Weekend Roundtable: First Jobs
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, let’s use this week’s Roundtable to reflect back on our very first gainful employment. What was your first job?
Author Archives: Josh Zyber
The Backup to My Backup
I reported yesterday that not just one, but both of my home theater projectors died on me, one right after the other. This definitely leaves me in a bind, but I’m not completely out of options quite yet. As an emergency stop...
Two Projectors Down
Most home theater owners would consider keeping two projectors installed at the same time overkill. However, doing so has allowed me to feel pretty confident that even if something went wrong with one, I’d have a backup at t...
Fear the Walking Dead 4.11 Recap: “History Is Built on Beer
Based on comments on another forum I read, perhaps I’m in a minority for liking last week’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead. The other posters there really did not. I almost hesitate to say that I liked this week̵...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 26th, 2018 – You’r
Weeks like this are exhausting. I spent hours cleaning up our site’s Blu-ray disc listings for the huge volume of releases this week, and then putting together the poll and writing summaries of notable titles for this post, ...
Weekend Roundtable: Movies You’re Afraid to Revisit
Sometimes our cherished memories of movies we once loved don’t hold up to scrutiny when rewatched later in life. Are you holding onto any fond memories of movies that you simply can’t bring yourself to watch again, for...
Off the Shelf: Space Truckers
Filmmaker Stuart Gordon may be best known for his H.P. Lovecraft literary adaptation Re-Animator, but connoisseurs of his work will recognize his true masterpiece as an ambitious science fiction drama that was unjustly overlooked ...
Avengers: Infinity War Contest Results
Ready for some avenging? It’s time to give away that UHD Blu-ray copy of Avengers: Infinity War we promised last week.
Fear the Walking Dead 4.10 Recap: “Should’ve Left Me
Fear the Walking Dead makes a play from its parent show’s handbook this week, following a big cliffhanger (that major storm brewing at the end of the last episode) with a small bottle episode focused on just a couple of char...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 19th, 2018 – $@%!#&
You thought you got all the Marvel superheroes you could take last week? One of the few who’s not (yet) part of the Avengers team follows right on their heels to both Blu-ray and Ultra HD.
Weekend Roundtable: New Oscar Categories
Now that the Oscars are creating a new “Popular Film” award, it’s time to open the floodgates for all manner of categories that the Academy has previously overlooked. What other special achievements in filmmaking...
Impulse Purchase of the Week: The NES Classic Edition
I was in a Best Buy the other day shopping for something else when I spotted fresh stock of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition gaming console on a shelf, marked at an attractive price. I’d passed this over during its initi...