High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewWeekend Roundtable Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/weekend-roundtable/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: Best Movie Endings https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-movie-endings/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-movie-endings/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:00:36 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=101793 It may be true that all good things must eventually come to an end, but unfortunately not all good movies end well. Some do, however! Brace yourself for some spoilers, because we’re about to give away some of our favorite movie endings. Deirdre Crimmins Not just my favorite ending to a film, but also my...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-movie-villains/feed/ 15 Weekend Roundtable: Just the Two of Us https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-one-actor-multiple-roles/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-one-actor-multiple-roles/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:00:02 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=101473 The technology for doing it keeps improving, but casting one actor to play multiple characters in the same movie is a trick that goes back at least as far as the days of Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks. This week’s Roundtable looks at some of our favorite examples that pulled it off. TV shows are...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-gone-too-soon/feed/ 12 Weekend Roundtable: Over the Hill Action Stars https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-over-the-hill-action-stars/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-over-the-hill-action-stars/#comments Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:00:21 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=101003 We have a new Rambo movie, 37 years after the original, because apparently that’s something Sylvester Stallone thought the world needed. It seems to be a common trend these days to see old action stars struggling to remain relevant to their audiences. Sometimes it works, but other times… Brian Hoss This could probably double as...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-anger-management/feed/ 10 Weekend Roundtable: Now We’re Cooking https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-food-cooking-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-food-cooking-movies/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:00:30 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=99994 Melissa McCarthy spent seven years playing a professional chef on Gilmore Girls, so you can imagine my disappointment that her new movie The Kitchen is not a spinoff for that character. This week, we’re doing a Roundtable on favorite movies about cooking or food preparation anyway. To be honest, I thought of this topic a...

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