Looking for something mindless for the flight home I opted for this comedy drama that casts Seth Rogen as the struggling salesman who is cajoled into a cross-country road trip by his insufferable, interfering, incredibly Jewish mother, played by Barbara Streisand. What could have been a painful experience actually turned out to be a pleasant […] Read more »
I caught this on a flight and really that’s the perfect place to see this utterly inconsequential yet mildly diverting comedy. Steve Carell is on autopilot most of the time here, while Steve Buscemi’s involvement in a comedy is both baffling and rather unsuccessful. Jim Carrey does far better here than he did in Kick-Ass […] Read more »
Denzel Washington is great playing a commercial pilot who’s got what it takes to fly a broken plane upside down, but can’t keep his drink and drug habit under control. Robert Zemeckis directs, but seems conflicted over whether substance abuse is a calamitous lifewrecker, or actually kind of cool. Read my full review here Read more »
Robert Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director of Forrest Gump and Back To The Future, returns to live action for the first time in more than a decade, directing his first R rated film since the early 1980s. And boy, does he earn that rating here. Flight is the story of a drug and alcohol-addicted airline pilot, […] Read more »