Mat Brewster

Bandits (2001) Blu-ray Review: Not As Bad As You’ve Heard

Come sleep around with the sleepover bandits.

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Independence Day 20th Anniversary Edition is the Pick of the Week

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

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Jane Got a Gun Blu-ray Review: Troubled Production, Decent Results

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

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Brief Encounter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Small but Poignant

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

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Son of Saul Is the Pick of the Week

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

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The Zero Boys Blu-ray Review: Totally ’80s Cheese

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

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Fathom Events and TCM Present On the Waterfront

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

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Death Walks Twice Blu-ray Review: Two Times the Horror, Two Times the Fun

Two Italian giallos get the Arrow treatment.

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The Revenant Is the Pick of the Week

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

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Bride of Re-Animator Blu-ray Review: A Gallows Worth of Fun

All the gore (and humor) you want from the franchise.

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Bride of Re-Animator is the Pick of the Week

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.

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The Forest (2016) Blu-ray Review: Beautiful, but Dull

Not even Natalie Dormer can save this dud.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the Pick of the Week

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

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Blu-ray Review: The Acting and Directing Elevate the Writing

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

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The Hateful Eight is the Pick of the Week

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

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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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