28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We live in a cinematic world that seems completely devoid of new ideas. Everything is a remake, a reimagining, or ...
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Trouble in Paradise Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch remains of the greatest filmmakers in film history. He always knew how to make sparkling romantic ...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've never heard of the Wandering Ginza Butterfly movies, but seeing that they star Meiko Kaji, I'm immediately on board. ...
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A Man and a Woman Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As I mentioned in my forthcoming review for Claude Lelouch's 1966 romantic landmark A Man and a Woman, it's a ...
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Killers of the Flower Moon Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Martin Scorsese is my favorite, living film director. When it was announced that he would be shooting an adaptation of ...
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Testament Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As harrowing as The Day After and Threads as well as other films about nuclear annihilation are, they were at ...
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Peter Sellers Early Classics Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I first came to Peter Sellers through the Pink Panther films. I loved those films as a kid. Well, if ...
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Hamnet Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
The film awards season of 2026 is in the home stretch, concluding with the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15. ...
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Excalibur Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We live in the worst timeline, with possibly one exception. We continue to get incredible physical releases of all sorts ...
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All the President’s Men Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The final film in seminal director Alan J. Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy (along with 1971's Klute and 1974's The Parallax View), ...
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Playtime Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker best known for creating the character of Monsieur Hulot, a clumsy, naive man who ...
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Criterion’s 3:10 to Yuma Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Normally, the western isn't the genre I gravitate towards, but when done right, I can get behind it. And I ...
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Once a Thief (1991) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is apparently impossible for me not to pick John Woo films when they get a 4K UHD upgrade. They've ...
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The Dead (1987) Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary Hollywood filmmaker John Huston didn't make the same film twice. He was brilliantly all over the place with different ...
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Five Pink Panther Films Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a little kid, I loved the animated sequences featuring the Pink Panther character that ran during the ...
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Dead Man 4K Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Although I own a copy of Criterion's Blu-ray edition of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), I still have not seen ...
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We Are Still Here: 10th Anniversary Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The horror genre is unfortunately maligned in the film world, which is weird considering it always has a way to ...
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I was in college, me and my buddies used to watch Pee-Wee's Big Adventure at least once a week. ...
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Salaam Bombay! Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Films about poverty (especially childhood) are never the most joyful watches, but if they are made with love, commitment, and ...
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The Killer (1989) Deluxe 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a great time to be a John Woo fan. Several of his classic Hong Kong films have received ...
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Eyes Wide Shut Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The legendary Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) didn't direct that many films, but when he did, he really made them. There was ...
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A Better Tomorrow Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A Better Tomorrow is one of the defining films of Hong Kong cinema. It put director John Woo on the ...
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Burden of Dreams Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Burden of Dreams (made by the late, great Les Blank) is one of the most grueling. making-of documentaries ever made. ...
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Hard Boiled Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
As a teenager, I was a huge fan of action films. This was the late 1980s to early 1990s, so ...
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The Toxic Avenger (2025) Is Also the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
[Editor's note: Hey there, CS readers. Got a Halloween treat for you this week and it doesn't require putting on ...
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Ms .45 Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
New York in the 1980s and exploitation cinema went hand in hand, and one of the masters of it at ...
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Eyes Without a Face Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Before David Cronenberg perfected it, "body horror" was already a radical type of horror cinema. The fascination with bodily consequences ...
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Peanuts: 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I suppose every generation has its favorite Peanuts special. They've been making a new one every few years since A ...
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The Wes Anderson Archive Is Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Ever since his 1996 directorial debut Bottle Rocket, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Wes Anderson has been the go-to for offbeat and ...
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28 Years Later Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I first started blogging back in 2004. That was before social media took over everything. Blogs enabled people who weren't ...
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Born in Flames Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
With right-wingers running amok and trying to silence everyone these days, filmmaker Lizzie Borden's 1983 punk feminist cult classic Born ...
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High and Low 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Spike Lee has just released Highest 2 Lowest, his remake of the Akira Kurosawa classic High and Low. Just in ...
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan first appeared in the October 1912 issue of the pulp magazine, The All-Story. The son ...
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High Tension: Four Films by Lamberto Bava Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Mario Bava was one of the greatest Italian directors. I especially love his work in the horror genre. He essentially ...
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Shoeshine Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Personally, I think Italian neorealism captures the bleakness and unpredictability of poverty amongst the most marginalized of societies better than ...
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It Follows Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Horror films have often used sex as a metaphor for a variety of cultural anxieties, but it's hardly been done ...
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Sunset Boulevard 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What else can be said about Billy Wilder's 1950 masterpiece Sunset Boulevard that hasn't already been said? It's a classic ...
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Knights of the Round Table Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
As friends and social-media followers know, I spent the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con where upcoming projects, such as the ...
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You Can Count on Me Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Oscar-winning playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan hasn't made that many films, but when he does, he really gives it ...
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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut's debut film, is often cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. It is ...
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Barry Lyndon 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Master filmmaker (and cinema perfectionist), the late Stanley Kubrick didn't make that many films. But when he did, he really ...
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The Big Heat 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Presumably due to the Fourth of July weekend, where presumably all God-fearing, patriotic Americans will be spending their hard-earned money ...
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Sorcerer Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Seeing clips, trailers, and reactions from fellow film lovers, it seems that Sorcerer, the late, great director William Friedkin's 1977 ...
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Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Getting older is so strange. I turn 50 next year. That's unbelievable to me. Every day it seems like there ...
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The Wiz Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There was only a matter of time before filmmakers created an African American version of the classic 1939 musical The ...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last few years, I've become a huge fan of Paul Schrader. I first knew him as a screenwriter ...
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Killer of Sheep Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There are some films that you can watch only once but you're forever changed by them. They have the power ...
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Doctor Who: The Savages Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Fans of Classic Doctor Who know that there are a great many of those old episodes completely lost to time. ...
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May Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The horror genre happens to be one that is really close to my heart. It is definitely one that contains ...
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In the Heat of the Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a weird, small week for new releases. I've long since given up trying to figure out why some ...
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