Special Sauce missing from undercooked The Founder
Writer-director John Lee Hancock has been cranking out hugely-entertaining, big studio fare like The Blind Side, The Alamo, and The Rookie f... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Entertainment
Former teacher seeks to attract girls to STEM with Fly Like a Girl
When Fly Like a Girl director Katie McEntire Wiatt was a little girl she wanted to be everything from a Broadway star and a chef to an Olymp... Continue Reading
Sundance stunner Sami Blood is a revelation
If you’re anything like me, the only thing you know about Swedish Lappland and the indigenous people who live there, known as the Sami... Continue Reading
Canada’s Jetlines: Inflight Wi-Fi only if it pays
Vancouver-based ultra-low-cost start-up Jetlines will only offer passengers inflight Wi-Fi if it pays the airline to do so, but will rent pa... Continue Reading
Shyamalan returns to form with scary-good Split
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s memorable quote about there being “no second acts in American lives” usually goes double in Hollywoo... Continue Reading
USB-only power in economy: digEcor talks trends, diversification
Following last year’s demise of inflight entertainment firm Lumexis; the recent decision by American Airlines not to take seatback IFE for i... Continue Reading
Press Release: LATAM taps Spafax for IFE programming across fleet
Spafax, one of the world’s leading providers media, entertainment and content marketing services to the airline industry, announces that it ... Continue Reading
Style trumps substance in Nocturnal Animals
Like a beautiful, yet tragically vapid, runway model, writer-director Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals might look like a million bucks on ... Continue Reading
Why SriLankan has the best economy class you (probably) aren’t flying
Consider, for a moment, the area often defined on airline route maps as “Indian Subcontinent/Indian Ocean”. The airlines based in the region... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Fiercely feminist Rogue One is best in a generation
Even casual fans of the Star Wars franchise know that although the films are technically set in a galaxy far, far away, like the best sci-fi... Continue Reading
Press Release: SpiceJet picks Lufthansa Systems’ BoardConnect Portable
The Indian airline SpiceJet will offer in-flight entertainment (IFE) and e-commerce, soon. SpiceJet will equip the whole fleet with BoardCon... Continue Reading
Parenting woes prove universal in We Used to be Cool
I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on the subject, but as a father of an eight-year-old girl who has sat through his fair share of c... Continue Reading
Office Christmas Party is a kegger to remember
Some airlines claim that their passengers prefer comedies when they fly, for others its dramas or big summer action flicks. But if you ask m... Continue Reading
Panasonic defines NEXT platform-ecosystem IFEC model
HAMBURG — With its new inflight entertainment and connectivity system, NEXT, Panasonic Avionics is developing new hardware and software to c... Continue Reading
Passengers should steer clear of Passengers
All I can say is that Passengers must have looked like a sure thing on paper. Jennifer Lawrence. Chris Pratt. The Oscar-winning badass from ... Continue Reading
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