Mat Brewster

Five Cool Things and Eels’ “Bone Dry”

It was a weird week determined to distract me, but I still found some cool stuff.

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Insidious: The Last Key Is the Pick of the Week

What can I say? It is a slow week.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Here’s the cool things I consumed this week.

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Fathom Events Presents Ponyo on Its Tenth Anniversary

And so the Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 begins.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is the Pick of the Week

See what’s new in Blu-ray this week.

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Five Cool Things and Mr. Rogers

Come read about all the cool stuff I watched this week.

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TCM and Fathom Events Present Vertigo

Don’t miss your chance to see this Alfred Hitchcock classic on the big screen.

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Criterion’s The Passion of Joan of Arc Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a couple of Criterions, Matt Damon getting shrunk, a Robert Altman horror film, and more.

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Five Cool Things and Isle of Dogs

This week’s cool things are strange and wonderful.

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Images Blu-ray Review: Nothing Like Altman

A surrealistic horror film that feels more like Ingmar Bergman than Robert Altman.

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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children Blu-ray Review: Definitely Not for Kids

Animated film from Spain tells a dark, sad tale that retains a hint of hope.

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The Shape of Water is the Pick of the Week

Hope you have some leftover Christmas money because there is a lot of interesting stuff coming out this week.

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Ichi the Killer Blu-ray Review: Blood-soaked Fun

Well Go USA’s new 4K transfer of Takashi Miike’s splatter classic gives you all the gore you can handle in pristine high definition.

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Five Cool Things and The Handmaid’s Tale: Season Two

This week’s cool things include Tom Cruise, George Clooney directing the Coens, and more Stephen King.

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Thor: Ragnarok Is the Pick of the Week

Two movies battled it out for this week’s pick, but ultimately, the superhero won.

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Five Cool Things and a Yellowstone TV Series

See what’s cool this week.

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Coco Is the Pick of the Week

Just in time for the Oscars, this week’s releases include a lot of films that will no doubt win awards.

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Fathom Events and GKIDS Present Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Studio Ponoc, heir apparent to Studio Ghibli, proves they have taken the animated torch and ran with it.

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Five Cool Things and Izzy Gets the F-ck Across Town

This week’s cool things include a couple of comics, some old movies, and a new trailer.

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The Hero Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Long Train Ride into the Soul of an Artist

A movie star reflects on his life and the compromises he made to get there.

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The Florida Project Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a couple of foreign language films from the Criterion Collection, a silly horror from Arrow Video, Doctor Who, an Oscar-buzzing indie, and more.

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TCM and Fathom Events Present The Philadelphia Story

You’ve got one more chance to see this classic on the big screen.

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The Girl Without Hands Blu-ray Review: A Mesmerizing Fairy Tale

Distinctive animation elevates a simple story into the sublime.

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Five Cool Things and The Girl Without Hands

This weeks cool things include some (not so) Classic Doctor Who, a Stephen King sequel, a Neil Gaiman book, and more.

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The Witches (1967) Blu-ray Review: Someone Get These Witches a Spell

Anthology collection starring Silvana Mangano as a variety of witches fails to bewitch.

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The Deuce: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: The Gritty, Grimy, Mean Streets of New York

David Simon’s new series is about the sex trade in ’70s New York, it is as difficult to watch as it is good.

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The Deuce: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include some great and not-so-great horror films, Dan Gilroy’s follow-up to Nightcrawler, Julia Roberts trying to make a comeback, and more.

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Five Cool Things and Venom

This week’s cool things are trailers, trailers, and more trailers.

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Suburbicon is the Pick of the Week

George Clooney’s take on a Coen Brothers’ script leads this week’s new releases.

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Five Cool Things and Duncan Jones’ Mute

This week’s cool things include lots of award winners and some that should have been.

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a biopic about the creator of Wonder Woman, some Pink Panther cartoons, a new Richard Linklater flick and more.

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Five Cool Things and Landscape with Snow

Step right up and come see the cool things I discovered this week.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer Is the Pick of the Week

It is a light week for new releases, but there’s a few titles coming out I think you might like.

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Five Cool Things and a New Heathers

Cool things this week include a Hitchcock from the Criterion Collection, a French animated film, a Rogue Cut, and lots of gods.

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Blade Runner 2049 Is the Pick of the Week

The sequel to a sci-fi classic leads this week’s new Blu-ray releases.

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TCM and Fathom Events Present The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Go see it on the big screen while you can.

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Five Cool Things and Fahrenheit 451

This week’s cool things include a classic Doctor Who, two new adaptations of old books and lots of violence.

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It (2017) Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a killer clown, a Deep Throat, a Supreme Court Justice, and more.

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Five Cool Things and the Grateful Dead

This week found me reading some cool comics, watching some non Doctor Who-related Peter Capaldi TV, and more.

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D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage Blu-ray Review: Nevermind the Bollocks, Watch This Film

Seminal punk documentary finally gets a digital release.

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Criterion’s The Breakfast Club Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us John Hughes getting his first Criterion plus a tennis match, an Italian murder, Tom Cruise running drugs, and more.

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Five Cool Things and Goodbye, 12; Hello, 13

Cool things this week include a Stephen King detective novel, a new Netflix show, and more.

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Fathom Events Presents Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat get a nice send-off while paving the way for a new generation.

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Pulp Blu-ray Review: A Discombobulating Crime Comedy

Michael Caine returns with his Get Carter filmmakers to make a movie that is completely different.

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Brawl in Cell Block 99 Is the Pick of the Week

This post-Christmas week brings us a surprising amount of interesting new releases.

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Whiskey Galore! (2016) Blu-ray Review: Could Have Used A Stiff One

A remake that need not have bothered.

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Cinema Sentries

Five Cool Things and a Merry Christmas

This week’s cool things include one of Martin Scorsese’s favorite films, The Last Jedi and lots of stuff I found on Acorn TV.

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Detroit Blu-ray Review: Intense, But Not Wholly Satisfying

It does a great job making the audience feel the absolute horror of this racially motivated instance but falters when putting that moment into a greater context.

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The Whales of August Blu-ray Review: An Actor Lover’s Dream

Acting legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish together for the first (and last) time.

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Maigret Sets a Trap / Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case Blu-ray Reviews: America’s Introduction to the Great French Detective

Jean Gabin plays the French detective in two of the earliest adaptations of Georges Simenon’s stories to reach the States.

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