Mat Brewster

Five Cool Things and Good Friday

This week’s cool things include a couple of Criterions, a visit to Narnia, X-Men, and a great new podcast.

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Hidden Figures Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us NASA’s untold history, a mad king, some nice-looking horror collections, and much more.

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Five Cool Things and the New Pornographers

This weeks cool things include the X-Men, the New Pornographers, Italian horror, a classic movie festival, and more.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us the latest Star Wars, a new Jim Jarmusch film, and a raunchy comedy.

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Donnie Darko Movie Review: Still Well Worth Watching

An extraordinary release of an extraordinarily weird movie.

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Five Cool Things and Christopher Walken

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.

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The Delinquents Blu-ray Review: For Robert Altman Fans Only

Juvenile delinquency has never been this boring.

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Silence (2016) Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a Martin Scorsese film about faith, some fantastic beasts, our own planet in HD, and much more.

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Five Cool Things and My Birthday

Cool things this week include Legion, Alfred Hitchcock, Better Call Saul, Cinema Paradiso, and Van Morrison.

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Dig Two Graves Movie Review: Gothic Horror Disappoints

Supernatural mystery looks beautiful but loses itself in an unimaginative script.

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Romanzo Criminale: Season 1 & 2 DVDs Review: Excellent Italian Crime Series

The violent rise and horrible fall of an Italian crime family.

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Live by Night Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a gangster flick from Ben Affleck, a disgusting one from John Waters, singing animals, and much more.

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The poster of the movie Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Love Letter to the Cinema

A beautiful, loving tribute to the magic of movies.

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Five Cool Things and St. Patrick’s Day

Cool things this week include Howl’s Moving Castle, Snotgirl, the Hulk, and more.

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The Lovers on the Bridge Blu-ray Review: A Realistic Portrait of Homelessness and Love

One of those films that many people seem to love or hate.

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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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