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 have solar power electricity,...
Let’s say you had a time machine. You could use it to go back and prevent world wars or save the mother of the future leader of the human resistance from a cyborg assassin. Sure sure sure, that’s all well and good. Or, as a movie ...
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 favorite thinking machines...
In this week’s Roundtable, let’s look back in time a little and mark some milestones. What was the best movie released the year you were born? This may or may not happen to be the film that won the Oscar that year, but we’re reall...
Music is so often an undervalued component of any film’s success. A great musical score can enhance not just our excitement, but also our emotional involvement with a story and its characters. In this week’s Roundtable, we highlig...
There seems to be some kind of unwritten law that today’s movie posters must feature a “floating head” design that cries out, “These people are in the movie. Please come see it.” Fortunately, an underground exists where movie post...
We movie collectors can be an obsessive bunch who often feel compelled to rebuy new copies of films we already own in order to upgrade to a new format, benefit from a slightly-improved video transfer or obtain some new supplementa...
Sometimes, we just can’t properly appreciate a movie on first viewing. Perhaps the marketing misled us into expecting something entirely different than what we’d actually get, perhaps we set impossibly high expectations that no mo...
In this week’s Blu-ray releases, we learn that not all politicians are blood-sucking monsters – even if most of them are. Also, Tyler Perry puts on a dress (again) while Channing Tatum rips all his clothes off.
Los Angeles, 2012. Warner Bros. prepares to unretire ‘Blade Runner’ in the form of new premium Blu-ray box set. Who’s buying?
Those celebrated philosophers known as Timbuk3 once opined that, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” On the other hand, most filmmakers seem to believe that the future will be a very dark, dreary and miserable place ins...
If you’re reading a web site like High-Def Digest, odds are that you don’t need to be sold on the benefits of the Blu-ray format. Nonetheless, we thought that we’d use this week’s Roundtable to highlight some of the best discs in ...
