Steve Jobs
Box Office Weekend: Martian Tops Worst Box Office Weekend of 2015
While Halloween weekend tends to be a slower weekend than usual, it proved to be the slowest weekend of the year at the box office (at least so far). So slow, in fact, that the top three films include two winners and two potential box-office flops. The Martian is a worldwide hit, earning an estimated $11.4 million on the weekend, but Goosebumps, with an estimated $10.2 million, has a long ways to ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: The Martian Rides High Again
How does a film that dropped out of first place regain that spot? Put it up against a handful of duds. While some of them failed to make the list (Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah did not even finish close to the list, and neither did the 1980s cartoon adaptation Jem and the Holograms), even the horror-themed films failed to stop The Martian from riding high at the box office once more with an estim...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jobs
The film Jobs is best described as the rise, fall and rise again of the Apple Corporation. I found the lengthy, biography of Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) played by Ashton Kutcher to be reasonably interesting and undeniably inspirational. As a biography, it falls somewhat short. There was much more I would have liked to have known about Mr. Jobs. It is no secret that Jobs was known to be a bit rut...[Read More]
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