With the release of Tom Hanks’ new film Larry Crowne on Friday, Daniel Stephens takes a look at the actor’s best films of the 1990s and 2000s.

Alternatively, for those that love all things aircraft and air travel related, this list could be titled: ten things to make airplane journeys more…erm…interesting. Here are ten films that feature air travel, air crashes, desert island survival, er, skiing, cannibalism, wife kidnapping, building your own plane, and new ways to experience wildlife while flying economy.

“Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean”: The Magic of Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis was once asked if television was a bad influence on children. He answered, emphatically, “television isn’t an education, but I see no reason to turn it off.” What would so many television-starved children give for Zemeckis as a babysitter, or indeed a father: ‘Can I pur-lease watch more TV?’/’Of course you can!’ He was a product of the television generation – this new visual medium that found its way into most …