Editor’s Rating: User Rating: Good: The Toshiba Qosmio X75 comes packed with an Intel Haswell CPU, new Nvidia graphics, a combo SSD/HDD drive, and even a Blu-ray writer. Bad: The bulky design has a budget feel for a premium-price laptop, battery life is disappointingly short, and it lacks newer features such as DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, or even a touch screen
(Credit: Geoffrey Morrison) If you’ve done any research into TVs, Blu-ray players, or Blu-ray in general, you’ve likely seen the alphanumeric 1080p24 (or 1080p/24). Understanding what it is, and keeping a lookout for products that can take advantage of it, can result in smoother, more natural-looking movie and TV show playback. I’m not talking about the artificially hypersmooth look of the Soap …
Top-rated Mark Wahlberg movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The San Francisco Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Mark Wahlberg’s best-reviewed films. Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Wahlberg, this film is an engrossing drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy …
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Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed films. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com.
Worth seeing at the movies The Incredible Burt Wonderstone This comedy about Las Vegas magicians, starring Steve Carell, would be a borderline case were it not for Jim Carrey, who is hysterically funny in the supporting role of a crazy, masochistic street magician.
New on DVD and Blu – ray , March 15 An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology Tiffany Shlain’s documentary uneasily mixes an optimistic view of new technology (“The Internet is rewiring our brains to think interdependently”) with a touching tribute to her late father, the surgeon and author Leonard Shlain.
Steve Carell’s best-reviewed movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Steve Carell’s best-reviewed films. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com.. The terrific ensemble cast – including Steve Carell as a sad-sack Proust …
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DVD review: ‘The Duellists’ The film was considered a low-budgeter of limited popularity by the releasing company, Paramount. what made the movie for critics were its impeccable Napoleonic-era costumes and pastoral settings, and photography resembling paintings of the early 19th century