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.
Among other issues, the current season of ‘True Blood’ seems very confused about who the “Big Bad” villain of the year is supposed to be. Is it Warlow? Is it Governor Burrell? Is it Lilith (again)? Is it Bi...
Criterion fans know how expensive it can be to amass a collection of the label’s Blu-ray titles. Smart Criterion fans are wise enough to save their pennies for the twice-annual Barnes & Noble sale, held each July and Nov...
Due to the holiday, we didn’t hold a contest last week. This disappointed me as much as anyone. Fortunately, with a return to normal scheduling, we’re back with a new giveaway. This week, enter for your chance to win S...
Welcome back from the long weekend, those of you who were lucky enough to take one. Unfortunately, even with the holiday behind us, this is another uneventful week for new Blu-ray releases.
Due to the Independence Day holiday, and (more importantly) due to my desire to take an extra-long weekend, the blog will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. That means no Roundtable on Friday. We’ll try to return to...
As if so-called “Reality” shows weren’t already staged and scripted enough, we now have a burgeoning genre of outright fake, totally fictional Reality programs. ABC tried this gambit last year with the “fou...
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about ‘True Blood’ is that the show has a habit of taking characters we at one time or other actually like and sympathize with, and turning them into completely unlikeable a-holes. I ...
It’s a pet peeve of mine when movies and TV shows are simply titled after the lead character, especially when that character is fictional. (I’ll give a pass to a bio-pic based on a real person, like ‘Patton’...
Recently, a site called Filmmaker IQ launched an interesting web video that attempts to provide a beginner’s guide to the concept of aspect ratios, and to explain why not all movies are the same shape as one another. As a ho...
Holidays are a slow time for new Blu-ray releases, and this one almost brutally so. Honestly, I have very few titles that I can call “highlights” this week. Unfortunately, because of the lack of discs worth giving away...
The only thing Hollywood loves more than churning out ‘Die Hard’ sequels is churning out ‘Die Hard’ knock-offs. The “Die Hard in ___” genre, in which a lone underdog hero is trapped in a confine...
After an incredible string of episodes, Bryan Fuller’s astonishing ‘Hannibal’ drew its first season to a close last week with an absolutely delicious finale that left this fan squealing with glee. I’m once ...