Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks are both in top form in Saving Mr Banks, as the two multiple Oscar winners command the screen in the roles of real life Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers and the legendary man who created Mickey Mouse and along with him an empire, Walt Disney.
Easily the weakest of Peter Jackson’s cinematic epics set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth fantasy realm, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug often feels leaden and belabored, as it lacks any of the dramatic intensity and momentum of its Lord of the Rings predecessors.
