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Five Cool Things and Chadwick Boseman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Thoughtful & Abstract: A Good Opinion Is Hard to Find

It's been a minute since we put forth some of our Grade A, doctor-recommended, mother-approved opinions on pop culture and ...
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Poster of the movie Parasite directed by Bong Joon Ho

Five Cool Things and Another Five Things

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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Five Cool Things and Wonder Woman 1984

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Five Cool Things and Robert Forster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome back to Five Cool Things, the weekly article where I discuss all the interesting, really good, and very cool ...
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