High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewLive by Night Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/live-by-night/ 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 March 19th, 2017 – If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-21-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-21-2017/#comments Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:00:51 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83854 Among other titles, a movie I saw about 20% of in the theater last year comes to Blu-ray this week. Should I bother to watch the rest of it? New Releases ‘Sing‘ – I told the story of my experience with ‘Sing’ in a January Roundtable post. My three-year-old boys were not quite ready for...

The post Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 19th, 2017 – If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-21-2017/feed/ 10 Weekend Box Office: Hidden in Plain Sight https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-jan-17-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-jan-17-2017/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:00:32 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82505 After last week’s surprise Monday announcement that ‘Hidden Figures’ had dethroned ‘Rogue One’, it’s no surprise that the female-led historical drama took the top spot at the box office again this weekend. None of the week’s newer movies stood a chance. Adding 815 screens and climbing up to a total of 3,286 locations, ‘Hidden Figures‘...

The post Weekend Box Office: Hidden in Plain Sight appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-jan-17-2017/feed/ 1 Weekend Movies: Lucky 13 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-13-2017/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-13-2017/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:00:51 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82501 It’s scary how so many good movies are accessible this Friday the 13th. While three new films debut in wide release, the real excitement comes from the three smaller titles finally expanding nationwide. Looking at the titles of the new releases, I can’t tell you a single name associated with any of them. However, when...

The post Weekend Movies: Lucky 13 appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-13-2017/feed/ 1 ‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/live-by-night-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/live-by-night-movie-review/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:00:48 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82493 On a purely technical level, ‘Live by Night’ is probably the finest “film de Ben Affleck” to date. The period gangster melodrama is filled with beauty shots and carefully crafted costumes and eye-grabbing locations and bursts of grand violence. It’s also his sloppiest film as a storyteller, struggling to cram as much of Dennis Lehane’s...

The post ‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/live-by-night-movie-review/feed/ 8 Christmas Weekend Box Office: The Force Is Still Strong with This One https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-dec-27-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-dec-27-2016/#respond Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:00:51 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82167 There were no major surprises with the Christmas box office. However, with movies opening on Wednesday, Friday and even Sunday, this weekend’s numbers aren’t exactly as they appear at first glance. For the second week, ‘Rogue One‘ topped the charts. Drawing $64.3 million, the film closed out its first ten days with a domestic total...

The post Christmas Weekend Box Office: The Force Is Still Strong with This One appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-dec-27-2016/feed/ 0 Christmas Weekend Movies: Why, Oh Why? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-dec-23-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-dec-23-2016/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:00:17 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=82163 As if the holiday season weren’t busy enough on its own, Hollywood decided to cram four big new movie releases and six Oscar-contenders at us. Merry Christmas! Wednesday, December 21st Three biggies and one limited release take stage ahead of the others. The widest release is Universal/Illumination’s ‘Sing‘. The studio has had several huge successes...

The post Christmas Weekend Movies: Why, Oh Why? appeared first on High-Def Digest: The Bonus View.

]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-dec-23-2016/feed/ 2