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

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

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

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 Special Edition: Best of 2006 Redux (You’re Gonna Walk with Me and Talk with Me)

I'm taking a break on the First Anniversary of FTCH. I love my usual format because it allows me to ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2021 – No Need to Worry, No Need to Cry

From 2005 through 2013, my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2021 – Like a Rainbow Crafted by a Drunken Leprechaun

From 2005 through 2013, my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2021: Don’t Cry in My Office

From 2005 through 2013, my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. ...
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Best of 2020 (Pandemic Edition): Best of the Rest

2020 BY THE NUMBERS 4,872,686 steps taken this year (2361 miles, 64 less than 2019)365 Days walking over 5 miles ...
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Best of 2020 (Pandemic Edition): The TV/Streaming Lists

From 2005 through 2012 I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2020 (Pandemic Edition): The Film Lists

From 2005 through 2012 I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2019 Assorted Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2019 TV / Streaming Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2019 Film Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2018 Assorted Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2018 TV Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2018 Film Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Our Favorite Movies of 2018 So Far

Written by Staff While there's still half of the summer roster to go and a slew of films that are ...
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Best of 2017 Assorted Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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Best of 2017 TV Lists

We live in a very high-quality TV-show era now. Maybe the top end isn't as strong as a decade ago ...
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Best of 2017 Film Lists

From 2005 through 2012, I pretty consistently wrote my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog. It continued inconsistently through 2013 before being ...
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The Best TV Shows of 2016

In which Shawn and Kim take a look back at the brilliant storytelling shows from 2016. Shawn: If T&A is ...
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T&A Take on TV 2015

In which Shawn and Kim reflect on their favorite television programs and the disappointments. Shawn: We've had a few opportunities ...
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Favorite Films of 2014

When the Academy Award nominations are revealed in just a few hours, the final stage of marketing/recognizing films and filmmakers ...
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Favorite Robin Williams Performances

As news of Robin Williams' death at the age of 63 broke across the media landscape, there was a slow ...
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Favorite Tom Cruise Movies

Over the past 30 years, few actors have been as big a movie star as Tom Cruise has. With his ...
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Favorite Time-travel Movies

This weekend the X-Men franchise returns to theaters with Days of Future Past, which finds Wolverine being sent back in ...
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Favorite Monster Movies

With Gareth Edwards' Godzilla roaring into theaters this weekend, it seemed as good a time as any to reveal our ...
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Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2014

While the calendar says different, movie-goers know the first weekend of May is when summer begins. Over four months, Hollywood ...
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My Top Picks for the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival

Each year when the schedule for the TCM Classic Film Festival is posted, I feel equal levels of excitement and ...
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The Sentries Select Their Favorite Film of 2012

Joining in the award-season festivities, we here at the site wanted to mention a few of our favorites from 2012.  ...
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Our Favorite Christmas Movies

As a gift to our faithful readers, Cinema Sentries offers up a few of our favorite Christmas movies. Christmas in ...
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Iconic Movie Scenes from the ’80s

You never know where inspiration is going to come from. Earlier in the month before he began contributing to the ...
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Classic Films Made After 1991

Written by Staff Sentry Greg Barbrick reviewed the book Reel Culture where author Mimi O’Connor chose “50 films you should ...
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Most Anticipated Films of 2012

With a new year upon us, it's the perfect time to start marking the calendar with release dates. What follows ...
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Best Movies and Trailers of 2010

Each year I predict what my favorite movies for the upcoming year will be.  I'm usually so far off that ...
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