Disappointment

In the world of Hollywood icons, even the greatest actors have their moments of disappointment. Brad Pitt, known for his collaborations with renowned filmmakers and his impressive filmography, recently revealed while talking to the New York Times the one movie that left him feeling less than satisfied. Surprisingly, it wasn't a lesser-known project but rather a historical epic that had high expectations—Troy. Brad Pitt recently revealed the film he was disappointed about. Pitt, who has worked with esteemed…

When Overwatch 2 was first announced, I had good reason to be excited. I always enjoyed the series’ first installment, but I always wished there was more to it. As someone who’s not a skilled competitive player, I wanted more ways to interact with the shooter that didn’t just involve me going on big losing streaks. So I was elated when Blizzard announced it would bring a full PVE mode to the sequel. Finally, I’d have a way to get invested in the world and characters of Overwatch and progress through a solo campaign…

A week before the Google I/O, I wrote about how the Pixel Tablet could be the make-or-break point for the Android tablet category. Using a non-iPad tablet for anything more than content consumption is a bummer. I expected Google to work on it and emphasize collaborating with developers to optimize apps for Android tablets. But as it turns out, the Pixel Tablet was my biggest disappointment from Google I/O 2023. Google knows Android tablets are bad Google Using the OnePlus Pad recently threw all the Android tablet…

It’s been an exciting couple of years of new Mac releases. Last year we got the redesigned M2 MacBook Air. The year before that was the M1 Max MacBook Pro. And this year? Rumor is we’re getting a 15-inch MacBook Air. That’s right — yet another MacBook for the lineup. Unlike those aforementioned laptops, though, this 15-inch MacBook Air doesn’t have me quite as excited. We don’t know a lot about this new MacBook, so understand that a lot of what I’m about to say comes with a caveat. But from what we can deduce so…

It’s something of an open secret that Apple is working on a couple of fresh MacBook Air models, including an all-new 15-inch MacBook Air. So many details about these devices have been shrouded in mystery, but a prominent analyst has just shed some much-needed light on them — and it’s not all good news. Posting on Twitter, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo updated his previous predictions for Apple’s lightweight laptop. In the new post, Kuo outlined a slate of ideas for what could be coming next. The most disappointing…

There was perhaps no one more highly and anxiously anticipated at Coachella this year than Frank Ocean. The 35-year-old has not released an album since Blonde, in 2016, and has not performed live in over six years. His headliner set at Coachella, originally slated for 2020, was delayed by Covid and then pushed back again. A refusenik and a renegade whose enigmatic public presence toggles between achingly tender and, more often, highly elusive, Ocean is beloved for two albums’ worth of nostalgia-tinged, genre-defying…

PlayStation Plus Premium just confuses me now In case you missed it, Sony altered the deal of PlayStation Plus last year and added a tiered system to the service. As a recap, you have PlayStation Plus Essential (the cheapest), Extra (mid-tier), and “Premium” (the most expensive tier), all of which have different bonuses and games. Let’s take a look at the April 2023 offerings today. Here are the Extra PlayStation Plus offerings for April 2023 Kena: Bridge of Spirits (PS4/PS5) Doom Eternal (PS4/PS5) Riders…

Image via Marvel Studios When you are given the opportunity to play a great character within the MCU, you want to do the absolute best job you can with that character, though sometimes it can be out of your hands entirely. This is how Frank Grillo felt about the studio’s handling of his character Crossbones in the Captain America films, with the actor believing the character was short-changed. Brock Rumlow, a.k.a. Crossbones, was an MCU villain, a Hydra agent within S.H.I.E.L.D. who was a continual thorn in the…

Ireland had hoped for Oscar glory but instead ended up the butt of jokes about drinking, fighting and incomprehensible accents as it claimed just a couple of the coveted golden statuettes.Just two awards out of 14 nominations was disappointment enough but Hollywood added insult to injury with national tropes that elicited eye rolls in Ireland.The host Jimmy Kimmel made a gag in the opening monologue that linked the “green wave” to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at last year’s ceremony. “Five Irish actors are nominated…

Airbnb complaints seem to be on the rise. From griping about cleaning fees to complaining about the impact on neighborhoods and real estate markets, it seems like everyone has an opinion of the vacation rental platform. Yet this sentiment runs counter to actual behavior — vacation rentals like Airbnb are more popular than ever. Total U.S. demand was up 19.8% in December 2022 compared with the previous year, and up 31.7% compared with 2019, according to AirDNA, a vacation rental analytics platform. So while some Americans…