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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Historical Adventure Films

Josh Zyber — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:00:11 +0000

According to reviews, this weekend’s release of ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ may not be quite the whale of a tale director Ron Howard intended. When you get a hankering for historical action or adventure set in the 19th Century or earlier, what movies do you go to? M. Enois Duarte Micheal Mann’s 1992...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 4th, 2015 – I Am Spartacus!

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:00:59 +0000

Are you looking for another exciting blockbuster movie to own on Blu-ray? This week brings us the biggest box office hit of the year… assuming that the year we’re talking about is 1960, that is. New Releases ‘Magic Mike XXL‘ – Strange. Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 drama about male strippers didn’t exactly call out for a...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Blu-ray Video Transfers

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:00:21 +0000

For as much as the Blu-ray format promises to deliver movies in stunning high-definition video quality, not every disc lives up to its potential. For this week’s Roundtable, let’s take a look at some of the Blu-rays that have disappointed us the most and desperately need new video transfers. Keep in mind that the criteria...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 14th, 2014 – In Heaven, Everything Is Fine

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:00:46 +0000

It’s another big week for Blu-ray, with another huge batch of new titles on the high-def discs. From giant monsters to tiny cult films and lots in between, Hollywood is determined to drain our bank accounts. Will you indulge? New Releases ‘Godzilla‘ – The last attempt to Americanize Japan’s most famous giant monster back in...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 1st, 2013 – Is That Tornado Full of Sharks?!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:00:50 +0000

We welcome you back from the long weekend with good news. The dog days of August are finally over. For better or worse, we have now officially entered… the shark days of September! New Releases I don’t generally go for the deliberately crappy “mockbusters” that production house The Asylum makes for the Syfy Channel, but...

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Blu-ray Highlights for September 11th, 2012 – Whistle While You Work

Josh Zyber — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:00:39 +0000

Eleven years later, and this date still feels uncomfortable to write, especially when it falls on a Tuesday. How many years’ distance will it take before we’ve fully moved on, and Hollywood can go about its business of producing an overblown epic disaster movie about a pair of star-crossed lovers (one in each of the...

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TV Madness: Givens vs. Spartacus

Aaron Peck — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:03 +0000

It looks like Jack Bauer has easily defeated Echo. That was pretty much expected. This next TV Madness match-up, however, leaves me wondering which character will move on. Spartacus already showed that he can still pull out a win even when dealing with a technological time gap. Sporting nothing but a sword and a chiseled...

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TV Madness: Banner vs. Hercules – Crockett vs. Spartacus

Aaron Peck — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:00:26 +0000

As I thought, Wednesday’s TV Madness battle between Fox Mulder and Angel is going down to the wire. It’s too close to call as I write this. However, I can definitely say that it looks like Buffy will take out Vic Mackey with relative ease. Two muscle-bound leviathans square off here. I think the last...

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TV Madness: Sylar vs. Scofield – Profit vs. Spartacus

Aaron Peck — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:00:43 +0000

Our first TV Madness match-up is done. Dexter Morgan stuffed martial arts master Caine, dismembered, into a few hefty bags and then sunk them to the bottom of Biscayne Bay. In the other match-up, CIA agent Annie Walker was no challenge for Hulk Hogan’s bulging biceps and idiotic acting. Hurricane Spencer and Dexter Morgan move...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of February 26th, 2012

Dick Ward — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:00:32 +0000

Brace yourselves; this is a bad one. It’s bad enough that we lost Starz this month, which killed off some of my very favorite movies. The clearly error-filled Netflix RSS feed tricked me into thinking that several really high-quality titles had been added to compensate. As it turns out, we don’t have much to show...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of October 2nd, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:00:19 +0000

It’s been a while, but this is a very good week to be a Netflix subscriber. We’re losing practically nothing from the stream and gaining a great deal. I highlighted two things that are leaving this week (and they’re two very good things) but that’s about all I could find on the list worth talking...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of May 8th, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:00:06 +0000

Netflix gives us a fair trade this week. A few good flicks may leave Watch Instantly, but a few more come on board for the first time. Among them is a film that earned James Franco a great deal of praise over the last year. Leaving the Stream ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (5/16): As someone...

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