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Manufacturer Beware: FTC (Again) Defends Consumers’ Right to Repair
The FTC’s Warning Letters – Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent eight companies warning letters regarding their warranty practices, alerting them that certain restrictive warranty language may violate federal law by limiting consumers’ rights to repair the products they purchased….By: ArentFox Schiff
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Opening Ceremony Highlights: Celine Dion Caps Celebration Along Seine Hours After Rail Chaos
The sprawling ceremony was held under rainy skies and featured sports stars like Zinedine Zidane and Serena Williams. Earlier, coordinated arson attacks disrupted service on three high-speed links to Paris, causing severe delays.
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The Fabulous Four
If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), a brilliant psychotherapist or Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), an action hero (Tom Cruise), Sigmund Freud and a Roman emperor (Sir Anthony Hopkins), or…
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The Last Breath
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And “The Last Breath” is a cheesy new thriller that is even dumber than a real shark. Not that it features any real sharks — the predatory creatures here are CGI, and hilariously enough, they move through the water faster than the “rage virus”…
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The Girl in the Pool
The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It’s not exactly new cinematic territory, but it’s a well that gets tapped often because it’s just a lot of fun to watch rich families implode, often of their own doing. In…
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Dìdi (弟弟)
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance—where it won the festival’s audience award—I thought his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated animated short (“Nǎi Nai…
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Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman
When thinking about the present resurgence of the cinematic hitman, it’s difficult not to immediately think about the legacy of Jean-Pierre Melville. My thoughts on Melville’s impact on the stock character have been percolating through several critics’ mentions of the possible influences from Melville’s “Le Samouraï” on David Fincher’s “The Killer.” In Fincher’s homages, one…
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NASA Moves Toward Boeing Starliner Return to Restore Space Station Traffic
With the Falcon 9 rocket set to fly again, and testing of the Starliner capsule progressing, the agency is seeking to turn the page on a brief, troubled chapter in orbit.
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Carolyn Hax chat: Husband says hyphenating baby’s last name is confusing
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.
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How to grill vegetables and bring out their best flavors
Grilling can bring out the best in a wide variety of vegetables. Here’s how to do it right.
