Mat Brewster

It has tons of style, some wild camera work, and some groovy kills.

I’ve watched and reviewed several of these Dark Side of Cinema sets now and this is one of the better ones.

It is a crazy, super-fun ride.

The celebrities might bring you to the show, but you’ll stay for the agents and their assistants.

In May of 1975, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip became the first reigning English monarchs to visit Hong Kong, which was then still a British Colony. Never one to let an opportunity go to waste, Golden Harvest obtained permission to film the Queen during her public appearances (albeit from quite a distance)….

It is a film that knows it is dumb and yet has fun with it.

So much of it feels like it was thrown together.

Not the film I was expecting at all, but as it turned out it was the film I needed.

What High Crime lacks in original storytelling, it more than makes up for in visual style and full-throttle action.

Film Masters has done an incredible job with this two-film set.

The total opposite of a summer popcorn movie.

I’m a sucker for a good boxed set.

If you are a fan of either film, these packages will not disappoint. If you’ve never seen the films, then this is the perfect way to dive right in.

It does what it does really well.

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.