About Josh Zyber
Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He previously wrote for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com, and Home Theater magazine.
The middle of August seems like odd timing for a big Blu-ray push, but this week sees a huge volume of new releases hitting the market. Of course, as always, the trick is to find the few actually worth buying hidden among the dros...
A great poet once penned the immortal verse: “Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO. Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO.” This week’s Roundtable is all about movies that involve martial arts. What are your favorites?
Apropos of a long-winded argument that has raged in another post on this blog this week, I’ve taken the considerable time and effort to prepare a chart breaking down the last 20+ years of blockbuster movies, sorted by aspect...
Back when the Blu-ray format was launched, the ability of players to connect to the internet was touted as a huge advance that would revolutionize the way we watch movies. Even if the feature didn’t quite live up to that hyp...
What a surprise – another episode of ‘True Blood’ where hardly anything notable happens. I feel like this whole final season could have been avoided had the producers decided to just wrap the show up with a two-hour TV...
This week’s episode of ‘The Strain’ is the strongest of the four that have aired so far, but the show is still missing a critical component: I just don’t care enough about any of the characters.
GameStop wants to stop shoppers from “showrooming” by bombarding customers’ phones with annoying advertisements. I can’t imagine how this brilliant plan could fail.
One of the biggest blockbuster hits of the year comes to Blu-ray this week, but unless you’re of an age that ends with “-teen,” you probably don’t care.
When a relationship sours, sometimes you just need to be done with a person. For this week’s Roundtable, we’d like to know what celebrities (from any sphere of pop culture) have crossed a line that you can no longer st...
We haven’t done a SteelBook update here in a while. Let’s take a look at a pair of recent animal-themed disaster epics that are getting metal case collectibles.
This week saw the release of one of the most exciting Blu-ray box sets of the year: ‘Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery’. Unfortunately, the reps at Paramount decided to be a bunch of cheapskates and didn’t send us a...
Continuing our recent theme of polls about home theater hardware, this week we’d like to know if you ever bought into Toshiba’s short-lived HD DVD format.