About Josh Zyber
Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He previously wrote for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com, and Home Theater magazine.
I suppose that I should know better than to question the logic or plausibility of a show about witches, but last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’ left me with one nagging question: If a character has bee...
This was a rough weekend for the film community. Two great acting legends, Peter O’Toole and Joan Fontaine, have died.
This week marks the last big push for new Blu-ray releases before the Christmas holiday. If our readers have been good boys and girls, we might just have a last-minute gift to offer you. Read this post carefully for our special on...
My little secret is out. As I hinted at pretty clearly in last week’s Roundtable, Mrs. Z and I are expecting our first children (that’s right, plural) imminently. Some of our astute readers may have back-tracked and no...
Here we are almost at the end of the year, which means that awards season has officially begun. Several regional critics’ groups have already named their best-of picks for 2013, but let’s be honest; the only movie awar...
Credit where it’s due, ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ breaks from its routine case-of-the-week procedural formula this week, and attempts to tie together some earlier story threads into a coherent serial narrative arc....
You know, it’s a very good thing that the cast chemistry on ‘Almost Human’ works as well as it does, because the plotting in this week’s episode is totally hare-brained. On the plus side, the episode featur...
This time a year ago, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ opened amid a firestorm of debate – not just about its content and quality (which divided many viewers), but about the High Frame Rate 48 fps photographic forma...
In the latest episode of NBC’s ‘Dracula’, our vampire antihero finally walks in sunlight. Thankfully, he doesn’t sparkle when he does so, or that would have been the end of my involvement with the show.
Somewhere in the middle of last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’, a character asks with some exasperation: “Is everyone back from the dead?” This is the sort of show where questions like that...
As we continue our charge towards Christmas, it should come as no surprise that this week’s new Blu-ray releases put a major focus on movies that appeal to children and parents. I suppose I’ll be in that category soon,...
Christmas is almost upon us. It seems to come faster every year. Have you all been good boys and girls? If so, let’s use today’s Roundtable to remind Santa about all the goodies on our holiday wish lists this year.