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.
Last week’s episode of ‘Persons Unknown’, called ‘Incoming’, gave us a peek behind the curtain at the forces in town watching our band of abductees. Just a little peek, though. The network broadcast a...
In these summer months, movie theater screens are dominated by a glut of overproduced, frenetically-paced blockbusters made for and marketed toward an audience almost exclusively of ‘tweens and teens. Rarely seen this time o...
This week’s Roundtable topic comes from Drew. It’s a complicated one, so let us explain. Movies that make you physically uncomfortable aren’t necessarily bad movies, though some of them may be. OK, maybe most of ...
The 2010 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced yesterday morning. ‘Glee’ and ‘The Pacific’ led the pack with 19 nominations and 24 nominations respectively. I’m sure both programs will bring...
This past weekend, I went to the movies, which is actually becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence these days. During the annoying “Pre-Show Entertainment” reel of commercials was an ad for what appeared to be a new Real...
A web site called televisions.com has compiled an interesting list of The 20 Most Common Mistakes in the Home Cinema. The article has a lot of worthwhile tips and advice, and points out many errors in home theater design that I se...
The sixth and penultimate season of ‘Rescue Me’ premiered last Tuesday on FX. The series has been announced to end after Season 7. This sixth season will also be shorter than normal, with only ten episodes. I happen to...
Welcome back, everybody. We trust you had a terrific holiday. Now that we’re back to work, it’s time to take a look at the weekly Blu-ray release schedule. This post-holiday week is dominated by a lot of shovelware cat...
The staff of The Bonus View would like to wish all of our readers a happy and safe 4th of July celebration. To our international readers, we also wish you a happy… uhhh… Sunday, I guess. Whatever the case, drink respon...
The topic for this weekend’s Roundtable discussion comes from Dick. (As does the whole concept of the Roundtable itself, I should note.) Since we’ve spent the last couple of sessions dwelling on such negatives as movie...
Although we’re only two episodes in, I think I’ve got a handle on ‘Scoundrels’. It may not be a great show (so far), but it’s certainly not a bad one either. For summer programming, it’s pretty ...
There’s a lot going on in this week’s episode of ‘Persons Unknown’, called ‘Exit One’. Not the least of these developments is that some characters do indeed find an exit out of town. Sort of. Be...