Tech Tuesday: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Big Tech?
Are you worried about how Facebook or Google might be using their information about you? If so, you’ve got company. According to an IBD/TIPP poll released just yesterday, 89% of us worry that huge tech companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple will misuse the reams of personal data they collect. Nearly as many […]
Toy Story 4 Boxes Up Another Win
Little Bo Peep and her plasticine pals from Toy Story 4 sure didn’t look sheepish at the box office. In fact, for the second-straight weekend, the gang from Pixar did its peeping from the chart’s tippy-tippy top. Toy Story 4 earned an estimated $57.9 million and held off a couple of newcomers to win its […]
Culture Clips: Too Smart For Our Own Good?
We’ve been inundated with anniversaries both happy and sad this weekend. Both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died on June 25, 2009—almost exactly a decade ago. Nicholas Sparks fans will be toasting the 15th anniversary of The Notebook. The 1989 version of Batman (you know, the one with Michael Keaton) recently celebrated its 30th anniversary—and […]
Toy Story 4 Goes to Infinity, But Not Beyond
Not many businesses would consider a $118-million weekend a disappointment. But that’s Hollywood for you. Disney had expected Toy Story 4 to fire up its rockets, flip its little space wings open and fly to the upper reaches of the financial stratosphere—$140 million at least. Some suggested that even a galactic $200 million opening wasn’t […]
Culture Clips: The Currency of Social Media. Literally.
Facebook has always been a go-to social media site to spend time—and sometimes way too much of it. Now, it’s hoping to give you something else to spend: its own cryptocurrency. That’s right, Mark Zuckerberg and Co. hope to create a bitcoin-like digital monetary system called Libra. And it’s partnering with businesses such as PayPal, […]
MiB: International’s Win Is Less Than Stellar
The Men in Black organization is perhaps the most secretive in the world. No one knows who these men (and women) in black are or, really, who they work for. Its headquarters are better hidden than Kim Kardashian’s moments of introspection. And should anyone get too close to them, zap! An agent will whip out […]
The Terror, Grief and Beauty of the new doc Emanuel
Plugged In sometimes compares good media discernment with a good diet: We are what we eat. We consume movies like we might a salad or a piece of cheesecake. And who we become is, in part, a reflection of the entertainment we consume: If our diet is all junk, we’ll feel it and show it. […]
Culture Clips: Serving Up Some Curry
Basketball fans know that the Golden State Warriors—the NBA’s latest and, some say, greatest dynasty—are hanging onto their collective throne by their fingernails. They barely won Game 5 on Monday, pushing the series back to Golden State’s home court. If the Warriors lose, it means we won’t be seeing much of superstar Stephen Curry for, […]
Secret Life of Pets 2 Pitty-Pats to Top
Technically, summer isn’t even here yet. But at the box office, it already feels like we’re in its dog days. As expected, The Secret Life of Pets 2 pawed its way to the top of the box-office stairs, but it did so with more a half-hearted growl than a full-throated howl. The animated sequel earned […]