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Box Office Weekend: Other Debuts Get Served by The Butler
Despite (or because of) Oprah Winfrey’s recent controversy in Switzerland, her new film, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, made the strongest bid for the box office with an estimated $25 million, almost enough to give the $30 million film a profit over the weekend (and get in good with critics). However, the two other big new releases of the week fared much less successfully; Kick-Ass 2 received poor revie...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jobs
The film Jobs is best described as the rise, fall and rise again of the Apple Corporation. I found the lengthy, biography of Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) played by Ashton Kutcher to be reasonably interesting and undeniably inspirational. As a biography, it falls somewhat short. There was much more I would have liked to have known about Mr. Jobs. It is no secret that Jobs was known to be a bit rut...[Read More]