Steve Jobs: Computers and Relationships
Steve Jobs had a very simple attitude about life: ?Be reasonable; do it my way.? But pride doesn?t always bring about the results we might want.
Steve Jobs had a very simple attitude about life: ?Be reasonable; do it my way.? But pride doesn?t always bring about the results we might want.
The highest-grossing film of 2015 – the third highest-grossing film of all time – is available on 3-D, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD. I think I must’ve been the last person alive to see it [okay, slight hyperbole] but the truth is that this is simple math in several scenarios. Let’s examine a few. First,…
This week, cyberspace has been abuzz with the thirtieth anniversary of Marty McFly’s ”flight’ to the past, and the future, and the past past. [As an English teacher, I will just say… go with it.] While the Chicago Cubs went down in flames, and not every invention of the imagined future has come to fruition,…
While it is sometimes easy to dismiss the goofiness of Roger Moore, I am reminded that his twelve-year, seven-film spin as the globe-trotting spy is actually second only to Connery?s in longevity and impact. But in all seriousness, the one-time Saint and Persuader filled the role with a rather campy take on the romantic and…
No matter how good a motion picture is, its success rises and falls on the shoulders of how well it is publicized.
By the time you finish reading this, it?ll be the future. (Okay, technically, it?ll be the present?but it?ll be the future too.) As anyone who has a Facebook account knows by now, October 21st, 2015 at 4:29pm is the scheduled moment that Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back To The Future Part II….
Director Abigail Disney is out to push your buttons, make you think, and openly challenge the things that you believe to be true about guns, violence, and peace. Since she?engaged fully in charitable work in her thirties, she has had a love for people often dismissed by society and the issues that either bind us…
It was predetermined that I would see?Pan, regardless of what the critics had to say. [Spoiler alert:?they’ve said plenty, and none of it good!] Maybe it was as a kid when I fell in love with?Walt Disney’s interpretations of?Robin Hood?and?Peter Pan, the mischievous, golden-hearted way that the protagonists saved others, dreamed big, and challenged the…
An Introduction Epic phrases in movies are nothing new. Classic characters breed classic lines, from Darth Vader?s ?I am your father? to Enigo Montoya?s ?My name is Enigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.? Many of the lines remind us of our identification with the character we have known, loved, or even wanted…
In Beast, writer/directors Tom and Sam McKeith tell the story of Jaime Gray (newcomer Chad McKinney), a young boxer in the Philippines. After his father (Garrett Dillahunt) convinces him to cheat in the ring in order to win cash from a local bookie, Jaime ?accidentally? kills his opponent. Riddled with guilt, he desperately attempts to…