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Robin Wright bravely plays a version of herself, an aging, 44-year-old out-of-work actress who has made bad career, partner and life choices. But her agent Al (Harvey Keitel) talks her into reluctantly accepting one last job, becoming […]
Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]
Director Robert Butler’s 1997 airplane disaster movie is a most enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek action thriller, skilfully written by Jonathan Brett so that it is actually deliberately in the so-bad-it’s-good category. Now that is witty and clever! […]
Liam Neeson stars as Bill Marks, a troubled, hard-drinking US air marshal who boards a transatlantic flight and soon gets a series of text messages from an unknown fellow passenger that other passengers will be killed one by […]
The underrated 1982 sequel to 1980’s blockbuster spoof comedy hit Airplane! is cruder and it isn’t nearly as hysterical, but it’s still funny and enjoyable none the less. It boasts the inestimable advantage of many […]
The 1957 film Zero Hour! screenplay is used almost verbatim for its much more famous spoof Airplane!, including the hero being named Ted Striker. Dana Andrews stars in the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! as […]
Written and directed by the Zucker Brothers David and Jerry and Jim Abrahams, this 1980 send-up of the Airport movies, group-jeopardy disaster films in general and Arthur Hailey’s 1956 TV movie Flight into Danger (remade as […]