Tag: Five Cool Things

Five Cool Things and The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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I wanted the sixth cool thing to be that picture of Bob Weir and Taylor Swift at the Grammys that’s been circulating around, but I couldn’t afford the rights to it. I wonder what those two people talked about. Do you think Taylor learned some improvisational tips from Bob? Will she start performing a fifteen-minute version of “Cruel Summer?” Will Bob start wearing a onesie on stage?

Alas, we shall never know. But since I couldn’t talk about that I instead talked about a couple of movies (Lost Highway, Marty) and a few TV shows (Would I Lie To You, Arcane & The Long Shadow) and finished it off with a dumb-looking trailer for yet another attempt at a Fantastic Four movie. You can read it all right here.

Five Cool Things and Moe Howard

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I think I’m going to go through all my Five Cool Things articles that I wrote for Cinema Sentries and post them here. I’ll do it in chronological order starting with the oldest.

I’m going to enjoy re-reading them and seeing how this series develops. For this one, my second ever to write, I talk a bit about how I came up with the idea and the name for the series. For the “And…” part I just used a picture of Moe Howard. I guess it took me a little while to actually start writing something about the sixth thing instead of just being silly.

I also write about Superman, Hell or High Water, Singing in the Rain, The Grateful Dead and Dumbo.

You can read it all here.

Five Cool Things And A Larch

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I thought I had previously posted a bunch of my Five Cool Things articles, but it appears that is not true. So, I thought I’d return to the beginning and post the first one I wrote. Before I started writing these articles for Cinema Sentries I had a separate blog where I was writing about the things I was enjoying every day.

It was just for fun, like I said earlier it was a way of bringing a little joy into a dark world. I did it enough that I wanted to bring it to a larger audience, hence Cinema Sentries. The owner of the site liked the idea but we struggled with a title for it. I knew I wanted to do more than just one cool thing per article and somehow we landed on five things and then we added the “And…”. As a joke my friend decided the first article should be And…a Larch (don’t ask me why.)

And here we are. It is fun reading these old articles and see the things I was enjoying back then. This first one was written in January of 2017. That seems a lifetime ago. You can check it out here.