Weekend Roundtable: Best “Blind Buys”
This week’s Roundtable is about pleasant surprises. If you’re like most movie collectors, you’ve made a “blind buy” or two in your day – a movie that you purchased without ever having seen it before. ...
This week’s Roundtable is about pleasant surprises. If you’re like most movie collectors, you’ve made a “blind buy” or two in your day – a movie that you purchased without ever having seen it before. ...
When the ‘Alien Anthology‘ box set was released on Blu-ray a few weeks ago, most reviewers (and many fans) pointed out that only the first two movies in the series had been freshly remastered for optimal picture qualit...
I’ve been liking the alternate universe storyline on ‘Fringe’ this season a lot, especially the way that episodes bounce back and forth between those set in our world and those set in the other side. It puts an i...
‘Firefly‘ fans often lament that their favorite show was canceled halfway through its first season. Well, the plain fact is that hardly anybody watched the series, and its broadcast ratings were terrible. Likewise, whe...
We’re all familiar with the time-honored ritual of the dinner date followed by a movie. These days, a number of movie theaters combine the two activities by serving food and drinks right to your (premium priced) seats. Now, ...
A couple weeks ago, Dick asked whether you still buy Blu-rays, or have given up physical media for online streaming. I’ll take that one step further. Who out there still buys DVDs?
This week sees the release of a huge slate of Blu-ray titles. But, realistically, are many of them worth buying? Let’s take a look.
Hot on the heels of our appearances at Blu-Con at the beginning of this month, Mike Palmer here at High-Def Digest and I found ourselves on the move again. This time, we were both invited to visit Dolby headquarters in San Francis...
As Hollywood logic goes, if you liked something once, you’ll like it even better three times or more. For this week’s Roundtable, we take a look at our favorite movie series that have had at least three entries.
Perhaps you’ve already seen this video clip as it made the rounds recently? Well, not everyone has, so I’m featuring it here too, because I think it’s kind of neat. When watching a classic Charlie Chaplin film on...
These days, “4k” is the buzz of the home theater community. Digital cinema projectors are (slowly) transitioning from 2k resolution to 4k models. Recent Blu-ray titles have been advertised as benefiting from new 4k tra...
‘Fringe’ went missing for a little while there. The series skipped a couple weeks without new episodes since the last one aired on October 14th. It returned last week with a new story that brings us back to the alterna...