Heroes in Our Midst
We love our heroes. The success of Thor and the bevy of superheroes due to invade both the big and small screen is, I think, an illustration of that. We’re all looking for folks we can look up to, folks we can emulate, folks who put their own lives in danger for the good of […]
Movie Monday: Thor
Well, they had a nice run. They tore past the competition last week like they were so many tardy tortoises. But Vin Diesel and Paul Walker of Fast Five just couldn’t outrace the mighty hammer of Thor. Thor, Marvel’s latest comic book icon to be trotted out to the big screen, thwacked its way to […]
Truth, Justice and, Um, Something Else
On April 28, Superman announced his intention of giving up his U.S. citizenship. “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” the Man of Steel says in the 900th issue of Action Comics. “‘Truth, justice and the American way’—it’s not enough anymore.” It’s a pretty serious step, renouncing one’s citizenship. If […]
Movie Monday: Fast Five
Score one for high-octane entertainment. Fast Five, the latest installment in the Vin Diesel-anchored The Fast and the Furious franchise, screamed past its competitors for a massive $83.6 million weekend take. While the fact that Fast Five won the weekend’s box office crown surprised absolutely no one, its margin of victory was noteworthy: It earned […]
Time Click-Clacks On
Already, 2011 has been a year of loss. Elizabeth Taylor died. So did Jane Russell. And let’s not forget the Denver Nuggets’ loss last night to Oklahoma City. But nothing rocked me quite as much as the report that the typewriter had clicked its last clack. India’s Godrej & Boyce—the last company in the world […]
Movie Monday: Madea Can’t Get to Rio
Those wacky animated birds had another nice weekend in the sun this week, as Rio bested a bevy of new releases to retain its hold on the box office’s No. 1 slot. Rio snagged an estimated $26.8 million, a cool mil higher than Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family made in its opening weekend. But […]
Movie Monday: Rio
For the first time in a while, the box office soared this weekend—thanks largely to a lucrative performance by the animated birds of Rio. 20th Century Fox feathered its nest with an estimated $40 million this weekend from the CGI film—the highest opening for any film this year. It more than doubled the take of […]
Bobby, Take That iPad Out of Your Mouth!
I just ordered an iPad. I made the move after much hemming and hawing and debating and waffling. I knew all the reasons why I shouldn’t buy one—the cost, the unnecessary expense, the unreasonable outlay of cash—but the image of me reading Dickens or flipping through family photos on the thing finally overrode all my […]
Movie Monday: Hopping Over Arthur
Just call E.B. the little bunny that could. With theaters hosting drunken millionaires, teen assassins, world-class surfers and seriously impaired knights this weekend, the animated lark Hop won the box office derby for the second straight week. The rabbit-centric film, starring the Russell Brand-voiced E.B., hopped over highly touted new release Arthur and nibbled an […]
Marketing: Now Part of a Healthy Lunch!
If you are what you eat, I am the most boring person alive. At least at lunchtime. My typical noonday meal consists of a sandwich, a banana and a handful of baby carrots—simple, nutritious fare that I eat, in part, to make me feel better about the cheese-encrusted noodles I’m likely to scarf down at […]
