Two showbiz veterans, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and actor Denzel Washington join forces for the addiction drama Flight and the result is a leading man performance of emotional heft and a movie with sky high, technical mastery. Zemeckis reminds us of his technical polish in the film’s first sequence, the strutting arrival of passenger jet captain Whip Whitaker (Washington) taking his cockpit seat after a long night of partying with a pretty flight attendant (Katerina Marquez), his tried-and-true remedies for quick sobriety before takeoff and finally, an equipment failure midflight that requires him to use every one of his flying skills to save his passengers and crew. You can tell from the film’s introductory sequence that there’s a true master behind the camera and you feel a pang of regret that Zemeckis’ last live-action directing gigs were the Robinson Crusoe-inspired Cast Away and the horror movie What Lies Beneath...