Five Cool Things and Dune (2020)
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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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
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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
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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
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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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Five Cool Things and Punky Brewster
By Mat Brewster |
Last weekend, I went for a walk around the neighborhood with my wife and young daughter. Along the way, she ...
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Five Cool Things and a Salute to John Prine
By Mat Brewster |
Tomorrow is Easter. Due to social distancing, we won't be attending church, nor will we be having our traditional dinner ...
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Five Cool Things and John Prine
By Mat Brewster |
Many years ago, back when I was writing for another site, I requested to watch and review a new DVD ...
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Five Cool Things and a Murder Most Foul
By Mat Brewster |
This month's theme was movies in which one character or multiple characters were going mad. I called it March Movie ...
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Five Cool Things and Another Five Things
By Mat Brewster |
It has been a weird week. My wife's mother just had hip replacement surgery and the original plan was that ...
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Five Cool Things and Candyman (2020)
By Mat Brewster |
I watched 23 films in the month of February. That's not quite one film a day but it isn't bad ...
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Five Cool Things and Run
By Mat Brewster |
Last month, I watched, on average, over one movie per day. I knew going into February I would not keep ...
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Five Cool Things and The French Dispatch
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I talked about how the themes of this month were going to be foreign films and films made ...
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Five Cool Things and The Jesus Rolls
By Mat Brewster |
After a very successful January in which I watched many films from director Jean-Pierre Melville, I couldn't decide on a ...
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Five Cool Things and A Quiet Place Part II
By Mat Brewster |
I officially watched 34 movies in the month of January. That's more than one movie per day. That's a record ...
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Five Cool Things and the Year of the Rat
By Mat Brewster |
I watched a lot less Jean-Pierre Melville films this week than I did last week. In fact, I only watched ...
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Five Cool Things and Neil Peart
By Mat Brewster |
For the last two years, I have spent the months of October and November viewing movies through a theme. In ...
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Five Cool Things and Another New Cat
By Mat Brewster |
Last month, I finally broke down and subscribed to Disney+. With The Rise of Skywalker coming out, I knew we'd ...
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Five Cool Things and Hunters
By Mat Brewster |
I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I had a great time with mine and my wife’s family. I ...
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Five Cool Things and Wonder Woman 1984
By Mat Brewster |
It is, as the song says, beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Around here anyway. The tree is up, ...
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Five Cool Things and No Time to Die
By Mat Brewster |
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I enjoyed some time with my family (who I don't see that often ...
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Five Cool Things and Honey Boy
By Mat Brewster |
This week, I saw consumed some new things, but mostly revisited older ones. I also found and rediscovered things I ...
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Five Cool Things and Knives Out
By Mat Brewster |
Disney+ launched this week and it seems to be all anyone can talk about. When it was initially announced, I ...
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Five Cool Things and Martin Scorsese Takes on the MCU
By Mat Brewster |
We are right smack in the middle of Noirvember and it has been super fun reading everybody's discussions on the ...
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Five Cool Things and The Witcher
By Mat Brewster |
My apologies for missing last week. My wife and I both came down with some nasty cold/allergy/flu thing and I ...
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Five Cool Things and The Laundromat
By Mat Brewster |
My wife's folks are in town for the weekend and my daughter is dying for us to take her to ...
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By Mat Brewster |
It is finally starting to feel like Autumn around here. After an unseasonably hot September, October has come and with ...
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Five Cool Things and 1917
By Mat Brewster |
My brother spent this week in Japan with his son, my sister, and her husband. The sister told the nephew ...
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Five Cool Things and El Camino
By Mat Brewster |
It's the weekend. Let's get to it. The MCU's Captain America If you've read my writings in these pages over ...
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Five Cool Things and Ric Ocasek
By Mat Brewster |
I went to a late showing of It Chapter Two last night. It was not good. It was not cool. ...
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Five Cool Things and Friday the 13th
By Mat Brewster |
This getting older thing is kind of a bummer. The other day I was bemoaning how old I'm getting and ...
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Five Cool Things and JoJo Rabbit
By Mat Brewster |
It has been a weird summer. June was filled with torrential rains, flooding most of the area for weeks on ...
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Five Cool Things and Terminator: Dark Fate
By Mat Brewster |
School is back in full swing, which always messes with my media consumption. The lazy summer, full of long days ...
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Five Cool Things and The Mandalorian
By Mat Brewster |
Welcome back to Five Cool Things, the weekly article where I discuss all the interesting, really good, and very cool ...
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