After 34 years of protecting highways and helping save lives, Kansas Highway Patrol Captain Travis Phillips turned in his ...

Phillips, he says, had a bad reputation for at least 12 years prior, known as a sullen and self-righteous captain. “No one wants to sail with him,” he says. (Via the NY Post) ...

Captain Richard Phillips takes charge and negotiates with the pirates who eventually take him hostage on a lifeboat. The U.S. Navy SEALs begin a rescue operation, and it turns into a high-risk ...

Tom Hanks has had enough of playing real people. In Paul Greengrass' docudrama, "Captain Phillips," he plays Richard Phillips, the captain of a cargo ship famously taken by Somali pirates in 2009.

With “Captain Phillips,” Greengrass fuses the complexities and craftsmanship of his Bourne films with the emotional resonance of “United 93.” “Captain Phillips” could have easily been ...

To revise, then, Captain Phillips is this year’s Argo in terms of thematic character, although it doesn’t deliver with the same strength as that spiritual predecessor. It’s another true story of ...

Richard Phillips, who was freed from his ordeal with Somali pirates on Easter Sunday, landed in Burlington, Vt., late Friday afternoon on a small blue Maersk chartered jet.

Phillips, right, is welcomed aboard the USS Bainbridge on Sunday, April 12, 2009 after being rescued by U.S. naval forces off the coast of Somalia. “My crew were now safe because the pirates ...

The results this weekend for Tom Hanks’ hijacking drama “Captain Phillips” — which took in $26 million in U.S. ticket sales from just more than 3,000 theaters -- are a tricky beast to size up.

COLCHESTER, Vt. — Merchant marine Captain Richard Phillips arrives for an interview fresh from a game of pick-up basketball and a trip to the town dump. At 58, stockily built with a salt-and ...