Mat Brewster

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

Seminal punk documentary finally gets a digital release.

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

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

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

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

A remake that need not have bothered.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A lively historical romp that loses steam in its back half.

This week’s new releases include a trio of Criterions, a couple of Reese Witherspoons, plus Colin Firth as an action star.

This week’s cool things include John Denver singing with the Muppets, a classic James Bond film, Wilco, samurai, and more.

They were some of the earliest looks American audiences had at Maigret, and I, for one, am excited to give them a chance.

It will please the younger set of Disney fans more than your average comic book geek.

A rougher, dumber, more redneck Ocean’s 11 that’s better in almost every way.

This week brings a bounty of new releases.

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.

A nice set of a classic comedian’s best films.

A big box of Hitchcock’s greatest films (and a few of his lesser ones, too).

Cool things this week include Thor: Ragnarok, Logan Lucky, a Samurai comic, a couple of good TV shows.

I just called, to say, your film’s not that good.

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.

A grown woman grows a tail, but what does it all mean?

This week’s pop culture consumption includes some classic films, some modern films, more Doctor Who, and a video game from my youth.

Three of Romero’s earliest films get a nice boxed set.

This week brings us a surprising number of horror films plus some cool concert videos, Doctor Who, and some cute cats.

Round up the usual suspects and come watch the greatest movie ever made on the big screen.

I’ve never watched a movie so long and so dull in which so very little happens.

I’m enlisting a little help this week, and away we go.

Never trust a movie by its poster, Nightkill is neither sexy nor scary.

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.

It’s a good movie, just not Pixar good, which disappoints.

This week’s cool things include replicants, man-eating plants, mind hunters, and more.

A fun space adventure comic that looks like Star Trek but doesn’t exactly stay true to its roots.

This week’s new releases include more horror films for Halloween, some packaged TV for Christmas, and a flopped Stephen King adaptation.

The best movie musical about a flesh-eating plant from outer space hits the big screen again for a limited engagement.

This week’s cool things include Wonder Woman’s creator, a Hitchcock comedy, and even stranger things.

Documenting the Newport Folk Festival at the height of the folk revival, Festival is a feast for music fans.

A fun read for the whole family.

This week’s new blu-ray releases include some really terrible (and terribly awesome) looking horror, the last of the Planet of the Apes trilogy, and more.

Cool things this week include two remakes, Grateful Deed members covering the Beatles, Italian horror, and more.

This week brings us a web-crawling superhero, a couple of Criterions, some raunchy ladies, and several nice boxed sets.

An oddball mix of crime drama and horror (with heavy doses of slapsstick thrown in) make for an interesting mix.

This week’s cool things include Italian horror, Brian De Palma horror, feminist horror, and a Jedi.

A loving, informative reading on the films of a Japanese icon.