Oscar night is nearly upon us and there have been a few surprises — and some apparent snubs — in the shortlist, says Esther McCarthy.

Based on the best selling novel by Dave Eggers, The Circle sees Tom Hanks play an iconoclastic tech CEO who believes that transparency is the key to unlocking human potential.

Robert Langdon battles clandestine forces and his own memory to save the human race.

Hey there's another Robert Landgon movie coming out with a very old looking Tom Hanks running around to save the world. Here's the second trailer for Inferno.

A Hologram for the King 3/5

After The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons you might have thought we were done with Tom Hanks' rather placid take on Dan Brown's Robert Langdon. Nope.

Remember when everyone in the whole world and their mother was reading The DaVinci code? Well that was way back in 2003 when the book first launched, followed by a movie starring Tom Hanks in 2006.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world.

A judge yesterday told a Dublin student there was no merit in his €75,000 claim alleging he was defamed by a Malahide pharmacy and ordered him to pay the legal costs of his unsuccessful action.

Going to Somalia to make a film about pirates wasn’t the easiest assignment for Tommy Pallotta, writes Ed Power

The Cold War is heading for deep freeze as Bridge of Spies (12A) opens in 1957 with the capture of Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in New York. 

Bridge of Spies is the incredible true story of an American lawyer who travels to Berlin to negotiate for the life of a prisoner of war.

Wilsssooooonnn!!!

Finally, years after they were tragically separated at sea, Tom Hanks has been reunited with his long-lost best friend, Wilson the volleyball.

Tom Hanks and Sting joined Lily Tomlin, singer Al Green and ballerina Patricia McBride in being awarded this year’s Kennedy Centre Honours for influencing American culture through the arts.

A woman who fatally shot her Irish boyfriend in the US has been sentenced to a year in county jail in Florida.

Tom Hanks and his wife argue over who loves each other more.

Here’s our quick rundown of what’s new in Irish cinemas today.

Captain Phillips ****

Quick reviews and trailers of the movies released in Irish cinemas this weekend for you - all in one place!

"They're not here to fish" - cast and director talk about 'Captain Phillips', the new thriller based on the 2009 hijacking of a US container ship by Somali pirates

When your films are opening and closing a major international film festival, it wouldn't be polite to complain about the rain.

The European premiere of Captain Phillips is set to take place tonight.

It has been confirmed that Tom Hanks has type 2 diabetes.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is providing consular assistance to the family of an Irishman shot dead in Florida.

Shannon Airport has had a few world-famous visitors this summer.

Tom Hanks is back for the next Dan Brown movie 'Inferno'.

Big has always been beautiful to Lana and Andy Wachowski, writer-directors of the visually stunning 'Matrix' trilogy.

After Tom Hanks found out he was being honoured by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity at the New York Public Library, he remembered he owed a couple of books.

Tom Hanks, Jay Leno, Holly Robinson Peete, Loretta Devine and Stevie Wonder were among those who helped celebrate the life of Michael Clarke Duncan during a memorial service.

Tom Hanks is “terribly saddened” by the death of Michael Clarke Duncan.

Published in 2005, Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' revisited the 9/11 attacks through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy.

The singing, helium-voiced chipmunks are all at sea in Mike Mitchell’s zany sequel and so too is the script for this third instalment in the inoffensive series.

Tom Hanks is being lined up for a role in 'In the Garden of Beasts'.

HUGH Grant has signed up to star alongside Halle Berry and Tom Hanks in the big-screen adaptation of Cloud Atlas.

LEONARDO DiCaprio once crowed that he was “the king of the world,” and the 36-year-old actor now has the bank account to back it up.

AN UNUSUALLY thoughtful film amid the brainless bluster of the summer’s blockbuster fare, The Conspirator (12A) stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the woman who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War.

Tom Hanks was not as worried about directing and starring in 'Larry Crowne' as in previous directing attempts.

With 333 islands to choose from, Fiji’s welcoming Bula, beautiful beaches, coral waters and slow pace of life are a welcome distraction for weary travellers. Pól Ó Conghaile reports.

Tom Hanks has signed on to 'Cloud Atlas'.

Wasps have announced rugby director Tony Hanks’ departure from the Aviva Premiership club “by mutual agreement.”

Tom Hanks has become a grandfather for the first time.