David Fincher vs. Film Critics
His remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ hasn’t even opened yet, and already David Fincher is battling with film critics. While it’s not unusual for a director to get defensive about his work, the od...
His remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ hasn’t even opened yet, and already David Fincher is battling with film critics. While it’s not unusual for a director to get defensive about his work, the od...
Ha! I told you so! Doubters must be eating some crow about now. Last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’ came out swinging with major plot twists and revelations, and we haven’t even hit the season fi...
This weekend featured the worst collective box office total in over three years. The cumulative estimated tally was only $78 million. The last time the totals were this low was the first week of September, 2008, during which ̵...
If you’re reading a web site like High-Def Digest, odds are that you don’t need to be sold on the benefits of the Blu-ray format. Nonetheless, we thought that we’d use this week’s Roundtable to highlight so...
While the end-of-year season is usually filled with high-quality flicks fighting for award nominations, this December so far isn’t quite reaching the caliber of years past– especially not this weekend’s releases.
Since it started building buzz on the festival circuit and in the U.K. (where it opened nearly three months ago), I, along with many other film lovers, have been looking forward to ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.’ Although...
While I fully respect Jason Reitman for having the ability to uniquely and beautifully put moving images on the big screen, he’s got to quit making Diablo Cody’s screenplays into movies. He’s better than that. It...
Last year, New Line put out the highly successful chick flick ‘Valentine’s Day‘, an ensemble story about more than a dozen people in Los Angeles on the romantic holiday. The result was a formulaic, poor man’...
Maybe the timing was right. Maybe we did a really good job promoting this one. Maybe this was a great prize that a lot of people wanted. Maybe the photo I chose for our caption contest simply inspired your creativity. Or perhaps a...
To quote the late, great Stone Cold Steve Austin: “Oh hell yeah!” We lose nothing from the Netflix stream this week. Well, to be entirely accurate, we lose a dozen movies that aren’t worth mentioning, unless you ...
When it comes to new releases, there isn’t a whole lot to talk about with this week’s VUDU update. The streaming service is only adding a small assortment of new titles, most of which we’ve already discussed arou...
I’ve been playing videogames for 25 years and reading about them for 23. I’ve been obsessed with them for most of my life, and I honestly didn’t think I could learn anything new. How wrong I was!