Movie Review: ‘Bullet to the Head’ Starring Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Jason Momoa, Sarah Shahi and Christian Slater
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) […]
Movie Review: ‘Compliance’ Starring Dreama Walker, Ann Dowd and Pat Healy
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 […]
“Android, iPhone meet Ubuntu” or Why ‘Ubuntu’ Will Be a Household Name by the End of the Year.
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 […]
Movie Review: ‘Parental Guidance’ Starring Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei
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 […]
Movie Review: ‘Jack Reacher’ Starring Tom Cruise
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 […]
The End of Two Year Contracts! T-Mobile Goes to $30/mo Plan
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.
Star Wars Episode VII – ‘A New, New Hope’
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 […]
Apple introduces the SSD/HD “Fusion Drive”
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 […]
