Weekend Roundtable: Do Not Delete
A couple weeks ago, we asked what movie you wish could be erased from all memory of its existence. For the flip side, what one single movie would you save if all other examples of the cinema art form were wiped out?
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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 16th, 2018 – One Ugly
This week marks the last big retail push before Christmas, and the home video slate is jam-packed with lots of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases. Not too many of them feel very festive, strangely.
Now Streaming: Filmworker
Stanley Kubrick had a reputation as a demanding perfectionist, to put it lightly. Of all the people who worked with him over the decades, perhaps none experienced the true extent of the filmmaker’s obsessive compulsions more...
Weekend Roundtable: Moon Movies
Mankind has been fascinated with the moon for as long as our species has been able to crane our necks up to look at it. Our few attempts to visit the place were pretty spectacular achievements, as the new film First Man attests. I...
SteelBook Alert: Take a Stress Pill and Think Things Over
Even as Best Buy’s brick-and-mortar stores scale back physical media, the corporation continues to cater to SteelBook fans. The retailer’s latest batch of exclusives put an interesting emphasis on spaceships named Disc...
Cannes Journal: ‘2001’ in 70mm
What can be said about one of the most wondrous films ever made? How about that one hated it the first time he saw it? Screened on VHS on a 20″ Trinitron, the only thing I knew about ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was t...
Weekend Roundtable: Silence, Please
Most modern movies, especially Hollywood movies, are all about bang and boom and bombast. The new horror thriller ‘A Quiet Place’ bucks that trend, and has been rewarded with both critical acclaim and box office succes...
Weekend Roundtable: Theatrical Re-Releases
Twenty-six years after its original release, James Cameron’s blockbuster ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ returns to cinemas this weekend with a new 3D facelift. What movies that you never got to see on the big scree...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie of 1968
1968 was a pretty momentous year for film. Among other things, it gave us one of the greatest motion pictures ever made and launched an iconic franchise now on its ninth feature entry. What were your favorite movies from that year...
Weekend Roundtable: VHS Memories
As we speak, the last remaining manufacturer of VCRs (Funai Electric) is finally ceasing all production of the obsolete videocassette players. I bet you assumed this happened years ago. For those of us who grew up during the home ...
Weekend Rountable: Trapped in a Bunker
It’s the apocalypse outside! Bummer. Much like the characters in this week’s ’10 Cloverfield Lane’, you’re stuck in a survivalist bunker, presumably for years or perhaps even forever. Fortunately, you...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie/TV Robots or A.I.
Robots, androids, cyborgs and other forms of Artificial Intelligence have long been a science fiction staple. With this weekend’s theatrical release of ‘Chappie’ in mind, let’s take a look at some of our fa...