High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJohn Wick Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/john-wick/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 8th, 2019 – Gotta Rub Me the Right Way https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-sept-10-2019/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-sept-10-2019/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:00:56 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=100663 Not content to own just about every major blockbuster franchise, Disney makes a big play to drain every last penny out of our wallets by re-releasing seemingly half of its animation catalog onto Blu-ray and 4k Ultra HD this week. Can one lone super-assassin battle for attention in the midst of all that? New Releases...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-sept-10-2019/feed/ 13 SteelBook Alert: Smaller Is Better? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/steelbook-bluray-ultrahd-toy-story-john-wick-iron-man-thor/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/steelbook-bluray-ultrahd-toy-story-john-wick-iron-man-thor/#comments Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:00:35 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=99127 Pixar, Marvel, John Wick… We expect all these franchises to get SteelBook releases. One of them this time, however, is doing something a little weird – emphasis on “little.” John Wick: Chapter 3 Video Formats: Blu-ray/Ultra HD Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE) Release date: TBD Price: $34.99 First of all, I can’t decide whether...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/steelbook-bluray-ultrahd-toy-story-john-wick-iron-man-thor/feed/ 4 John Wick: Chapter 3 Review – Now with More Latin https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/john-wick-chapter-3-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/john-wick-chapter-3-movie-review/#comments Mon, 13 May 2019 17:00:49 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=98074 “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” The Latin phrase translates roughly as, “If you want peace, prepare for war.” It’s a paradoxical notion, like shouting for quiet, but perfectly in keeping with the frenetic saga that the John Wick storyline has become. It began with the 2014 film telling the tale of a hitman pulled back...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/john-wick-chapter-3-movie-review/feed/ 8 Weekend Roundtable: 2019 Movie Anticipation https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-2019-movie-anticipation/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-2019-movie-anticipation/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:00:24 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=95735 A new year is coming, and with it, a whole bunch of new movies. If we’re lucky, a few of them might even be great. Which 2019 films are you looking forward to? Wikipedia has a list to give you some idea of what’s scheduled for the year. Shannon Nutt I’d love to give some...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-2019-movie-anticipation/feed/ 22 The Best of the Best in Film 2017, Part 2 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-of-film-2017-part-2/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-of-film-2017-part-2/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:00:49 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=89075 Hi there, High-Def Gang! As promised, your trusty theatrical film critic is back with more pointless awards celebrating the finest cinematic achievements of 2017. Last time, I did all the classic accolades that you’ll find in any movie awards show, from the prestige of the Oscars or Teen Choice Awards to the dreck of the...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-of-film-2017-part-2/feed/ 15 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 3rd, 2017 – I’ll See You in the Trees https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-5-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-5-2017/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:00:27 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=88705 The beginning of December brings us a very crowded Blu-ray release slate as all the studios move to get as much content as possible in front of consumers during the holiday shopping season. A few titles stand out from the many repackages and reissues. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Despicable Me 3‘ – After his Minions went...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-5-2017/feed/ 31 Weekend Roundtable: Rain Rain Go Away https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:00:57 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=87121 Bad weather has been a serious problem in some parts of our country recently, to put it mildly. My own mother had quite a scare with Hurricane Irma this week. (She came out unscathed, fortunately.) This put us in mind of famous movie scenes involving rain, both in positive and negative contexts. Tom Landy One...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/feed/ 15 Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Hitman Movies https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-hitman-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-hitman-movies/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:00:20 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=86649 I doubt that many of us would ever really want to cross paths with a hitman or assassin in real life, but the movies have a long history (in evidence again with ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ this week) of portraying professional killers as antiheroes worth spending time with or even cheering for. Here are a few...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-roundtable-hitman-movies/feed/ 17 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 11th, 2017 – Brick vs. Wick https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-13-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-13-2017/#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:00:16 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=85396 New Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases this week bring us two of the darkest, broodingest, scowlingest badasses to hit cinema screens this year. One of them happens to be an inch and a half tall… and also kind of a doofus. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘The Lego Batman Movie‘ – Will Arnett’s diminutive Batman was a...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-13-2017/feed/ 18 Weekend Box Office: Far Out! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-27-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-27-2017/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:00:03 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83397 The scary movies produced by Jason Blum have consistently been big hits. This weekend puts Blum at two-for-two for 2017 with expectation-defying openings and #1 debuts. As for the weekend’s other new movies, well, neither of them even made it into the Top 10. Jordan Peele is known mostly for his award-winning sketch comedy show...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-27-2017/feed/ 4 Weekend Box Office: The Darker Knight Rises https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-21-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-21-2017/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:00:02 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83257 Three new movies took the stage over this President’s Day weekend, yet none of them managed to steal the spotlight. In fact, none of them even came close. The latest Lego and ‘Fifty Shades’ movies were able to retain their respective #1 and #2 ranks. One of the new releases came close to whipping ‘Fifty...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-21-2017/feed/ 0 Weekend Box Office: Everything Is Still Pretty Awesome https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-13-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-feb-13-2017/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:00:03 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83092 This weekend’s box office was dominated by a trio of new releases. In addition, this was also the highest-grossing weekend of the year so far. Each of the new movies happened to be a franchise sequel or spinoff, but only one of them managed to outgross its predecessor. Although the ‘Fifty Shades’ sequel dominated Friday’s...

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