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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Doctor Who: The Complete Seventh Series Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I watched Doctor Who periodically as a kid. It wasn't a show I loved, or made sure I was home ...
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The Bling Ring Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Sofia Coppola has only directed five films in her entire career. I've only seen three of them, and I wasn't ...
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Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up in the late '80s/early '90s and slasher flicks informed my early film life. Sort-of. My parents wouldn't ...
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Five Dolls for an August Moon Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a weird week for releases. There is a ton of television coming out - both old and new ...
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The Great Gatsby (2013) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I read The Great Gatsby when I was in high school, or possibly early in college. Whenever it was, I ...
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Amour Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I rarely go to the theatre anymore - too much trouble, too expensive, and audiences are way too obnoxious. Even ...
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The Mindy Project: Season One Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have an odd relationship with the American version of The Office. For the first few seasons, I loved it. ...
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The Sapphires Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes it pisses me off knowing that I'm gonna die before so much cool stuff is invented. Every day I ...
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Banshee: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There is so much good, interesting TV on these days I can hardly keep track. At the beginning of this ...
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Trance Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I don't always love Danny Boyle's movies, but they are always interesting. From the pounding music and jump-cuts of Trainspotting ...
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Evil Dead (2013) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
People love to slag on sequels and especially remakes. Whenever one is announced, the Internet explodes with righteous anger calling ...
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Spring Breakers Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It makes a certain amount of sense that actresses who have spent their childhoods on squeaky clean television shows to ...
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The House I Live In Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Several months ago I made a very deliberate decision to avoid the news in general and politics in specific. It ...
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Upside Down Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Every week as I write this column, I am amazed at just now many movies are released each week. Hundreds ...
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Stoker Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a great week to be a movie fan. This week's DVD/Blu-ray releases have a little something for everyone. ...
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Wild Strawberries Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
From time to time in this weekly series I like to discuss the ways and means to which I choose ...
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Breaking Bad: The Fifth Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
With but a half season to go Breaking Bad is very near to completely proving itself to be one of ...
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The Grass Is Greener Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I guess Memorial Day weekend doesn't really rate in the DVD-seller's handbook. There is a whole lot of not-much coming ...
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Rick Steves Europe: All 100 Shows (2000-2014) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I love to travel. At last count we have visited 21 other countries. That isn't a brag, ...
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Cloud Atlas Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes you gotta go with your gut. I tend to take this Pick of the Week thing a little too ...
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Band of Outsiders Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I can't remember the first time I watched a foreign language film. I remember watching some on Bravo (back when ...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Seasons 1-3 Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I am not what one would consider to be a trekkie (or a trekker or if you want to get ...
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The Impossible (2012) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes it seems that we are constantly engulfed in tragedy. If it isn't a school shooting, it is an earthquake ...
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Django Unchained Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The very last scene of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2 shows Uma Thurman's character cuddling with her daughter. It ...
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Hyde Park on Hudson Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Who would have thought that Dr. Peter Venkman could be so poignantly fragile as Herman Blume in Rushmore? Who in ...
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One: Avengers Assembled is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I am not much for comic book movies. This is likely due to me not having read many of the ...
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Lincoln Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Time and time again Daniel Day-Lewis proves himself to be our greatest living actor. He doesn't make a lot of ...
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Les Miserables Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For a large part of my life I've been a theatre geek by accident. In high school, I took several ...
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Life of Pi Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is good to see that in this post-Oscar season we're finally getting large crops of interesting DVD releases. This ...
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Wreck-It Ralph Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Like a million other boys I grew up playing video games. I cannot begin to fathom how many countless hours ...
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The Master (2012) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Though I had only seen but one of the nominated films, I sat with my wife and watched the entirety ...
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Game of Thrones: The Complete Second Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I came to George RR Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice through the TV show Game ...
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Skyfall Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The conclusion of the whole internet debacle is that I now have satellite internet. The commercials all hype the high ...
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Picks of the Last Three Weeks
By Mat Brewster |
Cinema Sentries has been without a Pick of the Week, where we comment on the new DVD/Blu-ray releases, for the ...
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To Rome with Love Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Woody Allen is New York City. The celebrated director set the majority of his films in the city, and often, ...
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The Hour 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
With the huge success of Mad Men there have been a number of shows who have tried to capture a ...
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Cosmopolis Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You might have noticed the absence of The Pick of the Week here at Cinema Sentries last week. The reason ...
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Masters of the Universe: 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
With essentially every television show and movie ever made now available at the click of a button, nostalgia is taking ...
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The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
One of the more liberating things about college was to find people just as passionate about movies as I was. ...
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The Dark Knight Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
With his Dark Knight Trilogy, Christopher Nolan not only created one of the greatest comic-book adaptations but one of the ...
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Luck: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You would think that the Tuesday after the big Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday madness that we'd have a week ...
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