High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJordan Peele Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/jordan-peele/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Us Contest Results https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest-results/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest-results/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:00:31 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=98864 It had been a while since we held a contest around here and I think we may need more time to get back into the swing of things. Even so, we got some pretty good responses to last week’s contest, one of which will win Jordan Peele’s Us on Blu-ray. As explained in the original...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest-results/feed/ 8 Toy Story 4 Review: Hardly Kid Stuff Anymore https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/toy-story-4-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/toy-story-4-movie-review/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:00:41 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=98933 The most remarkable thing about Toy Story 4 is that it managed to see the light of day in the first place. The series had ended, in quite satisfying fashion, with the third film in 2010. Bringing it back could easily feel like trying to drink from a dry well. Toy Story 4 turns out...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/toy-story-4-movie-review/feed/ 16 Contest: Win Us on Blu-ray! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:00:26 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=98854 Let’s be clear here. When I say “win us,” I don’t mean you’re going to win this whole web site or the content on it. However, we do have an extra Blu-ray copy of Jordan Peele’s horror thriller Us, and that seems like something worth giving away! To win a copy of the disc, all...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-bluray-contest/feed/ 54 Us Review: Get Out to See This https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-2019-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-2019-movie-review/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:00:54 +0000 Deirdre Crimmins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=97118 Jordan Peele set his own bar incredibly high with his directorial debut, Get Out. Though thematically a big departure, Us shows that Peele’s strong voice as a terror craftsman is not just limited to one category of horror film. Us begins with the past. In 1986 Santa Cruz, just before Hands Across America, a family...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/us-2019-movie-review/feed/ 9 Cannes Journal: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/cannes-2018-blackkklansman-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/cannes-2018-blackkklansman-movie-review/#respond Tue, 22 May 2018 19:00:25 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=91668 Spike Lee has made a career demonstrating a fearlessness in talking truth to power. While his recent narrative films have been a mixed bag (while simultaneously his non-fiction work has been deeply underappreciated), this latest punch in the gut, ‘BlacKkKlansman’, is a welcome return to form for the Brooklyn native. Based on the true story...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/cannes-2018-blackkklansman-movie-review/feed/ 0 The 2018 Spirit and Razzie Awards https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:00:45 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=90381 After four consecutive years of simply mirroring the Oscars’ Best Picture pick, the Independent Spirit Awards actually attempted to follow their mission this year and rewarded a different movie that Oscar passed over. Meanwhile, the Razzies are still a thing that happens for some reason. Spirit Awards Jordan Peele and ‘Get Out’ were the big...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2018-independent-spirit-razzie-awards/feed/ 6 Oscar Poll: Best Director 2018 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/poll-best-director-oscar-2018/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/poll-best-director-oscar-2018/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:00:55 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=90267 In years past, the Academy closely tied the Best Director Oscar to the Best Picture winner, but that’s not always the case anymore. What’s your prediction for this category? PLEASE NOTE: I am dividing this into two polls. The first is your prediction for which director will actually take home the trophy, regardless of merit....

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/poll-best-director-oscar-2018/feed/ 16 The Best of the Best in Film 2017, Part 1 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-of-film-2017-part-1/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-of-film-2017-part-1/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:00:08 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=89069 Well, folks, we did it. 2017 is over. We survived. It wasn’t easy. At times, it felt like nothing but horrible things happened for a solid 12 months. Heroes died, scandals rocked the entertainment community, American politics turned into Reality TV, the Cold War got a sequel. Damn, it was tough. Well, except for one...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/get-out-movie-review/feed/ 7 The Trailer Park: Horror Is in the Air Tonight https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movie-trailers-rings-cure-for-wellness-get-out-cabin-fever-patient-zero/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movie-trailers-rings-cure-for-wellness-get-out-cabin-fever-patient-zero/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:00:50 +0000 M. Enois Duarte http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82391 This Feburary, celebrate the month of love and romance by cozying up next to that special someone and holding on tight while watching some terrifyingly bad horror movies. ‘Rings’ I’m not sure whether to laugh or be excited for the latest sequel to ‘The Ring’. I’ve already decided to wait for the Blu-ray based on...

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