Created by a scientist in the Marvel comics, Ultron is a self-aware robot who develops a lust for power. He has a laundry list of abilities — super-human strength, speed, stamina, durability, flight, mind control, a coma ray and a genius intellect. For Avengers: Age of Ultron, Whedon reveals to Entertainment Weekly in this week’s cover story that he’s stripping back some of Ultron’s abilities and will find a way to humanize — to some degree — the angry bot.

“I knew right away what I wanted to do with him,” Whedon says. “He’s always trying to destroy the Avengers, goddamn it, he’s got a bee…

Time. That is what this film did not have enough of to properly tell Steve Jobs’ story. But then, to be fair, no film would have enough time to properly tell the story unless it was several days long. And, truth be told, I did enjoy the film quite a lot. Of course, I’m one of those Apple geeks — I love Apple products, I follow the goings on of the company closely, and I am quite familiar with many of the details of the journey both of Apple as a company, and of Steve Jobs himself.

I was one of those guys who eagerly awaited the release of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography and was sorely…

We might not ever have seen his face, but the man behind the Darth Vader mask has a few things to say about the prequels.

Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse recently let loose on his feelings about George Lucas’ prequels and like many of us, he was kinda bummed out when he saw them. “I didn’t like ‘Star Wars’ I, II and III at all. I think the common opinion now is they were really bad movies,” he told Hull Daily Mail, adding: “There’s no comparison with the original movies. They had a much more believable story.”

I don’t like the prequels any more than any other average Star Wars fan, but I…

Given that I have no desire to see The Butler in large part because Oprah Winfrey is in it, and otherwise because it looks terrible, sappy, cheesy and more, I have not seen it yet. but it’s what is winning the day at the Box Office so maybe I should make time for it.

#1 — Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Budget: $30 M
Totals: $25 M Weekend Gross  and Current Total
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My general rule of thumb is, if Oprah Winfrey is involved I want nothing to do with it. Fair or not, that’s my feeling on the matter. General movie goers seem to disagree however, because this, her latest film, seemed to…

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has seen “Jobs,” and his review basically says the Ashton Kutcher movie is, meh, okay.

“I saw ‘Jobs’ tonight. I thought the acting throughout was good,” Wozniak wrote in a blog post for Gizmodo. “I was attentive and entertained but not greatly enough to recommend the movie.”

I find this to be no real surprise myself.

Wozniak believes the biggest problem with the movie was Kutcher’s take on the iconic entrepreneur the film focuses on.

“I suspect a lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton’s own image of Jobs,” Wozniak—who is played by Josh Gad…

In a short clip from Digital Spy, Ewan McGregor discusses the idea of returning to Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Of course the thing is that any time we’ve seen force-ghost Obi-Wan, he was played by Sir Alec Guinness who, when he appeared as Obi-Wan, was much older than Ewan McGregor. Now of course, there is that controversial swithceroo in the 2004 DVD version of the original trilogy in which Hayden Christensen replaces the pervious actor as the Anakin Skywalker force ghost so maybe they think they can explain a differing appearance by saying that force ghosts can take on any appearance they…

This weekend, we get to see if Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs is any good. I have a slight general dread of the film because I fear, as an Apple Gadget lover and follower of all things Apple that I’m going to hate the film.

There are other things to see this weekend too, though, but I’m thinking JOBS will most certainly be the best one of the lot of new films.

New Films

JOBS — PG-13

There is no doubt that Ashton Kutcher looks like Steve Jobs. In fact, so much so, that in many of these pictures, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was a picture of Jobs himself. From what I’ve…

Since making the first Die Hard in the ’80s, Bruce Willis has built himself a fine career as an action star. While he occasionally forays into other types of roles from time to time (like in last year’s Moonrise Kingdom), there’s no question that he’s best known for his ass-kicking turns. Heck, this year saw him appearing in three different action sequels — A Good Day to Die Hard, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and Red 2.

But Willis claims he’s now growing weary of the same-old same-old. In a recent interview, he declared that he was “a bit bored” of action movies these days. Though to be clear, he…

In a new interview, Mark Wahlberg says he’d like to take over the Iron Man franchise from Robert Downey Jr. He’s mostly kidding. The line is delivered in a semi-joking tone and he goes on to say he’s never really been asked to play a superhero. He prefers to play someone real and relatable.

No. Just, no.