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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 2nd, 2018 – Fallout Boy

Josh Zyber — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:00:30 +0000

Some weeks, deciding which new Blu-rays to prioritize feels like an impossible task. This week, however, the choice looks pretty clear. New Releases (Blu-ray) Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Six installments in, the M:I series keeps getting bigger and more successful. That’s a pretty remarkable achievement for an action franchise that has kept the same...

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SteelBook Alert: Take a Stress Pill and Think Things Over

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:00:01 +0000

Even as Best Buy’s brick-and-mortar stores scale back physical media, the corporation continues to cater to SteelBook fans. The retailer’s latest batch of exclusives put an interesting emphasis on spaceships named Discovery. 2001: A Space Odyssey Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE) Release date: October 30, 2018 Price: $32.99 The so-called “Unrestored”...

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‘Westworld’ 2.10 Recap: “That Which Is Real Is Irreplaceable”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:00:16 +0000

I often feel that ‘Westworld’ is too clever for its own good. That’s never been truer than in the Season 2 finale, which exerts so much effort trying to stay three steps ahead of the audience that I’m not sure it even makes any sense at all. The show does so much time-jumping that, frankly,...

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‘Westworld’ 2.09 Recap: “There Is No Place for You in the New World”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:00:09 +0000

For its penultimate episode of the season, ‘Westworld’ makes a curious choice not to dole out the expected abundance of shocking plot twists and reversals (though it has a couple), but to deliver a very character-focused episode instead. This may be a better decision, but it sure leaves next week’s finale with a lot to...

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‘Westworld’ 2.08 Recap: “This Is the Wrong World”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:00:33 +0000

‘Westworld’ take another extended detour into unfamiliar territory this week. Fortunately, the results this time are a lot more interesting than the samurai episode. Episode ‘Kiksuya’ opens with the badly wounded Man in Black crawling toward a stream, struggling to stay alive. He barely has a few lines of dialogue muttering to himself when he’s...

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‘Westworld’ 2.07 Recap: “You’re Free to Choose Your Own Path”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:00:49 +0000

‘Westworld’ delivers another big, very busy episode this week. It has so much going on that I could barely keep up taking notes. It also has one really terrible scene that shouldn’t have gotten past the scripting stage. As is typical for the series, the narrative also jumps all over the place and between different...

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‘Westworld’ 2.06 Recap: “We’re Not at Full Apocalypse Yet”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 30 May 2018 12:00:30 +0000

Barring an unexpected payoff later in the season, last week’s diversion into Shogun World seems more and more to have been a fruitless waste of time. ‘Westworld’ (mostly) extracts us from that storyline this week and tries to get things back on track. This week’s episode opens, like so many do, with Arnold interrogating Dolores....

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‘Westworld’ 2.05 Recap: “You Know the Old Saying About Knives and Gunfights”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:00:44 +0000

The ads for this week’s episode of ‘Westworld’ looked epic and the network marketing promoted it as a mind-blower. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a pretty big disappointment. We last saw Maeve and her crew two episodes ago, which left off with them being attacked by a samurai. Maeve, Hector and Armistice are confused...

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‘Westworld’ 2.04 Recap: “If You Aim to Cheat the Devil, You Owe Him an Offering”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 15 May 2018 12:00:24 +0000

When I noticed that my recording of ‘Westworld’ ran for over 75 minutes this week, I knew it would be a big episode. Sure enough, it’s jam-packed with enough incident and revelations to fill three or four hours of a normal TV series. We open in what at first appears to be a very modern,...

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‘Westworld’ 2.03 Recap: “A New Twist in the Narrative”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:03 +0000

‘Westworld’ continues to broaden its horizons this season. We caught a glimpse of the real world outside the park last week. Now we actually get to pay a visit to a second Delos theme park. This week’s episode starts with an extended cold open that takes place in a new, never-before-mentioned park with a colonial...

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‘Westworld’ 2.02 Recap: “Have You Ever Seen Anything So Full of Splendor?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 01 May 2018 12:00:37 +0000

In its bid to expand the scope of the story this season, ‘Westworld’ finally takes us outside the park this week. In doing so, the show also gets tricky with jumping around the timeline some more. The Outside World Like many episodes of the series, this one opens with Dolores waking up to be questioned...

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‘Westworld’ 2.01 Recap: “Have You Ever Questioned the Nature of Your Reality?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:00:15 +0000

HBO’s ambitious sci-fi Western ‘Westworld’ returns for a second season to both dazzle and confound viewers. Now that we know some of the show’s secrets from last year, will the story be easier to follow this time? I doubt anyone will be shocked if I say that the answer is “yes and no.” First off,...

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