The Age of Adaline is a guilt-free guilty pleasure
When it comes to the subject of guilty pleasures, musician Dave Grohl summed up many people’s feelings perfectly when he said, as only... Continue Reading
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Seatback IFE’s much-heralded death fails to materialise, again
Harbingers of the demise of embedded seatback inflight entertainment have been prophesying its death for years, but two recent decisions by ... Continue Reading
Scary good indie It Follows will haunt your dreams
Crafting a truly original horror film concept in the found footage-obsessed, post-Blair Witch era is harder than it seems. Especially in Hol... Continue Reading
Hardy’s Wessex shimmers in Madding Crowd
William Faulkner set most of his major works in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. Agatha Christie had the quaint English vi... Continue Reading
Muddled, confusing Aloha gets lost in paradise
Hollywood has a long, rich history of great filmmakers completely losing their minds on location, especially in remote, tropical locales. A ... Continue Reading
United Airlines advertises wireless IFE option on tray tables
United Airlines is building awareness about its wireless IFE product via tray tables. With more than 150 aircraft offering a BYOD streaming ... Continue Reading
Vampire mockumentary Shadows bites off too much
Ask any passenger what is their favorite IFE genre and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Some swear by comedies, for others itR... Continue Reading
LATAM focuses on wireless IFE rollout instead of inflight Internet
Updated to note that Zodiac Inflight Innovations’ RAVE Wireless system is being rolled out by LATAM, not Thales’ AVA solution Ha... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Technik on course to deliver seatback iPad for Qantas
Lufthansa Technik is in final certification talks with safety authorities for a semi-embedded iPad inflight entertainment system destined fo... Continue Reading
Indie-minded Tomorrowland soars anew in-flight
When it was established in the early 1980s, the non-profit organization that would one day become Film Independent – the folks who put... Continue Reading
Teen satire The DUFF delivers frothy inflight fun
Every few years a teen comedy comes around that studio marketing types breathlessly tout as the heir apparent to the classic John Hughes tee... Continue Reading
Adapt or perish is the new edict for portable inflight entertainment
In his last book, Mind at the End of its Tether, H.G. Wells memorably opined: “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexora... Continue Reading
Unfinished Business makes biz travel fun again
Al Gore once famously opined that, “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” And that goes ... Continue Reading
A.I. drama Ex Machina is the droid for you
Films about the perils of artificial intelligence (A.I.) gaining consciousness and “going rogue” have been a sci-fi movie staple... Continue Reading
Virgin America plans IPTV seatback integration with Ka connectivity
Virgin America’s recent confirmation that it has added a new inflight internet provider represents more than simply a new solution for... Continue Reading
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