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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Seven Samurai 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I lived for several years in Bloomington, Indiana while my wife pursued her graduate-school dreams. Bloomington is a strange little ...
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Godzilla (1954) 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I have to admit, I hadn't seen any of the Godzilla films (except for Roland Emmerich's disastrous 1998 remake) nor ...
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Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We are three days away from Halloween and this week brings us a slew of horror packages in all shapes ...
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Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The Hellraiser franchise is obviously not the most consistent saga of horror cinema, but each of the movies (even the ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
While watching A Nightmare on Elm Street this weekend, I came to realize that it truly is one of, if ...
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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The great Val Lewton, Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer, and screenwriter, was the OG pillar of the less-is-more technique of the ...
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The Blob (1988) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last year, I've been getting into 1950s science fiction films. I'm talking monster movies. I'm talking Godzilla and ...
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Happiness Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
New Jerseyan Todd Solondz is the anti-Woody Allen, meaning that although his characters on the outside are people with intellect, ...
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Torso Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We are getting ever so close to spooky season, and I am here for it. Every October, I watch as ...
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The Stepfather 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The Stepfather (1987), directed by Joesph Ruben, is one of the hidden crown jewels of horror cinema, one that elevated ...
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Repo Man Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Alex Cox's Repo Man is one of those films I'd heard about for years. I'd had it on my to-watch ...
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Real Life Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The great Albert Brooks (one of my filmmaking heroes) is perhaps cinema's most influential proprietor of angry, uncomfortable comedy, one ...
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Not a Pretty Picture Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm a nerd. Whenever I start to write something, I often check its accuracy. I'm not talking about historical dates, ...
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Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As a dedicated film buff (and feminist), I always appreciate films about women by women. Doing a little bit of ...
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Bill and Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I purchased my first computer when I was just out of college. I'd previously used broken-down machines, and leftovers from ...
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Election 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Version 1.0.0 In my opinion, 1999 was the second-best year in Hollywood history, behind 1939. There were so many now ...
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The Fall Guy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You can go back to something like Jaws in 1975 to trace the rise of blockbuster cinema. Steven Spielberg and ...
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Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In December 1976, an up-to-then-unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone unleashed a little film he both wrote and starred in called ...
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Brokeback Mountain Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Even with only one viewing, Ang Lee's heartbreaking and still impactful 2005 modern classic Brokeback Mountain, will turn the most ...
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The Boy and the Heron Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Hayao Miyazaki was supposed to have retired in 2013. The legendary director of such great films as My Neighbor Totoro, ...
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Cinema Sentries |
Davy's Pick: I haven't seen all of Sam Peckinpah's work, but from the ones I have, I know that he ...
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The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Bruce Lee is one of, if not the most, famous and influential martial arts actors to ever grace the silver ...
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Chinatown 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What else can you say about Chinatown, Roman Polanski's 1974 noir throwback masterpiece that hasn't already been said? It remains ...
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It seems completely crazy to me now, but for years the BBC did little to no archiving of their television ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Terry Gilliam is one of the most creative, ingenious, and equally reviled filmmakers of our time. He creates world full ...
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Anatomy of a Fall Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mat has the day off. Not because it's a holiday, but because he and his family have been without power ...
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Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I've only seen late director Bob Clark's 1974 cerebral horror classic Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) once, but that was ...
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