Mat Brewster

This week brings us crazy clones, casual vacancies, a couple of film noirs and lots of TV.

The Good, The Bad, and the Boring.

It’s a great pleasure seeing classic films on the big screen.

Its a great week to be a horror fan.

Were it not for those remarkable actors even Lifetime would be embarrassed by this.

This week brings us sexy artificial intelligence, sexually transmitted haunting, boys with horses, exotic sequels and more.

Don’t be a grump, a grouch or a Trump, and fall in love with Sesame Street again.

This week brings us some nostalgia via the Criterion Collection, Mick Jagger as an outlaw, two versions of a Hemingway story, the Governator battling zombies, and much more.

A spy comedy that’s silly but never ridiculous.

This week brings us some live rock and roll, classic Jack Nicholson, weird Czechoslovakians, and Will Ferrell in corn rows.

This week brings us some classic Terry Gilliam, live Rolling Stones, resurrected British Crime TV, John Travolta forging Monet, and much more.

A social media campaign brought it back and it was well worth the fight.

An early preview of Pixar’s newest film with special guests, behind-the-scenes goodness, and an enormously good time.

This week features some critically panned sci-fi, some critically adored art-house, some wonderful animation, and much more.

Howard Hawks’ classic Western gets a nice upgrade with some new extras, what else is there to say?

Slim pickings this week my friends

This week brings us the conclusions of two great shows, the high definition upgrade of a better one, plus Kevin Costner, loads of cannibals, and a naked Helen Mirren.

This week brings us some interesting Criterions, Bob Dylan in the Basement and lots of TV collections.

Steven Bochco seems to have forgotten what decade it is and made a TV show from the late ’80s.

This week brings us Larry Sanders, Cybermen, women in prison, midwives, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Midler playing Janis Joplin, and more.

Season Two is more confined by its genres, but delivers the goods with its characters.

This week brings us the wonderful David Tennant, cyber hackers, Alzheimer’s dramas, cartoon burgers, lesbian vampires, and more.

A completely forgettable adaptation of a novel I’ll never read.

This week brings us a P.T. Anderson film that isn’t as popular as I expected, a talking Bear that is, plus Mark Wahlberg, King Henry VII, and some bloody good bloody TV.

The screenwriter for some of Kurosawa’s best films discusses their collaboration and more.

This week’s new releases include a murder in the arctic, a sad Jennifer Aniston, Iranian vampires, Liam Neeson getting taken (again), and some arty foreign flicks.

A fun take on both the romantic comedy and femme fatale genres and so cleverly constructed that I never minded its flaws.

If this is the American dream, why would anyone come here?

This week brings us new films by David Croneberg, Jean-Luc Goddard, and Tim Burton plus old films by Carol Reed and Preston Sturges and much more.

This week brings us the Netflix rabbit hole, the Fighters of Foo, The Immigrant, and some TV boxed sets.

It’s a big week for interesting new releases including an Alan Turing biopic, a big outer-space epic, Reese Witherspoon getting real, Hugh Grant being Hugh Grant and much more.

Making me believe in big, bold musicals once again.

This week brings a big Hollywood musical, a bigger battle for Middle Earth, a collection of documentaries, neatly packaged fury, and Angelina Jolie as a director.

This week brings us early Truffaut, new Chris Rock, classic film noir, a silly sequel, and more.

This week brings us a Bible story, a silly remake, a sillier b-movie, and hills coming alive.

This week brings us a very serious Steve Carell, a not so humble Al Pacino, an old Robin Hood, and a gruff sheriff.

With but one season in existence, Lillies makes a nice snack between larger television meals.

This week features two Oscar winners, two Criterions, and a quaint historical drama.

HBO Asia’s first foray into original programming brings forth an entertaining, but ultimately disappointing crime drama.

Seriously, Hollywood, take a cue from the Germans and make more shows like this.

This week has us talking about has-been super-heroes, Japanese folk-tales, dumb comedies, and life itself.

A silly French historical crime drama delivers good mysteries and some hearty laughs.

For detective genre fans, Marie’s Mind for Murder is a nice bit of diversionary television.

The tragic true story of Victor Hugo’s daughter.

This week brings us social commentaries, based-on true stories, foreign horror, and a drugged-up nurse.

A minor and forgotten B-picture winds up being surprisingly entertaining.

With these five movies David Suchet has now played the detective in every Poirot story Agatha Christie ever wrote.

After missing a week I’m back talking about Keanu Reeves, the search for happiness, Australian nurses and more.

The exciting true story of Australian nurses serving in WWI.