‘Falling Skies’ Contest Results
Hey, didn’t we promise last week that we’d give away a couple copies of ‘Falling Skies: The Complete First Season‘ on Blu-ray? You bet we did! Enough with the suspense already. Let’s get to that and f...
Hey, didn’t we promise last week that we’d give away a couple copies of ‘Falling Skies: The Complete First Season‘ on Blu-ray? You bet we did! Enough with the suspense already. Let’s get to that and f...
Recently, I found myself contemplating a purchase of the ‘Jurassic Park Trilogy‘ on Blu-ray. Many retailers, including Amazon, have marked the box set down to less than half of its original MSRP. This seems like a good...
If last week’s fifth season premiere of ‘True Blood’ turned out to be surprisingly better than expected (considering that the series usually has such lousy premieres and finales), the season’s second episod...
In this week’s Blu-ray releases, Drew Barrymore saves the whales, Jason Segel gets stoned, and Madonna tries to rule the world. In other words, it’s just another average Tuesday.
The USA Network’s legal drama ‘Suits’ turned out to be my favorite television series of last summer, which was quite a surprise given the overwhelming number of generic lawyer shows on the air. With an unconventi...
Talk about a hiatus! The once-powerhouse primetime soap ‘Dallas’ ran on CBS for 14 seasons from 1978 to 1991, and single-handedly established the now-common convention of the season finale cliffhanger. The fourth seaso...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Dolby’s new theatrical surround sound format, called Atmos, that promises to revolutionize the way that movie soundtracks are created and presented. At the time, I’d received a brief demo...
For this, officially our 100th Weekend Roundtable post, we thought we’d pick a pretty simple and straightforward topic. Tom Cruise has a new movie in theaters today. Let’s look over the best and worst from this sometim...
A couple months ago, I posted the news that an audience test screening of footage from Peter Jackson’s upcoming ‘The Hobbit’ film was widely greeted with negative reactions, primarily due to the director’s ...
Here we are, officially at the start of the summer TV season. This is the time of year when cable networks start to dominate the schedule with original programming, while the major broadcast networks dump a lot of reruns and Reali...
Now that 1080p is pretty well entrenched as the current home theater standard for HDTV and display resolution, the consumer electronics industry is already making moves to push us to new 4k screens. At a resolution of 4096×23...
The good news: ‘True Blood’ is back! This was once a great show! The bad news: The series is clearly past its prime, and last year’s fourth season was a huge mess. Also, the show has a history of terrible premier...