Weekend Roundtable: “WTF?” Movies
If the trailers are even remotely representative of the actual film, this week’s theatrical release of ‘Cloud Atlas’, which apparently has a narrative that spans multiple timelines from the 19th Century to the di...
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Weekend Roundtable: Best and Worst Actor/Directors
They say that every actor wants to direct. Quite a few directors have also attempted to act. (This week, even Tyler Perry makes a bid for action stardom.) Some have pulled this double-duty off better than others. In today’s ...
Weekend Roundtable: Blu-rays That Need Double-Dips
Blu-ray collectors often bemoan the dreaded “double-dip,” in which a studio will re-release a movie already available on the format with a new five-minute featurette, an extra photo gallery or lenticular cover art in t...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Revenge Movies
The thirst for revenge is one of the basest of human emotions. As such, it has naturally made great fodder for plenty of movies over the decades, including this week’s theatrical release of ‘Taken 2’. In today...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Time Travel Movies
I’ve been waiting for a good excuse to do a Roundtable about favorite time travel movies, and this week’s theatrical release of ‘Looper’ is just the ticket. So hop in your Delorean and pop in your favorite ...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Spy Movies (Not James Bond)
We’ve talked about James Bond a lot in the blog this week. While Agent 007 may be cinema’s most famous spy, he’s far from the only (or even necessarily the best) secret agent whose adventures have graced the silv...
Weekend Roundtable: Fearing the Suck Fairy
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. No matter how much we may have loved something in our youth, returning to revisit it as an adult can sometimes lead to painful disappointment when we discover that the movie, TV show, cartoon, b...
Weekend Roundtable: Oldest Equipment in Your Home Theater
We home theater fans have a habit of constantly replacing or upgrading our electronic equipment with the latest and greatest new models, always in the hopes of eking out some small bit of performance improvement. On the other hand...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Ghost Stories
Is August a particularly spooky time of year? Perhaps not, but Warner Bros. and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment have chosen to release the supernatural thriller ‘The Apparition’ now anyway. This got us to...
Weekend Roundtable: Books Recently Read
While this blog may be primarily focused on movies, TV and videogames, we don’t want to leave the impression that we’re totally uncultured in literary matters here. We read books too, you know. (Well, some of us, anywa...
Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst TV Spin-Offs
After seven seasons, TNT’s police drama ‘The Closer’ will end its run this coming Monday, and will be immediately followed by the premiere of its new spin-off series ‘Major Crimes’. While I’ve p...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie Dogs
The month of August is affectionately known as the “dog days of summer.” Allegedly, this has nothing to do with actual dogs. Theory has it that the term was coined in relation to the star Sirius (the “Dog Star...