Author: Josh Zyber

Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and home theater reviewer from Laserdisc to Blu-ray and beyond. He previously wrote for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com, Primetimer.com, and Home Theater magazine.

I’m Fairly Well Conditioned to Shock | Experiment in Terror (1962) Blu-ray

Experiment in Terror (1962) - Lee Remick

A title like Experiment in Terror seems primed for disappointment six decades and change later. Could any film from 1962 actually scare a jaded audience conditioned by modern horror movies to expect graphic violence and gore from something with a name like that? Perhaps not, even probably not, especially once you tell those same viewers… Read More I’m Fairly Well Conditioned to Shock | Experiment in Terror (1962) Blu-ray

Josh Zyber2 Comments

A Hundred Is Enough | Drowning by Numbers (1988) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Drowning by Numbers (1988) - Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson

In many interviews and talks, Peter Greenaway has declared with some certainty and no small amount of pomposity that narrative and character development are not only inessential, but weaknesses of the cinematic medium. He treats his work not as “movies” in the widely-accepted sense, but as a form of visual art in motion, the sort… Read More A Hundred Is Enough | Drowning by Numbers (1988) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Josh Zyber3 Comments

Kinski Skinski | Cat People (1982) 4K Ultra HD

Cat People (1982) - Nastassja Kinski

I learned a somewhat interesting fact from watching Paul Schrader’s 1982 quasi-remake of Cat People. Actually, I had to look it up afterward. Regardless, now I know that leopards and panthers are the same species, differentiated mainly by color. Perhaps that’s common knowledge to others, but I’d never given it any thought previously, until confused… Read More Kinski Skinski | Cat People (1982) 4K Ultra HD

Josh Zyber1 Comment

I Like the Dark, It’s Friendly | Cat People (1942) Criterion Blu-ray

Cat People (1942) - Simone Simon

Ever since the phrase “auteur theory” was coined in the early 1960s, audiences and film connoisseurs who care to notice such things have typically considered a director to be the main artistic guiding force behind any movie. That thought often applies even in retrospect to older films, but wasn’t always the case, especially not during… Read More I Like the Dark, It’s Friendly | Cat People (1942) Criterion Blu-ray

Josh ZyberLeave a comment

We’re Suspicious of Strangers, Is All | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Blu-ray

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) - Spencer Tracy

Part Western, part noir, and mostly a bunch of tough guys glaring at one another for 80 minutes, Bad Day at Black Rock was a collision of B-movie and prestige picture when it was made in 1955. Headlined by a couple major stars, one veteran character actor, and some other notable talent on the rise,… Read More We’re Suspicious of Strangers, Is All | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Blu-ray

Josh ZyberLeave a comment