Category: Tom
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Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks Series Wrap-up
Tom v Tom. A Tale of Two Toms. Cruisemas with the Hanks. Tom and Tom Again. We watched 26 movies as part of our series on the films of Hanks and Cruise. From Top Gun and Big, to Minority Report and Cast Away. We put a final button on this series by sharing overall thoughts…
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Minority Report (with Brett Nemeroff)
Everybody runs… It’s the final episode of our Tom v Tom series. Steven Spielberg’s MINORITY REPORT, released in 2002 and starring Tom Cruise as John Anderton, a pre-crime cop in Washington D.C. 2054. Based on a Phillip K. Dick novella, the film is a prescient vision of the future, and remains one of the strongest…
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Catch Me If You Can (with Erin O’Brien)
Merry Christmas! It’s the final Hanks entry of our Tom v Tom series, and we’re going in style with Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the real-life check fraud con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. and Hanks as the FBI agent chasing him down. Very special first-time guest Erin O’Brien joins us…
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Vanilla Sky (with Drew Biggs)
It’s the final stretch of our Tom v Tom Series with a review of Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise’s reunion with Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe. Cruise plays David Aames, wealthy playboy whose face is horribly disfigured in an accident. The film, released in Christmas of 2001, is weird, surreal, and dreamlike, but is it good?…
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Cast Away (with Danny Seoane)
We crash land somewhere in the South Pacific with our volleyball friend Danny Seoane to discuss the classic Tom Hanks film, CAST AWAY, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and released in December 2000. Hanks delivers one of his most iconic performances, earning him an Oscar nomination. We discuss the real-life challenges of production—from Hanks nearly dying…
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Mission: Impossible 2 (with Adam Sirdoreus)
We air kick into the year 2000 with flames, doves, leather, and exploding sunglasses to discuss John Woo’s action sequel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2, featuring Ethan Hunt’s biggest fan, Adam Sirdoreus. Is this really the worst movie in the series? Was that really Tom Cruise rock climbing? Are there too many mask gags? We get into…
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Eyes Wide Shut (with Javi Navarro)
Our old pal Javi Navarro invites us to a very exclusive and secret club to discuss the final film by legendary director Stanley Kubrick: EYES WIDE SHUT, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. We put on our masks and cloaks to dive deep into the dreamlike world of this enigmatic story of a married couple…
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You’ve Got Mail, Megalopolis, and The Substance (with Lee Perry)
We log on to the World Wide Web to check in with our anonymous pen pal Lee Perry and discuss the 1998 romantic comedy, You’ve Got Mail, directed by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Plus, we share thoughts on The Substance and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: A Fable. Timecodes: Subscribe to…
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Saving Private Ryan (with Dane DeBrunner)
Is it hell on earth or is it military propaganda? We investigate and discuss one of the most monumental achievements of Steven Spielberg’s career, Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks. Set during World War II, the film follows a group of soldiers on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home…
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That Thing You Do! (with Steven Addington)
We are joined by returning guest Steven Addington to try and try to forget you girl but it’s just so hard to do, every time you make a 1960s one hit wonder pop song, and discuss ‘That Thing You Do!’ written and directed by Tom Hanks. Subscribe to our YouTube channel! E-mail us: weboughtamic at gmail…