The Video File
Joshua ZyberThe Video File is a curated journey, one title at a time, through a huge movie collection that took decades to amass on media formats including Blu-ray, 4K, DVD, Laserdisc, and possibly others. (Streaming gets some viewing time as well.)
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A Quiet Place (2018) | Stay Silent, Stay Alive
As I sit here after watching A Quiet Place, struggling to write an introductory paragraph that will find an angle into the film, it strikes me as rather ironic, or perhaps just fitting, that a movie with almost no dialogue would leave me wi...
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) | From the Video File Archives
“Would you like to buy more?”
Paul Verhoeven’s misunderstood sci-fi satire Starship Troopers may have bombed at the box office back in 1997, but it proved very popular on home video. Eventually, Sony Pictures decided to cash in on its fan...
Starship Troopers (1997) | From the Video File Archives
Starship Troopers is one of the great misunderstood works of science fiction cinema. On its face, the movie is a $100 million action picture about teenagers with machine guns shooting at giant insects. It has bland, cardboard characters and...
Film After 11 Podcast | Arachnophobia (1990)
In an act of great parenting, I thought it would be a swell idea to instill a fear of spiders into my son Joseph by making him watch the 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia. Did it work? As you’ll see in this week’s episode of the Film After 1...
New Police Story (2004) | From the Video File Archives
Having turned 50 in 2004, Jackie Chan couldn’t throw himself into the same kind of physically demanding or dangerous stunts that made him famous. He tried to keep up his box office appeal by playing more toward the comedy end of his tradema...
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Writer/editor of The Video File Blog. Host of the "Film at 11" podcast. Formerly a writer at High-Def Digest, Home Theater magazine and others. Obsessive collector of movies on physical media, from Laserdisc to DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K.
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