Phantom Thread Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The first words out of my mouth--er, keyboard, this week was going to be that I'm a huge Paul Thomas ...
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Insidious: The Last Key Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been writing this column for several years now and I still have no idea how the people who make ...
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's a great time to be a Star Wars fan. I'm not quite old enough to have seen either A ...
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Criterion’s The Passion of Joan of Arc Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The biggest gap in my cinematic education has to be silent films. I've only seen a few of them and ...
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The Shape of Water is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I hope you have some leftover Christmas money because it's gonna be an expensive week, Blu-ray fans. We've got blockbusters, ...
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Thor: Ragnarok Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The 90th Academy Awards aired last night. I have to admit I wasn't all that excited about it this year. ...
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Coco Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Watching Mary and the Witch's Flower this weekend made me reflect on animated films and the studios that create them. ...
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The Florida Project Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Sean Baker has been making movies for nearly twenty years, but only recently has been given the kind of buzz ...
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The Deuce: The Complete First Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
David Simon started out as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun where he worked the crime beat. In 1991, he ...
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Suburbicon is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The Coen Brothers have been some of my favorite filmmakers for a long time. I first saw their work with ...
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
After watching Wonder Woman last year, I became a little obsessed with the character. I read loads of articles online ...
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It;s been a weird couple of weeks. Usually, the week after Christmas sees a huge drop off in the number ...
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Blade Runner 2049 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
One of my pop-culture admissions is that I've never been a huge fan of Blade Runner. I've only seen the ...
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It (2017) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Miniseries have been around since the birth of television but it was the 1980s that really defined what they are ...
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Criterion’s The Breakfast Club Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If you are a child of the '80s, if you are a movie fan of a certain age, then John ...
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I love it when an actor is able to reinvent himself. I love it when you think you've seen everything ...
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mother! Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I love the last few weeks before Christmas, at least from a new Blu-ray release point of view. To get ...
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Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If you read the words I put onto this little website, then you know that I am a Game of ...
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Two Maigret Films Starring Jean Gabin Are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have reviewed two different series (one English, the other French) based upon the Georges Simenon character of Maigret. I ...
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Animal Factory Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Steve Buscemi is one of those guys. Or should I say he's one of those “oh, that guy” in that ...
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's funny how time messes with your mind the older you get. My mind is filled with all of these ...
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George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've loved movies for as long as I can remember. My mother tells the story of the first time I ...
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The Limehouse Golum Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been obsessed with golems since I first read about them in Michael Chabon's novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier ...
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The Dark Tower Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'd call myself a casual Stephen King fan. I've read maybe half a dozen of his books and seen about ...
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The Corpse Grinders Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've often wondered why I like bad movies. Not even bad movies, but bad horror movies, which are set apart ...
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Towards the end of Captain America: Civil War, there is a sweeping scene in which Captain America and Black Widow ...
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A Ghost Story Is The Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I love October. The long, sweltering days of summer are gone. The air is crisp and cool. Sweatshirts go back ...
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David Lynch: The Art Life Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
David Lynch is one of the most fascinating directors working today. His films aren't always good but they are always ...
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Wonder Woman Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I like to think I was something of a feminist before I had a daughter. Certainly, I was for equal ...
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It Comes at Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
One of the best, and most difficult things to do as a movie lover is to come to a movie ...
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Rebecca (1940) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The more films I watch by Alfred Hitchcock the more I'm convinced of his genius. He might have called himself ...
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Batman and Harley Quinn Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is easy to think that Marvel beats DC when it comes to the whole cinematic universe thing. Certainly, they ...
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Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete Second Season Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Almost a year ago to the day, I made Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season my Pick of ...
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Alien: Covenant Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In 1979, Ridley Scott directed Alien a near perfect blend of science fiction and horror and one of the greatest ...
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The Breaking Point Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Ernest Hemingway is one of my all-time favorite writers. He had a way of cutting out all the flab from ...
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John Carpenter SteelBooks are the Picks of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I bought a house a year ago. It is the first house I ever purchased. I've always been a renter. ...
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Lost in America Is the Pick of the Week
By Gordon S. Miller |
Reading Mat's Pick of the Week column over the years, it's quite clear that he is a horror-movie fan. Personally, ...
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Kong: Skull Island Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
What is it about a giant ape wreaking havoc that enthralls us so? Since his inception in 1933, King Kong ...
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The Lost City of Z Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've always loved jungle-adventure movies. There's just something really exciting and mysterious about the jungle. It's exotic and foreign, beautiful ...
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Song to Song Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is a grand July 4th weekend and everybody is out cooking burgers, drinking beer, soaking up radiation at the ...
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T2 Trainspotting Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
The mid-'90s were a great time to be a burgeoning cinephile. Independent films were becoming mainstream, which meant you could ...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Memory is a funny thing. I can remember very clearly the first time I watched Dario Argento's The Bird with ...
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John Wick: Chapter 2 Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I mostly outgrew action films a couple of decades ago. I came of age during the late '80s/early '90s, which ...
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A Cure for Wellness Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Listen closely and you can hear a million voices suddenly cry out in anger that I did not choose Beauty ...
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Ghost World Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was really less than two decades when me and my soon-to-be-wife were ...
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Logan Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've written in these pages on several occasions about how I've evolved in my opinions of comic-book movies several times ...
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a boy, I was what they would nowadays call a gamer. It started with a little Texas ...
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Heat: Director’s Definitive Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Though they've both delved into self parody over the last decade or two, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro will ...
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The Red Turtle Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've been writing this column for almost three years now. That's roughly 156 picks of the week. Yet, I'm still ...
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La La Land Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Every few years, it seems, Hollywood will make a new musical. It will catch on like gangbusters and a slew ...
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