Tom Hanks is at the helm of a wartime thriller

Things went rapidly south the last time Tom Hanks (right) was in charge of an ocean-going vessel – in Captain Phillips. Now he’s heading into choppy waters again as a newly promoted officer commanding a US Navy destroyer (call sign ‘Greyhound’) protecting a convoy of ships crossing the North Atlantic in 1942. During the war, 95 per cent of Britain’s fuel and 70 per cent of its food was imported. And American troops needed to be transported to Europe. Hanks’s Commander Ernest Krause has to outwit a wolfpack of U-boats, but it’s his first crossing and he’s battling his own self-doubt as well as the enemy. Hanks wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of a

C. S. Forester novel. Apple TV+, from Friday