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 last week’s season premiere of ‘True Blood’, I expressed some mild disappointment that the episode was very plot-heavy and lacked a lot of the atmosphere and character moments that make the show s...
I’ve decided that I’m rooting for ‘The Good Guys’. The show isn’t quite there yet, but I really want to like it. I want it to be good goofy summer fun. It’s very close, really. The premise is fu...
It’s official. I’m digging ‘Persons Unknown’ on NBC. The first episode set up an intriguing mystery plot. The second episode, ‘The Edge’, has me hooked. Maybe this isn’t the next ‘Lo...
This week, we’d like to introduce a new recurring feature here at The Bonus View. For the Weekend Roundtable, all of our resident bloggers have been asked to weigh in with a few sentences on a given topic. Then we turn it ov...
Let’s stir up a little controversy, shall we? Drew’s recent review of ‘The A-Team’ sparked an interesting debate in the comments about whether macho action movies can (or should) be considered “homoer...
Now that my home theater room has been put back together, I’ve spent some time catching up on my DVR backlog. Normally, I wouldn’t have waited this long to watch the ‘Chuck’ season finale. I don’t alw...
I’m sure that, by now, most movie fans are familiar with the Wilhelm scream – that goofy screaming noise that Hollywood sound designers try to slip into movies and TV shows as often and as subversively as they can. Well, it ...
‘Glee’ concluded its first season last week with an episode titled ‘Journey’. What a great journey this show has been over the past year. Yes, some of the storylines in the first half of the season were mis...
As much as I love ‘True Blood’, I have to admit that the show’s second season finale was frustrating and oddly disappointing. After a whole season building up the conflict with evil maenad Marianne and her attemp...
I wasn’t bowled over by the first episode of ‘The Good Guys’. Although it sounds on paper like a spoof of bad ’80s cop shows should be a great deal of fun, something about the episode’s tone was off a...
Did everyone have a productive weekend? I spent mine putting the remnants of my home theater room back together after it was torn apart last week to repair the water damage that occurred earlier in the spring. I must say, it’...
Not even all that long ago, summertime used to be a TV wasteland of nothing but reruns and castoff episodes of cancelled series. But the traditional television season structure has been eroding in recent years. The networks have s...