High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewPoint Break Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/point-break/ 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: Rain Rain Go Away https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:00:57 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=87121 Bad weather has been a serious problem in some parts of our country recently, to put it mildly. My own mother had quite a scare with Hurricane Irma this week. (She came out unscathed, fortunately.) This put us in mind of famous movie scenes involving rain, both in positive and negative contexts. Tom Landy One...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-rain-movies/feed/ 15 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 5th, 2016 – Animal Magnetism https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-7-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-7-2016/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:00:06 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=78158 A couple of exceptions aside, this May wasn’t the most exciting month for Blu-ray releases. June attempts to make up for that right away with a huge slate of new discs that should have at least a few really good ones in there. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Zootopia‘ – Disney Animation continues its resurgence with another...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jun-7-2016/feed/ 40 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 15th, 2016 – Burn Her Anyway! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-17-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-17-2016/#comments Mon, 16 May 2016 11:30:09 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=77722 There are ways of telling which Blu-ray this week is the most promising. Logically, if the disc weighs the same as a duck, it’s made of wood. And therefore, it must be… New Releases (Blu-Ray) ‘The Witch‘ – This period horror thriller about a Puritan family tormented by what they believe is a supernatural menace...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-may-17-2016/feed/ 12 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 27th, 2016 – Don’t Hate the Player https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-29-2016/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-29-2016/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:00:39 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=76728 Don’t you just hate returning to work after a long holiday weekend? We hope you got your fill of chocolate bunnies, Peeps and jelly beans, because it’s time to look at a new week’s worth of Blu-ray releases. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘The Hateful Eight‘ – After ‘Django Unchained’ proved to be his biggest box office...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-jan-4-2016/feed/ 0 Christmas Box Office: Who’s Your Daddy? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-dec-28-2015/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/box-office-dec-28-2015/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:00:07 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=74852 In its second weekend, ‘Star Wars’ retained the top spot at the box office and continued to break records. No surprise there. In addition, despite the density of new releases, it was a successful weekend for (nearly) all of them. As for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘, the Force is strong with this one. The...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-summer-weather-movies/feed/ 23 ‘Graceland’ Pilot Recap: “Your Lies Are Your Life” https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/graceland-pilot-recap/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/graceland-pilot-recap/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:00:03 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=52119 This is the story of six strangers picked to live in a house, work together and bust criminals, to find out what happens when undercover law enforcement officers stop being polite and start getting real. (Sadly, this show has nothing to do with Elvis, or Paul Simon.) Last week, the USA Network debuted its new...

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