Investor Urges Sony To Spin Off Entertainment Biz
14th May 2013
Hedge-fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, whose Third Point fund holds 6.5 percent of Sony worth about $1.1 billion, is calling...
Bye Bye, Babba Wawa
13th May 2013
arbara Walters, who began her network television career in 1961 as a 32-year-old writer on NBC's Today show and eventually...
Pelley Says Social Media Undermining Solid Reporting
13th May 2013
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley had a response on Friday to those online critics of the mainstream media who...
Movie Reviews: The Great Gatsby
10th May 2013
Throughout the week, reports spread that initial reviews of The Great Gatsby were far from great. One website, TheBusinessInsider.com, even...
Movie Reviews: Iron Man 3
3rd May 2013
As superhero movies move from one sequel to another, they appear to grow darker, to use a description that pops...
Home Video Sales Surge
2nd May 2013
Sales of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are making a comeback, an analysis of first-quarter sales appear to indicate. According to...
Movie Reviews: Pain And Gain
26th April 2013
Critics are split just about down the middle over Michael Bay's Pain and Gain with some of them expressing their...
Movie Reviews: The Big Wedding
26th April 2013
How could there not be something nice to say about a movie that stars Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Diane...
Walmart To Sell Tickets To Superman Preview
24th April 2013
Walmart stores sell more DVD and Blue-ray Disc releases than any other retailer in the world -- and now they're...
Cnn's Flawed Bombing Coverage Receives Some Slack -- From Fox News
23rd April 2013
After receiving excoriating reviews from such usually sympathetic media outlets as the New York Times and Jon Stewart's The Daily...
New York Times's Reporter's Book Trashed In New York Times
23rd April 2013
When two years ago former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller heard that media writer Brian Stelter was planning...
Movie Reviews: Oblivion
19th April 2013
Even most critics who slam the script for Oblivion, the sci-fi blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, concede that the movie looks...
Al Jazeera Hires Investigative Team Headed By Pulitzer Winner
16th April 2013
Al Jazeera America announced on Monday that it has brought together a team of 16 investigative journalists headed by Edward...
Movie Reviews: 42
12th April 2013
Older viewers often complain that they don't make movies like they used to. But judging from the reviews of 42,...
Cnn Business Host Velshi Jumping To Al Jazeera America
5th April 2013
Al Jazeera America has its first anchor. It announced on Thursday that it has signed CNN's Ali Velshi to come...
Ebert's Death Prompts Hundreds Of Eulogies
5th April 2013
The death of Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert has elicited a flood of heartfelt tributes -- from President Obama...
Movie Reviews: =96evil Dead
5th April 2013
The general concensus among film critics is that if you're a dyed-in-the-wool horror-film fan, you'll love the remake of Evil...
Movie Reviews: Tyler Perry's Temptation...
1st April 2013
Movies that aren't screened for the nation's major critics are often reviewed by them nonetheless -- after they file into...
Movie Reviews: The Host
29th March 2013
Long, tedious, unintentionally hilarious, silly, lumbering, consistently empty-headed -- those are some of the adjectives being used to describe The...
Movie Reviews: Safe Haven
15th February 2013
Even Safe Haven's positive reviews contain negative comments that seem to offset all of the favorable ones that have come...
It Lost Aol. Will Time Warner Now Lose Time In Its Name?
14th February 2013
Time Warner may follow the example of News Corp and separate its publishing unit, Time Inc., from its other media...
Movie Reviews: Good Day To Die Hard
14th February 2013
Several critics are looking back wistfully at the four previous Die Hard movies and have no yippee ki-yays for this...
Comcast Bags The Whole Peacock
13th February 2013
Comcast has purchased from GE the 49 percent of NBCUniversal that it does not own, giving it full control of...
Movie Reviews: Identity Thief
8th February 2013
Several critics agree that the one-minute pitch for Identity Thief must have been a doozy: a guy (Jason Bateman) discovers...
National Weather Service No Admirer Of Tv's Storm Names
8th February 2013
It appears that the winter storm bearing down on the East Coast -- forecasters say that it could be one...
Media Writers Smash Nbc Over Smash Debacle
7th February 2013
NBC executives who had stood by their expensive musical drama Smash despite plunging ratings last season and who insisted that...
Zero Director Discusses Torture Scene
8th January 2013
It remains an unanswered question: Did CIA personnel provide the director and screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty information indicating that...
Time Warner Cable May Carry Al-jazeera After All
4th January 2013
Confronting a barrage of criticism over its decision to pull the plug on the Current TV channel after it was...
Twc Dumps Current Tv After Sale To Al-jazeera
3rd January 2013
Within hours of learning that Al Jazeera had acquired Current TV, Time Warner Cable pulled the plug on the channel,...
Crowe Responds To Criticism Of His Les Mis Performance
2nd January 2013
ussell Crowe has been taking some heavy hits for his singing performance in Les Misérables. A San Francisco critic remarked...
