Five Cool Things and The Girl Without Hands
By Mat Brewster |
Sickness has come to house Brewster again. My wife caught a nasty cold late last week and it's stayed with ...
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Five Cool Things and Venom
By Mat Brewster |
The Super Bowl aired this last Sunday. I didn't watch a single second of it. Not even for the commercials ...
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Five Cool Things and Duncan Jones’ Mute
By Mat Brewster |
I'm always late to the party when it comes to awards season. I simply don't make it to the theaters ...
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Five Cool Things and Landscape with Snow
By Mat Brewster |
It's always a challenge for me to balance between the movies I want to see and the television shows I ...
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Five Cool Things and a New Heathers
By Mat Brewster |
I try to write little pieces of this article as I watch, read, and listen to cool things throughout the ...
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Five Cool Things and Fahrenheit 451
By Mat Brewster |
Mat was felled by a stomach bug before he could finish writing his article, which is not a cool thing, ...
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Five Cool Things and the Grateful Dead
By Mat Brewster |
As noted in last week's entry, I spent the week between Christmas and New Year's at my in-laws spending time ...
Read More Five Cool Things and Goodbye, 12; Hello, 13
By Mat Brewster |
Hope everybody had an excellent Christmas. I kind of hope it was a little dull pop-culturewise or I'm about to ...
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Five Cool Things and a Merry Christmas
By Mat Brewster |
Apologies for the absence of Five Cool Things last week. I usually try to write them on Thursday night and ...
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Five Cool Things and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
By Mat Brewster |
Winter is no longer coming, but is here, and with a vengeance. I woke up to temperatures in the teens ...
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By Mat Brewster |
I cut the cord many years ago. Netflix and my DVD collection do me just fine, thank you very much. ...
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Five Cool Things and an Incredibles Sequel
By Mat Brewster |
Thursday was Thanksgiving here in the United States. It has always been one of my favorite days of the year. ...
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Five Cool Things and Dragon’s Lair
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I feared I was going to get sick like the rest of my family, which put me to ...
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Five Cool Things and R.E.M’s Automatic for the People
By Mat Brewster |
Sickness has been passing through my family. Both my parents got crazy sick a couple of weeks ago. Then my ...
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Five Cool Things and The Disaster Artist
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I are not party people. We are much more comfortable sitting at home, watching movies, playing games, ...
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Five Cool Things and The Square (2017)
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I noted that I somehow managed to watch quite a few movies even though my in-laws were in ...
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Five Cool Things and the Tragically Hip
By Mat Brewster |
My in-laws came in for a visit this week. They are lovely people and I always enjoy their time here, ...
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Five Cool Things and The Last Jedi Trailer
By Mat Brewster |
Hi, remember me? I'm your local writer who talks about new releases and cool things each week. Except for the ...
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Five Cool Things and Tom Petty
By Gordon S. Miller |
I am taking over the reigns this week, the start of which was pretty brutal with the tragic loss of ...
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Five Cool Things and Annihilation
By Mat Brewster |
My wife had a birthday this week. I don't want to complain that my wife's birthday screws up my ability ...
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Five Cool Things and Joan Crawford
By Mat Brewster |
I don't know about you but I spend inordinate amounts of time searching for something to watch. You will regularly ...
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Five Cool Things and The Shape of Water
By Mat Brewster |
I watched one movie every day in the month of August. This is quite unusual for me as I usually ...
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Five Cool Things and Don Williams
By Mat Brewster |
Just jumping right in... Close Encounters of the Third Time There is a scene relatively early in Close Encounters where ...
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Five Cool Things and Hurricane Harvey
By Mat Brewster |
As a semi-professional movie reviewer (meaning I get some free perks, but not an actual pay check), I try to ...
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Five Cool Things and a Solar Eclipse
By Mat Brewster |
Another week, another five cool things. The eclipse dominated the headlines this week. I didn't have any special glasses but ...
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Five Cool Things and Crimetown
By Mat Brewster |
After a long day of work, I typically want to do nothing but lay on the couch, watch a movie, ...
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Five Cool Things and a New Cat
By Mat Brewster |
My wife took my daughter to Kentucky to visit her family this week. As anyone who has been in a ...
Read More Five Cool Things and Glacier National Park
By Mat Brewster |
A big thanks to Gordon for handling some of my duties while I was gone. The family and I took ...
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Five Cool Things and San Diego Comic-Con 2017
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mat, the normal curator for this column, and his family have gone on vacation, but with San Diego Comic-Con having ...
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Five Cool Things and Ready Player One
By Mat Brewster |
As I'm desperately searching for cool things to write about each week, I've come to realize that while I'm discovering ...
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Five Cool Things and Edgar Wright
By Mat Brewster |
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver came out last week. I made plans with my cousin to see it on Tuesday afternoon. ...
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Five Cool Things and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
By Mat Brewster |
Another week, another five cool things. GLOW I spoke a couple of weeks back about the trailer to the new ...
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Five Cool Things and Game of Thrones: Season 7
By Mat Brewster |
I work from home which has all kinds of advantages. One being that I don't have a boss with prying ...
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Five Cool Things and Anita Pallenberg
By Mat Brewster |
Summer has come to Oklahoma which means it's hot. Damn hot. Too hot to do anything but sit inside and ...
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Five Cool Things and Wonder Woman Getting Spanked
By Mat Brewster |
I spent much of last week catching up on all the DC films to prepare myself for the release of ...
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Five Cool Things and Foo Fighters
By Mat Brewster |
I try to go into movies cold, knowing as little as possible about them. I might watch a trailer and ...
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Five Cool Things and The Gifted
By Mat Brewster |
Its been a tough week around here. Last weekend, the cat we've had for 12 years went into kidney failure, ...
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Five Cool Things and Chris Cornell
By Mat Brewster |
It was a good week for movies in the Brewster house. I watched a couple of things I've been wanting ...
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Five Cool Things and Blade Runner 2049
By Mat Brewster |
My wife came down with something nasty last week. I'm sure I've complained in these pages about the numerous times ...
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Five Cool Things and Jonathan Demme
By Mat Brewster |
Let's just get to it, shall we? Here's five cool things I discovered this week. Fargo: Season 3 I've not ...
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Five Cool Things and Earth from Saturn
By Mat Brewster |
If I spent most of last week preparing for my daughter's birthday and the visitation of her grandparents, then this ...
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Five Cool Things and Good Friday
By Mat Brewster |
This week I spent a lot of time preparing for both my daughter's birthday and the arrival of my in-laws ...
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Five Cool Things and the New Pornographers
By Mat Brewster |
Last week, I had a lot of fun with my new Amazon Fire TV, streaming shows I'd previously not been ...
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Five Cool Things and Christopher Walken
By Mat Brewster |
For my birthday last week, my wife bought me an Amazon Fire TV. We've had an Apple TV for several ...
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Five Cool Things and My Birthday
By Mat Brewster |
I'm running out of interesting things to say in the intro to these things so lets just get to it. ...
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Five Cool Things and St. Patrick’s Day
By Mat Brewster |
It seems like every time I write one of these I'm making excuses. Someone in my family was sick, or ...
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Five Cool Things and Robert Osborne
By Mat Brewster |
I've been writing this column for a little while now so I'm getting pretty good at making little lists of ...
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Five Cool Things and Logan
By Mat Brewster |
It's been a busy week in the Brewster home. Work has been absolutely insane. keeping my days mostly pop-culture free. ...
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Five Cool Things and an Early Spring
By Mat Brewster |
I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but once again sickness found its way into the Brewster house this ...
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Five Cool Things and George “The Animal” Steele
By Mat Brewster |
A great big thanks to Gordon and Shawn for helping out last week. A couple of weeks ago I noted ...
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