At a cost of $55 million, Sony's Captain Phillips has its work somewhat cut out for it in what has turned into a pretty brutal season for adult genre fare. Yes the secondary goal is to snag Oscar ...

Captain Phillips is a Paul Greengrass directorial that revolves around the hijacking of a ship by the Somali pirates. Captain Richard Phillips takes charge and negotiates with the pirates who ...

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An anonymous sailor slams the Somali pirate thriller for taking too many liberties. By Matt Patches Captain Phillips Trailer Screengrab Hanks - H 2013 But did Hollywood steer the true story down a ...

Tom Hanks has managed to make us care about lawyers, rogues, businessmen and Walt Disney. Why not the captain of a ship, too? That’s the simple philosophy behind “Captain Phillips,” a based-in-fact ...

Captain Phillips is a movie about a true incident. It’s about the horrific pirate attack on the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship. The story is about how the captain of the ...

This week, “Captain Phillips” opens in theaters. The film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, whose cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast in 2009.

"Once Phillips jumps out of his seat, chaos follows -- everything changes and becomes more urgent," says Rouse in the second part of his interview with THR. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “It was ...

In an effort to goose Oscar buzz, Sony is re-releasing Captain Phillips into theaters starting Wednesday, January 15th. The Tom Hanks-starrer is expected to expand to 1,000 theaters from its current ...

Pirates seem archaic and fanciful until one is waving a machine gun in your face and screaming for you to give him money that you do not have. This situation is exactly that in which Captain Richard ...

Like his excruciating, but in many ways vital, United 93, Paul Greengrass's latest film, Captain Phillips, is a nimble, procedural look at a real-life moment of ...