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.
From James Dean to Marilyn Monroe, Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman, cinema history is cluttered with stars whose lives were tragically cut short right in the primes of their careers. As we witness the posthumous release of...
Because my available time to write is more limited these days than I’d like, I’ve decided to create a post to compile some quick-hit thoughts on news that might be pertinent to the interests of this blog.
Just two episodes after the supposed “game-changer,” it sure didn’t take ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ long to revert right back to the old villain-of-the-week formula.
As I mentioned last week, Fox’s upcoming wave of war movie SteelBooks in the UK doesn’t do much for me. Even if you feel the same, the studio has a lot more metal cases coming down the pike, and many of these have uniq...
Earlier this week, Netflix announced that it will increase the price of its streaming video service by “one or two dollars a month” within the next few months in order to support its development of original content suc...
In an episode focused on dealing with the fallout from last week’s bombshell, ‘Game of Thrones’ does not deliver any huge, shocking plot twists this week. However, one deviation from the source material has stirr...
Chances are, you won’t rush out to the store to buy much on Blu-ray this week. The new release slate has virtually no notable day-and-date titles. Even the catalog titles are mostly destined to wind up in Walmart and Best Bu...
When it comes to the depiction of computers or the internet in movies and TV, Hollywood screenwriters almost universally have no concept at all of what computers do or how they work. Pretty much any time you see a computer in a mo...
Apparently having run out of original ideas, just about every TV network has gotten in the game of producing new series based on old movies lately. Even among this recent proliferation, I don’t think that I’ve ever exp...
To the show’s credit, it appears that the events of last week’s so-called “game-changer” episode of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ (as well as the latest ‘Captain America’ movie) will inde...
I think it’s probably fair to assume that most people reading a web site like High-Def Digest have some interest in home theater, at least as a concept. But do you actually watch movies in a dedicated home theater room, or i...
Over in the UK, Fox Home Entertainment has decided to unleash a sizable number of Blu-ray catalog reissues in SteelBook packaging this year. Notably, a bunch of them are war movies. Unfortunately, most of those will arrive too lat...