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
Author: Tomás Romero
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
InflightFeed seeks humanitarian aid from airlines for refugees
Whether you fully comprehend the complex geopolitical situation at the heart of the current refugee crisis gripping Europe and the Middle Ea... 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
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
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
Second time’s a charm for Exotic Marigold Hotel
There’s a recurring bit about weak tea in director John Madden’s The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel that, aside from being ve... Continue Reading
IFE industry sees strong demand for authentic destination content
Be they hip and stylish, fun and cheeky or sometimes just plain boring, in-room destination videos have been big business for the hospitalit... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: X + Y = comedy gold in timely While We’re Young
Long before it was co-opted by cynical marketing types to sell iPads, craft beers and GoPro cameras to tech-hungry Millennials, the word aut... Continue Reading
McFarland, USA outruns sports movie clichés
When it comes to portraying big, strong, corn-fed everyman types onscreen, no one holds a candle to the all-American charms of Kevin Costner... Continue Reading
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