Provocative Jackie is not your grandparent’s biopic
Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy has been portrayed onscreen over the years by everyone from a young Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jaclyn Smith ... Continue Reading
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Post-Arab Spring drama Hedi will rip your heart out
Even if you know next to nothing about Tunisia’s long, complicated history of colonization and dictatorial rule leading up to the game... Continue Reading
Film Geek Primer 2017: Where to catch Oscar nominees in-flight
Although the glitz and glamour of Hollywood award season seems oddly trivial in light of the surreal drama unfolding on the political stage ... Continue Reading
Trippy Doctor Strange will blow your mind
Benedict Cumberbatch has played everything from enigmatic Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing (The Imitation Game) to Sherlock Holmes (TV’s... Continue Reading
Queen of Katwe is The Karate Kid of chess films
Since bursting onto the scene with her Academy Award nominated feature debut Salaam Bombay! in 1988, Indian writer-director Mira Nair has ha... Continue Reading
Retro romp Bridget Jones’s Baby really delivers
When last we left Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) in 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, everyone’s favorite “single... Continue Reading
Download before flying or rely on IFEC? That is the question
Another swathe of passengers can download content before they fly ever since Netflix late last year joined Amazon Prime in offering some dow... Continue Reading
Tim Burton returns to form with Miss Peregrine
His insanely over-produced Alice in Wonderland films aside, director-producer Tim Burton (Batman, Ed Wood) has a better batting average than... Continue Reading
Streep hits high note as Florence Foster Jenkins
With more than 60 directing credits to his name in just about every genre imaginable, Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen) is... Continue Reading
Old Hollywood shimmers in Café Society
It’s kind of ironic that the man who once famously opined that the only cultural advantage of living in Los Angeles is that “you... Continue Reading
Captain Fantastic sticks it to the man in style
Since premiering to rave reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Captain Fantastic, writer-director Matt Ross’s (28 Hotel... Continue Reading
When light loads reduce the value proposition of Delta’s Comfort+
What is in-seat power worth on a transatlantic flight? This is the question your author faced when considering seat assignments on a recent ... Continue Reading
Hard-partying Bad Moms is night out for your brain
If you’re anything like me, the last thing you want to watch after last week’s bitterly divisive US presidential election is a d... Continue Reading
Scandal and disco reign supreme in The Nice Guys
Believe it or not, writing a great, truly original action movie is really hard. And though The Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy, Jupiter Ascen... Continue Reading
Spielberg transforms The BFG into BFD for film fans
Not including 2011’s fun, hugely-underrated computer animated The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg hasn’t directed a prope... Continue Reading
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