High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewNatalie Portman Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/natalie-portman/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: Least Believable Screen Couple https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-least-believable-movie-couple/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-least-believable-movie-couple/#comments Fri, 03 May 2019 17:00:43 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=97869 The new rom-com Long Shot would have us imagine the stunning Charlize Theron falling for schlubby Seth Rogen. That movie plays the mismatch for laughs, but it reminds us of other screen romances that were less than convincing. David Krauss Sandra Bullock and… a couple of guys. You’d think it would be a cinch for...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-least-believable-movie-couple/feed/ 25 Vox Lux Review: Shooting Stars https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vox-lux-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vox-lux-movie-review/#respond Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:00:40 +0000 Deirdre Crimmins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=95061 Vox Lux is a fictional tale of a young pop star’s meteoric rise into a successful recording and touring career. Beyond that very loose premise, the movie has no other major factors in common with A Star Is Born, or even Neil Diamond’s The Jazz Singer. Vox Lux is a singular experience, for better and...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vox-lux-movie-review/feed/ 0 ‘Annihilation’ Review: Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Shocks https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/annihilation-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/annihilation-movie-review/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:00:24 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=90087 Following up his acclaimed directorial debut ‘Ex Machina’, Alex Garland (who’d previously written ’28 Days Later’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Dredd’ and others) got a chance to make a rare big-budget sci-fi film built as much on unsettling ideas as on CGI monsters. Sadly, the realities of contemporary filmmaking being what they are, Paramount got wet feat about...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/annihilation-movie-review/feed/ 22 ‘Jackie’ Review: Tragic Memories, Pretty Dresses https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/jackie-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/jackie-movie-review/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:00:30 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=81750 ‘Jackie’ is one of those movies that attempts to humanize a famous face known mostly from photographs. The Jackie in question is of course the widow of the great John F. Kennedy. His story has been told many times before. This time, the focus is on the extraordinary grief and tragedy that that the First...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/jackie-movie-review/feed/ 0 ‘Knight of Cups’ Review: Malick in La-La-Land https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/knight-of-cups-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/knight-of-cups-movie-review/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:00:56 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=76511 Remember when Terrence Malick movies were rare, maybe once-a-decade occurrences that felt like special events? Sadly, those days appear to be long gone. ‘Knight of Cups’ is pretty to behold, but it’s just as lost and ramshackle as Malick’s last project, ‘To the Wonder‘. The great enigma of the 1970s auteur movement now seems to...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/knight-of-cups-movie-review/feed/ 6 Now Playing: Less Is ‘Thor’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/thor-dark-world-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/thor-dark-world-review/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:00:55 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=57961 I’m completely burned out on Marvel’s one-note Cinematic Universe, and really hadn’t looked forward to the follow-up to ‘Thor’. While I enjoyed what Kenneth Branaugh did with the Norse god, and thought ‘The Avengers’ was a lot of fun, tonal repetition and massive overkill (have you tried watching the dreadful ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ series?) have...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/thor-dark-world-review/feed/ 24 The Trailer Park: The Dark and Hungry Dead https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/trailers-hunger-thor-ripd/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/trailers-hunger-thor-ripd/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:00:45 +0000 M. Enois Duarte http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=50386 In this week’s new trailers, the premise for ‘Men in Black’ gets re-imagined to incorporate the undead, while two highly anticipated action sequels promise to finish the year with a really big and loud bang. ‘R.I.P.D.’ Is it just me or does Jeff Bridges only play some variation of the Dude in every movie he...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/trailers-hunger-thor-ripd/feed/ 3 New to VUDU: Week of September 11th, 2011 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vudu-sept-11-2011/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/vudu-sept-11-2011/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:55 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=21497 It’s a big week for comic book movies on VUDU. The streaming service adds two of this summer’s biggest superhero hits to the rental stream, along with at least one interesting (non-comic book) indie picture. The following titles enter the VUDU stream this week: ‘Barney: Big World Adventure Movie’ (9/13) ‘Blades of Blood’ (9/13) ‘Hesher’...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-may-16-2011/feed/ 7 Weekend Movies: The Lightest Weekend of Summer https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-may-13-2011/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-may-13-2011/#respond Fri, 13 May 2011 13:00:16 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=15073 This weekend may be one of the most uneventful of the summer. A crude R-rated chick comedy opens against a dystopic, post-apocalyptic 3D vampire western. Considering that one limits its audience with its rating and the other is a genre flick, I’m not sure that either of them has the oomph to dethrone ‘Thor’. Written...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-may-13-2011/feed/ 0 Blu-ray Highlights for 5/10/11. What Are You Buying? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-10-2011/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-10-2011/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:01 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=15399 While this week isn’t quite the dead zone that last week was, today’s Blu-ray release schedule is once again filled with a lot of reissued or repackaged titles previously available on the format. However, if we dig in, we might find a few things of interest. Here’s the full release slate: ‘Alien‘ (20th Century Fox)...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-10-2011/feed/ 7 Weekend Box Office: The Almighty God of Thunder Wins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-may-9-2011/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-may-9-2011/#respond Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:56 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=15068 Although ‘Thor‘ didn’t receive the thunderous opening some may have expected, it sure dominated the box office by bringing in more than double that of its closest competitor, ‘Fast Five’. ‘Thor’ took in more than $66 million, while ‘Fast Five’ dropped over 62% in its second weekend to $32.5 million. Including the international box office,...

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