Welcome to 2025!

Well, it’s a new year and we are off to a really strong start here at the Shattered Lens!  Thank you to everyone who has contributed this week and thank you to all of our readers!

As I sit here typing this, the wind is howling outside and the temperature is plunging.  We’ve been getting ready for the first big snow storm of 2025, which is supposed to hit us on Thursday.  So, as I shiver and turn a weary eye towards the Golden Globes, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to last week!

Films I Watched:

1. The Ambulance (1990)
2. Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme (2024)
3. The Bat Woman (1968)
4. The Big Chase (1954)
5. Bonnie and Clyde Justified (2013)
6. A Chef’s Deadly Revenge (2024)
7. Dressed to Kill (2025)
8. 48 Hours (1982)
9. From Here To Eternity (1953)
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
11. Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
12. The Hole In The Wall (1929)
13. In A Volent Nature (2024)
14. The Last Innocent Man (1987)
15. Noriega: God’s Favorite (2000)
16. The Twilight Zone Movie (1983)
17. Money Plane (2020)
18. Shoot To Kill (1988)
19. Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
20. Vanished in Death Valley (2025)
21. Vanished Out Of Sight (2025)
22. Wild 90 (1968)
23. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. CHiPs
2. Cobra Kai
3. Dark
4. Days of our Lives
5. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest
6. Going Dutch
7. Hell’s Kitchen
8. King of the Hill
9. Miami Vice
10. Saved By The Bell
11. The Twilight Zone

Books I Read:

1. Mazes and Monsters (1981) by Rona Jaffe
2. Not Even Nominated (2024) by John DiLeo

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Blanck Mass
3. Britney Spears
4. Carly Simon
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. Coldplay
7. Dooms UK
8. Enya
9. Folk Implosion
10. The Hospital
11. Jakalope
12. Labi Siffre
13. Lady Gaga
14. Madness
15. Ramones
16. Rita Coolidge
17. Riz Ortolani
18. Saint Motel
19. Sick Visor
20. Shirley Bassey
21. Skrillex
22. Steve Wilson
23. Tears For Fears
24. X

Live Tweets:

1. Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2. 48 Hours
3. Money Plane
4. The Twilight Zone Movie

Awards Season:

1. Lisa Marie’s Oscar Predictions For December
2. Golden Globes
3. North Carolina Film Critics Association
4. Set Decorators Society of America
5. Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
6. Kansas City Film Critics Circle
7. Greater Western New York Film Critics Association
8. National Society of Film Critics
9. Minnesota Film Critics Association
10. Music City Film Critics Association
11. Columbus Film Critics Association
12. Critics Association of Central Florida
13. Georgia Film Critics Association
14. Kansas City Film Critics Circle
15. North Texas Film Critics Association
16. Columbus Film Critics Association 

Trailers:

1. 6 Trailers For Pop Music Day

News From Last Week:

1. Director Jeff Baena Passes Away At 47
2. Author David Lodge Passes Away At 89
3. Actor Niels Arestrup Passed Away At 75
4. Actor John Capodice Dies At 83

Links From Last Week:

1. 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2025
2. What do The Doors & Mötley Crüe have in common?
3. My 2024 In Books
4. Goodbye 2024! Welcome 2025 With Grilled Onion Smash Burgers And Good Luck Food!

Links From the Site:

1. Case shared a story about fighting!
2. Leonard reviewed Anora and The Substance!  He shared his thoughts on the Golden Globes!
3. Jeff reviewed Airplane!, Airplane 2, Night Shift, Scalplock, Chip of the Flying U, and Re-Election Campaign!
4. Jeff shared a great moment in TV history and a great moment in comic book history!
5. Erin reviewed Stealing Home and shared The Shocking Covers of Crime Detective!  She shared a visual journey through the fog and wished all of you a happy new year!
6. Erin shared Sin Time/Office Pet, Reckless Virgin, One Hot Winter, Passion Holiday, Hope, Movie Humor, and Zippy!
7. Brad revealed what Sergio Leone thought of Charles Bronson and wished happy birthdays to Robert Duvall and John Sturges.
8. Brad reviewed The Children of Huang Shi, Why Not Me?, The Shawshank Redemption, From Noon Till Three, Episode One of Shane, The Mechanic, and The Tall T!
9. I listed what I’m looking forward to in 2025!
10. I reviewed The Love Boat, Monsters, Malibu CA, Highway to Heaven, St. Elsewhere, Friday the 13th, Welcome Back Kotter, Check It Out, and Homicide: Life on the Street!
11. I shared music videos from Lady Gaga, Steven Wilson, Enya, Tears For Fears, Saint Motel, Sick Visor, and Ramones!
12. I shared songs of the day from Nino Rota, Skrillex, Ennio Morricone, Shirley Bassey, and Carly Simon!
13. I reviewed Solomon King, The Power of the Dog, Skokie, And The Band Played On, Shoot To Kill, The Last Innocent Man, Noriega: God’s Favorite, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Escape,  The Life of Emile Zola, Voyage of the Damned, Dressed to Kill, Tucker, The Valiant, Unforgiven, The Wrong Life Coach, Heaven’s Gate, Rockshow, Megalopolis, In Old Chicago, Furiosa,  Save The Tiger, The Don Is Dead, Ghosts Can’t Do It, Chariots of the Gods, Shoot First, Mean Streets, The Deer Hunter, Caligula, The Assassination of Trotsky, Days of Thunder, Enemy Within, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Woyzeck, Starcrash, and Beyond The Poseidon Adventure!
14. I read Not Even Nominated and Mazes and Monsters!
15. I shared 4 Shots From 4 New Year’s Films and 4 Shots From 4 Science Fiction Films!
16. I shared scenes from Tomorrow Never Die, Cobra, Once Upon A Time In America, Metropolis, and Strange Days!
17. I paid tribute to Roger Spottiswoode, George Pan Cosmatos, and Sergio Leone!
18. I shared an AMV, a blast from the past, and my week in television!

More From Us:

1. For Horror Critic, I reviewed In A Violent Nature
2. At my music site, I shared songs from Britney Spears, Dooms UK, The Hospital, Madness and Labi Siffre!
3. At SyFyDesigns, I said “Happy New Year!’
4. At my online dream journal, I shared First Dream of 2025, Disco Dream, and a Fragment!
5. At her photography site, Erin shared A Spider Hard At Work, A Spider Hanging In The Air, The Spider’s Work Is Never Done, The Spider Builds A Trap, and A Spider Does What It Can!

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