What a difference a brand new day makes. Labor Day 2012: in a movie world where we were looking at the smallest summer audience in almost 20 years, beginning with the early crash landing of John Carter, followed by Battleship running aground. Today, things are looking up. But it's not...

Just in time for those of us who are baby-boomers, warily eyeing our diminishing future, wondering who took our $716 billion, along comes Hope: Liam Neeson, our new action hero. Taken 2 (directed by Olivier Megaton, as unlikely a name as Tito Beveridge) has earned over $86 million in the...

Pity the poor movie business. Nobody likes it anymore. Except those who actually are in it on a day to day basis, and even they don't really, because it's just no fun anymore. But what the huge corporations that own the studios really don't like is the version of the...

For those who worry that the age of American exceptionalism is over, while the Greatest Generation sits laughing at us from the bar at their local American Legion post, the past week has certainly given reason to stand up and be proud. But, although good reason, it's not the daring...

The recent dust up between executives of some the country's major theater chains, Regal, AMC and Cinemark, and four studios planning to launch premium VOD soon does make you wonder how many theater owners it takes to screw in a light bulb. So they're not going to play or promote...

While it may be true that in the movie business nobody knows anything, although I imagine James Cameron begs to differ, what about other businesses? Steve Jobs seems to know exactly what we want in elegantly styled electronics products, even before we do and even if they aren't quite perfect....