Welcome to the future! As you no doubt recall, 2015 is the year that Marty McFly traveled to in ‘Back to the Future Part II’. As forward-thinking as director Robert Zemeckis and the other filmmakers may have been, they...
Here we are in 2015. The year starts off with a bunch of new Blu-ray releases, a few of them kind of interesting. I feel good. I knew that I would now.
Another year draws to a close. 2014 was a chaotic year in many respects, and will probably not go down in the history books as a great one in general. Here’s hoping that things look up in 2015!
I’ve been planning to upgrade my surround sound system to Dolby Atmos ever since the format was first announced for home use. Due to a variety of delays, some financial and some personal, I put off the installation of an Atm...
Did everyone have a nice Christmas break? As the year winds down, we don’t have a whole lot going on around here, so this will be another short week for the blog. It looks like the home video studios have decided to take it ...
From all of us here at High-Def Digest, we wish our readers the happiest holiday wishes. The blog will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. As I write this, I’m not sure what next week will look like. Probably a reduc...
In the wake of the hacking scandal and terror threats allegedly instigated by North Korea, Sony canceled its theatrical release of the James Franco/Seth Rogen comedy ‘The Interview’ and initially claimed that the film ...
Don’t get your hopes up for too many exciting new Blu-ray releases. It’s a holiday week – moreover, it’s the biggest holiday week of the year – and the studios have only let trickle out a handful of titles to be ...
Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. What would you like Santa to bring you?
Syfy’s much-hyped three-part miniseries event ‘Ascension’ drew to a close last night. As I feared, this premise was difficult to sustain and the show failed to stick its landing. However, I’m still glad I w...
After the first episode ended on such a crazy plot twist, Part 2 of Syfy’s ‘Ascension’ miniseries naturally spends a lot of time trying to justify what that means and how it works. Perhaps unavoidably, this episo...
Bizarrely, my DVR recording of last Friday’s episode of ‘Constantine’ listed the episode title as ‘The Saint of Last Resorts, Part 2’, even though we’d never had a Part 1 and this is clearly the...
