Articles tagged ‘movies’.
In recent years, there has been an essence of ongoing change leading to some big changes. The internet is perhaps the biggest factor, if not the primary factor of this as it has been changing entire industries and affecting our lives more than ever before. And based on this and other factors, everyone seems to [...]
Since the beginning of humanity, storytelling and our ability to learn is what has set us apart from other species. It almost seems that our interest in stories is in our genes and is what makes our brain work the way it does. I really don’t know if that’s the case, but for the sake [...]
Three years after the Xbox 360’s release comes a new version of the Xbox… software. In a similar move to the Zune, Microsoft has decided to focus on software upgrades for improving their current hardware. While some would say the new interface overhaul was unecessary, after actually using it for a while, besides being prettier, it starts [...]
In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten used to subscribing to blogs as my main source of news and information. Mix that with listening to most of my music through a portable player and it’s gotten me thinking about how I consume media.
My primary music player is a Zune, both as a portable device [...]
The goal of this year’s 78th Annual Academy Awards was to keep things classy and show that the award show hasn’t lost touch with today’s movie-goers. The results however, were the complete opposite: an inappropriate host, poor choices for Oscar winners and pleading to movie-goers to see movies in theaters.
Let’s start with the host, Jon [...]
This will start out as a rant of my recent movie-going incident, but will lead to something I’ve felt strongly about for a while now.
Last weekend, when going to see King Kong with my family and a couple of friends at the local Harkins theaters, our ‘movie experience’ was less than enjoyable when the sound [...]