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Weekend Roundtable: Unlikely Live-Action Remakes

Josh Zyber — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:00:28 +0000

After Dumbo and Aladdin and The Lion King (not to mentions all those already made previously), are there any animated movies – Disney or otherwise – actually unlikely or unable to be remade in live-action? Only after sending out this week’s assignment did I realize that we’d sort-of done a similar topic a couple years...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 4th, 2018 – Not a Mother Was Stirring

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:00:31 +0000

Last week’s biggest Blu-ray title was a leftover Halloween movie. At least we move up to Christmas this week. I guess that’s some sort progress, even if it makes for another unexciting batch of new discs. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘A Bad Moms Christmas‘ – The first ‘Bad Moms’ was such a sleeper hit in 2016...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 14th, 2018 – The Edge of Human

Josh Zyber — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:00:34 +0000

After the box office disappointments of ‘Tron: Legacy’ and 2011’s ‘The Thing’, you’d think Hollywood would learn better than to make another long-delayed sequel to a famous cult sci-fi movie from 1982. Now we’ll never get a ‘MegaForce 2’. Bummer! New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Blade Runner 2049‘ – After threatening to do to ‘Blade Runner’ what...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 19th, 2017 – Let the Good Times Roll

Josh Zyber — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:00:13 +0000

Holiday weeks are usually slow for home video, but with Black Friday imminent, the Blu-ray studios offer us a couple of major titles. Yes, one of them was a huge bomb, but I’m sure it’ll look awfully pretty in 4k. Also of interest is a notable indie that scored surprising buzz for a star many...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 22nd, 2017 – Cut the Crap

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:00:44 +0000

Let’s not monkey around. We’ve got a bunch of new Blu-rays to look at this week. Some will make you smile. Others will stink. Some are just plain inconvenient. They’re all going to war for your shopping dollar. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘The Emoji Movie‘ – As if ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ and ‘Trolls’ weren’t shameless...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 15th, 2017 – Back in the Swing of Things

Josh Zyber — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:00:37 +0000

Are any exciting new Blu-rays headed our way this week? My spidey sense is tingling… New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming‘ – People complained when Spider-Man got rebooted with Andrew Garfield just five years after Tobey Maguire, yet he’s already been rebooted again just three years since Garfield’s last movie and everyone seems fine with it....

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Weekend Roundtable: Magical Thinking

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:00:15 +0000

Between ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’, magic appears to be one of the dominant themes of the fall movie season this year. Excluding ‘Harry Potter’ (too easy), what are your favorite movies involving witches, wizards, sorcerers or warlocks? Shannon Nutt Although it may not immediately pop to mind when one thinks about movies with magic...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 3rd, 2016 – Serpentine!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:00:06 +0000

Welcome back from the July 4th festivities. We hope you got your fill of parades, backyard barbecues, and watching stuff blow up while classical music plays. As is so typical during holiday weeks, you shouldn’t expect any major new movies to be released on Blu-ray right now. This is a time to dig some titles...

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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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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 14th, 2015 – Malfunction, Need Input

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:00:07 +0000

From hip-hop gangsta robots to the resurrected dead, this week’s Blu-rays sure do feature some wild tales. Welcome to our latest roundup. Let’s get down to business. New Releases ‘Chappie‘ – When Neill Blomkamp made ‘District 9’, he seemed like an exciting new voice in science fiction. When he followed that up with the idiotic...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 15th, 2015 – You Wanna Get Nuts? Come On! Let’s Get Nuts!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:00:21 +0000

We took yesterday off for the President’s Day holiday. Which President did you celebrate? At my house, we favor David Palmer. He may be fictional, but I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. Anyway, this may be a short week, but it’s packed with new Blu-ray releases, including some big Oscar nominees to catch up...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 1st, 2015 – The Wick and the Dead

Josh Zyber — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:00:21 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have any free movies to give away this week. However, we still have a lot of notable new Blu-rays to talk about. Let’s do that. New Releases ‘John Wick‘ – Bad guys kill a man’s dog. Man kills bad guys. All of them. Violently. Keanu Reeves strips the revenge thriller genre down...

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