TIFF Journal: Boy Erased
In Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton directs a coming-of-age drama about conversion therapy, the dubious and often destructive practice of attempting to “cure” homosexuality through a combination of half-baked psychological pr...
Tag Archives: Russell Crowe
Contest: Win ‘Braveheart’ and ‘Gladiator’
Paramount has been very generous to High-Def Digest readers lately. While we finish tallying up the results of last week’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ contest, you’ll get a chance this week to win a prize pack of...
Contest: Win ‘The Mummy’ (2017) on Blu-ray!
Are you ready to take the wraps off another contest? We have five Blu-ray copies of the Tom Cruise reboot of ‘The Mummy‘ to give away. Come get ’em!
‘The Mummy’ (2017) Review: Some Good Wrapped in a Lot
Already lambasted, dismissed and wiped under the nether regions by pretty much every critic with access to a keyboard, ‘The Mummy’ actually isn’t that bad under the right set of expectations (i.e. low ones). Sure...
‘The Nice Guys’ Review: Back & Black
Pitched somewhere between the yellow hungover haze of 1970s dirtbag character studies and the wisecracking violent slapstick of 1980s buddy pictures, ‘The Nice Guys’ doubles down on retro entertainment. “Entertai...
Weekend Roundtable: Musicians Turned Actors
This week, we both lost David Bowie and gained a new movie starring Ice Cube. I’m not sure that’s a fair trade-off, frankly. Nonetheless, that’s what the universe decided to bring us. With no other connection bet...
‘The Water Diviner’ Review: Nothing to Crowe About
Some movie stars have pulled off the transition into directing with impressive results. However, when most stars step behind the camera, they tend to deliver multimillion dollar tributes to their own egos that audiences are forced...
Weekend Movies: And on the Eighth Day, God Created Cinema
There’s a lot of epicness to behold this weekend: Biblical epicness, bloody epicness and badass epicness.
‘Noah’ Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Ark
The most remarkable aspect of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ is simply the fact that it exists. It’s not supposed to be possible for an idiosyncratic director to get a massive blockbuster budget to make a challe...
The Trailer Park: Worst Cruise Trip Ever
The last couple of weeks have seen the release of a few interesting new movie trailers. Of the batch we look at this week, Darren Aronofky’s latest film arguably looks the most promising.
Up, Up and Away! Win ‘Man of Steel’ on Blu-ray!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a free Blu-ray copy of one of the biggest blockbuster hits of the year! That’s right, we’re giving away the action-packed superhero spectacle ‘Man of Steel’...
Where Movies and Home Theater Fail Math – How 2.35 = 2.40
In my Constant Image Height Refresher article the other day, I made a brief reference to the distinction between “2.35:1” and “2.40:1,” the two aspect ratio terms commonly used to describe “scope̶...