A Nightmare on Elm Street is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
While watching A Nightmare on Elm Street this weekend, I came to realize that it truly is one of, if ...
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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The great Val Lewton, Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer, and screenwriter, was the OG pillar of the less-is-more technique of the ...
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The Blob (1988) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last year, I've been getting into 1950s science fiction films. I'm talking monster movies. I'm talking Godzilla and ...
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Happiness Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
New Jerseyan Todd Solondz is the anti-Woody Allen, meaning that although his characters on the outside are people with intellect, ...
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Torso Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We are getting ever so close to spooky season, and I am here for it. Every October, I watch as ...
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The Stepfather 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The Stepfather (1987), directed by Joesph Ruben, is one of the hidden crown jewels of horror cinema, one that elevated ...
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Repo Man Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Alex Cox's Repo Man is one of those films I'd heard about for years. I'd had it on my to-watch ...
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Real Life Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
The great Albert Brooks (one of my filmmaking heroes) is perhaps cinema's most influential proprietor of angry, uncomfortable comedy, one ...
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Not a Pretty Picture Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm a nerd. Whenever I start to write something, I often check its accuracy. I'm not talking about historical dates, ...
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Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
As a dedicated film buff (and feminist), I always appreciate films about women by women. Doing a little bit of ...
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Bill and Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I purchased my first computer when I was just out of college. I'd previously used broken-down machines, and leftovers from ...
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Election 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Version 1.0.0 In my opinion, 1999 was the second-best year in Hollywood history, behind 1939. There were so many now ...
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The Fall Guy Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
You can go back to something like Jaws in 1975 to trace the rise of blockbuster cinema. Steven Spielberg and ...
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Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In December 1976, an up-to-then-unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone unleashed a little film he both wrote and starred in called ...
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Brokeback Mountain Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Even with only one viewing, Ang Lee's heartbreaking and still impactful 2005 modern classic Brokeback Mountain, will turn the most ...
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The Boy and the Heron Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Hayao Miyazaki was supposed to have retired in 2013. The legendary director of such great films as My Neighbor Totoro, ...
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Cinema Sentries |
Davy's Pick: I haven't seen all of Sam Peckinpah's work, but from the ones I have, I know that he ...
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The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Bruce Lee is one of, if not the most, famous and influential martial arts actors to ever grace the silver ...
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Chinatown 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What else can you say about Chinatown, Roman Polanski's 1974 noir throwback masterpiece that hasn't already been said? It remains ...
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It seems completely crazy to me now, but for years the BBC did little to no archiving of their television ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Terry Gilliam is one of the most creative, ingenious, and equally reviled filmmakers of our time. He creates world full ...
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Anatomy of a Fall Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mat has the day off. Not because it's a holiday, but because he and his family have been without power ...
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Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
I've only seen late director Bob Clark's 1974 cerebral horror classic Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) once, but that was ...
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Dune: Part Two Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I very rarely go to the cinema anymore. I used to go every weekend. Then I got married, and had ...
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High Noon 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Legendary director Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic High Noon was not your typical Western. It was perhaps the first anti-Western, one ...
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Four Disney+ Series Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been collecting physical media for a long time. It was at least as early as high school that I ...
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I Am Cuba Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Despite the fact that legendary Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov was apparently a Communist and his 1964 masterwork I Am Cuba ...
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City of Hope Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Eighteen years ago, I went to the movies with my mother. It was a movie we knew very little about. ...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
What makes Peter Weir's 1975 masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock such a haunting film after all these years? Well, no ...
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First Blood Steelbook 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
For several years now, I've periodically come up with little monthly movie themes for my home viewings. It's a way ...
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To Die For 4K UHD Is the Pick of the Week
By Davy |
Somehow, when Oscar-nominated director Gus Van Sant is discussed, his 1995 film To Die For isn't usually talked about, which ...
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The Ring Collection 4K UHD is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The J-Horror craze of the early 2000s hit me at exactly the right time. I grew up watching slasher flicks ...
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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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