This One ‘Airplane!’ Joke Still Haunts My Brains, Even 40 Years After Its Release
Airplane! is stuffed with jokes. The classic 1980 comedy from the trio of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker — likely my favorite film comedy of all time — uses a strong, simple, fundamental ...
Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman takes hosts Joe Dante and Josh Olson on a journey through some of his favorite cinematic tonal shifts.
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David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams’ 1980 comedy masterpiece Airplane! is widely regarded to be one of the greatest spoofs ever made. It broadly lampoons the disaster movies that dominated ...
On the surface, Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) is a very successful airline stewardess. The protagonist of HBO Max’s juicy, fun comedy series “The Flight Attendant” lives in New York City and has the ...
Exclusive: The Grudge screenwriter Stephen Susco is set to adapt the Bullet Catcher podcast as a television series.
Audio company Realm, which is behind the podcast series, which is in its third ...
Exactly 30 years to the day since Whoopi Goldberg officially became an Oscar winner, the entertainer is reliving the moment over Zoom.
Watching a clip from the 1991 Academy Awards telecast from her ...
Zack Snyder is looking to bring the legend of King Arthur back to the big screen in a "faithful retelling" of the classic medieval story. Next month, fans of the filmmaker will see the release of ...
Let’s raise a farewell glass to one of the all-time greats, Sean Connery. Even though the legendary Scottish actor turned 90 this summer, his death still feels like a shock, just because Connery ...
Revealing that she "got that job because of Patrick Swayze," Whoopi Goldberg recalled how she was cast in the hit movie Ghost after she was initially rejected. In the classic movie, Goldberg memorably ...
Sad news is coming in at the start of the week, as Ghost actress and Broadway star Armelia McQueen has passed away. A cause of death hasn't yet been revealed, though McQueen's friend Dorian Hannaway ...
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!”
There will be a 11:00pm Screening of Airplane at the Skyview Drive in Belleville (5700 N Belt W, Belleville, Il 62226) , Thursday September ...
What can you make out of Airplane! at 40 years old? Well, aside from a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl? Written and directed by brothers Jerry and David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, the 1980 parody of ...
Most people smile just at the mention of this show … nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams’ non-stop joke fest finds good fun in movie spoofery without malice, ...
Given that the summer blockbuster season has been a bust as theater chains shut down while cases of the deadly coronavirus rose. Studios continue push openings of highly anticipated films into the ...
It's impossible to hear Unchained Melody and not immediately think of the classic film Ghost starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. This year marks the film's 30th anniversary which ...
Exclusive: Believe it or not the 1990 Oscar-winning box office blockbuster Ghost celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, and to mark that milestone Paramount Home Entertainment’s Paramount ...
For this week’s horror and sci-fi home media releases, we have some Stephen King on tap, as well as a ton of indie horror and a classic genre romance as well. If you missed it previously, you can now ...