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6 days ago
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- The Standard
US judge sets August hearing on bid to end Boeing criminal prosecution
Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing's 737 Max production facility await shipment at Spirit AeroSystems headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. December 10, 2024. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo
Buzz Feed
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
People Are Sharing The Silliest Films They Rewatch
On the always hilarious subreddit r/AskReddit, Reddit user u/Equal-Ground2281 asked people to share what silly movie they MUST WATCH every time it's on TV or streaming. The results lead me to believe we all have the same sense of humor: "Robin Hood: Men In Tights." "Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Every time I watch it, I can hear my dad's laugh and him quoting it. Great memories." "Galaxy Quest. Alan Rickman was the best." "Airplane." "The Emperor's New Groove." "My Cousin Vinny." "Blazing Saddles." "Clue." "The Jerk" "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is another for me. Cousin Eddy is so funny." "The Naked Gun." "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Such a stupid and cheesy movie, but their little adventure is fun lol." "Spaceballs." "Police Academy. Man, I am deeply in love with that movie so much so that we watched it in the house almost every day, and I am still watching it on my phone with every opportunity I have." "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." "Napoleon Dynamite, gosh!" "Tropic Thunder." "Princess Bride." "Young Frankenstein." "Happy Gilmore." "Groundhog Day." "Anchorman." "Pee-wee's Big Adventure." "Dumb and Dumber." "Super Troopers." "Step Brothers." "Nacho Libre." "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil." "Blades of Glory for some reason." "Mrs. Doubtfire." "Clueless." "Grandma's Boy." "The Blues Brothers." "Armageddon." "Zoolander." "Shrek 2" And finally, "Not Another Teen Movie." What is the silliest movie you constantly watch on loop? Comment below and why!
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The 30 best disaster movies to watch from the safety of your couch
Disaster movies have been a rock-solid staple on the silver screen since the early 1900s — with James Williamson's silent film Fire! (1901) being the first to introduce the genre. From Hollywood's Golden Age and the '70s catastrophe obsession to today, these films have unearthed every pitiless corner of nature's wrath, from towering tsunamis and viral pandemics to all-out apocalypses and more. Whether reveling in epic, large-scale destruction or highlighting the instincts of human beings in crisis, disaster movies tap into that universal question: What would I do in that situation? From Titanic to Twisters, here are the most memorable disaster movies worth watching (from the safety of your home, of course). Way back in 1992, we anointed the comedic masterpiece Airplane! the funniest movie ever, and with good reason. The ZAZ boys (writer-directors Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker) are to humor what Phil Spector is to music. There's so much going on in every frame of Airplane! — which, aside from being positively hilarious, is also a totally legitimate crashing-jetliner disaster flick — watching it feels like being pummeled by a Wall of Laughs. —Marc Bernardin Heck, if we weren't interested in mixing things up a bit, George Kennedy, the undisputed King of Disaster Movies, could easily fill out this whole list. Decades ago, you couldn't come across an Earthquake (1974) or a Concorde: Airport '79 (1979) without tripping over the brawny brute who always survived through sheer guts. That all started with this Best Picture nominee, where his cigar-chompin' Joe Patroni throttles up those engines ("Hold on! We're goin' for broke!") to clear a stuck jet from a snowbound runway — thereby saving squirrelly Oscar-winning stowaway Helen Hayes from a nasty crash and making it safe for captain Dean Martin and stewardess Jacqueline Bisset to have their baby after all. —Mark S. Luckie and Joshua Rich It's hard to tell which is more of a disaster: a giant asteroid careening toward Earth or Ben Affleck's wild sobs of despair. Affleck and Bruce Willis were the stars of this Michael Bay concoction, but it's the antics of the supporting cast that make the movie memorable. Armageddon brought us such "classic" moments as Steve Buscemi playfully straddling a nuclear warhead and a doe-eyed Liv Tyler laying about in a field while Affleck sends an animal cracker stampede across her torso. And while Deep Impact — which was released two months earlier and starred Elijah Wood — also had a deadly comet, it didn't have Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." So, Armageddon wins. —M.S.L. and J.R. Curiosity kills more than just the cat in Bird Box, a film set on a dystopian Earth where unseen yet hard-to-ignore entities drive those who glimpse them to madness and suicide. Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock) — initially pregnant as the world crumbles around her — must survive this sightless terror, relying on complete strangers or braving it alone to keep herself and her children alive long enough to reach a rumored haven. The A Quiet Place comparisons weren't unwarranted (both films dropped the same year and twisted a basic human sense into a death trap), but Bird Box set itself apart by taking a more Melancholia-like approach — blending the psychological with apocalyptic dread. Instead of spoon-feeding answers, it made audiences think for themselves, which naturally fueled online debates, theories, and memes by the dozen. —James Mercadante Not a disaster movie, you say? The Statue of Liberty begs to disagree with you. Part of the 2000s found-footage wave, Cloverfield follows a monster attack in New York City documented by five young people with a camcorder, as the creature and the military lay waste to the metropolis. Cloverfield is perhaps better remembered for its mysterious viral marketing campaign than for the movie itself, with producer J.J. Abrams' trademark secrecy weaponized to build anticipation over several months. —Tyler Aquilina Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns strove for supreme authenticity with Contagion, aspiring to create a movie that realistically depicted the outbreak of and response to a pandemic. The film follows the spread of a devastating virus from the perspective of both citizens and scientists, played by a staggeringly stacked cast, including Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, and Jude Law. Setting the presence of so many exceptionally beautiful people aside, Contagion succeeded in its goal of realism, earning praise from disease experts as well as critics and audiences. —T.A. New York City has been the target of many disaster movies, but few have offered a spectacle like the New York Public Library being inundated by a huge tidal wave. To add insult to injury, the entire city — as well as the northern part of the U.S. — is turned into an arctic tundra by some gnarly post-global warming weather. The Roland Emmerich-directed film stars Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal as father and son who fight to reunite with one another after the world has become a giant popsicle. If only we had listened to Al Gore... —M.S.L. and J.R. A classic apocalyptic thriller of the Cold War era, The Day the Earth Caught Fire posits a scenario in which the explosions from nuclear weapons testing have shifted the Earth off its axis. This triggers an environmental crisis, as the planet heats up, bodies of water evaporate, and the Earth's orbit begins to drift toward the Sun. Though its anxieties are very much rooted in the atomic age, the film has gained renewed relevance in our current (changing) climate: The devastating changes it depicts may not be so far-fetched. —T.A. Hitting theaters just two months before Armageddon, Deep Impact wound up grossing less, but is considered more scientifically accurate than Michael Bay's asteroid flick. While that really isn't saying much, at least Deep Impact sends a team of astronauts (led by Robert Duvall) rather than drillers to deal with the comet hurtling toward Earth, deflecting Ben Affleck's famous critique of Armageddon. It also provides a compelling on-the-ground perspective, with Téa Leoni and Elijah Wood as ordinary people grappling with the impending disaster. And Armageddon may have Aerosmith, but Deep Impact has Morgan Freeman as the president. How can you beat that? —T.A. Deepwater Horizon is the kind of old-fashioned, star-studded, true-life disaster thriller that Hollywood typically doesn't invest in anymore. Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, and Gina Rodriguez headline the cast as crew members of the titular oil rig, but the jaw-dropping visual spectacle is as much of a star, leveraging blockbuster-caliber effects to depict the pipe bursts, fires, and blowouts that consumed the rig and killed 11 people while causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. —T.A. When astronomers Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a comet heading toward Earth, they expect alarm, action, maybe even a little appreciation. But between a narcissistic president (Meryl Streep), a sleazy administration, and the country's la-la-land media machine, their world-ending warning is met with yawns and collective dismissal. Adam McKay's four-time Oscar-nominated satire may have drawn criticism for its blunt-force messaging and thinly veiled nihilism — but its brisk pace, caustic humor, and starry ensemble make Don't Look Up a disaster movie that's all too a little too real. —J.M. There probably wasn't a kid in the 1970s who didn't get all giddy over this pleasing and plot-light demolition in amazing Sensurround (yes, the theater seats really did vibrate — sort of)! Starring disaster stalwart Charlton Heston (The Naked Jungle, Airport 1975), the movie won an Oscar for the then-groundbreaking effects it displayed when a massive rumbler topples L.A. Of course, now that such realistic-looking flicks as 2012 (2009) have come along, what was once state-of-the-art looks like some dude was just shaking a table holding a scale model of Hollywood. —M.S.L. and J.R. Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry Bennett (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons (Oaklee Pendergast, Samuel Joslin, and a pre-Spider-Man Tom Holland) are on a delightful vacation in Thailand when the 2004 tsunami strikes, separating the family. McGregor and Watts elevate The Impossible with powerful performances (Watts earned an Oscar nom), and director J.A. Bayona lends it a striking tension and visual flair, no doubt drawing on his experience directing horror: Watch his brilliant shot selection in the scene when the wave hits. —T.A. An all-star cast including Will Smith as a hunky fighter pilot, Bill Pullman as the troubled president, Jeff Goldblum as a nerdy environmentalist, Vivica A. Fox as a strip club dancer, and a kooky Randy Quaid all fight to survive after aliens obliterate major cities around the world. Independence Day occasionally strays into the megalo-melodramatic, and never more so than when a dog makes a slow-motion leap into a doorway just milliseconds before a wall of flames nearly engulfs him. —M.S.L. and J.R. In Old Chicago starts off as an innocuous film about one family's climb to social prominence in late 1800s Chicago. That is, until an ornery cow named Daisy kicks over a lantern and ignites a fire that quickly engulfs the Windy City. Panic ensues, the screaming masses head for the river and one man is trampled by a herd of stampeding cattle. What makes the film even more disturbing is that it is a fictionalized account of the very real Great Chicago Fire of 1871. —M.S.L. and J.R. Danish auteur (and provocateur) Lars von Trier turned in a very different sort of impending-planetary-doom movie with Melancholia, using the film's looming apocalyptic event (a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth) as an illustration of the protagonist's (Kirsten Dunst) deep depression. Also, the film only becomes a disaster movie in the second half, while continuing to function as an unnerving domestic drama and character study. —T.A. Long before James Cameron infused the Titanic tragedy with a grand, doomed romance, this British film was the definitive cinematic account of the sinking. Like Cameron's film, A Night to Remember was a huge financial undertaking (it was the most expensive film ever made in Britain at the time), but was not blessed with the Avatar filmmaker's box-office Midas touch. Still, A Night to Remember is widely considered the best depiction of the Titanic disaster on film, boasting stark realism, meticulous detail, and as affecting a depiction of the class disparity on board as the ballad of Jack and Rose. —T.A. Outbreak's chillingly plausible setup — a monkey carrying a deadly, Ebola-like virus is smuggled into the U.S., spreading the virus to humans — puts it a cut above your standard pandemic movie. Dustin Hoffman stars as a U.S. Army colonel who must battle a military conspiracy in order to save a California town from the virus, with a packed supporting cast including Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, and Rene Russo. —T.A. Kit Harington plays a Celtic gladiator brought to the doomed Roman city to fight, where he falls into a romance with the governor's daughter (Emily Browning) before Mt. Vesuvius blows its top. Are you not entertained? Apparently not: Pompeii was roasted by critics, and on Saturday Night Live, Harington joked that the film "proved more of a disaster than the event it was based on." (Where does Game of Thrones' final season rank, we wonder?) But hey, what's a list of disaster movies without at least one disaster on celluloid? —T.A. She may be a sweet granny with a little extra meat on her bones who's trapped in a capsized ocean liner in The Poseidon Adventure, but, as talkative Belle (Shelley Winters) will proudly tell you, "In the water, I'm a very skinny lady." Good thing, because when Rev. Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) gets pinned under a submerged slab of metal, it's up to "the underwater swimming champ of New York for three years running" to rescue him. By swallowing her pride (all those comments about her character's weight!) and a big gulp of air, Winters earned an Oscar nomination for pulling off the best moment in the best disaster flick ever. —M.S.L. and J.R. In the first few moments of the movie, Tom Ransome (George Brent) laments "Oh, how I wish the rains would come." And come they did. Rain splashes all over the Indian city of Ranchipur — knocking down entire buildings; causing the ground to collapse; and creating a flood that destroys everything in its path. The destruction and the resulting aftermath is the backdrop between a beautiful love story between Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) and Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power) — kind of like Titanic without the boat. —M.S.L. and J.R. San Andreas is there for moviegoers when one city-leveling earthquake just isn't enough. Director Brad Peyton's disaster flick offers no less than two massive quakes that decimate buildings and cause thousands of CGI citizens to perish in their wake. The film even throws in a massive San Francisco tsunami for good measure. And while he can't save everyone, San Andreas stars the one modern action star you might assume is capable of taking on the forces of nature: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. —Jonathon Dornbush You might not even realize San Francisco is a disaster picture for much of its running time, as Clark Gable's nightclub owner and Jack Holt's socialite spar for the affection of a singer (Jeanette MacDonald, who performs the famous title song). It's a standard-issue classic Hollywood plot, but the sequence depicting the tragic 1906 earthquake is a jolting burst of fast-cutting mayhem, lending it a chaotic power that transcends any outdated special effects. —T.A. The biggest movie of all time is a disaster flick? You bet! Remember: Without the stunning moment when the boat kisses that frozen hulk, this Best Picture winner is just another Romeo and Juliet knockoff. (And without its monumental love story, Titanic might as well be The Hindenburg.) That said, James Cameron's epic reaches the pinnacle of disaster-movie impudence with the distasteful suggestion that the most celebrated tragedy of the 20th century occurred because a few lookouts were distracted by Kate and Leo sucking face. (Okay, maybe that's just us.) —M.S.L. and J.R. Disaster master Irwin Allen's thrilling Best Picture nominee is overflowing with classic instances of historical import: Paul Newman and Jennifer Jones Lookinland (a.k.a., Bobby Brady)! William Holden wears a scarlet dinner lives to tell about it! Tops is security guard O.J. Simpson putting his mark on the genre's obligatory animal rescue by saving a cat from a scorching skyscraper. ("Say, kitty," he coos, "I almost missed ya.") Watching the star cradle that sweet ball of fur is a timeless reminder that amidst the most hellish chaos and destruction, compassion and humanity still survive. Thank you, O.J. —M.S.L. and J.R. The tornado tale doesn't fit the traditional models established by Poseidon (a disaster's occurred and we've gotta escape!) or Airport (a disaster's about to occur and we've gotta prevent it!). But there's no denying the force of those would-be Fingers of God that terrorize the prairie, scooping up houses, tanker trucks, and, best of all, a mooing steer. Like Walter Matthau's cameo in Earthquake and Owen Wilson's wisecracks in Armageddon, flying cows are the kind of wonderfully out-of-place bits of levity we die for. —M.S.L. and J.R. Twister gets a 21st-century face-lift with a legacy sequel that shows how storm chasing has evolved in the digital age. Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters throws a new generation of chasers (Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Anthony Ramos) into the eye of the storm, each armed with their own tricks and methods as they test new technology during a series of deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma. As EW's critic notes, the film "revels in a let's-not-take-this-too-seriously vibe, even though, of course, there are real stakes, what with trucks smashing into buildings and people occasionally being snatched by the Hand of God and hurled to a terrifying death." —J.M. Everyone refuses to listen to geologist Amy Barnes (Anne Heche) when she theorizes that a volcanic flow is coursing underneath Los Angeles. It sounds crazy until the volcano erupts and starts flowing in the city streets and destroying everything in its path. It's up to Amy and emergency official Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) to team up and save the day. —M.S.L. and J.R. The crew of the Seaview submarine are trapped underwater while a fire in the sky is rapidly heating the world around them is that a giant octopus? The freakishly large cephalopod is only one of the many perils Robert Sterling, Walter Pidgeon, and the rest of the film's stars have to contend with in this feature predecessor to the popular TV show. —M.S.L. and J.R. It's hard to imagine that when The War of the Worlds was first broadcast in radio form in 1938, it sent people panicking in the streets. Clearly, they weren't ready for Tom Cruise and CGI. The 2005 film incarnation terrorized moviegoers with menacing aliens bent on destroying everything in their path, including one very young and very scared Dakota Fanning. After all the destruction and chaos, the visitors are felled by common Earth germs. So in the event of an alien attack, huddle up with someone sick. —M.S.L. and J.R. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Daily Record
17-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Record
Cavenagh and Rangers takeover crew must wonder what it'll be like if they crack it but supply cannot outstrip demand
It's hardly headline news there's a rebuild needed at Rangers this summer. The squad have proved they are not up to the job and sorting out the team will be one of the first tasks for the new owners. A new gaffer would be handy as well. It's may or may not be Davide Ancelotti and if it's the latter then it doesn't sound like too much of a blow. Junior might turn out to be a top-class boss on his own merit but Ibrox is no place to be finding out if you have the chops. It's a gig that can have experienced gaffers looking a bit Lloyd Bridges in Airplane! Whoever gets the nod will need serious help on the recruitment side. But what about the next items on the agenda? Like Ibrox itself. There has to be a case for increasing the capacity. This might not be the best time to bring it up, given there have been plenty of empty seats of late. At least those seats were already bought and paid for. And that's the key. There's a big demand from fans to watch their side – and that's even when they are honking. Fair play to them. These supporters have had to put up with more than most. It's part of the reason Andrew Cavenagh and his 49ers pals are getting involved. If this is the support they get when they are not very good, just imagine what it would be like if they crack it. And that's where Ibrox comes in. The Americans already have Leeds United on the books and plan to extend Elland Road. It's natural Rangers fans see that and think the builders could be sent around Govan pretty soon. It would make sense. You just have to look across the city at Celtic and see what their extra 10,000 seats does for the coffers. It's worth £3-4million a year extra and more if you chuck in a European run. That's easy money just waiting to be snapped up with a bit of investment. Apparently there's more than 15,000 on the waiting list through the MyGers loyalty scheme. While you're not going to get all of them taking up season books, you'd expect a fair whack would if they like what they are hearing. There's a sweet spot though – and it's the same for Celtic. You'll hear some supporters talking about ramping up the grounds to 75,000 or even 80k. But there is no chance. Both could get those numbers for derbies and big Euro ties. But the rest? Doubtful. And they also need to be careful not to let supply outstrip demand. Rangers and Celtic need the demand to be high for season tickets as they front load their finances. Add another 20,000 seats and they'd remove the need to buy season tickets at all. Sure, it might be a bun fight for the big matches but they'd be more inclined to pick and choose. Taking away the necessity to jump on board at the start would create uncertainty in the coffers. Celtic will sit tight on 60k as long as they can and Gers should be aiming to match it or not too much more. But maybe give Hampden a bye this time when the builders are in…
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Politics
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The Atlantic posts full Signal chat, intensifying White House scandal
There's a funny flashback scene in the 1980 comedy classic 'Airplane,' in which Ted Striker tells Elaine Dickinson about a mission he's poised to join. 'My orders came through,' he tells her. 'My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.' When Dickinson asks when he'll be back, Striker replies, 'I can't tell you that. It's classified.' The scene keeps coming to mind as the White House's 'Signalgate' scandal becomes even more serious. NBC News reported: The Atlantic on Wednesday published a transcript of text messages showing that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth detailed U.S. military attack plans in Yemen in a Signal group chat that inadvertently included the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. In an article titled 'Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal,' Goldberg quoted from texts in which Hegseth specified types of U.S. military aircraft and the timing of recent airstrikes against Houthi militias in Yemen. By now, the basic elements of the controversy are probably familiar. Top members of Donald Trump's national security team chatted in a Signal group over the sensitive details of a military strike in Yemen — potentially in violation of some federal laws — and they accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, in their chat. When Goldberg published his original bombshell report on Monday, however, the journalist, as part of an attempt to be responsible and cautious, deliberately withheld information to avoid publishing potentially classified details. A day later, both the president and top members of his national security team insisted that the Signal group chat did not include classified information. The comments were practically an invitation to Goldberg to publish everything he had. And so, he did. In the process, the generation's most scandalous White House security breach managed to get even worse. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, for example, sounding a bit like the fictional Ted Striker, wrote precise details about the take-off times of U.S. fighter jets, as well as details about the kind of jets, as they prepared to strike Houthi fighters in Yemen. At one point, the former Fox News personality literally wrote, '1415 ... THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP.' Though the messages did not include specific targeting locations, it included information that, if obtained by bad actors, could have endangered American pilots' lives and possibly allowed U.S. targets to evade the strikes. The beleaguered Pentagon chief did all of this while boasting, 'We are currently clean on OPSEC,' referring to operational security that was anything but 'clean.' Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor and former special counsel at the Pentagon, noted via Bluesky, 'I worked at the Pentagon. If information like this is not classified, nothing is.' But Hegseth is hardly alone in looking worse. The day before these new revelations reached the public, Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico specifically asked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, 'Precise operational issues were not part of this conversation?' Gabbard, who was under oath, replied, 'Correct.' As for the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote via social media that she now considers the entire controversy to be a "hoax," despite everything the public has now learned. There were some concerns on Monday that this stunning White House debacle would be a one-day story. Those fears have now disappeared. This article was originally published on
