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Five Cool Things and Resident Evil

By Mat Brewster | May 13, 2026

Hello and welcome to an all-new of Five Cool Things, the biweekly article where I talk about all the interesting, ...

Five Cool Things and Idiots

By Mat Brewster | Apr 29, 2026

Hello and welcome to an all-new (almost) all-book edition of Five Cool Things, the biweekly article where I talk about ...

Five Cool Things and Mother Mary

By Mat Brewster | Apr 15, 2026

Hello and welcome to an all-new (almost) all-book edition of Five Cool Things, the biweekly article where I talk about ...

Five Cool Things and Wild Horse Nine

By Mat Brewster | Apr 1, 2026

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things, where I talk about all the interesting, fabulous, and, yes, ...

Five Cool Things and Dune: Part Three

By Mat Brewster | Mar 18, 2026

Hello and welcome once again to Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly series where I talk about all the fun, interesting, ...

Five Cool Things and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

By Mat Brewster | Mar 4, 2026

Hello and welcome to another installment of Five Cool Things, the biweekly article where I talk about all the fun, ...

Five Cool Things and Spider-Noir

By Mat Brewster | Feb 18, 2026

Slow Horses by Mick Herron I'm a big fan of the Apple+ series, which is based on this book series ...

Five Cool Things and Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole

By Mat Brewster | Feb 4, 2026

Bob Weir (1947-2026) I somehow forgot to mention Bob Weir's passing on my last Five Cool Things. His death certainly ...

Five Cool Things and The Bride!

By Mat Brewster | Jan 21, 2026

Severance: Season One I know I'm way behind on watching this AppleTV+ series. It seems like everybody who is anybody ...

Five Cool Things and the Death of Robin Hood

By Mat Brewster | Jan 7, 2026

Hello, and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2025 – The Days Grow Short, the Nights Are Gone

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 4, 2026

From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Streaming/TV 2025 – Marshmallows Are for Team Players

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 28, 2025

From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best-Of List. In 2021, I returned to ...

Five Cool Things and “Fairytale of New York”

By Mat Brewster | Dec 24, 2025

[Thanks for spending your Christmas Eve with Cinema Sentries. While Santa spends the evening working through his Nice and Naughty ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2025 – This Might Get Unpleasant… Or More Unpleasant

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 21, 2025

From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2024, I have punctuated each year with an ...

Five Cool Things and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

By Mat Brewster | Dec 9, 2025

Hello and welcome to another Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and, ...

Five Noir Things and the Maltese Falcon

By Mat Brewster | Nov 27, 2025

For several years now, I've been celebrating #Noirvember (November + Film noir), a hashtag that was created by film critic ...

Five Cool Things and Jeff Tweedy Live

By Mat Brewster | Nov 12, 2025

Hello and welcome once again to Five Cool Things, where I talk about some of the interesting books, movies, and ...

Five Cool Things and Task

By Mat Brewster | Oct 22, 2025

Hello and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and ...

Five Cool Things and Diane Keaton

By Mat Brewster | Oct 15, 2025

Hello, and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things, where I talk about all the interesting things I've ...

Five Cool Things and The Mandalorian and Grogu

By Mat Brewster | Oct 1, 2025

Welcome to another addition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the interesting, fun, and cool things I've ...

Five Cool Things and Robert Redford

By Mat Brewster | Sep 17, 2025

Hello and welcome once again to Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly post where I talk about all the interesting and ...

The Next Best of Robert Redford

By Shawn Bourdo | Sep 16, 2025

The internet will be filled with people's favorite Robert Redford films over the next few days. I expect to see ...

Five Cool Things and The Roses

By Mat Brewster | Sep 3, 2025

Hello, and welcome once again to another "Five Cool Things and…," the biweekly article where I talk about all the ...

Five Cool Things and Are We the Baddies?

By Mat Brewster | Aug 20, 2025

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Growing up, we lived in the same town as most of my mother's family. ...

Five Cool Things and the 60th Anniversary of Bob Dylan Going Electric

By Mat Brewster | Aug 5, 2025

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things, where I talk about all the cool and interesting things ...

Five Cool Things and Project Hail Mary

By Mat Brewster | Jul 9, 2025

Hello, and welcome to another Five Cool Things, a bi-weekly article where yours truly discusses all the cool and interesting ...

Five Cool Things and Weapons

By Mat Brewster | Jun 25, 2025

Poker Face: Season 1 Rian Johnson created this homage to 1970s-era detective shows (it specifically owes a great debt to ...

Five Cool Things and Brian Wilson

By Mat Brewster | Jun 11, 2025

The Eternaut Based on a comic of the same name, this Argentine Netflix series follows a group of friends trying ...

Five Cool Things and George Wendt

By Mat Brewster | May 28, 2025

Farewell, My Lovely & The Big Sleep In 1975, Dick Richards directed an adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, ...

Five Cool Things and Honey Don’t!

By Mat Brewster | May 14, 2025

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) As I mentioned in an earlier article, I had up until recently assumed ...

Five Cool Things and Predator: Badlands

By Mat Brewster | Apr 30, 2025

Anna Karenina (1935) I have not read the Leo Tolstoy novel this movie is based on, nor seen any of ...

Five Cool Things and Sturgill Simpson Sings the Grateful Dead

By Mat Brewster | Apr 16, 2025

The Pitt It would be impossible to talk about The Pitt without comparing it to ER. Both shows take place ...

My 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule

By Lorna Miller | Apr 8, 2025

The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival is rapidly approaching April 24-27. The central theme for the 16th annual event in ...

Five Cool Things and Val Kilmer

By Mat Brewster | Apr 2, 2025

Black Bag I very rarely go to the movies anymore. They are too expensive. People are obnoxious. They either talk ...

Five Cool Things and Carrie Coon in the Criterion Closet

By Mat Brewster | Mar 19, 2025

Twin Peaks Sometime during Twin Peaks' original run, I wanna say it was just before Season Two aired, Laura Palmer's ...

Five Cool Things and R.E.M. Reuniting

By Mat Brewster | Mar 5, 2025

Welcome once again to Five Cool Things where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and yes, cool things I've ...

“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 27, 2025

When I heard about Gene Hackman's death this morning, I didn't need to pull up a filmography to remind myself ...

Five Cool Things and Black Bag

By Mat Brewster | Feb 19, 2025

Hello and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the interesting, fun, and yes, ...

Five Cool Things and The Fantastic Four: First Steps

By Mat Brewster | Feb 5, 2025

Welcome back to Five Cool Things, where I discuss the interesting things that have crossed my path over the last ...

Five Cool Things and David Lynch

By Mat Brewster | Jan 22, 2025

At the beginning of 2017, I started this series as a way of bringing a little joy and a little ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2024 – I’d Just Allow a Fragment of Your Life to Wander Free

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 5, 2025

From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2024 – I’m Living in a Movie That You’re Writing in Your Head

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 29, 2024

From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2024 – Where Are You Going, So Full of Hope?

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 22, 2024

From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2023, I have punctuated each year with an ...

Cinema Sentries 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 10, 2024

Gift buying for others is not always so easy. That's why we here at Cinema Sentries are back again with ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2023 – You Can Burn The Midnight Oil With Me

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 7, 2024

From 2005-2013 and 2014-2022, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021 I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2023 – Every Day Here Is the Freakin’ Super Bowl

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 31, 2023