Plane hijacking is a really scary thing to see. The prospects of dozens of passengers being stuck in the sky with a couple of psychopaths with nowhere to go can freak anyone out. And then, thankfully, a brave young person comes to the rescue saving all the passengers. The fear that appe...
Henry has been tasked by his CIA boss (Lawrence Fishburne) to look into an old case: a plane hijacking that ended with the deaths of everyone on board, including the terrorists. The disaster still haunts the CIA to this day, especially since they suspect a mole might’ve leaked info to ...
InsideSociety of the Snow's true story about plane crash survivors in the Andes 23of 24 They Cloned Tyrone(2023) John Boyega, Teynah Parris, and Jamie Foxx in 'They Cloned Tyrone'. Parrish Lewis/Netflix A single genre isn't enough to contain one of Netflix's 2023 releases,They Cloned...
We, of course, are talking about movies. Movies that take place on a plane or in an airport seem to have a unique quality to them. They make rom-coms more romantic, action films more thrilling, and dramas more heart-wrenching all because they take place 36,000 feet in the air. Of...
Working with eyes and mass, he plays well off his co-star Christian Bale, with a bombastic plane hijacking opening sequence that remains a dynamite set piece.45 Simu Liu – Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Photo : Everett Collection Role: Xu Shang-Chi / Shaun Director:...
Red Eyemarked a big moment in Wes Craven's career. It was his first big hit after years of critically-panned films likeScream 3andCursed.Red Eyeis also notable for being a complete alteration of an airplane disaster film. It involves no hijackings, no bombs, and no plane crashes. Instead...
August 2, 1977– After mechanical problems that have Director Richard Donner under the car cursing, and two aborted takes later, the remote control car crash and portions the first missile hijacking sequence for SUPERMAN THE MOVIE are filmed with Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Ned Beatty as Otis...
of Earth, Wind & Fire's "September," becomes one of the most joyful and then poignant scenes in a movie this year. From that, the song becomes an anthem for the movie, its lyrics about looking back and bygone days of glory becoming more resonant as the film goes on. (Rafael Mota...
Blood Red Skykind of came out of nowhere and immediately became a hit with horror fans. The British-German film from director Peter Thorwarth—who co-wrote the screenplay with Stefan Holtz—has a silly-sounding premise involving a plane hijacking and vampires, but it ends up being a very te...
It may sound disingenuous, or insensitive, to call Paul Greengrass’s great docudrama about the hijacking of a United Airlines flight by Al Qaeda terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, an “action film.” Yet part of the movie’s revelatory power is that it is one; it immerses us in what a ...