Movie Monday: Riddick
Riddick, Vin Diesel’s see-in-the-dark anti-hero, ain’t afraid of much. Packs of wild dingo-beasts? Nah. Poisonous, pincer-laden aliens? He has those for breakfast. Nasty, weapon-toting bounty hunters? Please. So clearly, a little competition at the box office isn’t going to make Riddick shake in his bloodied boots. The R-rated Riddick was the biggest movie in the land […]
Can the Amish Have iPads?
The habits of the Amish have always confused me a little, and reality television hasn’t helped. After reviewing Amish Mafia a couple of weeks ago and watching some of the characters split their time between horse-drawn buggies and imported luxury cars, I asked myself a question that I know most of you probably already knew […]
Movie Tuesday: One Direction Tops The Butler (Sort Of)
One Direction mounted a late-summer assault on movie theaters with its concert flick One Direction: This Is Us. The British/Irish boy band toppled the very American story of The Butler to reign—at least for a weekend—supreme. The concert film collected an estimated $15.8 million to The Butler’s $14.9 mil to win the traditional Friday-through-Sunday frame. […]
Never Too Young to be Old
LinkedIn, social network for professionals and job seekers everywhere, will allow young teens to join its 225 million users as of Sept. 14. The minimum age to join will be 14 in the United States, Canada and a couple of other countries, 13 everywhere else. And just in time for the end of summer, too. […]
Movie Monday: The Butler Cleans Up Again
The fictionalized story of Cecil Gaines is, to some extent, about longevity. In Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Gaines served seven presidential administrations over the span of four decades. So it seems only appropriate that the movie would stick around in theaters for a while, doesn’t it? The Butler cleaned up again this week, buffing about […]
Nobody Really Knows …’
Every now and again my 19-year-old daughter, Emily, and I like to watch a television comedy. Ancient Aliens on the History Channel is one of our favorites. Oh, perhaps some folks watch the show and wonder whether ancient aliens really did build the pyramids or cause the tides or introduce us all to Twinkies. Every […]
Movie Monday: The Butler
It’s not often that butlers get much notice. It’s part of the job, really, to be unobtrusive. Invisible. A room or office, Cecil Gaines tells us in The Butler, should feel “empty when I’m in it.” Unless, of course, that office is the box office. And the butler in question is headlining a major motion […]
Pump Up Those Thumbs!
Notice to all our blog readers: It’s possible that you are doing grave danger to your health by reading this post—particularly if you’re currently using some sort of mobile device. Those nifty smartphones that you use to help you get around town and text your BFFs and play Sudoku on can imperil not just your […]
The Know-Everything, Know-Nothing Internet
Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California and one of the country’s most prominent evangelical leaders, announced on Aug. 6 that more than 200 Facebook pages have popped up claiming to be raising money in memory of Warren’s son, Matthew. All of them are scams. The only presence Warren has on Facebook is […]
Movie Monday: 2 Guns
You can tell that the summertime movie season is chugging to a close, can’t you? The halcyon days of Iron Man 3 and Fast & Furious 6 are well behind us. Gone are the $100 million-plus opening weekends. It would seem that Hollywood’s most lucrative season—like summer itself—is devolving into just a hazy, humid muddle […]
