Home Theater Headaches
We’ve all, I’m sure, experienced those days where it feels like the entire universe is actively conspiring against us. Last week, my home theater system did its best to drive me insane, all over what would turn out to ...
Author Archives: Josh Zyber
Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Picture 2012
This year’s Oscar ceremony is rapidly approaching. It’s time for our final, most important poll on the subject. Which movie do you think will win the Best Picture prize? Which movie do you think should win?
Get Ready for the 2012 Oscars Live-Blog!
Yes, we’re doing it again. Join us this Sunday, February 26th for The Bonus View‘s second annual Oscars Live-Blog! With last-minute replacement Billy Crystal hosting for the 74th time, not to mention a huge assortment ...
‘Life’s Too Short’ Pilot Recap: “A Sophis
HBO premiered the new comedy series ‘Life’s Too Short’ on Sunday. The show was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and stars famous little person Warwick Davis. Is this the next ‘The Office’...
Blu-ray Highlights for 2/21/12 – Here, Kitty Kitty…
Welcome back from another long weekend, folks. We hope you had a good one. This week’s selection of new Blu-ray discs gives us a diverse assortment of titles, from the latest installment in an animated franchise that just wo...
Weekend Roundtable: Movie Nit-Picks
Let’s face it, few movies are perfect. Even some of our favorite films have flaws. Some may be tiny, but others are really glaring. Perhaps it’s one particular scene that doesn’t work, or an actor who’s mis...
‘Alcatraz’ 1.06 Recap: Won’t You Be Mine?
Mad bomber plots are a staple of many crime shows. But a time-traveling serial landmine bomber… ? Well, that’s the kind of twist that ‘Alcatraz’ puts on the old formula.
What Makes an Oscar-Worthy Performance, Anyway?
In all the fallout from this year’s Oscar nominations, countless critics and movie pundits have fallen over themselves to call out the films (and specifically the actors in them) that were allegedly “snubbed” in ...
‘Grimm’ 1.11 Recap: Kiss of the Spider Woman
On Friday, Amy Acker from ‘Angel’, ‘Alias’, ‘Dollhouse’ and a dozen other popular nerdy TV properties made a special guest appearance on ‘Grimm’. Could Summer Glau be far behind? She...
Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Director 2012
Continuing our Academy Awards countdown, today we make some predictions for the Best Director category. Which nominated director do you think will take home the Oscar this year? Further, which one do you think actually deserves th...
‘Fringe’ 4.12 Recap: “We Gotta Get Out of This
Friday’s episode of ‘Fringe’ opened with a magnetic anomaly that caused an airliner to crash. Wait a second, is the show suddenly crossing over with ‘Lost’ now?
Blu-ray Highlights for 2/14/12 – There’s a Storm Comi
I find it vaguely interesting that there are basically no love- or romance-themed movies being released on Blu-ray this Valentine’s Day (unless you’re the kind of sicko who finds ‘The Human Centipede’ roman...