Mat Brewster

A Wonderful Collection of Short Stories

The trailers make it look like a film that might have come out in the 1990s from Amblin Pictures. Which is complimentary.

Despite my misgivings about the story, this is very much worth the purchase.

It is the week of Halloween, and I am a big fan of horror, so I thought it would be fun to dedicate this week’s post to all things frightening.

Flic Story is a bit of a slow burn, but it is well worth your time.

There isn’t a sane cinephile who isn’t excited about this release.

Within the first few pages of this book, I knew I was in for a treat.

This week we’re talking about a crime novel I accidentally read twice, and a whole lot of horror movies because it is October and that’s spooky season.

Nerds in China.

It comes with a new transfer and lots of extras.

This week we’re talking about an old, obscure film noir; a new horror film that throws back to the 1980s; a BBC TV movie that hearkens to Orson Welles on the radio; a classic silent film; and a celebration of Jim Thompson.

Though I found one movie to be a complete dud, I still highly recommend this set.

Boots Riley is a rapper, songwriter, and filmmaker. His first film, Sorry to Bother You, was a wild satire about an African American telemarketer who adopts a white person’s voice in order to make more sales. But that doesn’t begin to explain how crazy weird the film is. Buy I Love Boosters I Love Boosters…

As a fan of film noir and neonoir, I really enjoyed watching this film.

Two of them are really good, and the other, well, two out of three ain’t bad.

Fukasaku infuses it with a gritty, chaotic energy that is rather mesmerizing.

This week we’re talking about an old Kurt Wallander novel, an American thriller where Alain Delon plays an Italian, another one where Roy Scheider is hunting down a French assassin, and yet another thriller where Lee Marvin is a badass, and we end with a clever twist on the zombie genre.

A wonderful introduction to one of Japan’s defining fictional detectives.

Supergirl comes in a variety of packages, the most robust of which include loads of special features, including features on nearly every aspect of the filmmaking.

Greetings, and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and cool things I’ve discovered since the last time. This week we’re talking about Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film, a new BBC thriller, a terrific British film noir, an early Oliver Stone film, and a…

This film mostly gave me what I wanted.

I’m thrilled it is finally coming out on home video.

We need more films, more animation that isn’t afraid to take big swings and do something completely different.

Despite my reservations over Unmasked, the other two films more than make this worth a purchase.

This week I’m revisiting a movie I didn’t like the first time I saw it, a freaky manga, a creepy German television series, a thrilling French film, and an American film that visits the French New Wave.

It didn’t make me understand MacArthur any more than I did at the beginning of the film.

Project Hail Mary is thrilling, funny, and heartwarming in all the best possible ways.

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.