In the lead up to the DVD/Blu-Ray release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 on March 2nd, I sat down with the Irish Coven (Marlane Barnes/Maggie, Lisa Howard/Siobhan, Patrick Brennan/Liam) at St. Louis’s Four Season Hotel. We discussed a variety of topics and I’ve included the highlights below. More Twlight? Lionsgate has publicly expressed […]
With “Bullet to the Head”, director Walter Hill and actor Sylvester Stallone seem to have sought the gritty, buddy cop action flick of the 1980’s. Unfortunately they fail to remember that a lot of those gritty 80’s flicks really sucked. Bullet to the Head centers on the life of hard-boiled hitman Jimmy Bobo (Sylvester Stallone) […]
Compliance is the second film and first major release from writer/director Craig Zobel. It dramatizes the true account of a fast-food manager’s phone conversation with a police officer and his request that she strip search a young cashier in response to a theft. For those that may not know the true story of this incident […]
Next week marks the beginning of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show or CES. It’s the time where electronics manufacturers get to tease their audiences with the products they expect to debut in the following year. We’ll see TV’s, tablets, smartphones and the like, but the dark horse may be from a product called “Ubuntu”. Linux […]
Where do I begin? I guess I could start by saying that this may be one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year. Parental Guidance stars Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei as a family with apparently significant mental health issues. Marisa Tomei and That Thing You Do’s Tom Everett Scott play the […]
Jack Reacher is the first film in a presumed franchise based on the “Jack Reacher” series of novels by British author Lee Child. The film is based on the 9th book in the series, “One Shot” and tells the story of a framed veteran sniper charged with shooting 5 civilians. The sniper calls on Jack […]
Disruption is a powerful term in business. Microsoft disrupted the computing market when it introduced Windows, Apple disrupted the tablet computer market when it introduced the iPad and T-Mobile may have just disrupted the cell phone market by doing away with two year contracts and removing subsidized pricing from it devices.
Since the moment audiences witnessed the fall of the Empire in The Return of the Jedi, we have wondered how the Star Wars saga continued. Numerous video games, books, comics, TV shows and other properties have expanded on the core story of a son’s journey to redeem his father and now for the first time […]
Breaking News: The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Disney has acquired LucasFilm for $4.05 billion in a mix of cash and stock and is set to produce a new Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015. The current co-chair of LucasFilm, Kathleen Kennedy will be appointed to LucasFilm as new president, with George Lucas staying on […]
With the introduction of a slew of new products, one element that may get lost in the shuffle is Apple’s new Fusion Drive. Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has popularized the notion of a solid-state and spinning hard disc hybrid drives, however they have failed to take off in the larger consumer market. Typically used in […]
