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Steve Jobs

The Current War movie review: fathers of invention, in conflict

Thu, Oct 24, 2019
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An electrifying style lights up this geek adventure of the intersections between science, culture, and capitalism in the 19th-century battle to power our world. Cumberbatch and Shannon are brilliant.

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my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)

Mon, Feb 29, 2016
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Now updated with all the winners…

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AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 12, 2016
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Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…

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OFCS 2015 awards winners announced

Mon, Dec 14, 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

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Where Are the Women? Steve Jobs

Mon, Oct 19, 2015
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The female characters here support the journey of the male protagonist, but they are not especially supportive: they are too challenging of him for that.

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Steve Jobs movie review: insanely great (LFF 2015)

Mon, Oct 19, 2015
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You’ve never seen such a compelling, entertaining movie about a genius jerk. As smart and as sleek as a Macbook Pro, and a compulsory bit of modern history.

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Jobs trailer: can this do justice to one of the most important people of the 20th century?

Fri, Aug 02, 2013
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The world would look very different without Steve Jobs, and I hope the movie captures this.

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Doctor Who blogging: “The Name of the Doctor”

Tue, May 21, 2013
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Doctor? Doctor… who? Moffat just keeps kicking that can down the road, don’t he?

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watch it: Steve Jobs as FDR in witty 1984 Apple sales film “1944”

Tue, May 08, 2012
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Macintosh! Destined to save the PC POWs of the world!

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Benedict Cumberbatch does Shakespeare for Google+ (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Apr 03, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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