The movie Jack Ryan flopped opening weekend, a surprise setback for the growing genre of films whose titles are just extremely generic male names. The thriller, starring Star Trek lead Chris Pine as Jack Ryan, the less-than-memorably named hero of late author Tom Clancy’s bestselling novels, took in only $17.2 million during its opening weekend. It […]
In some major surprise casting, Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Douglas is set to play the superhero Ant-Man in the upcoming Marvel movie of the same name. He will appear opposite Paul Rudd, who also plays Ant-Man in a complicated, idiosyncratic script said to be breaking new ground in the superhero film genre. Douglas […]
Insurance enrollment in Obamacare (known properly as the Affordable Care Act) surged to 2.2 million Americans in the month of December. The White House had long predicted this growth in the number of people gaining new insurance via the services provided by the controversial new law, and this good news comes as a welcome boost […]