Aliens 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What else can one say about James Cameron's iconic 1986 blockbuster sequel Aliens, the groundbreaking follow-up to Ridley Scott's legendary ...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For large portions of my life, I have watched horror movies in the month of October. It is the spooky ...
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Little Darlings 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
During the late '70s and early '80s, there was an abundance of teen flicks, usually centered around virginity, shenanigans, peer ...
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Darkman 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
"Who is Darkman?" the posters asked. They were scattered everywhere - on billboards, the sides of busses, in magazines in ...
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Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
To be honest with you, I have never seen a film by highly influential filmmaker Eric Rohmer (1920-2010), nor have ...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
To call Robert Altman a maverick is a grave understatement. His films were subversive, anti-establishment, funny and strange, inventive, and ...
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Trainspotting Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There have been many films about drug addiction, but only a very few match the wildness and darkly humorous trip ...
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Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968–1978 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Every ten years the British Film Institute releases the Sight & Sound poll, perhaps the most important opinion poll made ...
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Blood Simple 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I think almost every dedicated and loving cinephile has a favorite film by the Coen Brothers. It may be Fargo, ...
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Telefon Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
I have not seen Telefon, but as I am a fan of the works of director Don Seigel, actor Charles ...
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The Apu Trilogy 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
My pick is Criterion's new 4K UHD upgrade of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, which made quite the splash when it ...
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Savage Guns: 4 Classic Westerns Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I love a good Western. I really love a good Italian Western. I really, really love a good boxed set ...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Guillermo del Toro is one of the most awe-inspiring and visionary filmmakers working today. His imagination knows no bounds, and ...
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a young teen, or possibly even a preteen, my cousin Karen, who is 6-7 years older than ...
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Messiah of Evil Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There are certain cinematic experiences that one is unlikely to forget, even if the film's plot is almost nonexistent. Willard ...
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Oppenheimer Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The Tuesday before Thanksgiving traditionally is a big week for new Blu-ray releases as it is the week of Black ...
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The Last Picture Show Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The 1970s was a very pivotal decade for cinema; a cinema full of incredible, personal, and fearless works of filmic ...
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The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The pandemic really elevated my movie-watching numbers. We weren't going anywhere so I'd stay at home and watch movies. It ...
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Nanny Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
When I get ready to do my Pick of the Week, I am usually able to discover some promising and ...
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Paramount Scares Volume 1 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
'Tis the season for treats and tricks, for dressing up and carving pumpkins. 'Tis also the season to watch as ...
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Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary director Tod Browning is one of the all-time unsung heroes of film history. He was willing to go deep ...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
"The only constant in life is change" is an an aphorism credited to Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus that is ...
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Don’t Look Now 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary cinematographer turned filmmaker Nicolas Roeg (1928-2018) was one of the true auteurs of cinema. His oeuvre of classics was ...
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Elemental Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There was a time in my life when a new Pixar movie was a cause for celebration. They continually made ...
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The Trial 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Orson Welles remains one of the most legendary figures in film history. His talent (and ego) knew no bounds. He ...
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Poker Face: Season One Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Rian Johnson has made a career out of subverting genre tropes and creating something wonderful and new. From his first ...
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The Princess Bride 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Westley, Buttercup, Inigo Montoya, Prince Humperdinck, Count Rugen, Vizzini, Fezzik, Miracle Max, and other memorable characters inhabit the 1987 whimsical ...
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The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In 1967, Emmanuelle Arsan published Emmanuelle, a novel about a bored housewife and her sexual adventures in Asia. Seven years ...
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Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
There are always new filmmakers to discover: filmmakers who craft realistic stories about humanity and the joys and pains that ...
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“Asteroid City” Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
It's an interesting time of year with August seeing the blockbusters winding down in theaters as those films looking to ...
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Chameleon Street Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Unfortunately, this is going to be yet another week where I haven't seen any of the new releases, so just ...
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Maggie Moore(s) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Jon Hamm was so good in Mad Men as the moody, almost sociopathically serious Don Draper that it is always ...
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Soundies: The Ultimate Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Just like with a few of my previous PotW posts, I have to do this one differently as well. I ...
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Criterion’s The Ranown Westerns Is The Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In 1955, John Wayne purchased the script for Seven Men From Now from first-time writer Burt Kennedy. He had originally ...
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The Watermelon Woman Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
When I did my review for the original First Run Features DVD of Cheryl Dunye's landmark 1996 lesbian classic The ...
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Tintin Double Feature Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Tuesday is July 4, which of course is the day the United States of America celebrates its independence. We shoot ...
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Claydream Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
As in many a field, not everyone gets the full credit they deserve for the work they done. That's no ...
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Medicine for Melancholy Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Barry Jenkins is one of the finest working filmmakers of his generation. His films gorgeously express the lives of Black ...
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Shaw Brothers Classics Vol. One Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In my review of The Flag of Iron (1980) and Legendary Weapons of China (1982) back in February 2022, I ...
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The Rules of the Game 4K UHD is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Jean Renoir's still impressive and frighteningly resonant critique of social hierarchies continues to be rightly regarded as one of the ...
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The Saragossa Manuscript Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When a movie is loved by such diverse folks as Martin Scorsese, Luis Bunuel, and Jerry Garcia, you know it ...
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Petite Maman Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I don't get out, practically at all, so this PotW is going a little different, just like a few of ...
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In the Line of Duty: I-IV Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Michelle Yeoh recently became the first Asian actress to win an Academy Award. She won it for her starring role ...
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Branded to Kill 4K UHD is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Please bare with me. I don't get out much, nor have instant access to all the cinematic things that a ...
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Anna May Wong Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Well, hello there, old friends. It is your old pal Mat Brewster ready for another round of Pick of the ...
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The Seventh Seal 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Ingmar Bergman wasn't the most upbeat filmmaker. His films were dark, bleak, and pessimistic. But isn't that what life itself ...
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The Maltese Falcon (1941) 4K UHD is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Sam Spade, Ruth Wonderly, the Fat Man, Joel Cairo, Wilmer, and Effie are timeless characters that inhabit The Maltese Falcon, ...
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Inland Empire is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch just may be movie history's strangest and most diabolical director. His films tread a knife's edge ...
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Mildred Pierce 4K UHD Is Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Seeing Mildred Pierce, legendary director Michael Curtiz's celebrated 1945 adaptation of the James M. Cain novel and owning my own ...
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Dazed and Confused 4K UHD is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Richard Linklater's 1993 classic Dazed and Confused is not the deepest of films about the complexities of teenage life, but ...
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