Mat Brewster

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.

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.