Mat Brewster

Terrifically stylized anime asks deep questions about technology we’re still trying to answer today.

This week in cool brings us a Deadpool 2 teaser, Ghost in the Shell, All About Eve, and more.

The Bette Davis classic gets a run on the big screen thanks to TCM and Fathom Events.

This week brings us the best Disney music in a decade, a critically praised biopic, a Criterion drama, a creepy flick from Portugal, and Japanese animation.

Mexican horror film aims for something high, falls short into extreme violence and sex.

Batman, Battlestar Galactica, Bruce Springsteen, and more are all cool things I discovered this week.

Cameraperson tells the story of one filmmaker through the dozens of movies she’s shot.

This week brings us an Oscar upset,

Everyday is a new battle with sickness around here, but there’s plenty of cool things to find as well.

This week brings us another Amy Adams pick, a couple of Criterions, Mel Gibson’s return, a Doctor Who Christmas special, and more.

A beautiful collection of historically important comics.

Prince is now available on all streaming services – if that’s not cool, I don’t know what is.

This week brings us Amy Adams’ language skills, a new Cinemax show, an Ang Lee Iraq War movie, a PBS Civil War show, and a gay porn crime drama starring James Franco.

A magnificent presentations of a wonderful period drama

This week brings us an Oscar nominee, another release of Dirty Dancing, Trolls, psychedelic horror, and much more.

Sometimes, even during sickness, one can find cool things.

For its 30th anniversary, Fathom Events put Baby back in the corner for a couple of viewings on the big screen.

This week brings us generic action from Tom Cruise, a queen from England, a Nazi love camp, and more.

South Korean director Park Chan-wook takes a break from his usual shocking ultra violence and makes a magnificently beautiful period drama.

This week I struggled to find five cool things so I brought in a friend.

This week brings us a new film from Park Chan-wook, Robert Langdun solving more clues, a story from Jaws coming to life and much more.

Give this a read, you numbskulls.

The classic Disney film gets a new release with a little bit new and a whole lot of old supplementals.

This week brings us a girl on a train, a fox and his friends, plus Aaron Paul, Jon Hamm, and many others.

Oh, what a feeling to watch it on the big screen.

No matter what the news tells you, there’s lots of awesome things happening all around.

This week brings us a comedy classic, a classic of the French New Wave, a holistic detective, and much more.

This week brings us a sequel no one was asking for, a trip into outer space, Holocaust deniers getting their day in court, and some girls.

The Driller Killer plays like a Taxi Driver knock-off whose arthouse ambitions are overcome by its need to fill grindhouse seats.

This week brings us Oliver Stone’s take on a whistleblower, Ethan Hawke committing violence, teenagers cruising around the country, and more.

A cross-country road movie that will either be held up as a treatise to the restlessness of youth or tossed off as pointlessly boring.

I’d been better off not remembering this thing exists.

Terrifically thrilling first half is marred by too many genre cliches in its back end.

This week brings us a documentary about an influential book, a true life film about a pilot, some horror films, a remake, and more.

This week features Tim Burton’s latest, Ridley Scott’s son, zombies, never-before-seen Star Trek, and more.

First-time director Matthew Ross proves he’s someone to keep watching.

This week brings us a new Bourne movie, a couple of Criterions, Mad Max in black and white and more.

This week brings us some thrilling horrors, some weird anime, and at least two friendly monsters.

A light-hearted romantic comedy with a buoyant Harry Mancini score and Audrey Hepburn at her most chic.

This week’s new releases include a forgetful fish, a killer king (or two), several Criterions, and lots of Buster Keaton.

Wes Craven’s second film is decidedly low budget and grim, but it shows the early promise of a true master of horror.

HBO’s limited series takes a hard look at the American criminal justice system.

This week brings us a blind crime fighter, a killer taxi driver, raunchy sausages, and more.

Stylish ’80s vampire flick has little bite, but doesn’t suck too much.

Mutated mollusks wreak havoc in a small town, and awesomeness on our small screens.

This week brings us an animated Caped Crusader, a sea of trees, bad moms and more.

This week brings us an enormous gore feast, Norman Lear, Bob Dylan, Viggo Mortensen in the woods, and much more.

Due to some personal matters, I only stayed at this year’s con for a couple of hours, but still had tons of fun.

The first five films from the comedy legends get a nice Blu-ray set.