The topic for this week’s Roundtable came pretty easily once I realized that irritating and wholly unfunny “comedian” Danny McBride has both a new movie in theaters and one from earlier this year debuting on video this week. Let’s...
We’ve chosen a simple topic for this week’s Roundtable, but it should be a fun one. Let’s rattle off some of our all-time favorite pieces of movie dialogue. There’s so much to choose from!
We talked about our favorite audio commentaries in last week’s Roundtable. Let’s follow that up with a look at our favorite DVD and Blu-ray bonus features of the non-commentary variety.
Ah, the audio commentary… So often a chief selling point on DVD and Blu-ray packaging, but does anyone actually listen to these things? Well, we do, and in this week’s Roundtable, we’ll tell you some of our favorites.
At one time or another, all film critics get accused of not understanding what real people like in movies – of only ever appreciating artsy fartsy film festival entries about miserable people being miserable all the time. We’ve ta...
In these summer months, it seems that all Hollywood cares about are sequels and franchises. That’s a trend that isn’t likely to change any time soon. Yet for some reason, a lot of movies that actually deserve sequels don’t get the...
In honor of the FBI’s extremely belated capture of notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, who’d been a fugitive for 16 years (12 of them on the Ten Most Wanted list), this week’s Roundtable topic seemed like a gimme. We’r...
The random tangents we tend to stray down here in the blog aside, High-Def Digest is primarily a Blu-ray focused site. As Blu-ray reviewers (most of us), and more importantly as home theater junkies like most of you, we have a bat...
We all know the phrase by now, and have undoubtedly watched it happen. “Jumping the shark” is that defining moment where a previously good TV show makes a turn for the worse and never recovers – so named for the scene where Fonzie...
I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve skewed negative in a lot of our recent Roundtables and polls here in The Bonus View, with topics asking what’s the worst movie, which director is more incompetent, and so forth. To counter-bal...
Batman did it. James Bond did it. The ‘Star Trek’ crew did it. Even Spider-Man is in the process of doing it right now, and his last movie just came out a few years ago. Hollywood loves reboots. When a franchise gets old or stale,...
As the old adage goes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. This week’s Roundtable is a flipside to last week’s discussion. Instead of highlighting the worst movies made by otherwise good directors, we’re looki...
