Murray-Go-Round: The films of Bill Murray

Send a text Oh, the early days of the Internet. Before there were Spambots, Doxing, Cyberstalkers, and cheap dope on the Dark Web, there was Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. A mismatched couple looking for love on a tedious dial up connection. And now we know that the original meaning of A.I. was "Almost Insufferable".

Send a text Tom Hanks and a Band of Brothers trudge through war-torn France goodwill hunting for Matt Damon. Sounds FUBAR to me.

Send a text A group of kids with a song and a dream try to scramble to the top of the pops.  Hi-jinks, teenage pandemonium, and slick-talking record execs abound in this directorial debut for Mr. Tom Hanks. I Am Spartacus!

Send a text Y'know, for kids! This week we look at the first two installments of the TOY STORY franchise, where Tom creates the beloved character Sheriff Woody. What can three middle-aged men say about an animated movie set in a toy chest? Do these movies have the joy and energy of a Rock'em-Sock'em Robot, or do they lay on the screen like a Lincoln Log? Listen and find out!

Send a text NASA is as NASA does. The very first Tom Hanks film set, at least partially, in America's most beautiful city, the Venice of the New World: Houston. It is a lot of "Ground Control to Major Hanks" as our hero solves problems while sitting in a tin can, high above the moon. 

Send a text Life is like a free podcast. It's mostly a bunch of dumb guys talking. Tom Hanks cuts a path through the second half of the 20th century, and finds time for ping-pong.

Send a text The HAL team take a moment to reflect. Here is the ranking, from best to worst, of the first 20 movies that starred Tom Hanks. Oh, there are disagreements. And agreements. Who is right? Only you can decide.

Send a text Tom Hanks is a depressed widower.  To lift his mood, he moves to an overcast city where it rains all the time. It's a good thing that Meg Ryan has become oddly obsessed by him, and despite having never met him, is coming to his emotional rescue.

Send a text Foul, Foggy, Fetid, Fuming, Filthy: Philadelphia. Somebody open up a Window! Tom is a lawyer dying of AIDS but he really wants his day in court. Denzel Washington is here to defend you if you have been injured on the job. PLUS: Opera! Please listen responsibly.

Send a text Play Ball!  We travel back to the 1940s, where a group of plucky gals do their part for the War Effort by playing professional baseball. Tom Hanks drinks, spits, urinates and eventually coaches the team!

Send a text An adult Tom Hanks takes a look back at his rotten childhood while Adam Baldwin drinks beer in the garage, Lorraine Bracco misses all the signs, and an enormous Bison cries. No really. That's the movie.

Send a text New York City in the 1980s. A place where Wall Street millionaires shared the streets with the poor and  desperate, and where everybody was working a cynical angle. And where a best-selling book could be transformed into a steaming pile of Crap. Oh, Tom!

Send a text Brain Cloud! Rectal Probes! Floating Luggage! Oh the many things that await Tom Hanks on his voyage to meet his destiny.

Send a text It's like Lethal Weapon, but with much, much more slobber. Policeman Tom Hanks becomes an unwilling pet-sitter while a murderer flees (or is it fleas?). 

Send a text Behind the green lawns and white picket fences, there is a dark...blah blah blah. Tom Hanks gets up to mischief on the cul-de-sac.

Send a text What is the deal with Stand-up Comics? I mean, do they really ALL hate Airline food? Thanks, You've been great. I'll be here all week. Tom Hanks and Sally Field try to break into the Laffs Game in this wry examination of mental illness.

Send a text A childish Tom Hanks makes a wish and gets more than he bargained for. He gets thrown into the corporate rat-race of the 80s NYC in the body of an adult. Money! Sex! Trampolines! It's great, but there is no place like home.

Send a text Just the facts, Ma'am.  This week, Tom joins forces with Dan Ackroyd and takes the fight for Truth, Justice, and goat-leggings, to the mean streets of Los Angeles in the comedic two-hander Dragnet.

Send a text Years before he saved Private Ryan, Tom Hanks served in WWII with the British flyboys of the R.A.F.  There was more smooching than shooting on this tour of duty.  Join us for this weeks show, a tale of ill-timed, and inconvenient LOVE.

Send a text Set in the mythical city of Chicago, Tom Hanks develops Daddy issues when his long-suffering Mom dumps his cigar-chomping, skirt-chasing, Father. Sit back and watch while Tom and Jackie Gleason cope with bad jazz, burnt steak, and a really gross foot.

Send a text In a movie that plays out like a horror version of HGTV's Good Bones, Tom Hanks and Shelly Long sink all of their money into a roomy fixer-upper. When things start going wrong, Tom doesn't know if he can flip the property before he Flips His Wig! Ugh.

Send a text Commies, Drug-Lords, and Bridge-Building. It's all in a days work for Tom Hanks in this silly romp on the road to Thailand.

Send a text It is Spy vs. Spy, 1980s style with Tom Hanks mixed up in a case of mistaken identity, international espionage, and unconventional cleavage. Plus: Carrie Fisher with an Ape-Man fetish.

Send a text Boy meets Girl. Girl is a fish. Boy is Hooked! Tom Hanks has his first roaring success at the Box Office with this romantic offering from director Ron Howard. 

Send a text From the horniest moment in our nations history, 1984, comes this movie that makes HARDBODIES look like a Downton Abbey. Tom Hanks is getting Hitched! But not before a night of drugs, debauchery, and Donkey-Death.