We Talk Plane Movies!

To watch ON, not ABOUT. Plus: Is Traylor losing steam? Also, Bertha Russell takes on Red Lobster.

Some movies demand to be seen on a big screen: Oppenheimer, any of the clammy-palms Mission: Impossible experiences in which Tom Cruise seems committed to dying during a stunt gone wrong, Dungeons & Dragons (for real, the movie was really fun and I can’t figure out why it didn’t do better). Some movies are great on your couch, maybe even curled up under a blanket, a cocktail in hand: Oscar bait indies, rom-coms you know are going to make you feel, movies you’ve seen a thousand times but which you slip into like PJ pants and thick socks after a rough day (Bridget Jones’ Diary, but only the first one). And then… there are plane movies.

This category is slightly harder to define, in part because it’ll probably be slightly different for everyone. For me, they tend to be things I can only motivate myself to experience when I am a truly captive audience. In olden times, sure, I’d use a flight to watch something I meant to see in theaters and just missed, but stuff shows up so quickly on stre…