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Weekend Roundtable: Dungeons Not Required

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:00:35 +0000

One of the highlights of this past week’s season premiere of Game of Thrones was Jon Snow’s thrilling dragon ride over the lands of the North. Beyond that show, what are your other favorite dragons from movies or TV? Brian Hoss Setting aside Arthurian legends and the like, I’m a big fan of the original...

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Weekend Roundtable: Erased from Canon

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:00:33 +0000

If the new Halloween can ignore and contradict all of the other Halloween sequels that came after the original movie, what will be the next franchise sequel to erase prior entries from canon? Jason Gorber For a film that could somehow provide an exceptional follow-up, ignoring what came after the first and plowing forward with...

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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 October 5th, 2014 – Respawn in 3… 2… 1…

Josh Zyber — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:00:36 +0000

Among the huge assortment of new Blu-rays available this week (many of them simple reissues or bundles) can be found a sci-fi epic with a serious identity crisis, a raunchy Western spoof, and lots of sharks in tornadoes. Let’s dig in and see what we find. New Releases ‘Edge of Tomorrow‘ – Originally greenlit as...

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Weekend Roundtable: Parental Guidance Suggested

Josh Zyber — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:00:00 +0000

My little secret is out. As I hinted at pretty clearly in last week’s Roundtable, Mrs. Z and I are expecting our first children (that’s right, plural) imminently. Some of our astute readers may have back-tracked and noticed a theme leading up to this in other recent post topics (Movies About Parenting, Annoying Movie &...

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Mid-Week Poll: Read the Book Before Watching the Movie?

Brian Hoss — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:00:10 +0000

Hollywood loves to adapt books into movies and TV shows. When this happens, do you try to read the book first, or do you avoid the book to judge the adaptation on its own? [Note: The following post is spoiler-free.] I’m a fan of ‘Game of Thrones’. After some friends forced me to watch a...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of March 27th, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:00:57 +0000

With the end of every month comes a content shakeup at Netflix, and this month is as big as any. We lose some good titles, but we’re gaining a lot in return, including just about every Bond movie ever made. Instant Watcher lists several very big television shows like ‘Firefly’ leaving the stream, but without...

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Leaving the Stream: Week of January 9th, 2011

Dick Ward — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:00:46 +0000

This week, we wave a sad goodbye to some old favorites. A few movies that I watched when I was a kid and that always take me back to my childhood are leaving Netflix streaming. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1/19) I find it hard to imagine another movie taking the place of ‘Willy...

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