The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray Review: Brought Italian Horror to the World
By Mat Brewster |
This Arrow Video set is the Blu-ray with excellent packaging.
Five Cool Things and Anita Pallenberg
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Sherlock, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Panther, Shotgun Stories, David Sedaris, and the Rolling Stones.
John Wick: Chapter 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us Keanu Reeves kicking butt once again, plus vampires, LEGO Batman, fairy tales, and more.
Five Cool Things and Wonder Woman Getting Spanked
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week also include Bruce Springsteen, The Godfather, American Gods, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Spotlight on a Murderer Blu-ray Review: Shine the Light a Little Brighter
By Mat Brewster |
Georges Franju’s follow-up to Eyes Without a Face is more atmospheric than actually scary.
TCM and Fathom Events Present The Godfather
By Mat Brewster |
The Godfather on the big screen – an offer you shouldn’t refuse.
A Cure for Wellness Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It’s a packed week of new releases featuring a beauty, a beast, a cure for wellness, a young Pope, and much, much more.
Evil Ed Blu-ray Review: Not Evil Dead, but Evil Ed
By Mat Brewster |
Still looking for that beaver-rape scene.
Five Cool Things and Foo Fighters
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things I consumed this week include Xenomorphs, superheroes, and Tatiana Maslany dancing in her undies.
Wolf Guy Blu-ray Review: Too Much Guy, Not Enough Wolf
By Mat Brewster |
A bizarre genre mashup gives plenty of ’70s exploitation awesomeness, but very little werewolf.
Ghost World Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A great release week includes, Martin Scorsese picking some world cinema, two silent films, a Christian movie, action, horror, and more.
Five Cool Things and The Gifted
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Alfred Hitchock’s Sabotage, a new X-Men series, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Bloom County, and more.
The Jacques Rivette Collection Blu-ray Review: Not For Me
By Mat Brewster |
Experimental French films are interesting conceptually, but hard sailing to watch.
TCM and Fathom Events Presents the 40th Anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit
By Mat Brewster |
Grab a beer, jump in your vintage Trans-Am, and get ready for a hell of a ride.
Long Strange Trip Movie Review: All a Dream They Dreamed One Afternoon Long Ago
By Mat Brewster |
Ladies and gentlemen, the Grateful Dead…
Logan Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a new Wolverine, a great wall, a socially conscious horror film, a weird French boxed set, werewolves, thugs, midwives, and more.
Five Cool Things and Chris Cornell
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Arrival, Burden of Dreams, Foreign Correspondent, Bob Dylan, and Blow Out.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A pretty slow week brings us zombies, mummys, Martians, Ozu and the return of Xander Cage.
Five Cool Things and Blade Runner 2049
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include the Hulk, Blade Runner, Midnight Special, a new Wolverine, more aliens, and the Grateful Dead.
Heat: Director’s Definitive Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us Michael Mann’s heist classic, girls in prison, serial killers, mutants and much more.
Book Review: Red Barry: Undercover Man, Vol. 1 (1934-1935) by Will Gould
By Mat Brewster |
A lesser-known detective comic from the 1930s gets a fine new release.
Book Review: Star Hawks, Volume One: 1977-1978 by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart
By Mat Brewster |
Innovative science-fiction newspaper strip suffers from poor writing, but Gil Kane’s art really shines.
The Red Turtle Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s new releases include a Studio Ghibli-esque animated film, the director’s cut of Gene Siskel’s favorite movie, a big boxed set of some cult classics and much more.
Property Is No Longer a Theft Blu-ray Review: More Political Treatise than Film
By Mat Brewster |
It will steal your valuable time.
Dead or Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Typical Takashi Miike, Atypical Arrow Video Release
By Mat Brewster |
Miike’s wild, wooly action trilogy gets a disappointing release from Arrow Video.
Five Cool Things and Jonathan Demme
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include new episodes of Fargo and Doctor Who plus The Graduate, a Stephen King adaptation and more.
House: Two Stories Blu-ray Review: Come on in for Some Goofy ’80s Horror
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of not-so-classic comedy-horror films from the 80s get a magnificent release from Arrow Video.
La La Land Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a new musical, an immortal monster, several Valerian Borowczyk films, a Japanese film about noodles, and more.
TCM and Fathom Events Present the 50th Anniversary of The Graduate
By Mat Brewster |
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson.
Story of Sin Blu-ray Review: Not Sinful Enough
By Mat Brewster |
Beautiful, but dull film by a director more noted for his controversies than his staid adaptation of classic novels.
Five Cool Things and Earth from Saturn
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include a book about film noir, Doctor Thorne, Blue Ruin, Robert Hunter and a new Star Wars Trailer.
Book Review: Film Noir Light and Shadow: Shedding Light on Dark Films
By Mat Brewster |
A wonderful resource to understanding one of cinemas greatest genres.
The Founder (2016) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a film about McDonalds, a Studio Ghibli TV movie, James McAvoy playing a bunch of different characters in one film and much more.
Five Cool Things and Good Friday
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include a couple of Criterions, a visit to Narnia, X-Men, and a great new podcast.
Hidden Figures Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us NASA’s untold history, a mad king, some nice-looking horror collections, and much more.
Five Cool Things and the New Pornographers
By Mat Brewster |
This weeks cool things include the X-Men, the New Pornographers, Italian horror, a classic movie festival, and more.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us the latest Star Wars, a new Jim Jarmusch film, and a raunchy comedy.
Donnie Darko Movie Review: Still Well Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
An extraordinary release of an extraordinarily weird movie.
Five Cool Things and Christopher Walken
By Mat Brewster |
This week’s cool things include the Filmstruck app, a Kurosawa film, a couple of shows I’m catching up on, and a new teaser trailer.
The Delinquents Blu-ray Review: For Robert Altman Fans Only
By Mat Brewster |
Juvenile delinquency has never been this boring.
Silence (2016) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a Martin Scorsese film about faith, some fantastic beasts, our own planet in HD, and much more.
Five Cool Things and My Birthday
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Legion, Alfred Hitchcock, Better Call Saul, Cinema Paradiso, and Van Morrison.
Dig Two Graves Movie Review: Gothic Horror Disappoints
By Mat Brewster |
Supernatural mystery looks beautiful but loses itself in an unimaginative script.
Romanzo Criminale: Season 1 & 2 DVDs Review: Excellent Italian Crime Series
By Mat Brewster |
The violent rise and horrible fall of an Italian crime family.
Live by Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us a gangster flick from Ben Affleck, a disgusting one from John Waters, singing animals, and much more.
Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Love Letter to the Cinema
By Mat Brewster |
A beautiful, loving tribute to the magic of movies.
Five Cool Things and St. Patrick’s Day
By Mat Brewster |
Cool things this week include Howl’s Moving Castle, Snotgirl, the Hulk, and more.
The Lovers on the Bridge Blu-ray Review: A Realistic Portrait of Homelessness and Love
By Mat Brewster |
One of those films that many people seem to love or hate.
Fences Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This week brings us Denzel Washington in a critically praised drama, Will Smith in a critically hated one, a sci-fi adventure with Chris Pratt and much more.