I wrote a lot of obituary posts at the last blog I ran. It got to be depressing, and I gave up doing it after a while. Everyone dies eventually, even icons. I didn’t always have the most knowledge about or emotional investment in the subjects I had to memorialize, and doing so became a… Read More I’ll See You in My Dreams | R.I.P. David Lynch
Faced with steadily declining box office returns for their last few live-action Transformers movies, Hasbro and Paramount felt that the best course of action would be to return the franchise to its roots with an animated prequel. Sadly, despite mostly positive reviews from critics and word-of-mouth from those who bothered to go see it, the… Read More Truly More Than Meets the Eye | Transformers One (2024) 4K Ultra HD
Welcome to 2025. We’re still in something of a vacation mode here at The Video File. To start the year off, we’re easing in with a mostly off-topic article that has no direct connection to either video or home theater, but that we hope some of you will enjoy anyway. Freshly unboxed is an item… Read More G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982-1994) | Skybound Comic Compendium Set Unboxing and Review
Robert Altman’s final film, completed and released to theaters just five months before his death, A Prairie Home Companion is generally considered a minor work from the legendary director, often relegated to a trivia note in his career, if not forgotten amidst his more popular and acclaimed successes. That fate is at least a little… Read More Every Show’s Your Last Show | A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Warner Archive Blu-ray
Released at Christmas of 1999 as one of the very last movies of that decade, the science-fiction adventure spoof Galaxy Quest was a solid box office hit, if not quite one of the year’s huge blockbusters. Marketing for the film presented it as a goofy Tim Allen comedy vehicle, like The Santa Clause in outer… Read More Grabthar’s Hammer and the Suns of Warvan | Galaxy Quest (1999) 4K Ultra HD
The new animated series from the creators of Love, Death + Robots is, I suppose unsurprisingly, an infuriating mess and generally a huge waste of time. Coming in hot at the end of the year, Amazon Prime’s Secret Level is one of the worst new TV shows of 2024. Judging whether it will turn out… Read More Whatever This Is, It’s Loud and Unpleasant | Secret Level (2024) Amazon Prime Series Premiere
The new Netflix spy thriller Black Doves can feel awfully familiar in a lot of ways. The series is reminiscent of a number of other popular shows, and indulges in some genre tropes that have frankly been overplayed for a while by this point. Somehow, it’s a lot of fun regardless. A good cast, smart… Read More Arouse No Suspicion | Black Doves Season 1 (2024) on Netflix
Universes and movie franchises collide in Deadpool & Wolverine, the blockbuster crossover that functions simultaneously as: 1) a trilogy-capping sequel to the popular Deadpool series, 2) the official merger of the X-Men (and some other less-loved stragglers) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and 3) the point where Disney gives up pretending that any of this… Read More Wolverineing Is Hard | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 4K Ultra HD
Poor timing was just the first of many failures that befell the official Nintendo Entertainment System video game adaptation of James Cameron’s The Terminator. By late 1992, the original Terminator movie was already eight-years-old, and even the blockbuster sequel (that presumably inspired the release of this game) had left theaters almost a year and a… Read More 8-Bit Replay | The Terminator (1992) for NES
Five sequels, a couple TV spinoffs, and innumerable viewings later, The Terminator is no longer the same movie it was forty years ago. What started as a scrappy, low-budget thriller made by a relatively unknown young director desperate to prove himself, has transformed into the first cog in a popular and long-running franchise, as well… Read More You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD
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