• May 25, 2022
• Action, At Home, Drama

From the opening moment the modern Paramount logo shows up on screen with the original 80s Top Gun score by Harold Faltermeyer playing over the soundtrack, I couldn’t help...

• June 17, 2020
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

During the pandemic, for whatever reason and perhaps against better judgement, I have watched many disaster movies. Perhaps it is to feel better knowing that things could be a...

• January 3, 2017
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

Imagine being judged on 208 seconds of your life. This is what happens when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), a mild-mannered, cool-as-a-cucumber commercial airline pilot, managed to avert a...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

At first thought, I was expecting a totally tasteless disaster movie based on Flight 93 that was hijacked on 9/11/2001 and crashed (or shot down?) in a Pennsylvania field....

• April 28, 2006
• At Home

Cillian Murphy is so creepy looking that I’m inclined to say that he should be made to wear a bag over his head, but Batman Begins proved that the...

• September 28, 2005
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jodie Foster plays Kyle, a grieving woman who is flying to New York from Berlin to bring back the body of her dead husband. He “fell” from the roof...

• December 18, 2004
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

Phoenix is something of an ambitious but overblown star vehicle for Dennis Quaid that’s filled to overflowing with gritted teeth (with or without the requisite gnashing), rippling muscles, scenery...