most mild-mannered milquetoast can be transformed in ... More >>

  • Film

    June 17, 2009

    Francis Ford Coppola talks film, critics, and marriage

    This image is relevant to this story, amazingly​Parking in San Francisco is such a rare commodity that people have literally killed each other over a spot. Spend 45 minutes cruising around late at night looking to get out of the car and even the most mild-mannered milquetoast can be transformed in ... More >>

  • Film

    May 13, 2009

    Angels & Demons has a need for speed

    This image is relevant to this story, amazingly​Parking in San Francisco is such a rare commodity that people have literally killed each other over a spot. Spend 45 minutes cruising around late at night looking to get out of the car and even the most mild-mannered milquetoast can be transformed in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Lawsuit Cocktail: Costco Sued For Allegedly Skimping on Shrimp

    Retail giant Costco -- the big box store that stoked America's Brobdingnagian appetite for eight-packs of cereal, 40-unit boxes of AA batteries, and mayonnaise jars the size of R2-D2 -- is being sued. The charge: Shorting its shrimp. A class action suit filed in New York City accuses Costco of sy ... More >>

  • Film

    March 26, 2008

    Art House

    Retail giant Costco -- the big box store that stoked America's Brobdingnagian appetite for eight-packs of cereal, 40-unit boxes of AA batteries, and mayonnaise jars the size of R2-D2 -- is being sued. The charge: Shorting its shrimp. A class action suit filed in New York City accuses Costco of sy ... More >>

  • Film

    January 30, 2008

    A Gorier, Meaner, and Uglier Rambo

    Retail giant Costco -- the big box store that stoked America's Brobdingnagian appetite for eight-packs of cereal, 40-unit boxes of AA batteries, and mayonnaise jars the size of R2-D2 -- is being sued. The charge: Shorting its shrimp. A class action suit filed in New York City accuses Costco of sy ... More >>

  • News

    December 26, 2007

    Support Group

    The year's best characters

  • Calendar

    December 26, 2007

    The General

    The year's best characters

  • Home Entertainment

    May 9, 2007

    Hitchcock on Holiday

    The year's best characters

  • Home Entertainment

    March 14, 2007

    Franchise Player

    The year's best characters

  • Home Entertainment

    November 15, 2006

    When the Stars Came Out

    The year's best characters

  • Film

    September 27, 2006

    Men Behaving Badly

    Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

  • Home Entertainment

    May 31, 2006

    Jesus Wept

    Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

  • Film

    December 7, 2005

    Homo on the Range

    Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

  • Home Entertainment

    November 16, 2005

    A Very Long Run

    Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Image Consciousness

    Michael Garlington -- an enormously talented art photographer with a penchant for the macabre -- has a drunken, wild-man persona. Or is that a canny self-promoter we see behind the curtain?

  • Film

    November 10, 2004

    Well Trained

    Polar Express is a kids' action movie that parents will also warm to

  • Film

    June 16, 2004

    Playing on Fear

    Spielberg and Hanks spawn a daring new genre: the post-9/11 comedy

  • Film

    May 26, 2004

    Summer Film Previews

    Spielberg and Hanks spawn a daring new genre: the post-9/11 comedy

  • Film

    May 5, 2004

    Monster Smash

    Van Helsing explodes monster movie legends with hip upgrades

  • Film

    April 21, 2004

    Big Deal

    A good idea grows up into a missed opportunity

  • Culture

    March 24, 2004

    No More Wussies

    Or, why Tom Hanks isn't Steve Guttenberg

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2003

    Sold American

    It's the reel thing: Coke and other brands in a funny montage of product placements

  • Film

    May 15, 2002

    Just Say "Super-Size It!"

    Summer 2002 sees the little guys getting up to a lot of big things

  • Film

    December 5, 2001

    Reps Etc.

    Film Reps List for 12-05-2001

  • Culture

    November 21, 2001

    War on War Books

    Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

  • Film

    November 15, 2000

    Reel World

    David Latham; closing of the St. Francis I & II

  • Dining

    January 26, 2000

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    James Cromwell

  • Film

    December 8, 1999

    Instant Karma

    The Green Mile

  • Music

    May 5, 1999

    Reviews

    The Green Mile

  • Calendar

    January 6, 1999

    Savage Love

    The Green Mile

  • News

    December 30, 1998

    Letters

    The Green Mile

  • Film

    December 16, 1998

    The Cyberpostman Always Writes Twice

    The Green Mile

  • Film

    July 22, 1998

    Life During Wartime

    The Green Mile

  • News

    October 1, 1997

    Letters

    The Green Mile

  • News

    September 24, 1997

    Identity Crisis

    American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

  • Film

    March 13, 1996

    Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

    The Celluloid Closet ponders gay images in the movies

  • News

    October 25, 1995

    Chatterbox

    The Celluloid Closet ponders gay images in the movies

  • Calendar

    May 24, 1995

    Night+Day

    The Celluloid Closet ponders gay images in the movies

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