Most home theaters, if they have surround sound at all, typically use a single subwoofer to reproduce bass frequencies. Many experts recommend at least two, and some bass fanatics really go crazy with multiple heavy-duty subs. Wha...
New and improved Joker™ products! Cryptozoic Entertainment and Hobby World’s hit party game ‘Spyfall’ returns this summer with a new secret ingredient: Smilex!
New to Blu-ray this week is a blockbuster thriller that had audiences shouting from the rooftops this past spring. Unfortunately, those viewers failed to learn anything from the movie and were promptly eaten by monsters. Seriously...
As Ant-Man and his insect pals return to cinema screens this week, let’s do a Roundtable about some of our favorite examples of other famous movie bugs. Would you like to know more?
After her 2011 ‘Winter’s Bone’ delighted audiences, received four Oscar nominations, and made a star of Jennifer Lawrence, plenty of people waited to see what would be next on the feature front for writer/directo...
When ‘Get Out’ was released in 2017, more than a few people declared it the beginning of a new era of socially conscious horror films. For those who have been paying attention to horror for the past 80 years or so, the...
The phrase “rest in peace” seems somewhat inappropriate when it comes to the death of legendary author Harlan Ellison. Not only didn’t Ellison, who died in his sleep last Thursday, June 28th, at the age of 84, be...
Due to my longstanding ‘Star Wars’ ennui and all the vehemently negative word-of-mouth surrounding the movie, I feel like I must be one of the last people on Earth to see ‘The Last Jedi’. When a window of o...
The Barnes & Noble summer Criterion Collection sale started a little early this year, and consequently I wasn’t ready for it at all. Forgive my lateness, but here’s our semi-annual update to help you with your sho...
In today’s climate, where calls of “fake news” that were meant to undercut purposely manipulative information are instead simply used as a cudgel against facts one doesn’t like, there’s been a correla...
As I see it, this slow holiday week doesn’t offer many interesting new Blu-ray releases to spend money on. However, coinciding with the latest Barnes & Noble Criterion Collection sale (which I’ll write more about ...
Hollywood has a schizophrenic relationship to the subject of drugs. In between stoner comedies like ‘Pineapple Express’ that celebrate drug use, we get more serious-minded dramas about drug addiction, drug smuggling or...
