While I did forget to write a Pick of the Week this week I absolutely remembered to write my Five Cool Things. This week the focus was on some movies that came out in 2025 including Train Dreams, A House of Dynamite, She Rides Shotgun, and The Man in My Basement, plus a David Byrne concert and a trailer for an upcoming horror movie.
You can read all about it over at Cinema Sentries.
I’ve been a little remiss with my Noirvember postings, but I’m making up for it with this week’s Five Cool Things. I decided to write about nothing but film noir in this week’s edition. Films include To Have and Have Not, Cairo Station, Out of the Fog, Hell Drivers, Kansas City Confidential and The Maltese Falcon. You can read all about it here.
Hello friends. I’ve got another Five Cool Things up over at Cinema Sentries. This time I’m talking about Bright Rock by Graham Greene, Donna Jean Godchaux, Norah Jones playing with Jason Isbell, the new FX series The Lowdown, Predator Badlands and a Jeff Tweedy concert. Click here to read all about it.
Why am I so terrible about posting the things I’ve written for Cinema Sentries? I don’t know either, but here we are, a week late with my latest Five Cool Things.
Actually, that’s a funny story. I do Five Cool Things every other week. On my off weeks I write a new Blu-ray Pick of the Week for Cinema Sentries. Last week I guess I got them mixed up and I wrote a Five Cool Things when I was suppossed to have written a new Pick of the Week for Cinema Sentries. I did write a Pick for this site (when I don’t write one for CS I write one exclusively for this site).
Just now I wrote a Pick of the Week for Cinema Sentries. The owner of the site sent me an e-mail asking why I had written one this week and not last week. This week it is another guy’s turn to write the Pick. Oops. I guess I wrote a Five Cool Things two weeks in a row.
Anyway, that Five Cool Things that I wasn’t suppossed to have written features Alien: Earth, the Nightmare on Elm Street boxed set, The Phoenician Scheme, an Errol Flynn boxed set, Alan Moores’ comic From Hell, and Task. You can read all about it here.
I just wrote my new Five Cool Things for Cinema Sentries which you can read here. Of course I’ve written lots of other things for Cinema Sentries since I started taking a break on this blog. I’ll try to regularly post those and then go back and post all the other things I’ve written for them and never posted here. Plus some new stuff as well.
I forgot to post last week’s Five Cool Things. This one includes the terrific first season of the very Columbo-esque Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne, the terrific first season of Andor (still haven’t watched Season Two), the brilliant French film Army of Shadows, the final chapter in the Twin Peaks Saga, an episode of Moonlighting where they do Shakespeare and a new trailer for a very interesting movie. You can read all about it here.
My new Five Cool Things is out over at Cinema Sentries. This time I’m talking about The Eternaut, a new Netflix series about apocalyptic snow, Age of Defense, my favorite Tower Defense game, David Byrne’s wonderful new song “Everybody Laughs,” a podcast about the Satanic Panic, Whistable Pearl, a cozy British mystery show, and the life of Brian Wilson.
You can read all about it here.
George Wendt, the actor most known for portraying Norm on Cheers, passed away a couple of weeks ago. I absolutely loved that show and especially that character.
I paid tribute to him and wrote about three Raymond Chandler adaptations, a Thin Man sequel, and the opening credits to a fun new show in my latest Five Cool Things article.
You can read all about it over at Cinema Sentries.
I completely forgot to do a Pick of the Week this week, and since it is already Thursday, I guess I’ll just let it slide.
But I did write a new Five Cool Things. This week I’m talking about Twin Peaks, I See a Dark Stranger, Bob Dylan covering the Pogues, They Might Be Giants (the movie not the band), Platoon and a new movie from Ethan Coen. You can read all about it here.
I forgot to post this last week. But the Five Cool things included the excellent Max series The Pitt, a very cool comic collection of Batman: Earth One, Season One of the wonderful Apple+ series Slow Horses, the also excellent Apple+ series Ted Lasso, a new collection of film noirs from Kino Lorber and Sturgill Simpson performing “Ripple” with an old recording of Jerry Garcia.
You can read all about it here.
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