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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 13th, 2019 – I’m Waiting for a Slyft

Josh Zyber — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:00:47 +0000

Who says Hollywood is out of ideas? A major studio made a buddy action flick about an Uber driver this year. Take that, skeptics! I can’t wait for the GrubHub movie. New Releases (Blu-ray) Stuber – Comedian Kumail Nanjiani attempted to cash in on all the good will he earned for The Big Sick by...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Podcasts (2019 Edition)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:00:18 +0000

We have a simple question for this week’s Roundtable: Do you enjoy listening to any podcasts? If so, what are your favorites and what do you recommend? We did a Roundtable about podcasts back in 2015, but it’s been a few years and our listening rotations may have changed since then as old shows ended...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 4th, 2019 – Catch and Release

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:00:40 +0000

A pretty big selection of Blu-rays and 4k Ultra HD discs run loose this week. Do you really gotta catch ’em all, though? That seems expensive. New Releases (Blu-ray) Pokémon: Detective Pikachu – The popularity of the Pokémon Go mobile game breathed life back into the property. Even so, the prospect of a live-action Pokémovie...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 14th, 2019 – Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:00:33 +0000

In what is proving to be a very expensive July, this week’s selection of new Blu-rays and Ultra HD discs have to compete not just with each other, but against all the other bargains being unleashed as part of Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale. New Releases (Blu-ray) Shazam! – The DCEU continues its rebound with...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 9th, 2019 – Chapter and Vers

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:00:57 +0000

Marvel’s first female-led superhero blockbuster comes home to Blu-ray and Ultra HD this week, just in time to temper everyone’s disappointment over how the second one turned out. That “second one” being Dark Phoenix, which may not be part of the MCU but is still a Marvel production, and hasn’t been received very well so...

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Weekend Roundtable: Doppelgangers and Evil Twins

Josh Zyber — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:00:39 +0000

With his new horror film Us, Jordan Peele taps into the very primal fear of being threatened or replaced by someone who may look just like you on the outside, but is decidedly different on the inside. This brings to mind some other stories that have dealt with the subject of doppelgängers or evil twins....

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 11th, 2018 – There’s Always a Bigger Fish

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:00:18 +0000

Between Blu-ray and Ultra HD, a deep selection of nearly a hundred movie and TV titles hit disc this week. That’s a lot to go through, so let’s dive right in. New Releases (Blu-ray) The Meg – Jason Statham fights a giant shark in a monster flick promoted by the studio as a spiritual successor...

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SteelBook Alert: Take a Stress Pill and Think Things Over

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:00:01 +0000

Even as Best Buy’s brick-and-mortar stores scale back physical media, the corporation continues to cater to SteelBook fans. The retailer’s latest batch of exclusives put an interesting emphasis on spaceships named Discovery. 2001: A Space Odyssey Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE) Release date: October 30, 2018 Price: $32.99 The so-called “Unrestored”...

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R.I.P. Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)

Shannon Nutt — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:00:03 +0000

The phrase “rest in peace” seems somewhat inappropriate when it comes to the death of legendary author Harlan Ellison. Not only didn’t Ellison, who died in his sleep last Thursday, June 28th, at the age of 84, believe in the afterlife, but in the off chance that there is some sort of existence after death,...

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Weekend Roundtable: Replacing an Icon

Josh Zyber — Fri, 25 May 2018 12:00:09 +0000

Alden Ehrenreich has his work cut out for him taking over the role of Han Solo. Stepping into the shoes of an iconic movie or TV character is a tricky proposition that risks the wrath of fans if not captured perfectly. This week, we’ll look at some examples where the gambit paid off. Shannon Nutt...

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Weekend Roundtable: In the Shadow of One Iconic Role

Josh Zyber — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:00:41 +0000

Just about any actor would be thrilled to catch a break as great as Mark Hamill did when he landed the part of Luke Skywalker. One of the downsides of fame, however, is that some actors never achieve nearly as much success in anything else they do. Our Roundtable this week is about actors who...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies of 1982 (Not ‘Blade Runner’)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:00:47 +0000

Even beyond ‘Blade Runner’, 1982 was a pretty momentous year for movies, especially (but not exclusively) for sci-fi movies. With the new sequel bringing Ridley Scott’s dystopian classic some fresh attention, this week’s Roundtable looks at other important films released that year. As a refresher, Wikipedia has a list of movies released in 1982. Shannon...

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