What the Flick

Where does the time go? Well, for example, it might go on several trips, pick up and move across town, and lose its calculator and assorted small household items. Just, you know, guessing. In between, time has been spending itself at the movies, and here's a round up of what's been seen since our last visit: a chocolate factory, an imaginary island retreat, and some marching penguins. First, to Antarctica.

Airport security may be keeping terrorists off planes lately, but 2 new movies suggest that too many people with really overcomplicated and stupid plots to achieve truly banal criminal ends are busy filling those coach seats. Both RED EYE and FLIGHTPLAN feature the most cockamamie set-ups ever cooked up during a weather-related ground hold. Once again I'm struck by the thought that if people put so much thought into, I don't know, curing cancer or increasing fuel efficiency as they do into these dumb-ass movies, the world would be such a better place!