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.
It’s a sad fact of cinematic history that the majority of films made during the silent era simply no longer exist. At the time, movies were considered a disposable commodity. Once their initial money-earning runs were comple...
Ah, memories… This really takes me back. Back to the wild and woolly days of the high-def format war. When did that end, two years ago? It feels like an eternity. I’m reminded of this, strangely, as a direct result of my cur...
NBC premiered its new summer miniseries ‘Persons Unknown’ this Monday. The mystery thriller was created by Christopher McQuarrie (screenwriter of ‘The Usual Suspects‘), and is scheduled to run for only 13 e...
It has long been considered the ultimate goal for this crazy hobby of ours to create a so-called “bat cave” home theater. No, that doesn’t necessarily mean a TV room designed to look like Batman’s hideout, ...
Just over a month ago, I posted about the water damage my apartment suffered due to the torrential rain storms we here in Boston experienced this spring. After the first round of downpours, the building maintenance people came in ...
Oh, you clever ‘Glee’ writers. Look what you’ve done. You’ve given us an episode called ‘Funk’, which is naturally (and expectedly) about funk music. But you’ve also made all of the charac...
I think it’s fair to say that the rollout of 3-D TV this year has been… confused, to put it mildly. Although the hardware is ready (in the form of 3-D capable HDTVs and Blu-ray players), where is the 3-D content to go with i...
The summer season is upon us. Most of the good shows we watch during the regular season have either ended or are in the process of wrapping things up. While a few older favorites (‘Rescue Me’, ‘True Blood’)...
Dick wrote an interesting post here in the blog recently about how nice it would be if movie theaters played more of the great classics – the kind of films that deserve to be seen on the big screen but rarely are anymore. I was lu...
‘Lost’ may be done on television, but I’m sure not done thinking about it. In fact, just the other night, I found myself literally dreaming about ‘Lost’. More than that, I specifically dreamed about b...
I last checked in with ‘Castle’ just before the show’s second season finale. I mentioned at the time that I probably wouldn’t watch that final episode for several days. Well, here it is two weeks later, and...
Fox’s new summer series ‘The Good Guys’ had a “preview event” back on May 19th. I’ll be honest, I DVR’ed it at the time and didn’t get around to watching it until recently. The netwo...