Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook tied a historic record in a recent game against the Phoenix Suns and made everyone feel a lot better about KD leaving.
Airplane!
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Letters to the Editor: Sept. 28, 2016
Do the Chicken Littles propose to eliminate water vapor too?
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Chicken-Fried News: Wild ride
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe ran into some issues while flying his plane during Fourth of July weekend.
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I’m So Excited
From internationally acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, I’m So Excited is a futile attempt to explore crisis-induced catharsis from 30,000 feet up in the air. When employees at an airport in Spain fail to properly prepare a plane before takeoff, the pilots and crew are left to deal with the repercussions. Opening Friday at AMC […]
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FBI Code 98
No matter, really; I loved it all the same, so much so that I wish it had birthed a series of big-screen outings. (Instead, the idea eventually was rejiggered (sort of) into the long-running Efrem Zimbalist TV show, The FBI, and that doesn’t count.) Directed by Leslie H. Martinson (1966’s Batman: The Movie), the black-and-white, […]
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Drive-In
(How meta it would’ve been to see this at an actual drive-in; I’ll settle for its DVD debut from Sony Pictures’ Choice Collection, rather than the alternative, which is to never see it at all.) Like American Graffiti three years before it, the movie follows a select handful of youngsters, mostly teens, over the course […]
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Back from Eternity
Had I known that, I may not have even given the Warner Archive release a shot, but I was suckered in by its cover. Utilizing artwork from the film’s original 1956 release, it depicts a super-sexy, RTF visage of Anita Ekberg (Call Me Bwana, The Killer Nun) staring straight at the viewer. The tagline: “Ooh […]
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Cry Terror!
Man 1: “Well, suddenly, we’ve got a problem on our hands, and it’s a dilly: the prankster.” Man 2: “Oh, no, not another one.” Man 1: “The fifth character to pull this sort of stunt in the last 60 days alone.” Man 2: “Used to be the joker who turned in the phony fire alarms. […]
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Turbulent Skies
While the disaster-movie craze of the 1970s and its rebirth in the late 1990s are long behind us, you wouldn’t know it with writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s take, which may as well as have been titled “Turbulence 4.” (Yes, two sequels to “Turbulence” actually got made.) Consider this: An airplane’s maiden flight controlled by new […]