The Trailer Park: A Growing Temptation
This week, we have a couple of trailers that give away a few more details about the movies they’re promoting. Fortunately, they do a decent job of increasing my desire to see them.
This week, we have a couple of trailers that give away a few more details about the movies they’re promoting. Fortunately, they do a decent job of increasing my desire to see them.
The timing of this week’s movies has been strange. The $220 million comic book franchise blockbuster opened on Tuesday – which was to be expected considering that Wednesday was a major box office holiday. The teeny-bopper po...
Wednesday is a national holiday in the United States. Like most of our American readers, we here at High-Def Digest are taking the day off to relax, watch some fireworks, and maybe catch a summer movie. Will you trek out to theate...
When it was first announced that ‘(500) Days of Summer’ director Marc Webb was at the helm for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, I couldn’t have been more excited. The brief teaser trailer fueled that excitem...
I wasn’t the only one who underestimated the draw of this weekend’s movies. The studios were way off too. Pixar’s ‘Brave’ was predicted to hold onto the #1 spot, but two openers gave it a run for its ...
I spend so much time watching and critiquing movies that sometimes I forget how innocent movie-going can be to a little kid. I took my nearly six-year-old niece to see ‘Brave’ recently. What follows is the actual conve...
That Tyler Perry sure likes to dress in drag, doesn’t he? With this week’s release of yet another of the writer/director/star’s ‘Madea’ movies, we thought that we’d use today’s Roundtable to loo...
This weekend feels more like something out of September than mid-summer. There’s the R-rated comedy, the adult drama, the light-weight drama and a Tyler Perry movie. Which of these four shouts summer to you?
At first glance, I had absolutely no interest in ‘Magic Mike’. As a straight man, why would I want to watch Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer strip for 110 minutes? Not until fellow High-Def Digeste...
If you aren’t a fan of Seth MacFarlane or his trademark referential humor, you probably won’t like ‘Ted’. On the other hand, if you are a fan of his humor, you’ll most likely think it’s the funn...
Two great-looking films are heading our way later this year. Each visits the past when heroes required wit and intelligence to match their skill in a fight. One is from Takashi Miike while the other is the much-anticipated Western...
Nora Ephron, queen of the romantic comedy, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 71. Although the writer-director’s career in Hollywood was uneven, to put it lightly, she managed to give us the defining rom-com, a movie that ...