Mr. Holmes is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
By my count, there have been over 800 kajillion filmic adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. Within the last few years we've ...
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Pixar’s Inside Out is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It was a tough October. I got strep throat and followed it with a nasty virus that turned into an ...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Autumn is by far my favorite season. The dog days of summer slip into the cool, crisp nights of fall. ...
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Jurassic World Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I was 17 when Jurassic Park came out in 1993. Even then, I knew it wasn't a great film, artistically ...
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Nakatomi Plaza Die Hard Collection is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Forgive me if I begin this Pick of the Week with a bit of a rant. In all forms of ...
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By Mat Brewster |
I was 14 when the original Tremors came out. I loved it. We all did, my family and me. It ...
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The Avengers: Age of Ultron Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Tuesday morning of last week, I woke up feeling fine. I turned off the alarm, got out of bed, got ...
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Pitch Perfect 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up attending the Churches of Christ. One of the things that distinguishes us from the million other churches ...
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The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There have been a lot of discussions of late about the injustices of our justice system. About how if you ...
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Gotham: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Steven Spielberg recently predicted that the superhero movie (and presumably the superhero TV show) will eventually go the way of ...
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Mad Max: Fury Road Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My parents were early adapters to the home-video market. They were given a Betamax sometime in the early '80s, but ...
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Two Days, One Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My DVD/Blu-ray collection is divided up into a few different categories. There are TV shows, foreign films, my main collection, ...
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Day For Night is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
As someone who has never made a film but absolutely loves watching them, I'm completely fascinated by movies about making ...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have a good friend who is probably the smartest guy I've ever met. I like to joke that he's ...
Read More Orphan Black: Season Three is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have this completely random rule that I have to watch at least 10 movies every month. Now to all ...
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Orphan Black: Season Three Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have this completely random rule that I have to watch at least 10 movies every month. Now to all ...
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White God is the Pick of the Week
By Luigi Bastardo |
As a certain Italian schlockumentary once reminded us many moons ago, it's a dog's world out there. And some distant ...
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As an extreme film lover, I'm always torn between variety. Sometimes, there is too much to choose from, and it ...
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What We Do in the Shadows Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's a good week to be a horror fan. I've no doubt complained in these pages before how I rarely ...
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Ex Machina Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
At work today, I was listening to the Invisibilia podcast, specifically the one entitled “Our Computers, Ourselves.” It was all ...
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The Big Chill Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been writing about new DVDs and Blu-rays for a few years now. You'd think this would give me some ...
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The Who: Live at Shea Stadium 1982 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's Summer. It's hot. School's out. Vacations are on. Everybody is busy. I have to yell at my wife every ...
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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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