Mat Brewster

Fences Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Shut In Blu-ray Review: Naomi Watts Deserves Better

Good cast, terrible movie.

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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Limited Steelbook Blu-ray Review: Philosophical Animated Noir with Boobs

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

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Five Cool Things and Robert Osborne

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

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Fathom Events and TCM Present “All About Eve”

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

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Moana Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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We Are the Flesh Blu-ray Review: Grotesquely Beautiful

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

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Five Cool Things and Logan

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

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Cinema Sentries

Cameraperson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Beautiful, Sad, Wonderful

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

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Moonlight Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us an Oscar upset,

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Five Cool Things and an Early Spring

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

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Nocturnal Animals Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies Vol. 2 (1935-1939)

A beautiful collection of historically important comics.

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Five Cool Things and George “The Animal” Steele

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

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Arrival Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Howards End Blu-ray Review:  Luxuriously Lush

A magnificent presentations of a wonderful period drama

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Loving Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Five Cool Things and Frederick Douglass

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

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Fathom Events Presents Dirty Dancing

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

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Is the Pick of the Week

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

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The Handmaiden DVD Review: A Twisting, Turning Korean Thriller

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

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Five Cool Things and Mary Tyler Moore

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

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The Handmaiden Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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Five Cool Things and Moe Howard

Give this a read, you numbskulls.

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Pinocchio: The Signature Collection Blu-ray Review: Delightful For All Ages

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

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Girl on the Train Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Cinema Sentries

TCM and Fathom Events Present Singin’ in the Rain

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

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Five Cool Things and a Larch

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

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His Girl Friday (Criterion Collection) Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Blair Witch Is the Pick of the Week

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.

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The Driller Killer Blu-ray Review: All Driller, No Thriller

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

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Snowden Is the Pick of the Week

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

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American Honey Blu-ray Review: Director Andrea Arnold Takes Kids on the Road

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.

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Creepshow 2 Blu-ray Review: Stick to the Original

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

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe Movie Review: Contains a Lot to be Recommend

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

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Hitchcock/Truffaut Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Frank & Lola Movie Review: Not Your Average Love Story

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

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Jason Bourne Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Don’t Breathe Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Fathom Events and TCM Present Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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

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Hell or High Water Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a modern western, and old horror flick, a couple of Criterions, Marlon Brando directing and much more.

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Finding Dory Is the Pick of the Week

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

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Blu-ray Review: Gritty, Dirty, Bloody Fun

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

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The Night Of Blu-ray Review: Terrific TV

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

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Taxi Driver (40th Anniversary Edition) Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Vamp Blu-ray Review: Fun, but Forgettable

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

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Slugs Blu-ray Review: Delightfully Terrible

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

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Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Is the Pick of the Week

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

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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Is the Pick of the Week

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

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