Mat Brewster

This is a very downbeat film, but a good one.

It is such a mess I can’t really recommend it.

This week we’re talking about a couple of 1970s films, an autistic romantic comedy, Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, and a little-discussed Martin Scorsese masterpiece.

More of an erotic drama than a true mystery.

It is a bold, potent book by an artist full of grit and anger, passion and courage.

This film is all politics.

I unabashedly love this film and am thrilled to see this coming out in UHD.

Let’s get to it, shall we?

Watching them back-to-back was a fascinating experience. I highly recommend it.

I’m excited to get more Scorsese in the Criterion Collection.

A Remarkable Achievement

I’ve been on a bit of a French crime thriller kick lately.

The film is at its best when Lawson and his crew crash just off the Chinese coast.

It finds a strange balance between utterly inappropriate and actually quite entertaining.

It might be Hell.

Stewart and Lamarr are so good together on screen, I was always interested in what was happening.

It is worth watching just to see Crawford and Gable together again.

Arrow Video is now releasing a gorgeous-looking boxed set of Jackie Chan films that turned him into an American star.

I was just happy to live in this world for a little while.

I’ve been watching a lot of Lino Ventura this year.

If you are a fan of George Franju then this is well worth seeking out.

The more British noirs I watch, the more I love the genre.

This is a great film, and Radiance Films has given us a great release.

A nice release of Italian exploitation cinema.

It is a great film, and Scream Factory is giving it a great release.

The whole movie has a punk attitude.

Hello and welcome to another addition of Five Cool Things the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and yes, cool things I’ve enjoyed since the last time. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms I’ve not really paid attention to anything from George R.R. Martin since the Game of Thrones TV series…

I enjoyed what the film was doing even if I knew where it was going.

For years and years now, I’ve been writing down all the movies I watch. I used to just do it with pen and paper, then I used my blog, and now sites like Letterboxd allow me to track everything. I like looking back and seeing how many movies I’ve seen in a given year, or…

The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never directed.

It feel like an episode of some long-lost TV series rather than a fully fleshed-out movie.

Time to do an all-movie edition.

Golden Harvest would go on to make plenty of better films, but this is a great beginning.

I appreciate how this film updated that old genre.

There is no such thing as the perfect crime.

Including one night I’ll never forget.

If you can get on the film’s wavelength, there is a lot to enjoy.

Director Anthony Mann keeps the action front and center.

They are gritty, sometimes funny, brutal films.

An incredibly made film and well worth watching.

No doubt complications will ensue.

If you are a fan of Bryan Fuller’s television work, then I suspect you’ll enjoy Dust Bunny.

It is telling a heartfelt story, with a certain amount of tenderness and a surprisingly progressive take on homosexuality for an Italian film from the 1970s.

The film is a lot of fun to watch, even if it doesn’t quite cross over the line into true greatness.

Surprising in just how sensitive it is for the third sequel to a zombie franchise.

A well-crafted, beautifully acted, political thriller.

Welcome to an all-new (almost) all-book edition.

This isn’t a great film by any means, but it is an enjoyable one.

These films are all good, but none of them really stood out to me.

You could make a pretty great 20-minute edit of all the good stuff.