Should Roger Ebert Still Be Reviewing Movies?
Forget, should Roger Ebert have ever been reviewing movies. He shouldn’t have, but his reviews at least used to be plausible. They were things that looked like reviews of movies. Not your uncle’s...
View ArticleSteve Jobs’ Second Chance
Not many visionaries get a second chance the way Jobs did, and if he hadn’t managed to get back to the top at a desperate Apple, his obituary would probably read famous Apple co-founder and mention his...
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When Every Movie Became a Cartoon
It’s hard to say when exactly Hollywood’s main product became 250 million dollar CG cartoons. The Phantom Menace was probably the opening shot and then came everything else and here we are where the...
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Why People Hate Star Trek Voyager
GiantFreakingRobot has a list of six reasons why he believes Voyager never really worked. His first mistake is pointing to Voyager as the beginning of the end for the franchise. Actually DS9 was the...
View ArticleI Guess It’s Nice and All…
I guess it’s nice and all that Star Trek and Star Trek TNG have enough commercial vitality to them that Paramount is actually taking the time to continue spiffing up the old shows. I like the redone...
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More Copyright Wars
From a book review of an industry friendly copyright book in the New York Times That’s what happened with the music industry, which, spooked by the proliferation of pirated file sharing on Napster,...
View ArticleSuccess and Failure at the Box Office
As we all know Mission Impossible 4 or MI Ghost Protocol or MIGP was a huge hit. Sherlock Holmes 2 or SHGOS was a bomb. Fast forward a bit and MI4 has just barely cleared 200 million dollars domestic...
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Is Publishing an Author’s Short Stories Collection a Good Idea?
I’ve been reading through some short story collections by major Science Fiction authors and after a few volumes of that, I’m not so sure that these collections are even a good idea. Why? Authors...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of John Carter
It’s easy to say that there’s something wrong when Avatar loads up with ridiculous amounts of money while John Carter seems doomed. A big giant Mars sized chunk of that can be put down to Disney’s...
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The Meaning of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
There have been some ridiculous essays about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. All dealing with its perceived importance. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is not a great movie. It’s an enjoyable one. Among many...
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