The Light Phone is a cellphone that was released last year with an interesting premise: strip away all the extraneous, distracting pieces of modern smartphones — like internet, texting, email, and photography — to leave the distilled essence of a phone. It could make calls and store nine phone numbers, but that was about it. It was an interesting idea, promising a life where you could remove the distractions of a […]
Well, this isn't going to make Dwayne Johnson very happy. Walt Disney and Marvel just announced that Avengers: Infinity War will be opening everywhere, all over the world, on April 27, 2018. That's about when it was going to open in much of the world in a standard MCU overseas rollout, but the change means that North American audiences get it a week early as well. That's horrible news for A) Dwayne […]
It turns out, one of Facebook’s biggest News Feed experiments last year only made the service worse. Last October, the Guardian reported that Facebook was testing significant changes to its News Feed. For users in six countries, Facebook moved nearly all non-promoted posts from pages and publishers out of the main News Feed into a secondary feed, called the Explore Feed. Predictably, people didn’t want to have to bounce between two feeds, […]
After less than eight years of stardom, Jennifer Lawrence’s career is studded with comic triumphs and depictions of epic suffering. (Her suffering in “Winter’s Bone,” her first starring role, was stirring for being understated, unlike the spectacular trials she endured as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games” series.) No one can touch her when her gift for sparkling comedy intersects with great material, as in two of the three films she […]
Writer-director Marysia Nikitiuk's debut, a Ukrainian-Macedonian-Polish co-production, bowed in the Panorama section of the German fest. A debut feature bursting with audacity, flair and energetic promise,When the Trees Fall (Koly padayut dereva) propels 31-year-old Ukrainian writer-director Marysia Nikitiuk into the leading ranks of younger filmmakers from eastern/central Europe. Straddling several genres with aplomb — only the odd wobble here and there betrays her greenhorn status — Nikitiuk socks over a full-blooded enterprise punctuated with steamy […]
The timing couldn’t be better for “Red Sparrow” to sweep into theaters with its story of a Russian spy and an American spy trying to outwit one another. As one character in the thriller declares, “the Cold War never ended.” No kidding. Jennifer Lawrence assumes a Russian accent to play Dominika Egorova, a star ballerina whose dancing career is cut short after she suffers a sickening injury onstage. She lives […]
Canon is finally embracing 4K video with a new mirrorless camera called the M50. The petite shooter is, essentially, 2016’s Canon M5 with fewer dials and buttons and a more streamlined body. But the upgraded internals and a swivel-out screen mean this will be the company’s most video-friendly mirrorless camera to date when it ships in April. The $779 M50 uses a 24.1-megapixel APS-C sensor that’s a hair smaller than the 24.2-megapixel one found […]
Like the headline says, this is another rundown of Black Panther’s ridiculously good domestic box office run. It will be a look at the milestones and records the film broke (or almost broke) during its second Fri-Sun frame. As of this writing the film earned $112 million over its second weekend of domestic release, dropping just 45% from last weekend and bringing its domestic total to $404m in ten days. And […]
When it comes to thin and light notebooks, Huawei isn't exactly a household name in the United States. The Matebook X Pro might change that. With today's reveal of the successor to 2017's MateBook X -- Huawei is proving it means serious business and intends to aggressively carve away market share from giants Dell and Apple. The MateBook X Pro is the second notebook Huawei has ever produced, so it stands to reason that name recognition is lacking in this space, […]
