The Fisher King Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
At some point during my early teens, we had Showtime or HBO or some such pay-cable channel. Whatever it was, ...
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Chappie Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's always amazing to see a new and interesting director come onto the scene, and then utterly disappointing to see ...
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Kingsman: The Secret Service Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
As I'm browsing through the new releases each week and putting all the interesting ones in new tabs, I make ...
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Parks and Recreation: Season Seven Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Like a lot of people, it seems, I at first dismissed Parks and Recreation as another The Office clone and ...
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The Confession and State of Siege Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My freshman year of college I started collecting movies on VHS tape. I think I realized that with the parents ...
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The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete Series Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
“This is the theme to Garry's show / the theme to Garry's show / Garry called me up and asked ...
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Broadchurch: The Complete Second Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A big thanks goes out to Gordon for finishing last week's pick for me. I had actually written an entire ...
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The Fugitive: The Complete Series is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hello, PotW readers. Mat 's desktop computer went to that great IT department in the sky over the weekend, so ...
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Inherent Vice Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For a moment I thought Inherent Vice was some kind of cheap knock-off film. Let me explain (no, no, there ...
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Fortitude Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
One of the best parts of writing this column every week is learning about all the movies and shows that ...
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Maps to the Stars Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Since I first started watching films, or at least taking them seriously, I've consumed them for their directors more than ...
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A Most Violent Year Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
One of the best things about Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and the other streaming services is finding something you'd never know ...
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The Imitation Game is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Whenever a film based upon real events comes out, there is always a lot of discussion over how historically accurate ...
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Into the Woods is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A funny thing happened on the way to posting this week's pick. Yesterday, I wrote the words you will read ...
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The Soft Skin is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Before she became a stay-at-home mom (and forced me to get a real job, le sigh) my wife taught French ...
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The Sound of Music (50th Anniversary Edition) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My sophomore year in college I started working for the university dinner theatre via the work study program. The previous ...
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Foxcatcher Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Wrestling (real wrestling - not that soap-opera stuff you see on cable TV) is an odd sort of sport. You ...
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Whiplash Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Out of all the winners (and even nominees) of last night's Oscars, I've seen exactly one (The Grand Budapest Hotel). ...
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Birdman Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Last year, I moved from a teeny tiny little town in Tennessee to a slightly larger one in Oklahoma. The ...
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Nightcrawler Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom, a seedy young man who makes a name for himself filming crime scenes ...
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John Wick Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My computer crashed last week. Well, no, that is not exactly true, my computer got very sick so I reformatted ...
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The Drop (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It was a rough year to be a celebrity in 2014. It seems like we lost a lot of greats. ...
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Gone Girl Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I very much like to read, I'm just not very good at it. Or rather I'm not very good at ...
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Boyhood Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I took last week off to spend some time with my wife's family. Her clan are a bit spread out ...
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Pride (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I'm not writing about movies and televisions shows, I run The Midnight Cafe, a little blog that deals in ...
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Arrested Development: Season 4 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
So often when writing this series I have to admit that I haven't seen the things that I pick, or ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My recent visit to Wizard World solidified the fact that while I like geeky things I am not in anyway ...
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Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been blogging now for a little over ten years. I started back in 2004 when my wife and I ...
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Drunk History: Seasons 1 & 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have an unusual sense of humor. I generally don't find the things that the apparent majority of people find ...
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It Happened One Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I bought my first DVD player back in 1999 I vowed that I would only buy really great movies ...
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Lots of TV Series Sets Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You've got to love the (extended) Christmas season. It seems like every year it gets pushed farther and farther up ...
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Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For nearly as long as I can remember and certainly for as long as I've taken cinema seriously, I've been ...
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Deliver Us from Evil (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In case you've been stuck inside without any form of media (or a calendar) over the last month, Halloween is ...
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Snowpiercer Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My in-laws have been spending the week with us. Mostly this is just swell as they are wonderful people who ...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I like the idea of X-Men more than I usually like the execution. The mutant concept with all of the ...
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Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There is a fairly constant discussion in my home over the television. Or rather how much of it my child ...
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Chef Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In college, I had a friend who majored in theater. One day he hit me up to help him out ...
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The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology and Halloween: The Complete Collection Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of years back I decided to finally sit down and watch the notoriously graphic horror movie A Serbian ...
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Eraserhead Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
People always carry on about how wonderful children are - how amazing and beautiful they can be, how they change ...
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A Long Way Down Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I first heard of Nick Hornby through the movie version of his musically obsessed book High Fidelity. The film stars ...
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Line of Duty: Series 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It seems like forever since I've had a really challenging pick of the week. Hardly at all this summer have ...
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Blandings: Series 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I can't remember when I first heard of P.G. Wodehouse. He seems to just always exist in my memory. I ...
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Some folks wax nostalgic about the days when MTV actually played music videos; I get all teary eyed thinking about ...
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The Railway Man Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife, like all red-blooded women (and more than a few red-blooded men) loves Colin Firth. She practically drools anytime ...
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Community: The Complete Fifth Season is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We finally got high speed internet last Wednesday. It is a little ridiculous how excited I am about it. I ...
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Noah (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I went to see Noah with a group of friends on opening weekend. We were a pretty diverse bunch in ...
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The Essential Jacques Demy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Living with my parents is beginning to take its toll. After much looking and consideration, we decided to move into ...
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Under the Skin is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Random story: my father recently got on my mother's computer which is set up slightly different than his own device. ...
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Nymphomaniac Volume I & Volume II Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I suppose every film lover keeps some sort of list of films they feel they should watch at some point. ...
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Cannibal Holocaust Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In the small town in Oklahoma where I grew up, we had a surprisingly big video store. They had taken ...
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