There’s obviously no denying that Quentin Tarantino is a die-hard movie nerd. His encyclopedic knowledge of obscure films can put most experts and historians to shame, and he’s made a career out of fashioning his own m...
With news that iconoclastic British filmmaker Ken Russell has died, I decided to use this week’s VUDU update to see if the streaming service has any of his movies in its catalog. Indeed, I found one. Since this is a slow wee...
We have quite an eclectic mix of movies coming out on Blu-ray this week. One of the big titles of the week stars an annoying singing gnome… and another stars the Smurfs. Ouch.
Once again, the somber racial drama ‘The Help’ has taken first place at the box office. Although The Hollywood Reporter claims that Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast this weekend, cost $25 million in weekend lo...
Oddly, none of the three nationwide openers this week will appear on more than 2,500 screens. We could very well end up seeing ‘The Help’ or ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ come in first at the box office ...
It’s always great to discover a new comedy that everyone will be talking about months from now. ‘My Idiot Brother’ is that movie. Apatow-ian in its construction and characters, ‘My Idiot Brother’ is h...
For some reason, I feel like I’ve already been here a week. I swear, watching three to four movies a day ages you faster, or just makes you feel older. Today, when it hit 1:00 in the afternoon, I felt like it was 7:00 PM. My...
[Editor’s Note: With this post, High-Def Digest Blu-ray reviewer Aaron Peck joins us here at The Bonus View blog. Among other things, Aaron will be contributing some film festival coverage, starting this month at Sundance. I...
