Mat Brewster

This week brings us invasions, counterculture icons, Holocaust survivors, and a fancy mop.

Natalie Portman more than holds her own as the star, but it’s Joel Edgerton that really shines.

A far cry from David Lean’s big epics, but sometimes small is just as beautiful.

This week brings us two movies about the Holocaust, three films from Criterion, Natalie Portman with a gun, a Christmas horror story, and more.

An odd-ball action/horror hybrid that will surely scratch that bad ’80s flick itch.

You’ll believe he coulda been a contender when you see it on the big screen.

Two Italian giallos get the Arrow treatment.

This week brings us Leonardo DiCaprio getting torture porned, Maggie Smith living in a van, Julia Louis-Dreyfus playing politics, and much more.

This week brings us reanimated corpses getting married, Cary Grant as a fly-boy, DC comic heroes fighting, other Heroes being reborn, and much more.

Not even Natalie Dormer can save this dud.

This week brings us Star Wars! And some other stuff.

Robert Altman and his cast turn a second-tier script into something worth watching.

This week brings us new Tarantino, old foreign classics, cyborgs, Will Smith, and more.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Go watch it. Now.

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

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

Short films, big emotional punch.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two Italian horror masters tackle the Edgar Allan Poe tale.

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.

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