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.
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that this final season of ‘True Blood’ is simply biding its time to fill a required number of episodes before the eventual finale. This week’s episode is literally all ab...
I wasn’t much impressed with the second episode of FX’s ‘The Strain’. Fortunately, the third is an improvement. Even so, I’m not sure that it’s enough of an improvement to completely win me over...
OK, fine, maybe our contest prize last week was less than transcendent. Hey, you know what, one of our readers is still walking away with a free Blu-ray, and that ain’t bad for only a few seconds of effort.
Who needs money, right? This week brings us two huge, expensive box sets that will (hopefully) be among the best Blu-ray releases of the year.
When the 2014 Emmy Award nominations were announced a couple weeks ago, I had intended to write up a post about it for the blog. Although that never happened, let’s use this week’s Roundtable to talk about some of our ...
A few weeks ago, Dolby Labs announced that the revolutionary Atmos surround sound format will make its way to Blu-ray and home theater hardware later this year, but left details about the timeframe or exactly which movies will off...
Long before Blu-ray, before even DVD, the Laserdisc was king of the home theater world. Yet despite surviving for over twenty years, the venerable videodisc format never caught on with the mainstream, and most kids today have prob...
For the second week in a row, ‘True Blood’ spends the better part of an hour meandering through storylines with little urgency before climaxing in a last-minute action scene designed to keep viewers on the hook for mor...
We’re two episodes in, and Guillermo del Toro’s new vampire series ‘The Strain’ already suffers an endemic flaw that has crippled many other horror movies and TV shows: Most of its characters are idiots.
If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that computers will eventually gain sentience and, as their first order of business, exterminate the human race. Come to think of it, perhaps Hollywood hasn’t actually taught u...
This is the sort of week where I have very little good to say about the new Blu-ray releases. Unfortunately, we’re going to hold a contest later today to give one of them away, so I should probably tone down my snark a littl...
This week’s Roundtable was inspired by a couple of TV shows currently on the air. Have you ever found yourself hate-watching a show just so that you could complain about it afterwards, or at least so that you’ll unders...