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.
In recent weeks, we’ve taken some flack here in the blog for our negative coverage of Michael Bay and his stupid ‘Transformers’ movies. I still maintain that this is mostly the complaining of a small but vocal mi...
With 3D TV sales for the year falling short of expectations, the consumer electronics industry has already begun playing the blame game. Analysts typically cite the high prices and viewers’ reluctance to wear 3D glasses as m...
Episode 2 of ‘Necessary Roughness’ confirms most of my impressions from the previous week’s pilot episode. I like the characters and think that the show has potential, but the writing is just a little too simplis...
Yes, it’s another slow summer week for new Blu-ray releases. Even the title I’ve most eagerly awaited appears to have arrived on the format in a compromised form. Will I be able to resist buying it anyway? Honestly, pr...
The producers of ‘Covert Affairs’ have apparently stumbled onto an important formula to guarantee viewer satisfaction: When lacking the budget for proper action scenes or even vaguely exotic locations, start the episod...
It feels like it’s been forever since Barnes & Noble ran its last 50% Off Criterion Collection sale. The retailer does this twice annually, in July and November. This year’s first sale starts tomorrow. What will y...
In these summer months, it seems that all Hollywood cares about are sequels and franchises. That’s a trend that isn’t likely to change any time soon. Yet for some reason, a lot of movies that actually deserve sequels d...
The time has come to announce the winner of last week’s ‘Sucker Punch’ giveway. Let’s waste no more time, and get this thing going, shall we?
NBC has finally settled on a replacement for Steve Carell on the next season of ‘The Office’. Stepping in as Dunder Mifflin’s newest boss will be… James Spader. I think this is the right decision. Don’t you...
As much as I enjoyed the first episode of the USA Network’s new legal drama ‘Suits’, pilot episodes always leave me a little uneasy that further episodes of the show won’t be able to live up. Pilots often h...
The second episode of FX’s new dark comedy ‘Wilfred’ continues to build on the surreal weirdness of the first. The show is still perhaps more strange than actually funny, but this new episode has the benefit that...
OK, this is better. After the atrociously bad season premiere, a big sigh of relief is in order that the second episode of ‘True Blood’ this season is a substantial improvement. While I wouldn’t say that it’...