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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Anora Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Oscar-winner Sean Baker is a very interesting filmmaker, even if most of his films are about the plight of the ...
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Tombstone 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
"I'm Your Huckleberry." Even if you've never seen Tombstone (1993), you probably know that line. It was endlessly quoted when ...
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Chungking Express Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I am definitely interested in Wong Kar Wai's work, yet I have seen one of his films. However, it was ...
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Some Like It Hot 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
"Well, nobody's perfect!! So says the nebbish Osgood to Jerry when he learns that he's really a man who has ...
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Ugetsu 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
You can't talk about some of the greatest films ever made without mentioning Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953's atmospheric and poetic masterpiece ...
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Night Moves Criterion Collection 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If you are like me and are still in mourning for the great Gene Hackman, then the Criterion Collection has ...
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Losing Ground Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in my recent review for the 4K restoration of late director Kathleen Collins' groundbreaking 1982 ...
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Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (1964-2008) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Apple TV appears to have absolutely no interest in a physical release of Martin Scorsese's award-winning film Killers of the ...
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The Wages of Fear Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
For my Pick of the Week, there's one only film that interests me, and that is legendary French filmmaker Henri-Georges ...
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Amadeus Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Directed by Milos Forman, Amadeus, a period film that charts the rise of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his rivalry with ...
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Crossing Delancey Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
In terms of romantic comedies, I think late, amazing filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 charming modern classic Crossing Delancey, remains ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm old enough to remember Saturday-morning cartoons. I used to sit and map out which cartoons I was going to ...
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Punch-Drunk Love 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my favorite directors. Every film he's ever made have a certain kind of exasperating ...
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Opera (1987) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This past weekend, my local arthouse theater presented a Dario Argento double feature. Before each showing, various notes about the ...
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The Substance Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I know I haven't done that many PotWs on films I've never seen. Last year's acclaimed horror smash ,The Substance, ...
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Inglourius Basterds Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino. He's an undeniably talented writer/director and I have a ...
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Seven 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What else can be said about seminal filmmaker David Fincher's 1995 masterpiece Seven that hasn't already been mentioned? It's a ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Some of the greatest movies ever made are very problematic, meaning that they have themes and characters that are pretty ...
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No Country for Old Men 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Fargo wasn't the first film I ever watched from the Coen Brothers - that would have been Raising Arizona - ...
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The cinema of the 1970s remains some of the boldest, brilliant, and impactful in the history of film. It's also ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Vol. 4 Blu-ray Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Unexpectedly, I am back to offer my thoughts on what I ...
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Play Misty for Me 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There are two very important reasons (among others) why Clint Eastwood's classic 1971 shocker Play Misty for Me is historical. ...
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