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Five Cool Things and The Shape of Water

By Mat Brewster | Sep 15, 2017

I watched one movie every day in the month of August. This is quite unusual for me as I usually ...

Five Cool Things and Don Williams

By Mat Brewster | Sep 9, 2017

Just jumping right in... Close Encounters of the Third Time There is a scene relatively early in Close Encounters where ...

Five Cool Things and Hurricane Harvey

By Mat Brewster | Sep 1, 2017

As a semi-professional movie reviewer (meaning I get some free perks, but not an actual pay check), I try to ...

Five Cool Things and a Solar Eclipse

By Mat Brewster | Aug 25, 2017

Another week, another five cool things. The eclipse dominated the headlines this week. I didn't have any special glasses but ...

Five Cool Things and Crimetown

By Mat Brewster | Aug 18, 2017

After a long day of work, I typically want to do nothing but lay on the couch, watch a movie, ...

Five Cool Things and a New Cat

By Mat Brewster | Aug 11, 2017

My wife took my daughter to Kentucky to visit her family this week. As anyone who has been in a ...

By Mat Brewster | Aug 4, 2017

A big thanks to Gordon for handling some of my duties while I was gone. The family and I took ...

San Diego Comic-Con 2017: Taking a Step Back for a Look

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 25, 2017

What if I said that the San Diego Comic-Con International has nothing to do with comics? For anyone that has ...

Five Cool Things and San Diego Comic-Con 2017

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 23, 2017

Mat, the normal curator for this column, and his family have gone on vacation, but with San Diego Comic-Con having ...

Five Cool Things and Ready Player One

By Mat Brewster | Jul 14, 2017

As I'm desperately searching for cool things to write about each week, I've come to realize that while I'm discovering ...

Five Cool Things and Edgar Wright

By Mat Brewster | Jul 7, 2017

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver came out last week. I made plans with my cousin to see it on Tuesday afternoon. ...

Five Cool Things and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

By Mat Brewster | Jun 30, 2017

Another week, another five cool things. GLOW I spoke a couple of weeks back about the trailer to the new ...

Five Cool Things and Game of Thrones: Season 7

By Mat Brewster | Jun 23, 2017

I work from home which has all kinds of advantages. One being that I don't have a boss with prying ...

Five Cool Things and Anita Pallenberg

By Mat Brewster | Jun 16, 2017

Summer has come to Oklahoma which means it's hot. Damn hot. Too hot to do anything but sit inside and ...

Five Cool Things and Wonder Woman Getting Spanked

By Mat Brewster | Jun 9, 2017

I spent much of last week catching up on all the DC films to prepare myself for the release of ...

Five Cool Things and Foo Fighters

By Mat Brewster | Jun 2, 2017

I try to go into movies cold, knowing as little as possible about them. I might watch a trailer and ...

Five Cool Things and The Gifted

By Mat Brewster | May 26, 2017

Its been a tough week around here. Last weekend, the cat we've had for 12 years went into kidney failure, ...

Five Cool Things and Chris Cornell

By Mat Brewster | May 19, 2017

It was a good week for movies in the Brewster house. I watched a couple of things I've been wanting ...

Five Cool Things and Blade Runner 2049

By Mat Brewster | May 12, 2017

My wife came down with something nasty last week. I'm sure I've complained in these pages about the numerous times ...

Five Cool Things and Jonathan Demme

By Mat Brewster | Apr 28, 2017

Let's just get to it, shall we? Here's five cool things I discovered this week. Fargo: Season 3 I've not ...

Five Cool Things and Earth from Saturn

By Mat Brewster | Apr 21, 2017

If I spent most of last week preparing for my daughter's birthday and the visitation of her grandparents, then this ...

Five Cool Things and Good Friday

By Mat Brewster | Apr 14, 2017

This week I spent a lot of time preparing for both my daughter's birthday and the arrival of my in-laws ...

By Mat Brewster | Apr 7, 2017

Last week, I had a lot of fun with my new Amazon Fire TV, streaming shows I'd previously not been ...

My Most Anticipated at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival

By Lorna Miller | Apr 3, 2017

One of the things I look forward to most every year is the TCM Classic Film Festival. It is a ...

Five Cool Things and Christopher Walken

By Mat Brewster | Mar 31, 2017

For my birthday last week, my wife bought me an Amazon Fire TV. We've had an Apple TV for several ...

Five Cool Things and My Birthday

By Mat Brewster | Mar 24, 2017

I'm running out of interesting things to say in the intro to these things so lets just get to it. ...

Five Cool Things and St. Patrick’s Day

By Mat Brewster | Mar 17, 2017

It seems like every time I write one of these I'm making excuses. Someone in my family was sick, or ...

Five Cool Things and Robert Osborne

By Mat Brewster | Mar 10, 2017

I've been writing this column for a little while now so I'm getting pretty good at making little lists of ...

Five Cool Things and Logan

By Mat Brewster | Mar 3, 2017

It's been a busy week in the Brewster home. Work has been absolutely insane. keeping my days mostly pop-culture free. ...

Five Cool Things and an Early Spring

By Mat Brewster | Feb 24, 2017

I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but once again sickness found its way into the Brewster house this ...

Five Cool Things and George “The Animal” Steele

By Mat Brewster | Feb 17, 2017

A great big thanks to Gordon and Shawn for helping out last week. A couple of weeks ago I noted ...

Five Cool Things and Greta Anderson

By Cinema Sentries | Feb 10, 2017

As Mat mentioned in the previous installment of Five Cool Things and..., "For the last couple of months, my wife ...

Five Cool Things and Frederick Douglass

By Mat Brewster | Feb 3, 2017

For the last couple of months, my wife and I have been passing The Crud back and forth between each ...

Five Cool Things and Mary Tyler Moore

By Mat Brewster | Jan 27, 2017

It has been a long, weird week in the Mat Brewster home, culturally speaking. Work has been busy, keeping me ...

Five Cool Things and Moe Howard

By Mat Brewster | Jan 20, 2017

To let you in on a little behind-the-scenes action here at Cinema Sentries, me and boss-man Gordon spent some time ...

Five Cool Things and a Larch

By Mat Brewster | Jan 13, 2017

It is universally acknowledged that 2016 sucked. The world of entertainment and art lost an unimaginable number of talented creators. ...

Best Comic Releases of 2016

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 11, 2017

Written by Katelyn Powers It felt like a dumpster fire kind of year, but let me tell you - it ...

The Best TV Shows of 2016

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 3, 2017

In which Shawn and Kim take a look back at the brilliant storytelling shows from 2016. Shawn: If T&A is ...

Artists Overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2016 Edition)

By Cinema Sentries | Oct 23, 2016

Last week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their nominees for their 2017 induction ceremony, which will be ...

Top 10 TV Shows That Deserve More Attention

By Shawn Bourdo | Sep 24, 2016

Rolling Stone just conducted a major poll involving actors, writers, producers, critics, and showrunners to come up with the 100 ...

Gene Wilder’s Other Films

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 30, 2016

It would be too easy to pick my five favorite Gene Wilder films. It would include the favorites like Willy ...

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 26, 2016

The editors of BBC Culture "decided to commission a poll of critics to determine the 100 greatest films of the ...

Maron Ended and My Dad Died, but Not in That Order

By Darcy Staniforth | Jul 27, 2016

Three years ago today, my family and friends gathered at my parent's house to celebrate the life of my father ...

Ghostbusters Reboot: Why We’re Cautiously Optimistic

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 13, 2016

Written by Elizabeth Eckhart The past few years have been met with constant reboots and remakes of old classics, such ...

Thoughtful & Abstract: DC TV

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 1, 2016

In which Shawn and Kim discuss the weekly DC Comics-based shows and shirtless heroes. Shawn: I've caught up on most ...

My Favorite David Bowie Songs

By Davy | Jan 14, 2016

David Bowie was a genius, a rebel, a god, and a musical innovator who had no equal. He was brilliant, ...

David Bowie, The Heart’s Filthy Lesson, Se7en, and Me

By Kent Conrad | Jan 13, 2016

David Fincher led me to David Bowie. I doubt that was a typical path to the Thin White Duke, but ...

Remembering David Bowie and “Under Pressure”

By generaljabbo | Jan 12, 2016

Being an only child, but having some hip uncles who were more like older brothers, I got exposed to a ...

By Kit O'Toole | Jan 11, 2016

Against a blindingly white background, a man stands alone. Clad in a sky-blue suit and sporting technicolor makeup, the figure ...

T&A Take on TV 2015

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 4, 2016

In which Shawn and Kim reflect on their favorite television programs and the disappointments. Shawn: We've had a few opportunities ...