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Weekend Roundtable: Exploiting Your Childhood

Weekend Roundtable: Exploiting Your Childhood

Did the world really need a prequel to ‘The Wizard of Oz’ that’s 74 years late? Did that film need a prequel at all? In honor of ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’, this week’s Roundtable tackles other belated sequels, prequels, remakes and adaptations that attempt to exploit (and usually piss all over) movies, TV shows, books or other properties that we loved as children. At what point will Hollywood learn to just leave well enough alone?
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Weekend Roundtable: Famous Last Films

Weekend Roundtable: Famous Last Films

Director Steven Soderbergh claims that he’s retiring and that this week’s release of ‘Side Effects’ will be his last theatrical feature. For today’s Roundtable, we look at other famous examples where a director or an actor’s final film (whether due to death or retirement) was a particularly fitting (or not fitting) way to go out.
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Videogame Releases: Week of December 16th, 2012

Videogame Releases: Week of December 16th, 2012

In the midst of this week’s videogame releases, heavens collide as the 25th anniversaries of two classic franchises are heralded with a free crossover game.
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Blu-ray Highlights for November 27th, 2012 – Going ‘Black’ to the Well

Blu-ray Highlights for November 27th, 2012 – Going ‘Black’ to the Well

With Thanksgiving and Black Friday now over, the home video studios have decided to take things easy for another week. While we get a few discs that might be considered notable releases, the holiday season’s biggest titles won’t start rolling out until the beginning of December.
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Videogame Releases: Week of August 19th, 2012

Videogame Releases: Week of August 19th, 2012

Move over, Mario brothers. In this week’s new videogames, Cybertron falls and robots (mercifully not of the Michael Bay variety) go in disguise. Plus, ‘Counter-Strike’ is back along with ‘Dark Souls’ and some meaty downloadables.
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Mid-Week Poll: The Great ‘Ghost Protocol’ Aspect Ratio Debate

Mid-Week Poll: The Great ‘Ghost Protocol’ Aspect Ratio Debate

Some of our readers may have noticed that yesterday’s Blu-ray post created quite a little kerfuffle in the Comments section about director Brad Bird’s decision to present ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol‘ on Blu-ray in a constant 2.35:1 aspect ratio, without the shifting ratios that were seen in IMAX theatrical screenings. Where do you fall on this controversy? Are you fine with the decision, or is this a deal-breaker for you? Do you care at all? Vote in our poll after the page break.
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The Buzz About the 3D-Bee

The Buzz About the 3D-Bee

It’s been over two years since the rollout of the new generation of 3D home theater, yet 3D fans still suffer a relative lack of content to play on their 3D HDTVs and projectors. New Blu-ray 3D releases seem to trickle out at a frustratingly slow pace, and broadcast 3D content is erratic at best. Looking for something to watch, some viewers will even settle for converting 2D material to 3D. To that end, many 3D displays and Blu-ray players now offer 2D-to-3D conversion functions. Unfortunately, not all do, and many of these features produce really lousy quality 3D images. Hoping to improve that situation, several companies now offer real-time 2D-to-3D outboard conversion boxes. Perhaps the most promising of these is the VEFXi 3D-Bee. The company was gracious enough to send a review sample recently, which allowed me the opportunity to put the 3D-Bee through its paces.
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Weekend Roundtable: Most-Wanted Movie and TV Crossovers

Weekend Roundtable: Most-Wanted Movie and TV Crossovers

The Alien fought the Predator. Freddy battled it out with Jason. The Puppet Master even had a skirmish with the Demonic Toys. Popular movies cross over with other popular movies all the time, and TV shows often do the same. (Thomas Magnum teamed up with the Simon brothers on several occasions!) This week’s Roundtable takes a fanciful turn, as we tell you about the crazy movie and TV crossovers that we’d like to see, if only someone could make them happen.
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Blu-ray Highlights for 3/6/12 – Ni!

Blu-ray Highlights for 3/6/12 – Ni!

“Winter is coming,” goes an oft-repeated phrase in one of last year’s most popular TV shows. Judging by that snowstorm we had in Boston last week, winter is unmistakably already here. It’s a good thing, then, that this week’s Blu-ray lineup is ready to heat things up.
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Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories

Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories

It’s Oscar week, and that means that it’s time to make some guesses about who will take home awards on Sunday night. I’ll start with the visual categories. So many pretty films, so little time… Let’s get to it, shall we?
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