A few weeks after Microsoft launched heavy student discounts for its Surface RT tablets, the company now plans to lop off $150 from the price of its overpriced tablets for the general public. The twin discounting moves suggest that consumers are turning a cold shoulder to these tablets. Surface RT – $150 Discount Follows Flop […]
He killed them with they love. That’s how it is everyday all over the world. – Death row inmate, the giant John Coffey in The Green Mile I haven’t derived this much pleasure from a Hollywood film in a long time. The Green Mile (1999) is the kind of “wow,” story-driven Hollywood movie that has […]
British spy novelist John Le Carré is mad as hell. Le Carré is mad at America and its closest ally, UK. It’s no secret to careful readers of Le Carré that the author has turned anti-American in his autumn years. In A Most Wanted Man, the young Chechen falls victim at the end to U.S. […]
Despite all the hype, the oohs and aahs from the uncultured bozos, a wide release (100-screens) and the July 4 weekend, Lootera has not done well at the U.S. box office. For the opening five-day July 3-July 7 weekend, Lootera could manage only a measly $375,422 at the U.S. box office. That’s not an impressive […]
Adding to its long list of failed Internet ventures, Microsoft is shutting down its MSN TV Internet service on September 30, 2013. Those with long memories will remember that MSN TV had its origins in the Web TV venture founded by Steve Perlman et al. Founded in 1995, Web TV allowed the not-so-web savvy and […]
I had some positive feelings about Lootera until the last 30-minutes or so of the film. And then all my good vibes came crashing down because of the butchering the late American short-story writer O.Henry’s Last Leaf had to endure at the inept hands of director Vikramaditya Motwane. O.Henry Screwed Set in the early 1950s, […]