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Netflix's News of The World lacks true grit

Tom Hanks plays another decent man in a bad, bad world in a cast iron western that is essentially The Searchers in reverse

Movies • 10 Feb 21

News of the World premieres on Netflix on 10 February

New Tom Hanks western rides onto Netflix next week

The Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel-starring western News of the World will premiere on Netflix on Wednesday, 10 February, with the streaming giant releasing the new trailer for the eagerly-awaited film today.

Movies • 01 Feb 21

Hanks: "I was hell bent on authenticity and the real news and the real stories, and almost a dry perspective and presentation of them."

Hanks, Greengrass clashed over new Civil War drama

Tom Hanks has said that he and director Paul Greengrass had a disagreement on a vital element of the story in the upcoming post-Civil War western News of the World.

Movies • 18 Dec 20

Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel in News of the World

Watch: News of the World trailer, starring Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks and rising child actor Helena Zengel star in News of the World, a new western written and directed by Paul Greengrass, which is released in January.

Movies • 23 Oct 20

Utøya -July 22 - the opening sequence, as Kaja (Andrea Berntzen) draws us into her compelling story of what happened

Utøya: July 22 - Fearful and moving

Relentlessly fearful and moving, Utøya - July 22 is based on the the massacre of 69 Norwegian Labour Youth League members by the 32-year-old right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik on the island of the title, on July 22, 2011

Movie Review • 26 Oct 18

Paul Greengrass to direct George Orwell's 1984

Paul Greengrass is set to bring George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 back to the big screen.

Entertainment • 20 Nov 14

Greengrass to direct Berlin Wall drama

Paul Greengrass is directing a Berlin Wall drama The Tunnels.

Entertainment • 27 Oct 14

Paul Greengrass tipped to direct al-Qaeda film

United 93 and Green Zone director Paul Greengrass is tipped to direct a film adaptation of Morton Storm's al-Qaeda memoir, Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda.

Entertainment • 29 Jul 14