Mat Brewster

It is a whole lot of fun to watch.

More of a character sketch, a hangout comic, than a fright-filled horror show.

Rocky still has a fond place in my heart.

Whatever it is about I know it will be lovely. Miyazaki doesn’t make anything less.

It is an incredible movie.

All three of these films are well done, making the set a definite must-buy.

It is better than its reputation.

It is a dark-as-night film noir with deeply complex morals and a surprisingly modern take on PTSD.

Severin Films has put together 12 of these Brucesploitation films in one awesome-looking set.

I never found the characters or what they get up to all that interesting.

Recommended to fans of Ladd and Lake who want to complete the collection.

I’m always on board with new Who.

The film is worth watching and this new disk is serviceable.

The film is mostly a slice-of-life portrait of a Quaker family.

My favorite thing is this graphic novel.

Like most big blockbuster movies, it is coming out in a wide variety of formats in various boxes with different artwork and special features.

When a movie is really good, I have no problem forgiving a wide variety of cultural sins, but in this case, it just isn’t good enough for me to get past that one glaring problem.

A mystery finished decades after it was begun.

It is with great pleasure that I find several of the Disney+ series are getting really nice looking 4K UHD releases.

One of the best Westerns ever made.

Sometimes going into a film blind is the best way to view it.

A fascinating snapshot of three actors in transitional periods of their careers.

Considering how utterly ridiculous Rambo III is, the original looks like Shakespeare in comparison.

There is something about these old low-budget noirs that make me keep coming back to them.

If you can find a sale, or you have a birthday coming up, this looks worth the purchase.

These three movies fall within a dark period in Robinson’s career.

The Whip and The Body is a fascinating glimpse at a director at a crossroads.

It is a film about myths and legends and how they are sometimes different from what they seem.

“Who is Darkman?” the posters asked. They were scattered everywhere – on billboards, the sides of busses, in magazines in the early summer of 1990. But they didn’t provide an answer. It was a viral marketing campaign before viral marketing was a buzzword. Sam Raimi had invented his own superhero and the studio needed a…

Faithless isn’t a great film, but Bankhead is great in it.

The film’s mystery isn’t who is doing these things but why.

An unconventional Western, or what they now call a revisionist Western.

The film is an utter delight.

With a run time of 79 minutes, it all feels like a really long (and rather good) episode of Dragnet.

A fantastic resource for discovering relatively obscure film noirs.

It is a great-looking set full of Criterion’s usual fantastic packaging full of extras.

The film has everything you’ve come to expect from a submarine movie.

It is something of a blending of genres and styles.

I really love a good Italian Western.

Its influence reaches far and wide including Doctor Who, Stanley Kubrick, and John Carpenter.

It is a film that will linger in your thoughts for days afterward.

The reviews for that one have been pretty mixed, but I’m still excited to get a chance to watch it finally.

Mann is too good of a director to make a really bad movie, but the ridiculousness of the plot of this one ruined it for me.

It is all a bit silly, but it’s fun to watch.

I find myself poised to watch it and am happy to make it my Pick of the Week.

Ron Howard and his team of stunt coordinators used real fire and explosions to create several setpieces that are stunning in their power and beauty.

A huge hit that helped create the rascally, Southern charmer persona Reynolds would stick with for most of his life.

If Scarface was De Palma’s Goodfellas, then Carlito’s Way is his The Irishman.

Coming off the heels of their definitive film noir The Big Heat (1953), director Friz Lang once again teamed up with actors Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame.

They are all clearly B-Pictures, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth your time.