Tom Hanks stars in Columbia Pictures' "Captain Phillips." The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the ...

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is based on a book by the merchant mariner Richard Phillips, whose container ship was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. The film is an exciting entertainment that makes us feel good about the ...

Tom Hanks has built a career out of playing aggressively noble roles, so it’s only natural to want to see him taken down a peg. But it’s no fun to watch him suffer at the hands of Somali pirates in ...

At first, it feels like there’s a perfunctory quality to the opening scenes of Paul Greengrass’ harrowing true-life drama Captain Phillips. The titular commercial shipping-vessel captain, Rich ...