Five Cool Things and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
By Mat Brewster |
Hello and welcome to another installment of Five Cool Things, the biweekly article where I talk about all the fun, ...
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Five Cool Things and Spider-Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Slow Horses by Mick Herron I'm a big fan of the Apple+ series, which is based on this book series ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Mat Brewster |
I think I speak for nearly everyone on the planet when I say that this year has not gone as ...
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By Mat Brewster |
I started this month with the intention of watching a lot of science fiction films set in space. As I ...
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Five Cool Things and Two Jules Dassin Films Get the Criterion Treatment
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I noted that for the month of September I was going to try to watch space-based science fiction ...
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Five Cool Things and No Time to Die Trailer
By Mat Brewster |
It has been a while since I did a theme month for the movies I'm watching. I think I got ...
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Five Cool Things and Chadwick Boseman
By Mat Brewster |
School finally started around these parts. My daughter has been out of school, or at least not physically attending school ...
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Five Cool Things and The Suicide Squad
By Mat Brewster |
My apologies for taking a couple of weeks off. One of our subcontractors told us a few weeks ago that ...
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Five Cool Things and the New Mutants
By Mat Brewster |
It was an eclectic week for old Mat Brewster and his consumption of cool things. We've got new horror movies, ...
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Five Cool Things and a Bookstore Haul
By Mat Brewster |
I got out of the house today. I get out of the house most days, actually. Work takes me to ...
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Five Cool Things and Possessor
By Mat Brewster |
For nearly four months now, my family and I have gotten up on Saturday mornings, piddled around, watched TV, and ...
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Five Cool Things and Gillian Welch’s All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
By Mat Brewster |
Hamilton I finally got to see the show everyone has been talking about for five years. When Hamilton first became ...
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Five Cool Things and the Fourth of July
By Mat Brewster |
It is a holiday weekend and I'm making the most of it. So let's get right into this week's cool ...
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Five Cool Things and Pearl Jam Uncensored
By Mat Brewster |
I'm a huge fan of Letterboxd, the social networking site for film nerds. It is a great way to track ...
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Five Cool Things and Ian Holm
By Mat Brewster |
I was realizing today that we've been on lockdown since mid-March. That's a little over three months in which my ...
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Five Cool Things and Bill & Ted Face the Music
By Mat Brewster |
Our house has two stories but only one HVAC unit. This means that the upstairs (where my bedroom is) always ...
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Five Cool Things and Lovecraft Country
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last few years, I've really upped my movie-watching game. I've gone from watching around 10 movies per week ...
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Five Cool Things and Perry Mason
By Mat Brewster |
I started this month planning to watch a bunch of movies from the late, great, Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. I ...
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Five Cool Things and Tenet
By Mat Brewster |
Every week, I tell myself that as soon as I watch or read or listen to something cool I am ...
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Five Cool Things and Fred Willard
By Mat Brewster |
I recently received, watched, and reviewed a boxed set of three films from Kino Lorber entitled Film Noir: The Dark ...
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Five Cool Things and I Know This Much Is True
By Mat Brewster |
This long lock-down, shut-in has created some interesting situations, not all of them bad. Don't get me wrong, I hate ...
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Five Cool 1930s Movies and a Sixth
By Mat Brewster |
For the month of April, I decided that my theme should be movies made in the 1930s. Actually, my original ...
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Five Cool Things and the Lemonheads
By Mat Brewster |
I mowed and weed-eated my yard today. A small accomplishment I know, but one that felt good. Our house is ...
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