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An airplane is a vehicle for transporting passengers, but for Hollywood, it’s a conduit for a good story. There’s something about setting a movie 30,000 feet in the air that facilitates action.

In addition to getting you where you want to go, those hours spent on a plane — or trapped at the airport — are a guilt-free ...

“Flight Risk,” a thriller on board an airplane, opens this week and features a rare villainous turn from Mark Wahlberg. It follows recent flight-centric films like “Carry-On,” “In Flight” and “No Way ...

You know the feeling: the pilot announces that you've hit cruising altitude. You turn on a movie, and just as someone on screen peels their clothes off or starts spewing blood, a flight attendant ...

1977's Kentucky Fried Movie was the first film written by the comedy team of Jim Abrahams and brothers Jerry and David Zucker, three self-described "nice Jewish boys from Milwaukee" who started a ...

This past weekend, I slid into an assigned seat on what I think was the biggest airplane I have ever been on. Stuck between a window and a stranger for a flight over the Atlantic, I decided to seize ...

As cool as the space battles that "Star Wars" popularized are, there is something undeniably thrilling about a high-flying aerial battle sequence. Whether it's biplanes in the earliest days of aerial ...

"Whatever it is you girls do, I'm sure it's nice and innocent." The Asylum has a brand new comedy B-movie out in theaters right now to watch. It's called Airplane 2025, and obviously it's a 2025 spoof ...