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.
When I recapped the pilot episode of ‘The Chicago Code’, I mentioned that the show seemed to have potential, but lacks the moral ambiguity and complexity of Shawn Ryan’s most famous series, ‘The Shield̵...
‘Chuck’ often rides that proverbial line between the ridiculous and the sublime. Last week’s riotous ‘Charlie’s Angels’-themed episode tears that line to shreds.
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve called out movies that actually deserved their Oscars, as well as movies that Oscar wrongly snubbed. For this week’s Roundtable, we’re going to take a look at movies that just...
Last night, ‘Jeopardy!’ concluded the second and final game in its “IBM Challenge” tournament. After getting thoroughly trounced in Game 1, the two human contestants rallied admirably and put up a much stro...
‘Fringe’ returned to the alternate universe last week for a new episode that takes place entirely on the other side. Episodes like this force the audience to bond and sympathize with this set of characters, and remind ...
This week, ‘Jeopardy!’ is airing the “IBM Challenge,” which pits a new supercomputer named Watson against the show’s two greatest (human) champions. The first round concluded last night. The result…? ...
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve done polls on the acting categories at this year’s Academy Awards. This week, let’s predict who will get the Best Director award.
Despite being a big fan of the show, I neglected to give ‘Justified’ much coverage in this blog during its first season. Since the second season premiered last week, let’s rectify that oversight right now. This i...
This week’s Blu-ray list is pretty weak on brand new day-and-date releases, but much stronger on catalog titles, especially those with ties to the Oscars. Let’s see what’s cookin’, shall we?
After being off the air for nearly two months, ‘Glee’ barraged the Fox programming schedule with two new episodes last week. I’ve already covered the Super Bowl episode earlier, so now let’s take a look at ...
‘Castle’ took a week off after dolling out one of those “serious” episodes we get every once in a while. Fortunately, things lightened up considerably when the show returned last week in fine form.
We may like to gripe around here about all the mistakes that the Academy Awards have made over the years, but we also have to acknowledge that, every once in a while, Oscar gets something right too. For this week’s Roundtabl...