High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewThe Descendants Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/the-descendants/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Critical Mass: ‘The Descendants’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/critical-mass-the-descendants/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/critical-mass-the-descendants/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:00:09 +0000 Aaron Peck http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=31843 It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these Critical Mass pieces where Luke and I debate movies that we disagree about. I thought that this would be a good time to take a look at an Oscar-winning film that just recently came out on Blu-ray. The Best Adapted Screenplay winner ‘The Descendants‘ is...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/critical-mass-the-descendants/feed/ 16 Blu-ray Highlights for 3/13/12 – Adventures in the Uncanny Valley https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-13-2012/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-13-2012/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:00:15 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=31374 March is ablaze with Blu-ray releases. Last week’s release slate was so packed with new discs that we actually missed some important Best Buy exclusives that we’ll cover today. On top of that, this week brings us another huge assortment of notable titles. Can your wallets handle all this excitement? Here are the new discs...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-mar-13-2012/feed/ 21 Statuesque: Independent Spirit Awards 2012 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/independent-spirit-awards-2012/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/independent-spirit-awards-2012/#respond Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:00:51 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=30710 Amidst all the hubbub about the Academy Awards, you might be forgiven for forgetting that the Independent Spirit Awards also took place over the weekend. Certainly, Hollywood seems to have forgotten about them. Once a hipper, edgier alternative to the Oscars, one designed to reward the smaller films that Oscar ignored, the Spirit Awards ceremony...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/independent-spirit-awards-2012/feed/ 0 Oscars 2012 Live-Blog (with Contests)! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscars-2012-liveblog/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscars-2012-liveblog/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:00:36 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=30450 Here we go! The big Oscar show airs this Sunday, February 26th at 8:30 PM EST on ABC. Join us here starting with the official pre-show red carpet special at 7:00 PM. We’ll be live-blogging the entire event, and offering you the chance to win some free Blu-ray goodies. With each one of these live-blogs...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscars-2012-liveblog/feed/ 7 Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture Categories https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-2012-predictions-best-picture/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-2012-predictions-best-picture/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:00:38 +0000 Aaron Peck http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=30629 We’ve finally made it to the Best Picture nominees. As we work our way to the prediction for the grand prize of the evening, let’s also take a look at the Best Animated Picture and Best Foreign Language Film races. Best Animated Feature ‘A Cat in Paris’ ‘Chico & Rita’ ‘Rango’ ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-2012-predictions-best-picture/feed/ 7 Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Visual Categories https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-2012-predictions-visual/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-2012-predictions-visual/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:22 +0000 Aaron Peck http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=30470 It’s Oscar week, and that means that it’s time to make some guesses about who will take home awards on Sunday night. I’ll start with the visual categories. So many pretty films, so little time… Let’s get to it, shall we? We’ll take these alphabetically since quite a few categories are considered in the visual...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-picture-oscar-poll-2012/feed/ 3 Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Actor & Actress 2012 https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-actors-2012-poll/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-actors-2012-poll/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:51 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=29516 This year’s Oscar race is fully in swing. In anticipation of the big ceremony on February 26th, let’s vote for our predictions in the big acting categories. Please read these instructions. This post contains four polls, two for Best Actor and two for Best Actress. Pay attention to the criteria for each poll before you...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/best-actors-2012-poll/feed/ 7 Weekend Box Office: ‘Grey’ Makes Green https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-jan-30-2012/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-jan-30-2012/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:17 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=28911 This, the last weekend of January, turned out to be quite surprising. If you had told me in advance that an R-rated movie about a man punching-out a pack of wolves would be #1 at the box office, and that Katherine Heigl would outgross a Sam Worthington heist thriller, I wouldn’t have believed you. Liam...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/boxoffice-jan-30-2012/feed/ 0 Weekend Movies: Wolves, Ledges and Katherine Heigl https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-27-2012/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-27-2012/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:22 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=28906 The odd thing about this weekend’s releases is that the movie with the thinnest plot is almost certainly going to be the most entertaining of the bunch. Let’s be honest, watching Liam Neeson fist-fight a pack of wolves in the Alaskan wild sounds a lot more entertaining than any Katherine Heigl or post-‘Avatar‘ Sam Worthington...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-27-2012/feed/ 7 Mid-Week Poll: How Many of the 2012 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-nominees-2012-viewed-poll/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/oscar-nominees-2012-viewed-poll/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:22 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=29014 The Oscar nominations are in. How many (if any) of the new Best Picture nominated films have you seen? Let us know in our poll. Of the nine nominated films, I’ve only seen ‘The Artist’ and ‘Midnight in Paris’. I loved both. I probably ought to catch up with some of the other nominees before...

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