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Weekend Roundtable: Cult Movies That Actually Suck

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:00:16 +0000

Sometimes, great movies fail to catch a mass audience but play well to smaller throngs of devoted fans. On the other hand, sometimes cult movies with fervent followings turn out to actually just, you know, kind of suck. Our Roundtable this week is about the latter. M. Enois Duarte The immediate movie that jumps to...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 1st, 2015 – Catch That Fox

Josh Zyber — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:00:54 +0000

March gets off to slow start, as far as new Blu-ray releases go. The biggest title of the week is an Oscar nominee that came away empty-handed at the awards last month. Perhaps if you’re a fan of classic singin’ and dancin’, you might have more to be excited about. New Releases ‘Foxcatcher‘ – Wearing...

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Weekend Roundable: Underrated Sci-Fi Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:00:29 +0000

This weekend, after you’ve come back from seeing Christopher Nolan’s new space travel opus ‘Interstellar’ at the theater, perhaps you might be interested in checking out some underrated sci-fi gems you’ve overlooked? From movies that have been unfairly disparaged to those that simply never got the exposure they deserved, we’ll call out our picks in...

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Weekend Roundtable: Blu-rays That Need Double-Dips

Josh Zyber — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:00:25 +0000

Blu-ray collectors often bemoan the dreaded “double-dip,” in which a studio will re-release a movie already available on the format with a new five-minute featurette, an extra photo gallery or lenticular cover art in the hopes of bilking fans into a second purchase of essentially the same product. Fair enough, those are obnoxious. However, truth...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 4/3/12 – Forget It, Jake

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:00:29 +0000

I don’t know about you, but this week’s Blu-ray selection looks pretty bleak from my perspective. There’s only one title that I want to add to my movie collection. Fortunately, it’s a really good one and an essential purchase. Beyond that, not much catches my eye. The following discs see release this week: ‘Angels Crest‘...

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Full Metal Jackets: Alliance November SteelBook Wave

Tom Landy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:00:43 +0000

Alliance Canada’s November SteelBook wave is now available. Get your vampire steelies, your cleric steelies, your druggie steelies and more. ‘American History X’ In this tale of two Edwards (Norton and Furlong), Norton gives a searing, Oscar-nominated performance as a reformed white supremacist who tries to straighten up his younger brother. ‘American History X’ is...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best “Blind Buys”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:00:01 +0000

This week’s Roundtable is about pleasant surprises. If you’re like most movie collectors, you’ve made a “blind buy” or two in your day – a movie that you purchased without ever having seen it before. Sometimes this is based on a review you read, or a recommendation from a friend. Sometimes it’s purely a whim....

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