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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A Hard Day’s Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A few weeks after we got married my wife and I caught a showing of A Hard Day's Night at ...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last few years, I've regularly complained that the local cineplexes all show the same overblown blockbusters and none ...
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True Detective: Season 1 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
A big thanks to Gordon for handling this column last week while I was away. As he noted I've moved. ...
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Barbary Coast Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
I don't know if Mat's mentioned it, but he and his family are in the process of moving to another ...
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An Adventure in Space and Time Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Though I do remember watching some Tom Baker-era Doctor Who as a kid, one probably needs to call me a ...
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The Monuments Men Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It occurs to me that the Classic Hollywood Star no longer exists. Stars like Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Audrey ...
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Her Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Spike Jonze is an immensely talented, eternally creative, and absolutely brilliant artist. Yet I can't say that I really like ...
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Veronica Mars (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There has been so much great TV playing over the last decade that its really impossible to keep up with ...
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Mr. Selfridge: Season 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'll probably be labeled a terrible dad for admitting this, but there has been a lot of television watching in ...
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Master of the House Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You know its a slow week for new releases when a friggin' Tyler Perry movie is the number-one seller on ...
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Philomena Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife tends to avoid sad films, sad songs, sad everything. She says life is tough enough on its own ...
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August: Osage County Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I was born and raised in Oklahoma. This isn't necessarily something I'm proud of. I mean I didn't really do ...
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Broadchurch: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a little embarrassing to say now, but I came to Doctor Who a bit late in the game. ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
About this time every year when we get our tax refund back, the wife and I give ourselves a hundred ...
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American Hustle Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My mother often says I was born in the wrong decade - that I should have grown up in the ...
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Inside Llewyn Davis Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If I were to remove my critic's hat when you asked me to name my favorite director, I'd likely go ...
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12 Years a Slave Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The 86th Academy Awards show was on last night. It was watched by a lot of people. Usually I'm one ...
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Gravity Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm really not a Sandra Bullock fan. She's attractive and certainly charming, and I really can't knock her acting chops, ...
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Game of Thrones: The Complete Third Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In the months after my daughter was born, I watched an enormous amount of movies and television. As anyone who ...
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Ender’s Game Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In the world of science fiction I consider myself a fan, but not a fan-boy. By which I mean that ...
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Dallas Buyers Club Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I believe I first saw Matthew McConaughey as "past his prime, but still picking up high school girls" David Wooderson ...
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Blue Jasmine Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a pubescent teenager, I used to stay up late on Friday and Saturday nights watching the USA ...
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Rififi Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In the middle of Jules Dassin's 1954 film noir Rififi, which is the father of all heist movies, lies a ...
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Top of the Lake Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Some weeks you gotta ignore the masses and pick what you want. Okay, admittedly I pretty much do that every ...
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Don Jon Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Welcome back. I decided to take last week off because me, the wife and the wee one were off visiting ...
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Prisoners Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
While I am very much a fan of horror, gore, violence, and bloody, anger-filled cinema, my wife is most certainly ...
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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
With some regularity we invite various people, usually university students, over to the house to watch films. Several of them ...
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Dead Like Me: The Complete Series Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I really thought that the first week of December would find us with loads of great new releases. I really ...
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Breaking Bad: The Complete Series Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Who knew a show about an average, normal guy turned very, very bad (or as show creator/runner Vince Gilligan used ...
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The World’s End Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy is not so much a trilogy as it is three films made by the same ...
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Nosferatu (1922): Deluxe Remastered Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My transition from a kid who really liked going to the movies to a full-blown cineaste was long and slow. ...
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The Right Stuff: 30th Anniversary Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Halloween has just ended. Thanksgiving is still weeks away. Is it too early to start thinking about Christmas? The makers ...
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Monsters University Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Pixar. Its name is associated with quality. The company almost single-handedly ushered in a new era of brilliant animation that ...
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The Vincent Price Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Aside from Christmas, I can't think of another holiday that guides people's viewing habits like Halloween. Horror movies become all ...
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Love Actually: Tenth Anniversary Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For much of my life I was a hum-bug. I hated Christmas and all its crass commercialism. I do like ...
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Much Ado About Nothing (2012) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have a geek confession to make. I'm not really a fan of Joss Whedon. I don't hate him. He's ...
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The Wizard of Oz 75th Anniversary Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I want to say that it is impossible to hate The Wizard of Oz, but if the internet has taught ...
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