Press Release: Cobalt Air’s portable wireless IFE goes live
Cobalt Air, Cyprus’ expanding airline, has enhanced its onboard experience for all its passengers with the introduction of in-flight enterta... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: movies
Meditation Park is a feast for the soul
Meditation Park is a very quiet film, but like its long-suffering protagonist, Maria (played by legendary Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng), th... Continue Reading
The Disaster Artist is a great movie about a bad one
Hollywood has been obsessed with movies about movies since the silent era, and though there is always the concern that a navel gazing Tinsel... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Airline content trends and new lav concepts revealed
Welcome to episode 57 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest is Maryann Simson, who has been active in the #PaxEx media world for nearly a decade.... Continue Reading
Timely yet flawed The Post needs a rewrite
On paper, The Post must have looked like a sure thing. A juicy, hugely topical, historical drama celebrating the heroic efforts of a group o... Continue Reading
Movie magic comes alive at the National Air and Space Museum
I was only eight years old when I saw Stanley Kubrick’s mind-bending masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. And though ... Continue Reading
Kill Bill meets Taken in bloody good Mrs. K
Oscar-winning writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight) built his reputation on culturally appropriating everythin... Continue Reading
The Florida Project milks magic from mayhem
When it comes to truly edgy underground filmmakers, it’s hard to top writer-director Sean Baker. His 2012 film Starlet profiled the un... Continue Reading
Weird things come in small packages in Downsizing
With seven Oscar nominations to his name and two wins (Best Original Screenplay for 2004’s Sideways and 2011’s The Descendants) ... Continue Reading
Daddy’s Home 2 is Godfather: Part II of comedy sequels
Generally speaking, sequels to big, mainstream, Hollywood comedies rarely get better as the series continues. Especially when they add new c... Continue Reading
A new spring in its step, Global Eagle eyes “contentivity” growth
In-seat IFE will be prevalent on board long-haul widebody aircraft for at least another 15 years. Even as satellite capacity costs further d... Continue Reading
Oldman shines bright in Oscar-winning Darkest Hour
Although Darkest Hour managed to snag an impressive six Oscar nominations this year – including a surprise Best Picture nod – th... Continue Reading
Too much Tom Cruise torpedoes American Made
Inspired by his experience playing F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot Maverick in the 80’s classic Top Gun, Tom Cruise earned his pilot’s... Continue Reading
Singing nuns and Whitney take the stage in Holy Camp!
Singing nuns and musicals have gone together like communion wafers and wine since Maria first urged us to climb every mountain and ford ever... Continue Reading
Geostorm is perfect storm of disaster movie clichés
Normally at this time of year the IFE landscape tends to be dominated by two types of films. That first flush of serious award season conten... Continue Reading
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