The Deuce: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
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.
Five Cool Things and Venom
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things are trailers, trailers, and more trailers.
Suburbicon is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
George Clooney’s take on a Coen Brothers’ script leads this week’s new releases.
Five Cool Things and Duncan Jones’ Mute
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include lots of award winners and some that should have been.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a biopic about the creator of Wonder Woman, some Pink Panther cartoons, a new Richard Linklater flick and more.
Five Cool Things and Landscape with Snow
By Mat Brewster |
Step right up and come see the cool things I discovered this week.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a light week for new releases, but there’s a few titles coming out I think you might like.
Five Cool Things and a New Heathers
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include a Hitchcock from the Criterion Collection, a French animated film, a Rogue Cut, and lots of gods.
Blade Runner 2049 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The sequel to a sci-fi classic leads this week’s new Blu-ray releases.
TCM and Fathom Events Present The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
By Mat Brewster |
Go see it on the big screen while you can.
Five Cool Things and Fahrenheit 451
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include a classic Doctor Who, two new adaptations of old books and lots of violence.
It (2017) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s new releases include a killer clown, a Deep Throat, a Supreme Court Justice, and more.
Five Cool Things and the Grateful Dead
By Mat Brewster |
This week found me reading some cool comics, watching some non Doctor Who-related Peter Capaldi TV, and more.
D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage Blu-ray Review: Nevermind the Bollocks, Watch This Film
By Mat Brewster |
Seminal punk documentary finally gets a digital release.
Criterion’s The Breakfast Club Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us John Hughes getting his first Criterion plus a tennis match, an Italian murder, Tom Cruise running drugs, and more.
Five Cool Things and Goodbye, 12; Hello, 13
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include a Stephen King detective novel, a new Netflix show, and more.
Fathom Events Presents Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
By Mat Brewster |
Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat get a nice send-off while paving the way for a new generation.
Pulp Blu-ray Review: A Discombobulating Crime Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
Michael Caine returns with his Get Carter filmmakers to make a movie that is completely different.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This post-Christmas week brings us a surprising amount of interesting new releases.
Whiskey Galore! (2016) Blu-ray Review: Could Have Used A Stiff One
By Mat Brewster |
A remake that need not have bothered.
Five Cool Things and a Merry Christmas
By Mat Brewster |
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.
Detroit Blu-ray Review: Intense, But Not Wholly Satisfying
By Mat Brewster |
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.
The Whales of August Blu-ray Review: An Actor Lover’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
Acting legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish together for the first (and last) time.
Maigret Sets a Trap / Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case Blu-ray Reviews: America’s Introduction to the Great French Detective
By Mat Brewster |
Jean Gabin plays the French detective in two of the earliest adaptations of Georges Simenon’s stories to reach the States.
mother! Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This final week before Christmas brings us a big war movie from Christopher Nolan, a smaller drama from Darren Aronofsky, plus Legos, Judi Dench as the Queen and more.
Victoria & Abul Blu-ray Review: East Meets West
By Mat Brewster |
A lively historical romp that loses steam in its back half.
Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s new releases include a trio of Criterions, a couple of Reese Witherspoons, plus Colin Firth as an action star.
Five Cool Things and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include John Denver singing with the Muppets, a classic James Bond film, Wilco, samurai, and more.
Two Maigret Films Starring Jean Gabin Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
They were some of the earliest looks American audiences had at Maigret, and I, for one, am excited to give them a chance.
Five Cool Things and the Avengers: Infinity War Trailer
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include the Punisher, two films by Werner Herzog, an animated moving castle and more.
Book Review: Tangled: The Series: Adventure is Calling
By Mat Brewster |
It will please the younger set of Disney fans more than your average comic book geek.
Logan Lucky Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh’s Back
By Mat Brewster |
A rougher, dumber, more redneck Ocean’s 11 that’s better in almost every way.
Fathom Events and GKIDS Present Howl’s Moving Castle
By Mat Brewster |
It is a testament to the wonder of the film that I caught Howl’s Moving Castle on Blu-ray a few weeks ago but was still enthralled to watch it again.
Bob Hope: The Ultimate Movie Collection DVD Review: A Box Full of Laughs
By Mat Brewster |
A nice set of a classic comedian’s best films.
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: A Treasure Trove of Delight
By Mat Brewster |
A big box of Hitchcock’s greatest films (and a few of his lesser ones, too).
Five Cool Things and an Incredibles Sequel
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Thor: Ragnarok, Logan Lucky, a Samurai comic, a couple of good TV shows.
The Woman in Red Blu-ray Review: A Light Comedy Not Without Its Charms
By Mat Brewster |
I just called, to say, your film’s not that good.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s new releases include a a sci-fi epic from Luc Besson, an animated film from France, a slew of silent films, most of Monty Python, and more.
Zoology Blu-ray Review: A Fable in Search of a Metaphor
By Mat Brewster |
A grown woman grows a tail, but what does it all mean?
Five Cool Things and Dragon’s Lair
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s pop culture consumption includes some classic films, some modern films, more Doctor Who, and a video game from my youth.
George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Blu-ray Review: Between Great and Awful
By Mat Brewster |
Three of Romero’s earliest films get a nice boxed set.
George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a surprising number of horror films plus some cool concert videos, Doctor Who, and some cute cats.
TCM and Fathom Events Present Casablanca
By Mat Brewster |
Round up the usual suspects and come watch the greatest movie ever made on the big screen.
Since You Went Away Blu-ray Review: An Epic Bore
By Mat Brewster |
I’ve never watched a movie so long and so dull in which so very little happens.
Five Cool Things and R.E.M’s Automatic for the People
By Mat Brewster |
I’m enlisting a little help this week, and away we go.
Nightkill Blu-ray Review: A Deadly Bore
By Mat Brewster |
Never trust a movie by its poster, Nightkill is neither sexy nor scary.
The Limehouse Golum Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s new releases include animated anthropomorphic autos, a boxed set of DC animated movies, a boxed set inside a plastic head, and more.
Cars 3 Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Zoom, Not Enough Vroom Vroom
By Mat Brewster |
It’s a good movie, just not Pixar good, which disappoints.
Five Cool Things and The Disaster Artist
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include replicants, man-eating plants, mind hunters, and more.