Times will change and tides will always turn, but there¡¯s one thing you can count on: movies starring Tom Hanks.

No matter what else is happening in the world, Tom Hanks is routinely waiting at the multiplex in yet another mega-budget, blockbuster vehicle that will probably, if not certainly, be up for an Oscar in one form or another. He¡¯s a solid rock of dependability in an uncertain world and a human compass inevitably pointing to whatever is the correct thing to do in any given situation ¡ª whether it¡¯s buying Apple shares in ¡°Forrest Gump¡± or saving 155 airline passengers in ¡°Sully.¡±

And here¡¯s Hanks in ¡°Inferno,¡± the third in a franchise that kicked off with ¡°The Da Vinci Code¡± in 2006. Directed by Ron Howard, ¡°Inferno¡± is probably the most ambitious of the series ¡ª bringing together the World Health Organization, bioterrorism and Dante in an unlikely menage a trois. The bad guy is young IT billionaire Bertand Zobrist (Ben Foster), whose grand plan is to slash the global population by half with a virus similar to the Black Plague, which nearly wiped out all of Europe in the 14th century.