Mat Brewster

Black Mama, White Mama is the Pick of the Week

This week’s new releases include a classic comedy, a not-so classic exploitation drama, the conclusion of the Hunger Games, and more.

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Black Mama, White Mama Blu-ray Review: Now This Is How You Do Exploitation!

Pam Grier escapes prison, kicks butt and bares her…(heart?) in this classic exploitation flick.

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Brooklyn is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us several award-wining dramas and a ridiculous martial-arts flick.

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Sheba, Baby Blu-ray Review: Blaxploitation, Family Style

In Pam Grier’s last exploitation film they forgot to exploit anybody or anything.

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Macbeth (2015) is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a new Shakespearean adaptation, a reworking of Moby Dick and Frankenstein, plus three films from the French New Wave, and much more.

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Creed and Room are the Picks of the Week

This week brings us three Oscar contenders, Tom Hardy playing twins, a classic sci-fi novel turned into a miniseries by the Syfy network, and much more.

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Pray for Death Blu-ray Review: Not Enough Ninja

Cheese-ball ’80s flick is light on action until the last 20 minutes.

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Fargo: Season Two is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us another excellent season of a Coen Brothers spin-off, another Christmas for Doctor Who, fake moon landings, Catholic covers-ups, and much more.

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A French Village: Season 2 DVD Review:  A Series Full of Some Really Wonderful Stories

An enormous cast tells an interweaving tale of a German-occupied French city.

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Spotlight Blu-ray Review: A Great Film Documenting Terrible Things

A film so good I’ll never watch it again.

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Black Mass Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us Johnny Depp as a gangster, 33 Chilean miners, the Hollywood Blacklist, Steve Jobs, Girls and more.

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Trumbo Blu-ray Review: Bryan Cranston’s Tour de Force

It’s a shame a film about one of the greatest screenwriters is written so poorly.

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Cinema Sentries

Spectre is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us some Bond, a haunted house, a grandma, Leftovers, and much more.

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Bridge of Spies Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us three period dramas, a witch hunter and some zombies playing Tyler Durden.

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Doctor Who: Series Nine, Part Two is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us Doctor Who split apart, Spike Lee modernizing the ancient Greeks, Jack Black fighting children’s monsters, and Bradley Cooper playing with food.

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Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 Ultimate Edition of Awesomness DVDs Review: Not Awesome, But A Lot of Fun

Average animated stories made good by good performances and some stunning animation.

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Criterion’s Inside Llewyn Davis is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us one of the Coen Brothers’ best films, some influential hip hop, a deadly mountain climb, a deadlier internship, and much more.

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Tenderness of the Wolves Blu-ray Review: Not What You Expect, But Better

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s company make a surprisingly gentle serial killer movie.

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The Martian is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us two Criterions, a Victorian Sherlock, a hacking Robot, and Ridley Scott once again making great films.

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Sicario is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us some cool sounding action, high-wire acts, zombies, detectives, Quentin Tarantino inspirations’ and much more.

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Pan is the Pick of the Week

A rather dull week brings us another take on Peter Pan, another take on Bobby Fischer’s life, a two very different takes on religion.

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a couple of Italian horrors, some early Hitchcock, impossible
missions, and more.

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What Have You Done To Solange? Blu-ray Review: Giallo at Its Finest

Sex, violence, and style, or everything you want in an Italian horror film.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a couple of obscure Criterions, a hungry serial killer, silly little yellow creatures and lots of super heroes.

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Poster of roman holiday, a film

Fathom Events and TCM Present Roman Holiday

Once again, Fathom Events and TCM have put a wonderful classic on the big screen.

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Cooties Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us an ice-skiing Robert Redford, an inside look at Amy Winehouse, Roger Waters performing The Wall, and lots of zombies.

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Cinema Sentries

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Glimpses into the Heart of the Artist

Come gather ’round people and watch one of the greatest documentaries ever made.

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Ikiru is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a couple of classics from Criterion, some not-so-classics from Arrow, some disturbing looking stop-motion shorts, Doctor Who at Christmas, and much more.

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The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a big box of awesome Japanese animated films, some early silent films, a couple of Criterions, another Hobbit, and much more.

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Mr. Holmes is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us yet more adaptations of Conan Doyle’s detective, a Kurt Cobain documentary, a french sci-fi flick, Terminators, con men and much more.

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Pixar’s Inside Out is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us some big emotions and little toys from Pixar, half a season of Doctor Who, dark pirates, final girls and much more.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats Blu-ray Review:  Same Story, Massively Different Films

Two Italian horror masters tackle the Edgar Allan Poe tale.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us two takes on an Edgar Allan Poe story, Jake Gyllenhall in the boxing ring, a fair lady, a Mulholland drive, an invasion by classic arcade games, and The Rolling Stones in Japan.

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Wizard World Tulsa 2015: Too Legit (and Sick) to Quit

My second Con experience found me with wife in tow and sick as a dog.

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Jurassic World Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us dinosaurs on the loose, British mysteries starring Doctor Who alum, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in a crazy horror flick, Japanese ghosts, and much more.

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The String Cheese Incident: Rhythm of the Road: Volume 2, Live in Las Vegas Album Review

Three hours of rock and roll jam for your listening pleasure.

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Nakatomi Plaza Die Hard Collection is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a bunch of double dipping special editions, complete sets of two excellent shows, early Cronenberg and more.

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Tremors 5: Bloodlines Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a documentary about Tom Cruise’s religion, another dying teenager, Gus Van Sant’s best film, greased-up naked dudes, possibly the last Ghibli, a nostalgic sequel, and so much more.

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Immoral Tales and The Beast Blu-rays Review: 1970’s French Erotica

In which our hero has to ask himself, how much fake semen can one person handle?

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Cop Car Blu-ray Review: All Thriller, No Filler

A tight, lean little flick that entertains then leaves just as quick.

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The Avengers: Age of Ultron Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us a bunch of dudes in costumes, a pregnant virgin, ghosts rebooted, killers, addicts and plenty more.

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Jane the Virgin: The Complete First Season DVD Review: A Show that Delights in the Ludicrous

A clever, satirical telenovela that will make you laugh, cry, and break your neck it moves so fast.

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Fathom Events and TCM Present Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on the Big Screen

I won’t be able to shower again for weeks.

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Pitch Perfect 2 Is the Pick of the Week

This week brings us some a capella pitches, a lesser Wes Anderson, two more Criterions, a couple of superheroes from the CW and Gumby.

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Happy Valley: Season One DVD Review: Terrific Crime Drama from Across the Atlantic

Who says there’s nothing good on Netflix?

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The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Is the Pick of the Week

Sometimes true life makes for more compelling TV than fiction.

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Van Morrison: Another Glorious Decade DVD Review: For Dedicated Fans Only

An informative, yet rather dull documentary about an transitive period in his career.

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Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven in 3D Fathom Events Review: A Fantastic Time at the Cinema

Watching Doctor Who on the big screen is always a treat.

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