DENVER — The comedy classic "Airplane!" will celebrate its 45th anniversary with a special screening event in Colorado. Co-writer/co-director David Zucker and lead actor Robert Hays will attend a ...

There are plane movies—the sort that you might want to watch when you're stuck in the middle seat of a long flight—and then there are plane movies that are actually about planes. Given how a lot of ...

Nicole Sunderland doesn’t have to ponder the in-flight entertainment options when she looks at the screen on the plane seat in front of her. She’ll be watching the map, thank you very much. “I’ll fly ...

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Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler is calling out another Harford official for writing pages of movie quotes instead of paying attention to a law enforcement budget hearing in April. The sheriff ...

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 ...

Liam Neeson's action era may be ending, but his comedy run is just starting in the newly released film The Naked Gun. Fortunately, most of the films by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker are readily ...

Perhaps more than any other genre of movie, science-fiction films are a treat for the eyes, dazzling audiences with breathtaking special effects, fantastic technology, and far-off worlds. However, the ...

Surely it’s been a moment since you last checked in on Airplane!, the progenitor of the relentless film genre known as the spoof comedy. I know I was surprised, on a recent rewatch, to be reminded of ...