The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the very first shot: an exterior of Phillips’ Vermont home, for ...

Some hard facts: There is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny, and the Navy SEALs are not all-powerful. We learned that much from last weekend’s aborted SEAL raid on an al Shabab terrorist’s compound in ...

The latest trailer for the Tom Hanks-starring, Paul Greengrass-directed Somali pirate drama Captain Phillips shows us, yes, an Oscar-hungry Hanks hitting all the awards-bait notes (accent, humble ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI — The real-life captain whose high-seas ordeal became a Hollywood blockbuster is coming to Frankenmuth. Richard Phillips, the former cargo ship captain who was held hostage by Somali ...

Never give up, work with your team and, if you have a chance, learn to operate an AK-47 before you get kidnapped on the high seas by gun-toting pirates. That was the lesson from the talk Captain ...

You won't believe the sensible purchase the Oscar-nominated actor just made. Jan. 21, 2014 — -- Barkhad Abdi is the epitome of an overnight success story. The "Captain Phillips" star, who was ...

Few directors do guys-in-distress better than Paul Greengrass. From the man-on-the-run kineticism of the "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "The Bourne Supremacy," to the doomed heroics of "United 93," the ...