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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The Founder (2016) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It is not exactly controversial for me to say I hate McDonald's. I'd go as far to say I loathe ...
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Hidden Figures Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If you aren't utterly amazed by space travel, then you aren't paying attention - especially in the early days of ...
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I first saw Star Wars…well, I don't actually remember the first time I saw Star Wars. That's A New Hope ...
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Silence (2016) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In my very first Five Cool Things article, I was excited about the trailer for Martin Scorsese's Silence. I also ...
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Live by Night Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm a sucker for gangster stories. There is something utterly fascinating about people who push aside all of society's rules ...
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Fences Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
During that ridiculous let's-bring-in-a-tour-bus-full-of-common-folk-to-the-Oscars bit a few weeks ago, host Jimmy Kimmel asked one of the tourists who her favorite ...
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Moana Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I've always liked Disney movies. but for the most part I've waited until they've reached home video (and have gained ...
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Moonlight Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
We cut the cord year ago and our cheap antenna doesn't really work in our new house. We pick up ...
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Nocturnal Animals Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
As I sit down to write out why Nocturnal Animals is my pick of this week, I realize I know ...
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Arrival Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife is a language nerd. Technically, she's a master linguist having received her degree from Indiana University many years ...
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Loving Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I first noticed Ruth Negga on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where she played Raina, a villain who was working for the ...
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Tom Cruise, the human, seems like a pretty awful dude. He's a high-ranking member of a terrible cult/religion that uses ...
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The Handmaiden Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There is a scene in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy that just might be the greatest fight ever put in a movie. ...
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Girl on the Train Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I was never much of a reader growing up. I would read whatever was assigned to me at school but ...
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His Girl Friday (Criterion Collection) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I can't even remember the first time I saw His Girl Friday. It was high school, probably, or maybe on ...
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Blair Witch Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's difficult now to imagine a time when every movie didn't have its own social media team. Or when there ...
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Snowden Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Turn on the news and you are bound to hear any number of stories about computer hacking of some sort. ...
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Hitchcock/Truffaut Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In 1961, François Truffaut sat down in a Hollywood hotel room with Alfred Hitchcock for a week-long chat about Hitchcock's ...
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I bought a house a few months back. We are first-time home buyers. It's a bit of ...
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Jason Bourne Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I lived in Strasbourg, France for about ten months back in 2004. We sublet a tiny studio ...
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Don’t Breathe Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It's strange this writing things that get published on the internet. You never really know who is reading what your ...
Read More Hell or High Water Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I'm much too young to have grown up during the heyday of westerns. As a kid I didn't like them. ...
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Finding Dory Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have lamented numerous times in these pages about how my young daughter has kept me from seeing a great ...
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Taxi Driver (40th Anniversary Edition) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
If the Avengers are all about saving the world from alien annihilation, then the Defenders have far less loftier goals ...
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Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
As a teenager living in the '80s I developed a great fondness for old '50s, '60s, and '70s television shows. ...
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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Halloween is really sneaking up on me this year. October is normally one of my favorite months of the year ...
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Cafe Society Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
There are a handful of directors that will get me to the theater sight unseen. Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, ...
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
This weekend I gave away the vast majority of my CD collection. I am a collector of things, especially entertainment ...
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Preacher: Season One Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
In this new Golden Age of Television, it's easy to feel a bit like King Midas where every show you ...
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The Neon Demon Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I used to say that the best part of going to the movies was watching the movie trailers before the ...
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Beauty and the Beast (25th Anniversary Edition) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
Memory is a funny thing. It changes and mutates along the way as we get older. My memory says I ...
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Aliens: 30th Anniversary Edition Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I can't remember when I first saw Aliens. It was definitely the plural and not the singular (it would be ...
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Money Monster Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I have never, nor will we ever make a freebie list - a list of five celebrities ...
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The Jungle Book (2016) Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I suppose it's not all that strange that in this world of constant remakes, reboots, prequels, sequels and cinematic universes ...
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