High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJohn Woo Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/john-woo/ 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 June 23rd, 2019 – The Elephant in the Room https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-25-2019/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-25-2019/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:22 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=98973 In a year inundated with them, one of Disney’s live-action remakes didn’t quite live up to expectations. Will the movie have a better shelf life on home video? That’s one question raised by this week’s new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases. New Releases (Blu-ray) Dumbo – Tim Burton, whose live-action Alice in Wonderland was a...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-manhunt-movie-review/feed/ 2 Poll: Rank the Impossible Missions https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/mission-impossible-movie-poll/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/mission-impossible-movie-poll/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:00:07 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=71733 As ‘Rogue Nation’ burns up the theatrical box office, how does it rate compared to the franchise’s earlier entries? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to vote for the best ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie in today’s poll. I haven’t seen ‘Rogue Nation’ yet, so I can’t judge that one. Our reviewer Phil didn’t...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/mission-impossible-movie-poll/feed/ 16 Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Action Movies of the 1980s https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-1980s-action-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-1980s-action-movies/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:00:08 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=64295 This weekend, you could go to the theater to watch a bunch of has-been action stars trying to relive past glories, or you could just stay home and watch a real ’80s action movie rather than a glorified knock-off. In today’s Roundtable, we look back at the greatest era in action cinema. What are your...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-1980s-action-movies/feed/ 56 Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Buddy-Cop Movies https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-buddy-cop-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-buddy-cop-movies/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:00:29 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=59645 They’re partners. They’re friends (sometimes). They bust the criminals while busting each other’s balls. The buddy-cop formula is a reliable staple of Hollywood’s output. This week, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube give it a shot in ‘Ride Along’. Something tells me that this one isn’t destined to be a classic. Nevertheless, it has inspired today’s...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vudu-nov-6-2011/feed/ 1 Anatomy of an Action Scene: Chaos Cinema https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/anatomy-of-action-scene/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/anatomy-of-action-scene/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:00:56 +0000 Aaron Peck http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=20749 When did action movies change from being classically shot and aware of space and geography, to all this frantic half-second editing and shaky-cam nonsense? A fascinating two-part video essay tries to answer that question. I frequent Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog. Recently, he had a great piece that highlighted a well-reasoned, well-constructed video essay about the...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/anatomy-of-action-scene/feed/ 12 Blu-ray Highlights for 12/14/10: What Are You Buying? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-14-2010/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-14-2010/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:00:57 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=9398 For me, the best part of this week’s assortment of Blu-ray releases is the satisfaction of realizing that we here at The Bonus View have officially been around long enough to have covered most of these movies from the time of theatrical release all the way through the home video cycle. It’s a small accomplishment,...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-dec-14-2010/feed/ 9 I Tell You, I Don’t Get No Respect https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/no-respect/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/no-respect/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 15:00:38 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=1402 I’ve been doing this job for over a decade now. In that time, I’ve served on several prominent video review sites. I pride myself on not being a quote whore – you know, the type of “critic” who writes easily-extractable sound bytes filled with fawning praise for a movie, in the hopes that the quote...

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