With the box office success of 1970’s Airport, it was no surprise that Universal Studios would attempt to strike gold a second time with another air disaster film, but with Airport 1975, the studio decided to focus more on the disaster element, while toning down the multiple storylines that had bogged down the previous film….
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Airport (1970) – Review
In 1970, Universal Studios kicked off a franchise that would set the tone for the disaster movies of the 70s and the decades to come; based on Arthur Hailey’s popular novel of the same name, Airport would become one of the studio’s top earners that year and its formula of personal stories intertwined with horrific events…
Bumblebee (2018) – Review
What happens when you get the man behind such animated films as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, and give him a live-action Transformers movie? Well, the answer to that is you get a movie that is pretty much the exact opposite of the Michael Bay atrocities — which have made billions of dollars…
Zero Hour! (1957) – Review
Before author Arthur Hailey wrote his bestseller novel Airport, which was later turned into the movie of the same name, he had penned a teleplay for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called Flight into Danger — starring James “Scotty” Doohan — that Hailey then adapted into the screenplay for Paramount Pictures under the title Zero Hour! and…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) – Review
Do you remember Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham? Well, if you’re not a kid from the 80s there is a good chance you don’t, but now Sony Pictures brings a new Spider-Man movie that will gleefully fill that hole in your soul that you didn’t even know you had. Loosely based on the multiple-title Marvel…