Mat Brewster

Book Review: Star Hawks, Volume Three: 1979-1981 by Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin

The final chapter in this inventive science fiction strip faced a lot of changes.

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Five Cool Things and a Suspiria Remake

Hey look, I found another five cool things to talk about this week.

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The Terror Is the Pick of the Week

It’s a week full of big movies, big TV, shows and big reviews from our staff.

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The Terror: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Utterly Terrifying

AMC’s new horror anthology is relentlessly scary and impeccably made.

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Five Cool Things and Aretha Franklin

It was a week of binge-watching TV shows I’ll write about later and catching up with a few cool things I’m writing about now.

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Masters of Sex: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Undergraduate of Prestige TV

An entertaining series that isn’t quite the classic it wants to be gets a very reasonable boxed set.

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Avengers: Infinity War Is the Pick of the Week

Here’s all that’s worth buying in this week’s new Blu-ray releases.

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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? Blu-ray Review: I Hope They’re Not with Solange

The second part of Massimo Dallamano’s “schoolgirl’s in peril” trilogy gets an excellent release from Arrow Video.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and Kidding

Here’s five cool things I discovered this week.

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The Death of Superman Is the Pick of the Week

It’s a full week of new releases, and I’ve got the details.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and Making It

Here’s all the cool stuff I consumed this week.

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Tully Is the Pick of the Week

Here’s all that’s interesting coming to Blu-ray this week.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and 16 Years

It’s more like five kinds of okay, not really great things this week, but there’s plenty to talk about.

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Ready Player One Is the Pick of the Week

The long, hot summer may never end, but at least there are still a few movies to watch.

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Five Cool Things and Glass

Not even a bad case of poison ivy can stop me from finding cool things for you.

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Isle of Dogs Is the Pick of the Week

It’s a big week for new releases. Come inside to see the best of the bunch.

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The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail Blu-ray Review: Stereotypical Giallo

Sergio Martino’s horror film ticks off all the giallo boxes but never rises above them.

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Doom Asylum Blu-ray Review: Terribly Charming

Arrow Video has done their usual magnificent job releasing this ridiculously bad, yet somehow entertaining horror film.

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Five Cool Things and Ant-Man and the Wasp

Kick back and enjoy the things I enjoyed this week.

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The Good Place: The Complete Second Season DVD Review: A Great Show

A huge twist made big changes in Season Two, but The Good Place remains one of the best comedies on TV.

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Mosaic (2018) Is the Pick of the Week

Stephen Soderbergh getting experimental with television leads off a pretty cool week in new releases.

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Five Cool Things and Paul McCartney’s Carpool Karaoke

Here’s five cool things to take you into the weekend.

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Cinema Sentries

A Quiet Place Blu-ray Review: Shhhhhh

Surprisingly effect horror film from that goofy guy in The Office.

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Arrow Video’s The Last House on the Left Is the Pick of the Week

This week is packed full of interesting releases I’ve never heard of.

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The Last House on the Left Blu-ray Review: A Video Nasty Gets Its Day

Wes Craven’s first film gets an excellent new set from Arrow Video.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and Juliet, Naked

It’s too hot in Oklahoma to do anything but sit inside and watch movies.

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Terminal (2018) Is the Pick of the Week

Bad reviews be damned, Terminal sounds like fun to me.

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Under Capricorn Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock Goes Down Under

Kino Lorber does a decent job restoring one of Hitchcock’s lesser films.

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Five Cool Things and Welcome to Marwen

See what cool things I discovered this week.

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Doctor Who: Tom Baker: Complete Season One Is the Pick of the Week

See what’s new in the world of Blu-rays.

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Five Cool Things and the Grand Tetons

After a week off, I’m talking about Stephen King, Doctor Who, Humphrey Bogart, and independent film.

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The Woman in the Window (1944) Blu-ray Review: Early Noir is Excellent

Fritz Lang’s classic noir is nearly ruined by a terrible ending, but what comes before it is quite good.

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Spetters Blu-ray Review: A Dirt Bike Drama that Lives in the Gutter

Paul Verhoeven’s dirt bike drama is a vile, sexist, homophobic piece of work that just might tell the truth of teenaged boys’ life in Holland during the 1980s.

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Black Venus Blu-ray Review: A Horrible Mark in Our History

A devastating portrait of abuse.

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Thoroughbreds Is the Pick of the Week

Here’s all that’s interesting in the world of new Blu-ray releases this week.

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Death Smiles on a Murderer Blu-ray Review: I’m Not Smiling

Joe D’Amato’s first horror film is a strange mixture of weird, gore, and boredom.

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Five Cool Things and Florence + the Machine

Come see the cool stuff I discovered this week.

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The Big Country Blu-ray Review: Big Movie, Big Director, Big Stars, Little Story

William Wyler’s classic western gets a gorgeous new Blu-ray release for its 60th anniversary.

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Book Review: Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

A beautifully designed book that discusses Alfred Hitcock’s tumultuous relationships with his leading ladies.

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Annihilation Is the Pick of the Week

See what’s new in the world of Blu-ray this week.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and Christopher Robin

This week’s five things include some classic rewatches and a few new things as well.

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I Kill Giants Is the Pick of the Week

See what’s coming out on Blu-ray this week.

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Five Cool Things and Deadpool 2

It was a cool week that was almost ruined by obnoxious people in the theater.

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TCM and Fathom Events Present Sunset Boulevard

Get ready for your close-up.

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The Sacrifice Is the Pick of the Week

Here’s what’s coming to Blu-ray this week.

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Phantom Thread Blu-ray Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Makes It Work

An impeccably made, sometimes difficult and now entirely emotionally satisfying film.

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Five Cool Things and This Is America

Come catch up with all the cool things I consumed this week.

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice Blu-ray Review: Slowly Rewarding

Tarkovsky’s last film is a gorgeous meditation on life, God and what we are willing to give up.

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The Sinner: Season One Is the Pick of the Week

If you are looking for sex and nudity in your new releases, then this week is for you.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and U2

Here’s five cool things I discovered this week.

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