When he was plugging his upcoming novel this week, Tom Hanks made a statement to People that caught people by surprise. "I've made a ton of movies, and four of them are pretty good, I think," he said. Which has Hanks fans wondering, "Only four? Which ones?" Hanks himself did not elaborate, but movie sleuths are on the case.
- At Vulture, Nate Jones does a deep dive into what Hanks has said about his own movies over the years and comes up his educated guesses: Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, and Cloud Atlas. The latter might be a surprise. It was a 2012 sci-fi flop in which Hanks plays six roles, but Hanks clearly loves it. The film "went right over everybody's heads," he has said.