Our latest hypothesis is that when a film-maker like Steven Soderbergh gets a restless itch on his cojones to make a movie but can’t think of a decent story then he dives, cojones first, into an action film like Haywire. Seriously, how much of those mindless jumping, chasing, running, shooting, kicking, punching, killing and strangling […]
We’ve been meaning to see the French action film À Bout Portant (Point Blank) for several months. In the hurly-burly of our hectic life, we missed the film when it was playing in select theaters in NYC and Philly last year. So when the movie hit Netflix Instant Play we eagerly grabbed our Roku remote. […]
Apple today launched iBooks Author, an easy to use application for writers looking to publish their e-books for the iPad tablet. Hell, even you schmucks can use the app to write an e-book on any topic and publish them to Apple’s iBookstore. iBooks Author is available on the Mac App Store for free. Ah, but […]
Sometimes even “a tale as old as time” can be (re)told with great panache and charm the audience. And that’s exactly what Disney has done with Beauty & the Beast 3D. God knows how many times Beauty & Beast has been made on celluloid and in how many languages. Yet the latest version did not […]
The Apple iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and the Mac are truly God’s finest creations. Of course, SI readers know how we love all things Apple. But for all the schmucks who have resisted our insistent scribblings that the only smartphone, tablet or computer worth buying is an iPhone, iPad and Mac respectively, here’s one more […]
The other day we watched the Spanish movie Recien Cazado (2009) on Netflix Instant Play. No, Recien Cazado (Jaime Camil, Gabriela Vergara) is by no stretch of imagination a must-watch film. It’s one of those movies you watch when you’re too drunk too drive to the Red Box or Blockbuster kiosk and pick up a […]