Apollo 13 (1995 Ron Howard)

Written by William Broyles and Al Reinert, from Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's book 'Lost Moon' (Lovell appears briefly as a naval commander), it's a tense experience, well overdue, distinguished by good acting (Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kathleeen Quinlan and Ed Harris are all particularly watchable).

With Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon. Well edited by Dan Hanley and Mike Hill, photographed by Dean Cundey in Panavision.

A KC-135 airplane was used to film the zero gravity scenes. It's special effects are very convincing for the time. It's a bit of an epic.

I was beginning to think that Hanks was failure-proof, but there are one or two less successful films such as The Circle, Captain Phillips, Da Vinci films, The Ladykillers.. Should watch Cloud Atlas I guess...