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.
Last year, Universal issued a batch of Blu-ray catalog titles in a line of comic book-styled SteelBook cases called the “Reel Heroes.” Many of them were quite ugly and had nothing to do with either comic books or heroe...
The cinema landscape has lost yet another of its luminaries. Legendary French filmmaker Alain Resnais passed away on Sunday at the age of 91.
This week’s new Blu-ray releases offer the choice between one of last year’s best-reviewed franchise blockbusters or the movie that (probably – I’m writing this in advance) won the Best Picture Oscar over the wee...
Now that it’s all said and done, this year’s Academy Awards ceremony ended largely as expected. ’12 Years a Slave’ won Best Picture, ‘Gravity’ swept the technical achievements, and Matthew McCon...
Regardless of whether they win or not on Sunday, all of this year’s Academy Award nominees have already earned the respect of their peers in the industry and the privilege of announcing that fact on their résumés. (You just ...
When I wrote up last week’s ‘Game of Thrones’ contest post, I had originally started with a different picture for readers to caption. I’m glad that I found another one and changed it at the last minute, bec...
For our final Oscar poll today (yes, I promise that this is the last one!), let’s take a look at a technical category that we film nerds typically care a lot about: Best Visual Effects.
In most years, the Academy likes to pair up the Best Picture and Best Director trophies in sync. After all, how can a movie be the best picture of the year if the director didn’t do the best job making it? Will that be the c...
Supporting actors and actresses often don’t get nearly as much respect as lead actors and actresses. To that end, we’re consolidating the polls for both Supporting categories into one blog post.
The Best Actress category this year is perhaps a much tighter race than Best Actor. All but one of the nominated actresses already have Oscar statuettes on their mantles. Is this Amy Adams’ year, or is she destined to perpet...
Yesterday, you made your predictions for which movie would win Best Picture at this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony. Today, let’s go through some of the other major categories, starting with Best Actor. Is Matthew McC...
The TV advertisements for this weekend’s Academy Award ceremony claim that it’s the tightest race in years. Is that really the case? Which movie do you think will win the Best Picture Oscar this year? More importantly,...