Mat Brewster

Logan Lucky Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh’s Back

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

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Animal Factory Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings a bounty of new releases.

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Fathom Events and GKIDS Present Howl’s Moving Castle

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.

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Bob Hope: The Ultimate Movie Collection DVD Review: A Box Full of Laughs

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

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: A Treasure Trove of Delight

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

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Five Cool Things and an Incredibles Sequel

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

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The Woman in Red Blu-ray Review: A Light Comedy Not Without Its Charms

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

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Zoology Blu-ray Review: A Fable in Search of a Metaphor

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

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Five Cool Things and Dragon’s Lair

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

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George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Blu-ray Review: Between Great and Awful

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

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George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Cinema Sentries

TCM and Fathom Events Present Casablanca

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

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Since You Went Away Blu-ray Review: An Epic Bore

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

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Five Cool Things and R.E.M’s Automatic for the People

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

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Nightkill Blu-ray Review: A Deadly Bore

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

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The Limehouse Golum Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Cars 3 Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Zoom, Not Enough Vroom Vroom

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

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Five Cool Things and The Disaster Artist

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

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Book Review: Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume Three (1972-1979)

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

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The Dark Tower Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Fathom Events Presents Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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

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Five Cool Things and The Square (2017)

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

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Cinema Sentries

Festival (1967) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Better Than Woodstock

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

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The Corpse Grinders Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Five Cool Things and the Tragically Hip

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

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Cinema Sentries

Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Pick of the Week

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

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The Suspicious Death of a Minor Blu-ray Review: Two Genres, One Film

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

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Five Cool Things and The Last Jedi Trailer

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

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Book Review: Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji by Tom Mes

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

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The Legend of the Holy Drinker Blu-ray Review: Alcoholism is Beautiful

Almost nothing happens at a languid pace, but Rutger Hauer’s performance is captivating.

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Don’t Torture A Duckling Blu-ray Review: Fulci Grows a Social Conscience 

Gore meister makes a film with an actual plot and social commentary, results are mixed.

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Detective Montalbano: Episodes 29 & 30 DVD Review: More Murders, Less Fun in the Sicilian Sun

Italian crime series has grown more serious since the last time I checked it out, but it’s still entertaining.

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A Ghost Story Is The Pick of the Week

October is here and with it comes a slew of new horror releases.

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Book Review: Ghost in the Shell by Andrew Osmond

An in-depth look into the Ghost in the Shell franchise.

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Five Cool Things and Annihilation

This week’s cool things include Body Double, Cafe Society, Wilco, and more.

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David Lynch: The Art Life Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases bring us a couple of Criterions, a couple of live albums, Texas football, and something scripted by Ed Wood.

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Caïn: Season 1 & Season 2 DVD Review: Like House Meets Sherlock, but French

French crime series is enjoyable but never quite enthralls.

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Five Cool Things and Joan Crawford

Cool Things I (re)discovered this week include Swiss Family Robinson, E.T., Hawkeye, Lost at Sea, and Blow-Up.

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Cinema Sentries

Wonder Woman Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a couple of DC superheroes, a really old Marvel one, plus Ken Burns in Vietnam, and more.

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TCM and Fathom Events Present E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

See it again on the big screen, bring your family.

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Five Cool Things and The Shape of Water

Cool things I discovered this week include a new season of Top of the Lake, an old Doctor Who, and a red band Guillermo del Toro trailer.

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Stormy Monday Blu-ray Review: Not As Bad As Tuesday

Mike Figgis’ directorial debut is an effective stylish néo-noir (as long as you don’t watch Body Heat right after).

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It Comes at Night Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a superhero in his underpants, a bunch of classic Universal monsters, a not-so classic updating of the Mummy, and more.

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Cinema Sentries

Fathom Events Presents Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Kirk scream “Khaaaaaan!” on the big screen.

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Five Cool Things and Don Williams

Cool things this week include two neo-noirs, a classic Doctor Who, Close Encounters, and a Handmaid’s Tale.

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Cinema Sentries

The Flash (2014): The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: The Fastest (and Best) Superhero Show On TV

Season Three had some growing pains and is overloaded with characters but is still the shining star on the CW.

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Phantasm: 5 Movie DVD Collection Review: More Silver Balls Than a Tall Man Can Handle

Collecting the entire franchise together for the first time in one cheaply made box.

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Rebecca (1940) Is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a new season of The Flash, an old Hitchock plus Scarlet Johansson getting raunchy, and Pablo Escobar being bad.

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