Mat Brewster

A good cast and beautiful visual style can’t save a bad script.

Despite its flaws, King Kong remains a wonderful spectacle and a bonafide classic.

After a week off, I’m back with many cool things.

Foreign Film February comes to and end with a lot of very American movies and the conclusion of a terrific French series.

A spooky premise and an excellent set of extras can’t save this trilogy of films from getting hung up on.

There’s a little bit for everyone – Stephen King fans, French film buffs, Italian horror fans, arthouse nerds – in this week’s cool things.

Henri-Georges Clouzot tale of doomed love works like a film nor in a melodrama setting.

Another week, more cool things.

Foreign Film February is off to a great start.

I’m not one prone to hyperbole but Deadly Manor might be the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen.

Arrow Video presents this late entry into the slasher genre that spends too much time developing character when it should be chopping up bodies with an axe.

January was a great month for cool things. Here’s hoping February has just as many.

Happy Chinese New Year, everybody.

A movie I loved as a kid as depreciated a great deal over the years.

Watching “An American in Paris” on the big screen was an exceptional experience and one I fully recommend.

This week I dig deep into French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s films and we mourn the loss of a great drummer.

Another week filled with cool new things.

It was really hard to just pick five, but never fear.

A film so bad the guys at Mystery Science Theater 3000 called it “pretty good.”

Paul Schrader’s directorial debut gets a nice new release from Kino Lorber.

A sluggish, limp and completely uninteresting Elmore Leonard adaptation.

Volume 3 of this ongoing collection features four lesser films from the Universal Horror archives which will thrill any fan.

A loving portrait of country living, and a life full of regrets.

A low budget, low frills, completely ridiculous, and totally awesome early ’80s masterpiece.

Alec Guinness (with a Scottish brogue) squares off with John Mills in this military drama.

An incredible feat of filmmaking that left me breathless and confused.

Five early Hitchcock films come to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and show the Master of Suspense learning his craft.

My last cool things until 2020

A lovingly curated (if cheaply put together) collection that highlights one of the all-time great actresses’ careers.

Scream Factory brings the entire The Fly series into a terrific boxed set that makes a perfect Christmas gift.

Even a head full of junk can’t keep me from cool things.

Action, adventure, romance! What more could a teenage boy want?

Low budget sci-fi thriller has some interesting ideas, but can’t quite pull it off.

A beautiful telling of a tragic story.

It is better on second viewing, with a decade of the MCU having passed, but it is still rough going.

You’ll wish you were in Hell instead of watching this movie.

I watched some movies this week, and rediscovered an old game.

It is another big week for Blu-ray releases, we’ve got your scoop.

Who needs Disney+ when we’ve got the Criterion Channel?

The best-selling novel gets a neutered adaptation but an excellent release by Arrow Video.

Don Siegel’s 1973 crime thriller is yet one more reason to love Walter Matthau.

It’s a big, beautiful week for new releases.

Ida Lupino stars in this excellent melodrama with noir trappings.

I am joined by a guest this week.

If you allow yourself to relax and let its myriad of stories wash over you, there is plenty to like.

Excellent film noir from Carol Reed might not be as good as “The Third Man,” but it isn’t too far off either.

This post-war thriller might not be a white-knuckler, but its attention to detail and observations on humanity make it quite thrilling.

Come and see all the cool new releases coming out this week.

Gloria Grahame elevates a pretty decent film noir into something you must see.

This 1980s folk horror is light on scares and heavy on nothing happening.