“I know too much about life to have any optimism,†is a typically bleak quip from struggling stand-up Louis CK, describing new relationships.    Â
“Flight” lands in theaters this weekend, but don’t look for the movie on the in-flight entertainment menu the next time you’re on a plane. It’s one of a whole host of Hollywood airplane films better watched from terra firma.
The prison takeover film has been a Hollywood staple for decades and Lockout runs with the formula with the only real snippet of originality being that the prison is set in space. It is the year 2079, and CIA agent Marion Snow (Pearce) is framed for the murder of another agent who was investigating stolen government secrets…