Recent content by Josh Steinberg

Devil’s advocate argument: the article cites directors like Colin Treverrow and Damien Chizelle as the types of budding filmmakers who may have a harder time jumping as quickly from smaller budget projects to big budget studio pictures. I would argue that neither director was ready for the leap...

It was released in February and HTF reviewed it: https://www.hometheaterforum.com/fear-and-desire-4k-uhd-review/

@Matt Hough might be?

I think it’s just so they can then get everyone to watch it immediately and then brag about how many people watched it immediately.

That’s why I love HTF! :) Is this being considered a sci-fi movie by reviewers or the general public? I 100% agree with you on that, I would not consider it a science fiction film at all.

I don’t think this is a perfect film - it’s not my favorite of Garland’s, but with that said, I’m more interested in seeing his efforts at working on an idea than most other people’s masterpieces, so that’s fine. He recently did an interview about the film in The NY Times and said that he had...

I really don’t think it does. Although nominally a red state, there are vast swaths of Texas that have a much more liberal population. Although nominally a blue state, there are vast swaths of California that have a much more conservative population. Because national elections are “winner take...

The interesting thing about that is they’re not necessarily as opposite as they get credit for being. Both are very large states and each has a large number of people that lean one way, and another large number of people that lean another way. It’s actually very conceivable that large parts of...

Your TV is 16x9, which translates roughly to an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. The transfer of the movie on the Blu-ray is 1.85:1. So the little black bars are correct, you’re seeing the slight difference between the aspect ratio of the TV and the intended aspect ratio of the film. Some studios...

Until much more recent times, films meant to be shown theatrically with a 1.85:1 aspect ratio were shot on a film negative that has a shape that was roughly 1.37:1. The 1.85:1 aspect ratio would be achieved in projection by using aperture plates and masking to crop the top and bottom off to...

It’ll be interesting to see if physical media movie/tv discs go the way of audiophile vinyl because if they do, the price is the price and you either take it or leave it. Vinyl labels like Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab and Analogue Productions are that world’s equivalent to Criterion, but there are...

With sincere apologies to Ron, I’m finding it difficult to name a specific title, but I have already had the experience of having to pay $50 or more for rare, limited print run, and/or imported titles because that was simply the only way to get the version of the film I wanted on disc. For...

There was someone near me who giggled every time Shatner spoke (I think she was one of the hands raised for never having seen the movie) and she started to giggle when Kirk makes it to engineering at the end but immediately went silent when Spock turned around inside the chamber to address Kirk.

This hit the sweet spot for me on timing - 7 is too early because parenthood, and 9:30 or 10 is getting out too late when the kids are waking up at 6am whether I’m ready or not. I always like seeing these movies with an appreciative audience.

I think I looked the most unforgivably dorky. Everyone else I saw was more subtle about it!