Boy Movies #14

The January doldrums issue (idk… Plane…)

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It’s literally Plane

On Friday, Alexis and I saw what could perhaps be our last movie at the imminently closing Regal Union Square (this is a travesty btw): the new Gerard Butler joint, Plane. Plane, along with the extraordinary M3gan, are ideal January movies, because January is a month where I am in desperate need of big, stupid distractions and want to engage in critical thought as infrequently as possible. Unlike M3gan, Plane is a boy movie through and through, a schlocky action thriller with a runtime under two hours that is full of explosions and dudes fighting and ricocheting bullets.

Plane is like if Speed, Flight, and Captain Phillips had a weird baby. It is…