Five Cool Things and Albert Finney
By Mat Brewster |
It has been cold here in Oklahoma. Like really cold. Like, well, not as cold as it's been in places ...
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Five Cool Things and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
By Mat Brewster |
The sickness is finally starting to abate here in the Brewster household. I'm still coughing a bit but the head ...
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Five Cool Things and American Gods: Season Two
By Mat Brewster |
One of the problems with having so many great television series airing on so many different services is that it's ...
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Five Cool Things and I Am the Night
By Mat Brewster |
I canceled Britbox this week, not because they are a bad service but because I like switching my streaming services ...
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Five Cool Things and Jordan Peele’s Us
By Mat Brewster |
It was back-to-school week for my daughter, which means some adjustments for everybody. Baths need to be taken every night ...
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Five Cool Things and The ABC Murders
By Mat Brewster |
A great big pile of appreciation to my fellow Sentries who helped me out while I was on vacation. I'm ...
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Five Cool Things and Holiday Guests
By Mat Brewster |
After a week of fighting off a nasty viral infection I'm now out of town visiting the in-laws. I'm still ...
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Five Cool Things and “The Revelator”
By Mat Brewster |
I have been battling a nasty viral infection all week. My head has felt like its been hit with a ...
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Five Cool Things and Brightburn
By Mat Brewster |
I've pretty much given up on my whole Christmas theme for this month. I'll probably watch another movie or two ...
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Five Cool Things and Avengers: Endgame
By Mat Brewster |
It turns out I'm not really a fan of Christmas movies. In October, I watched a bunch of horror movies, ...
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Five Cool Things and The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
By Mat Brewster |
It is the last day of Noirvember. All told, I watched 12 film noirs (7 classic, 5 neo-noirs), which is ...
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Five Cool Things and Toy Story 4
By Mat Brewster |
My apologies for missing last week's Cool Things. My kid got sick and then I wasn't feeling well and I ...
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Five Cool Things and a Breaking Bad Movie
By Mat Brewster |
As mentioned last week, November is henceforth dubbed "Noirvember" and as that nomenclature implies, I'll be trying to watch as ...
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Five Cool Things and Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
I watched 27 movies in the month of October, 20 of which one could reasonably count as horror. That's not ...
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Five Cool Things and Vox Lux
By Mat Brewster |
My in-laws were in town for part of last week and a chunk of this one which put a bit ...
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Five Cool Things and The Curse of La Llorona
By Mat Brewster |
My horror marathon continued this week. I made it through all the classic Universal Frankenstein films and moved on to ...
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Five Cool Things and a New Pet Sematary
By Mat Brewster |
Another week in October, another week of horror. I never quite manage a full 31 days of Horror, but this ...
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Five Cool Things and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
By Mat Brewster |
Though the temperatures in Oklahoma have remained in the 90s all week, it is technically Autumn and it is technically ...
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Five Cool Things and Dark Phoenix
By Mat Brewster |
I tend to stay up too late on work nights. I put the kid to bed, play on the Internet, ...
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Five Cool Things and Captain Marvel
By Mat Brewster |
Several years ago, before we moved, the wife and I had a regular foreign-film night. Every second Saturday of the ...
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Five Cool Things and Halloween (2018)
By Mat Brewster |
The county fair is tonight in my fair land. I personally find it rather obnoxious what with its filthy smells, ...
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Five Cool Things and Burt Reynolds
By Mat Brewster |
This was a good week, all in all. I saw some classic films, caught one in the theater for the ...
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Five Cool Things and Operation Finale
By Mat Brewster |
For the first time in a while, I feel back in the swing of things. I've been relatively healthy. Our ...
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Five Cool Things and a Suspiria Remake
By Mat Brewster |
School is back. which should mean that I'm watching a lot more cool stuff as I'm putting my daughter to ...
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Five Cool Things and Aretha Franklin
By Mat Brewster |
I've been binge-watching both Masters of Sex and The Terror all week, which I thought would mean I'd have nothing ...
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Five Cool Things and Kidding
By Mat Brewster |
I have really lousy allergies. I've never gotten any specific testing done on my body but whenever I'm around freshly ...
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Five Cool Things and Making It
By Mat Brewster |
My wife made an observation last night that I tend to have more energy on Thursdays than any other day ...
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Five Cool Things and 16 Years
By Mat Brewster |
As a reviewer, I find that it's much easier to talk about things that I either love or really dislike. ...
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Five Cool Things and Glass
By Mat Brewster |
For the first time in several years, I've managed to get poison ivy. I'm really quite allergic to it and ...
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Five Cool Things and Ant-Man and the Wasp
By Mat Brewster |
It has been another crazy hot week here in Oklahoma. This week I've not been able to just stay inside ...
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Five Cool Things and Paul McCartney’s Carpool Karaoke
By Mat Brewster |
Another week, another five cool things. Conversations with Scorsese Film critic and historian Richard Schickel sat down with Martin Scorsese ...
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Five Cool Things and Juliet, Naked
By Mat Brewster |
It is officially summer here in Oklahoma, which means it is hot. Damn hot. Too hot to do anything but ...
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Five Cool Things and Welcome to Marwen
By Mat Brewster |
This is what I like to call "recovery week." After vacation, I always come home to a large stack of ...
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Five Cool Things and the Grand Tetons
By Mat Brewster |
A big thanks to Gordon and Shawn for filling in for me last week. As noted, I spent the week ...
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Five Cool Things and Anthony Bourdain
By Cinema Sentries |
As Mat stated last week, he's currently off in Wyoming celebrating his in-laws' 50th anniversary. But that doesn't mean people ...
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Five Cool Things and Florence + the Machine
By Mat Brewster |
My in-laws came to town again this week. Diligent readers will remember they were here not very long ago and ...
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Five Cool Things and Christopher Robin
By Mat Brewster |
I gave up Filmstruck to order Hulu so that I could watch the new season of The Handmaid's Tale. I ...
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Five Cool Things and Deadpool 2
By Mat Brewster |
For a long time, I stopped going to the movies. It was too expensive, I didn't live close to any ...
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By Mat Brewster |
I keep track of all the movies I watch every month and have various mental goals to keep up with. ...
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Five Cool Things and U2
By Mat Brewster |
In order to watch the new season of The Handmaid's Tale, I once again ordered a subscription to Hulu. They ...
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Five Cool Things and 2001: A Space Odyssey
By Mat Brewster |
Sorry I'm a little late with the Five Cool Things this week. I have plenty of stuff to talk about, ...
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Five Cool Things and Nothing Compares 2 U
By Mat Brewster |
As mentioned last week, my in-laws were in town this week, also as mentioned they put a damper on my ...
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Five Cool Things and Ocean’s 8
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I noted that I had started several things and not finished them. My hope was to talk about ...
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By Mat Brewster |
Last weekend, we went to Tennessee to visit some old friends for Easter. This week, Oklahoma teachers staged a walk-out ...
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Five Cool Things and The House with a Clock in Its Walls
By Mat Brewster |
My birthday was last Sunday. My wife made me a nice breakfast, we went to a couple of books stores, ...
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Five Cool Things and Mr. Rogers
By Mat Brewster |
It is the start of my birthday weekend (I turn 42 on Sunday). My mother just picked up my daughter ...
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Five Cool Things and Isle of Dogs
By Mat Brewster |
After a long, dreary winter, spring is finally here. Our backyard tree is blooming, the temperatures are warming up, and ...
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Five Cool Things and The Handmaid’s Tale: Season Two
By Mat Brewster |
I have a tendency to be watching, reading and listening to multiple things at once. My wife laughs and scoffs ...
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Five Cool Things and a Yellowstone TV Series
By Mat Brewster |
In my continual playing of roulette with the many streaming services one can subscribe to, I landed on HBO this ...
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Five Cool Things and Izzy Gets the F-ck Across Town
By Mat Brewster |
I shouldn't write these things on Friday. It seems like every week I'm saying how long and exhausting the week ...
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