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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies About World War II

Josh Zyber — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:00:26 +0000

The Second World War was perhaps the most momentous and world-changing historical event to occur during the era in which motion pictures have existed. Naturally, it’s been a popular subject to make movies about – hundreds of movies from even before the war was over right up to this week’s release of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’....

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SteelBook Alert: Big Bada Boom

Josh Zyber — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:00:32 +0000

In an effort to revive interest in a bunch of its catalog titles, Sony has chosen to issue a big batch of new Blu-ray SteelBooks with vibrant, colorful, comic art designs. I expect that these will be greeted with mixed reaction from fans. These SteelBooks were designed by artists from the Gallery 1988 collective. To...

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Weekend Roundtable: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Josh Zyber — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:00:47 +0000

The inspiration for today’s Roundtable should be pretty obvious. With ‘Captain Phillips’ setting sail for box office glory this weekend, let’s take a look at some of our other favorite movies involving boats. Please note: To qualify, it is not required that the entire movie take place on a boat, merely that some important scene...

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A Constant Image Height Refresher

Josh Zyber — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:00:52 +0000

If projector owners are a niche within the home theater hobby, Constant Image Height projection users are a niche within a niche. A lot of that comes down to a simple lack of understanding. Also significant obstacles, however, are the complexity and expense of setting up a proper CIH system, which many viewers (even projector...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 7/5/11 – What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:00:17 +0000

Welcome back! Did you all have a good long weekend? While we’re back to work today, things are looking pretty slow in Blu-ray land. Here’s the list of what’s being released today: ‘13 Assassins‘ (Magnolia) ‘Arakawa Under the Bridge: Complete Premium Edition‘ (NIS America) ‘Be Cool‘ (MGM/UA) ‘Beyond the Darkness‘ (Shriek Show) ‘Crack in the...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 6/7/11 – What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:00:10 +0000

Looks like it’s western week on Blu-ray. Today’s release slate gives us one of the best films of last year (which just so happens to be a western) and a slew of catalog titles to tie in with it. Giddy up! We’re not just getting westerns, of course. In fact, this week’s release list is...

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