Five Cool Things and Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole
By Mat Brewster |
Bob Weir (1947-2026) I somehow forgot to mention Bob Weir's passing on my last Five Cool Things. His death certainly ...
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Five Cool Things and The Bride!
By Mat Brewster |
Severance: Season One I know I'm way behind on watching this AppleTV+ series. It seems like everybody who is anybody ...
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Five Cool Things and the Death of Robin Hood
By Mat Brewster |
Hello, and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2025 – The Days Grow Short, the Nights Are Gone
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Streaming/TV 2025 – Marshmallows Are for Team Players
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best-Of List. In 2021, I returned to ...
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Five Cool Things and “Fairytale of New York”
By Mat Brewster |
[Thanks for spending your Christmas Eve with Cinema Sentries. While Santa spends the evening working through his Nice and Naughty ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2025 – This Might Get Unpleasant… Or More Unpleasant
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2024, I have punctuated each year with an ...
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Five Cool Things and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome to another Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly article where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and, ...
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Five Noir Things and the Maltese Falcon
By Mat Brewster |
For several years now, I've been celebrating #Noirvember (November + Film noir), a hashtag that was created by film critic ...
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Five Cool Things and Jeff Tweedy Live
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome once again to Five Cool Things, where I talk about some of the interesting books, movies, and ...
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Five Cool Things and Task
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and ...
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Five Cool Things and Diane Keaton
By Mat Brewster |
Hello, and welcome to yet another edition of Five Cool Things, where I talk about all the interesting things I've ...
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Five Cool Things and The Mandalorian and Grogu
By Mat Brewster |
Welcome to another addition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the interesting, fun, and cool things I've ...
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Five Cool Things and Robert Redford
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome once again to Five Cool Things, the bi-weekly post where I talk about all the interesting and ...
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The Next Best of Robert Redford
By Shawn Bourdo |
The internet will be filled with people's favorite Robert Redford films over the next few days. I expect to see ...
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Five Cool Things and The Roses
By Mat Brewster |
Hello, and welcome once again to another "Five Cool Things and…," the biweekly article where I talk about all the ...
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Five Cool Things and Are We the Baddies?
By Mat Brewster |
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop Growing up, we lived in the same town as most of my mother's family. ...
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Five Cool Things and the 60th Anniversary of Bob Dylan Going Electric
By Mat Brewster |
Greetings and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things, where I talk about all the cool and interesting things ...
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Five Cool Things and Project Hail Mary
By Mat Brewster |
Hello, and welcome to another Five Cool Things, a bi-weekly article where yours truly discusses all the cool and interesting ...
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Five Cool Things and Weapons
By Mat Brewster |
Poker Face: Season 1 Rian Johnson created this homage to 1970s-era detective shows (it specifically owes a great debt to ...
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Five Cool Things and Brian Wilson
By Mat Brewster |
The Eternaut Based on a comic of the same name, this Argentine Netflix series follows a group of friends trying ...
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Five Cool Things and George Wendt
By Mat Brewster |
Farewell, My Lovely & The Big Sleep In 1975, Dick Richards directed an adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, ...
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Five Cool Things and Honey Don’t!
By Mat Brewster |
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) As I mentioned in an earlier article, I had up until recently assumed ...
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Five Cool Things and Predator: Badlands
By Mat Brewster |
Anna Karenina (1935) I have not read the Leo Tolstoy novel this movie is based on, nor seen any of ...
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Five Cool Things and Sturgill Simpson Sings the Grateful Dead
By Mat Brewster |
The Pitt It would be impossible to talk about The Pitt without comparing it to ER. Both shows take place ...
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My 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule
By Lorna Miller |
The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival is rapidly approaching April 24-27. The central theme for the 16th annual event in ...
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Five Cool Things and Val Kilmer
By Mat Brewster |
Black Bag I very rarely go to the movies anymore. They are too expensive. People are obnoxious. They either talk ...
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Five Cool Things and Carrie Coon in the Criterion Closet
By Mat Brewster |
Twin Peaks Sometime during Twin Peaks' original run, I wanna say it was just before Season Two aired, Laura Palmer's ...
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Five Cool Things and R.E.M. Reuniting
By Mat Brewster |
Welcome once again to Five Cool Things where I talk about all the fun, interesting, and yes, cool things I've ...
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“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films
By Shawn Bourdo |
When I heard about Gene Hackman's death this morning, I didn't need to pull up a filmography to remind myself ...
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Five Cool Things and Black Bag
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome to another edition of Five Cool Things where I talk about all the interesting, fun, and yes, ...
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Five Cool Things and The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By Mat Brewster |
Welcome back to Five Cool Things, where I discuss the interesting things that have crossed my path over the last ...
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Five Cool Things and David Lynch
By Mat Brewster |
At the beginning of 2017, I started this series as a way of bringing a little joy and a little ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2024 – I’d Just Allow a Fragment of Your Life to Wander Free
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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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 |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2024 – Where Are You Going, So Full of Hope?
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2023, I have punctuated each year with an ...
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Cinema Sentries 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
By Cinema Sentries |
Gift buying for others is not always so easy. That's why we here at Cinema Sentries are back again with ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2023 – You Can Burn The Midnight Oil With Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2022, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021 I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2023 – Every Day Here Is the Freakin’ Super Bowl
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2023 – I Still Don’t Understand What the Play Is About
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...
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From the Couch Hole: How Long It’s Been Since Yesterday
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Priscilla told a horse's tale about the bling ring. The lullaby was a cure and it was ...
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Cinema Sentries 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
By Cinema Sentries |
Gift buying for others is not always so easy. That's why we here at Cinema Sentries have compiled a holiday ...
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My 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule
By Lorna Miller |
The 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival is right around the corner, and it is time to start planning my schedule. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2022 – Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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The Cinema Sentries 2022 Gift Guide
By Cinema Sentries |
Holiday shopping gets a big push this time of year. In response, the Sentries offer gift-idea suggestions as you shop ...
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From the Couch Hole: Why Worry When It’s Warm Over Here
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Michael was back for Halloween, Ben returned, and Jet Screamer made an appearance. The Hocus Pocus were fruity, ...
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From the Couch Hole: Got My Good Side On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had pebbles that were fruity and pretzels that were beer cheese. We had a skeleton crew, four ...
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From the Couch Hole: And Talking Is the Only Way, Then Rap On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we pumped it up with cinnafuego and a fruit mix-up. There was a prince, a pauper, and uncut ...
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From the Couch Hole: Until You Can Feel It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were cheeto cheese and peach cobbler. We were pulp and mash in dream world and the dark ...
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Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 Friday Program Highlights
By Gordon S. Miller |
Friday's programming schedule has been released. I have less conflicts than yesterday, but looks like the day is going to ...
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