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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 4

Josh Zyber — Thu, 23 May 2019 12:00:20 +0000

Earlier this year, the IMAX Corporation and DTS introduced the new IMAX Enhanced variant of the DTS:X sound format, and I wrote a few articles trying to get to the bottom of what it really is or does. Just as I thought I understood it, a recent firmware update changed some ways the format works....

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Revisiting The Dark Knight in IMAX

Jason Gorber — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:00:51 +0000

On Saturday, April 20th, Warner Brothers, IMAX and Christopher Nolan collaborated on a celebration of the Dark Knight trilogy. The three films were screened on large format screens to sold-out audiences, including five venues equipped to handle IMAX 15/70 film prints as per the director’s preferred format. Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and...

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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 3

Josh Zyber — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:00:21 +0000

As I’m still trying to figure out the new IMAX Enhanced audio format, I’ve done some additional playing around and discovered a strange use that was likely not intended by the designers. If you really wanted to, you can activate the mode on DTS-encoded DVDs. You probably shouldn’t, though. Yes, I said DVD, not Blu-ray....

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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 2

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:00:18 +0000

Last week I shared my first impressions of the new IMAX Enhanced audio format, available on select A/V receivers and two movie discs to date. Additional testing has answered some of the questions I had, but I’m not sure I like those answers. Both IMAX and DTS have been stingy with details about exactly what...

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Yet Another New Audio Format: IMAX Enhanced Makes Its Debut

Josh Zyber — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:00:24 +0000

As if home theater audio weren’t already confusing enough with the plethora of sound formats available on Blu-ray and Ultra HD, the IMAX Corporation has now introduced another proprietary format, called IMAX Enhanced. What’s unique or special about this one, and should you upgrade your A/V receiver to get it? I’m trying to figure that...

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First Man Review: If You Believed They Put a Man on the Moon…

Jason Gorber — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:00:05 +0000

Since we first looked up to the sky and saw that giant shiny orb, humans have been fascinated with the moon. It became the center of cultures and religions, dictating calendars and governing forces it would take us millennia to comprehend. The goal of stepping foot upon it would take another conceptual leap, one that...

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Off the Shelf: Ghosts of the Abyss

Josh Zyber — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:00:19 +0000

My sons have recently become obsessed with the story of the Titanic. Because they’re still a little young to watch the famous blockbuster about that disaster, which would be too long and too scary for a couple of 4-year-olds, I had the dubious idea of starting them off with Ghosts of the Abyss, James Cameron’s...

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Weekend Roundtable: Lamest Movie/TV Dinosaurs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:00:49 +0000

Aside from the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise, Hollywood has had a pretty checkered history of trying to depict dinosaurs in a convincing fashion. We highlighted our favorites in a previous Roundtable. Now let’s look at some of the cheesiest, dumbest, or just plain worst examples of dinosaurs on screen. M. Enois Duarte One movie that immediately...

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‘Inhumans’ Pilot Recap: “…[Silent Glaring]…”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:00:41 +0000

The premiere of Marvel’s newest spinoff series, ‘Inhumans’, arrives with its death certificate practically signed. After a disastrous debut in IMAX theaters a few weeks ago, the ABC network has already started hedging its bets by referring to the show as a “limited series” rather than, as originally expected, the first season of many more...

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The ‘Dunkirk’ 70mm IMAX Experience

Luke Hickman — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:30:42 +0000

After seeing ‘Dunkirk’ on a digital IMAX screen, I gathered a couple friends, hopped in my car and road-tripped over 500 miles one way just to watch it in the rare format in which Christopher Nolan intended it to be seen – 70mm IMAX. I lived to tell the tale. Event films are going the...

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‘Dunkirk’ Review: Anxiety-Inducing Action

Philip Brown — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:00:45 +0000

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ has a summer blockbuster release date because that’s the tentpole template within which the filmmaker works. However, as viscerally thrilling and technically stunning as the film might be (and oh lord is it ever), this is also a thoughtful and in some ways even experimental presentation of war. The film is designed...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Voyage of Time’

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:00:52 +0000

In many ways ‘Voyage of Time’ is the movie that Terrence Malick has been building toward over the last decade of his career. It’s purely a collection of extraordinary nature imagery chronicling the history of the Earth from the Big Bang to skyscrapers. Picture something halfway between an IMAX nature documentary and ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ and you’ve...

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