Mat Brewster

Halloween may be over but we’ve got some scary cool things to talk about.

Arrow Video brings a new 4K restoration of this Japanese horror film that started a movement.

It’s a big week for horror films and a terrific week for Criterion fans.

This double feature gift set is sure to make any cinephile smile.

Jean Renoir’s telling of the French Revolution is more history lesson than dramatic film, but it is well worth watching.

A movie so utterly light and unoffensive I can’t hate it.

Cool things abound this week, come inside and find them.

This very slow moving British thriller takes its time getting to the action but is quite good if you have the patience.

Slasher horror meets spring break comedy in this terrible ’80s hybrid from schlock master Umberto Lenzi.

Mario Bava infuses the tired Hercules film with his own sense of style, creating something unique and really fun.

Arrow Video does an excellent job presenting this should-have-been forgotten slasher in a very nice package.

This four-disk set from Kino Lorber demonstrates what a huge talent Ida Lupino was.

It has been a long week but I’m here (if a little late) with some cool things I discovered.

Arrow Video does a nice job spiffing up this movie that is so bad even the director disowned it.

In a culture that seems more homogenized every day, it’s wonderful to see something completely different, which makes this well worth the watching.

An art-house Japanese animated film gets a terrible American treatment.

Come read about all the cool things I discovered this week.

In a cinematic landscape filled with emotionless psychopaths, it is thrilling to find one who is a nice guy.

This series keeps getting better and better.

Let’s hope next week is cooler than this one.

Even a saucy Dame Helen Mirren can’t save this clunker.

George Lazenby should have been a star.

A little less self-righteousness, a little more superhero action would help this show a lot.

Gregory Peck and J. Lee Thompson team up for a third and final time in this dullard of a spy flick.

A stacked cast can’t make this limp anti-Bond spy thriller the least bit interesting.

I might be getting old, but I’m still watching cool things.

GKIDS brings us this animated prequel to Shunji Iwai’s Hana & Alice which is a lovely, episodic, charming day in the life of a burgeoning friendship.

Were this directed by anyone but John Carpenter, it would be a cult classic, but as it is one can only wonder what went wrong.

I’m too old (and grumpy) for this stuff.

With a week this cool, it is hard to believe it’s still technically summer.

Alec Guinness shows off his comedic side in the two classics from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.

Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to Dogtooth is an obtuse, obfuscated, thrilling piece of filmmaking that is worth the watching even if you come out of it completely confused.

This Danish/New Zealand co-production is full of bad storytelling, but it still hooked me enough to keep watching.

School might be back but I’m still discovering cool things to talk about.

Five seasons in, “The Flash” is starting to run out of ideas, but it is still my favorite show in the Arrowverse.

I’m ready to talk cool things once again.

A terrifically fun murder mystery from Canada.

With these three films, Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the history of post-war Germany through the eyes of its women.

While Season Three wasn’t as great as the previous two seasons, I’m still excited to see what happens next.

A solid story and great performance by the core three are hindered by some really terribly designed monsters.

A Pilgrim’s Progress through Catholic history as seen through the satiric lens of Luis Bunuel.

A decisive critique of capitalism, fascism, and the Catholic Church.

For its tenth anniversary, Doctor Who brought all the Doctors in for a rather mishandled story, but their interactions make the whole thing worth it.

Powell and Pressburger’s melodrama is beautiful to look at but a bit old-fashioned to watch.

A nice collection of four films starring the Universal Horror icons.

A subdued Klaus Kinski stars in this krimi/giallo mashup that is never thrilling but often quite dull.

This 1980s horror comedy borrows from 1950s sci-fi to create the perfect late night cable movie.

A problematic but powerful look at racism in 1960s America.

Season Two has all of the fun of the first season, but the story ventures a little too far into the bushes.