After a long-haul flight to a snooty film festival, I attempted small talk with two celebrities, asking what movie they watched on the plane on the way here. They both looked at me, horrified. Who ...

Discover how Airplane! became the gold standard for spoof movies, from deadpan casting to the rapid-fire jokes that still ...

Some stars fit a role. Tom Cruise turned one into a cultural handoff. For one group, Top Gun was the movie that made speed look glamorous and skill look cool. For another, Top Gun: Maverick did ...

My favorite movie trivia question to ask is, "What are the only three movies directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker?," the comedic directing trio also known as ZAZ. Everyone gets ...

Plane crashes are very rare in real life. Of course, so are talking animals, ghosts, and people in masks and capes beating up criminals. Plane crashes, and specifically people surviving plane crashes, ...

This past weekend, I slid into an assigned seat on what I think was the biggest airplane I have ever been on. Stuck between a window and a stranger for a flight over the Atlantic, I decided to seize ...

Harrison Ford for President? In Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One, the actor takes on the role. The film follows the leader of the U.S., President James Marshall (Ford), as he and his family take a ...

We've written a lot about the downsides of the streaming era, and how easy it is for movies to get lost in a sea of new releases and never find an audience due to low marketing budgets. But when it ...