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Loiter on any patch of land for a few hours, and you can feel centuries of history quietly thrumming beneath your feet. Stand in the corner of a suburban house on a lot that was once nothing but barren, ashen ground and will, several million years into the future, be …

The AI scam scourge has come for national treasure Tom Hanks — again. The actor was forced to share a message on Instagram warning fans not to fall for ads “falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs.” Hanks said these ads were “created without …

Chet Hanks is putting his foot down against cultural appropriation — at least when it’s white supremacists and racists appropriating “white boy summer” for hate speech and memes. On Instagram, Hanks (son of Tom and Rita Wilson) ostensibly responded to a recent report from the Global Project Against Hate and …

If you wanted to see what Tom Hanks and Robin Wright looked like about, say, 30 years ago in a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, there would, of course, be an obvious movie to watch: Forest Gump. But if that somehow wasn’t enough, Zemeckis has fired up the de-aging technology …

In one episode of the new World War II epic Masters of the Air, a character collapses from exhaustion and sleeps through the events of D-Day, which were so memorably dramatized in Saving Private Ryan. In another, we realize that several characters are being held in the same POW camp …

The Bay Area was a weird place in 1987. You had the remnants of the Me Decade’s cults of touchy-feeliness bumping up against Silicon Valley’s computer-nerd capitalism. Competing D.I.Y. music scenes meant you could surf between S.F. Thrash, East Bay rap, and pockets of punk popping up from everywhere; shows …

Imagine you’re a filmmaker, and you’ve assembled a dream cast of A-list stars, crack character actors, and your usual stock company of famous faces. Your production-design team has gifted you with a set that’s evocative of a 1950s Southwestern desert landscape, complete with Monument Valley vistas and Route 66 iconography. …

Tom Hanks — America’s perennial Hollywood sweetheart, the ultimate nice guy, dad vibes incarnate, father of Chet Hanks — admitted to occasionally being prone to bad behavior while working on film sets in a new interview with the BBC. Hanks was discussing his debut novel, The Making of Another Motion …

The Razzies — the annual (and controversial) award show that celebrates Hollywood’s worst — have named its 2023 honorees, with Blonde, Tom Hanks and Machine Gun Kelly among this year’s “winners.” In a straight-to-YouTube award show Friday, the direct-to-Netflix quasi-Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde was named Worst Picture, with the film’s …

In A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks stars as a grunty older man named Otto, who’s sort of a dick. He’s a little bit of a busybody. He lives on a quiet street in suburban Pittsburgh where everybody seems to know each other and where you need a parking permit …