Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I used to work for my university's dinner theater. It was a small school with a small theater that had ...
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Three Films by Leos Carax Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I've only seen one Leos Carax film, which was Holy Motors (2012), but that was enough to make me interested ...
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I Love Boosters Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Boots Riley is a rapper, songwriter, and filmmaker. His first film, Sorry to Bother You, was a wild satire about ...
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Out of the Past Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur's superlative 1947 film noir classic, makes its 4K UHD debut courtesy of Warner Archive ...
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Supergirl (2026) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I think we are all feeling a bit of superhero fatigue. The MCU beat us down, releasing movie after movie ...
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Dirty Harry Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Cinema Sentries |
A pair of Sentries are teaming up to handle this week's PotW column. Gordon S. Miller is covering the main ...
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Disclosure Day Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of years ago, I was chatting with someone on the internet who didn't understand the appeal of Steven ...
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Multiple Picks are the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I'd thought I do something a little different for my week. The films I'm including are those I haven't seen ...
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Project Hail Mary Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I love a good crowd-pleasing blockbuster. It doesn't seem like we get many of those anymore outside of Marvel and ...
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Safe Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Todd Haynes is one of my favorite filmmakers. Being a cerebral person, he doesn't make the same film twice. He's ...
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Soylent Green Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Soylent Green is…well, I won't spoil what Soylent Green is made of for the few people who haven't seen the ...
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I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Award-winning filmmaker Mike Mills has only made a handful of films, but they are solid enough to make him one ...
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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Martin Scorsese is my favorite living director (he's tied with Alfred Hitchcock overall, but he's long dead). Not every film ...
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The Elephant Man Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The legendary David Lynch wasn't known for films about deep humanity, but when he made his 1980 masterpiece, The Elephant ...
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Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits! Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I mean, it has to be Jackie Chan, right? What else could possibly be this week's pick? Well, actually, there ...
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Hairspray Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As we all know, the legendary John Waters is the ultimate "Pope of Trash," but not all of his films ...
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Day of the Dead Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In 1968, George A. Romero directed a tiny little small-budget horror movie called Night of the Living Dead. It became ...
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Bowfinger Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Although I haven't seen it for many years, I always got a kick out of Frank Oz's underrated Bowfinger, which ...
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Charade Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If you don't pay attention to the credits, you'd probably guess that Charade was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is ...
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The Haunting (1963) Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Martin Scorsese placed Robert Wise's legendary 1963 haunted-house chiller The Haunting number one on his list of the scariest movies ...
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Body Heat Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Turning 50 is weird. I've almost certainly lived half of my life. Unless I live to be more than 100, ...
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The Delta Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs is one of our most illuminating portrayers of modern gay life, even if not all of ...
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The Pusher Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The Criterion Channel is currently running a series of movies that feature VHS tapes in some way. I randomly threw ...
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John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The late, great John Singleton, pioneering Oscar/Emmy-nominated filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter, was one of the true pioneers of a new ...
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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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