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IFE Film Review: Vile, tin-eared The Voices not worth listening to
Every few years a small, buzz-worthy film emerges from the Sundance Film Festival that is so awful it threatens to give genuinely good Sundance movies a bad name. In 2014 that film was the totally tone...
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IFE Film Review: 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. Hell, the man practically bleeds apple pie. And for more...
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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 authentic actually meant, you know, what it means. Keeping it...
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IFE Film Review: 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 very funny, is also a fitting analogy for most movie sequels. Take...
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IFE Film Review: 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 since the False Maria “Maschinenmensch” (German for “machine-human”)...
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IFE Film Review: 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 double for frequent business travel, where an often punishing regiment of...
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IFE Film Review: 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 teen comedies of old. But for every game-changer like Heathers,...
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IFE Film Review: 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 on the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film...
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IFE Film Review: 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 it’s big, mushy melodramas or loud, pyrotechnic-driven action flicks and...
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IFE Film Review: 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 whisky-swilling John Huston spent more time hunting elephants...
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IFE Film Review: 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 village of St. Mary Mead and Edward Gorey had Mortshire. But...
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IFE Film Review: 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 Hollywood, where every genre-busting smash like Paranormal...
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IFE Film Review: 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 a founding member of Nirvana could, that “If you f–king like...
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IFE Film Review: Eclectic movies coming to a seatback near you
Having spent the better part of the week wading through inflight entertainment content awesomeness at the APEX Expo in Portand, Oregon, I can tell you with some level of certainty that there are loads...
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IFE Film Review: Iranian vampire western Girl envelops its audience
It’s hard to find a new twist on vampire movies these days, especially in the post-modern Pride and Prejudice and Zombies era where genre mashups rule, Abraham Lincoln is a vampire hunter and...
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IFE Film Review – Cheeky geeky comedy caper Dope is totally dope
In his 1983 Hollywood tell-all Adventures in the Screen Trade, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman wrote that: “Nobody knows anything… not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for...
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IFE Film Review: Even magic shoes can’t save misfire The Cobbler
If you ask me, Adam Sandler has gotten a pretty bad rap over the years. Sure, he’s churned out some real clunkers of late (Funny People, Grown Ups 2 and the virtually unwatchable Jack and Jill come...
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IFE Film Review: San Andreas is popcorn movie perfection
When it comes to scary movies, most film geeks will agree that fear is in the eye of the beholder. For some people it’s vampires and demons, for others it’s ghosts and things that go bump in the night,...
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IFE Film Review: Sundance sensation Me and Earl is the real deal
While vampire romance and dark, dystopian trilogies with strong female protagonists will always have their place in Young Adult (YA) fiction, these days, the YA shelves are so littered with tales of...
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IFE Film Review: Slow-moving Mr. Holmes is almost criminally boring
Even if you don’t know your Mycroft from your Moriarty or a Calabash pipe from a Churchwarden anyone who has watched TV or been to the movies lately knows that Sherlock Holmes is back in a big way. Of...
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