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Google recently released the official Gemini app, and it quickly rocketed in ranking. It had received an above-4-star rating soon after making it to the masses. It’s available in more places in the world now, so millions of people are using it. However, it seems that many people are not liking the Gemini app, as it has a low Google Play Store rating. You can tell a lot about an app from how many people are willing to give it five stars. However, you can tell a lot more by how many frustrated people are willing to give it…

Anyone with Apple shares in their portfolio should probably pay attention to what just happened to the share prices of the most valuable company in the world.Overnight, Barclays downgraded the value of stocks in the firm to ‘Underweight,’ falling 3.6% of their value. That’s a seven-week low for Apple as it fights against non-optimal consumer buying power and adverse conditions in certain overseas markets.Why the drop?According to Reuters, Apple had a 2023 that saw a 50% rise over the course of the year — but now,…

A largely-forgotten Cold War blockbuster that was blasted for playing fast and loose with the facts and sank without a trace at the box office doesn’t exactly stand out as a movie with an indelible place in cinematic history, but K-19: The Widowmaker will nonetheless endure forever as a game-changer and trailblazer. By signing on to direct the project, Point Break and The Hurt Locker helmer Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to ever wield the megaphone on a production with a budget of $100 million or above. As you…

via Universal What happens when you take one of the modern era’s finest filmmakers, plunge them into their genre of choice that’s already yielded plenty of movies that range between very good and all-time great, then pair them up with an A-list star embedded deeply in cinema’s most successful franchise? Unfortunately, you get Blackhat. The likes of Heat, The Insider, Collateral, and Miami Vice had more than established Michael Mann as one of the defining voices Hollywood had to offer when it came to smart and…

As I prepared to write on the 60th anniversary of Cleopatra, I asked a few friends and relatives if they had ever seen it. Some had, but more hadn’t: life, even or perhaps especially for the well-versed cinephile, is short, and four-hour-plus Hollywood follies with steadily mouldering reputations quite reasonably aren’t high on everyone’s catch-up list. But more than one person told me that they weren’t actually sure: “I definitely feel like I have,” said one film writer, citing the reams of well-publicised lore on its…

via Tobis Film As far as feature-length directorial debuts go, Florian Sigl showed no shortage of ambition when he made the jump from commercials to movies with The Magic Flute. On paper, an effects-heavy hybrid of fantasy, romance, and musical based on Mozart’s 1791 opera of the same name that featured Shadow and Bone breakout Jack Wolfe, Game of Thrones veteran Iwan Rheon, and Academy Award-winning Amadeus star F. Murray Abraham in a sly piece of meta casting – which was executive produced by Independence…

via Triumph Films The 1990s proved to be a curious decade for the sci-fi horror subgenre, and not in a good way. The decade was littered with a string of cult classics and underappreciated gems, but the majority of them tended to flop at the box office before finding an audience, with Screamers proving to be one of the most pertinent examples. In a similar vein to spiritual bedfellows like Paul W.S. Anderson’s enduring cult classic Event Horizon and the blockbuster-sized Jamie Lee Curtis disaster Virus,…

Americans largely stifled the urge to reduce their savings rates and sell stocks in their retirement accounts last year, even as the market declined and inflation soared. About 90% of investors in the 401(k)-style retirement plans administered by Vanguard Group maintained or increased their savings rate in 2022. And trading activity fell to a two-decade low among participants who manage their own investments, according to data from the Malvern, Pa.-based company. Last year was tumultuous for stocks with the S&P 500…

The market did not like what it saw from the final retail holiday sales numbers for 2022 which sets up a tough year for retailers, but e-commerce is continuing to boom, including in areas outside the core retail consumer.Trucking data shared by DHL with CNBC shows that while the core consumer market has pulled back, in many categories e-commerce sales remain strong."E-commerce is continuing to boom," said Jim Monkmeyer, president of transportation for DHL Supply Chain, North America.DHL described large growth in…

Throwing an excessive amount of blood, guts, and bodies into a horror movie can often enhance the story, but it can just as easily be nothing more than a gimmick engineered specifically for shock value and nothing else. Depending on who you ask, 2008’s The Ruins can quite easily be placed in either camp. Author Scott Smith penned the screenplay for the feature-length adaptation of his own novel, but the big screen version of the story didn’t quite win the same levels of acclaim as the book. Not only did The Ruins leave…