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Weekend Roundtable: Children’s Fantasy Movies

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:00:34 +0000

In our Roundtable this week, we look at some of our favorite fantasy films made for children. What were your favorites when you were young? Which ones still hold up to rewatching as an adult? M. Enois Duarte I was at the perfect age demographic for Wolfgang Petersen’s ‘The NeverEnding Story‘. It worked on me...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 18th, 2016 – Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:00:57 +0000

2016 has been a really tough time for sequels. Some of the year’s seemingly surefire franchise hits wound up disappointing at the box office. Two such casualties make their way to Blu-ray this week. New Releases ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows‘ – One of the biggest complaints that ‘TMNT’ fans had about...

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SteelBook Alert: Fortified with Extra Ks

Josh Zyber — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:00:08 +0000

Collectors, your lives may have just been made a little easier. No longer will you have to choose between buying either 4k Ultra HD or a regular Blu-ray in SteelBook packaging. On a few upcoming titles, at least, you finally can get them together. Whatever cross-section of half a dozen people with overlapping interest in...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movies Kids Force You to Watch

Josh Zyber — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:00:21 +0000

If you have kids, or at least have ever spent a lot of time with young children, you should well understand the way they get fixated on certain movies and watch them over and over again. As a result, you’ll wind up watching them over and over again as well, to the point of exhaustion....

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R.I.P. David Bowie

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:00:21 +0000

I’ve been remiss in talking about notable celebrity deaths here in the blog recently. Among others I’ve neglected to mention were the great cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond. Death isn’t something I’ve wanted to dwell on lately. However, when an icon the stature of David Bowie passes, that demands attention. Unfortunately, I am ill...

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Posterizing: Are You Lookin’ at Me?

Brian Hoss — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:00:02 +0000

There seems to be some kind of unwritten law that today’s movie posters must feature a “floating head” design that cries out, “These people are in the movie. Please come see it.” Fortunately, an underground exists where movie posters transcend their horrid marketing mandates and attempt to capture the essence that makes a movie compelling....

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New to VUDU: Week of October 9th, 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:00:31 +0000

VUDU keeps pace with the week’s new Blu-ray releases by adding several of this summer’s biggest titles – both mainstream hits and acclaimed art films – to the streaming service. Follow after the break to see what’s newly available, plus my weekly random recommendation from the VUDU catalog. The following titles enter the VUDU stream...

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