Wasting no time, the geniuses (and all around good guys) over at Mariner Software have shared with me their plans to push a Contour for iPad app through their development process. This will be in addition to the very, very, very forthcoming Contour for iPhone app. The above is just a taste of what the… Continue reading Announcing: Contour for iPad
Author: Jeffrey Alan Schechter
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Overall Impression – Unmemorable fun with a smattering of man love, a dash of anti-Semitism, and a mean hook. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Sherlock Holmes. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Stop Lord Blackwood. Personal: Cope with the impending marriage of Watson. Private: Learn that emotion and feeling is just… Continue reading SHERLOCK HOLMES
UP IN THE AIR
Overall Impression – As smart and distant a movie as it’s main character. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Ryan Bingham. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Keep his job, which involves helping people lose theirs. Personal: Maintain a relationship interruptus with a fellow traveller he meets hit and miss on the… Continue reading UP IN THE AIR
Why We’re Smarter Than Computers
So, I was checking out Roger Ebert’s online review for the the movie UP IN THE AIR (my own will be online shortly) when I got to the bottom of the review’s webpage and found this series of sponsored ads automatically pinned to the review by Yahoo’s algorithmic brain: Why these four? Well, “Online College… Continue reading Why We’re Smarter Than Computers
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Overall Impression – Whether you’re a fan of Tarantino or not, if you love the language of movies you must, Must, MUST see this movie. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – There are really TWO stories at work here, however the main character is Shoshanna Dreyfus . What’s she trying to accomplish? – Professional:… Continue reading INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS