Mat Brewster

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.

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.