Here’s The Latest Trailer For The Fate of the Furious

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Oh my God, Dom’s turned on the family!?

And apparently, Charlize Theron is going to be the most dangerous woman in movies this year. Check out in the Atomic Blonde trailer after watching this one for The Fate of the Furious.

Here’s the Trailer for Atomic Blonde!

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here’s the trailer for Atomic Blonde, which stars Charlize Theron as an ass-kicking British spy.

I have to admit that, whenever I have the office to myself here at the TSL Bunker, I often imagine what would happen if a bunch of spies suddenly showed up and started trying to hack into our files. In my imagination, it usually plays out something like this trailer.

Except, of course, it’s called Atomic Redhead…

Artwork of the Day: A Key To The Morgue

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

Artist Unknown

Music Video of the Day: Knowing Me, Knowing You by ABBA (1977, dir. Lasse Hallström)

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Valerie Troutman

It took 33 music videos, but I think I’ve reached what is my current favorite ABBA music video. This is the Snow Version of Knowing Me, Knowing You. We already did the Sailboat Version.

If there’s one thing that should be clear by now about ABBA music videos, it’s the importance of blocking in them. I think this video is one of the finest examples of that. I love the parts of the video where the person singing switches, but the camera doesn’t cut as you would normally expect it to. Instead, it either moves on its own to another member of the group, or follows one of them into another position onscreen.

The other reason I particularly like this music video is because it features more of Benny and Björn. It feels like a full group song and video rather than Agnetha and Frida with those two guys in the background of some shots. This allows them to do interesting things by having four people to work with in a greater capacity than previous videos.

My favorite example of this is when it starts with Agnetha and Frida walking…

past Benny and Björn…

where the camera stops for a bit to let them get out their backing vocals.

Then it quickly goes over to Agnetha and Frida who are in their typical headshot and profile-shot blocking.

They finish their part, and Agnetha walks over to stand between Benny and Björn.

The camera moves in to crop out Björn.

Finally, Angetha walks back over to Frida to be in the same headshot and profile-shot thing, but with her on the opposite side of Frida.

It also leads them symbolically out of the relationship of the song that ends with hugs, freeze-frames as they look back, and them walking off into the distance.

One last thing to take note of is that the video appears to begin with Agnetha and Frida having already left, as evidenced by their footprints in the snow–footprints we see them make at the end of the video.

Enjoy!

ABBA retrospective:

An Important Message About Movie A Day

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Jedadiah Leland

Because of some personal health issues, the Movie A Day feature will be on hiatus for the rest of week. My Movie A Day reviews will resume on Monday, with Movie A Day #68. I have no idea what Movie A Day #68 will be so if anyone has any good suggestions, please leave them in the comments below.

Artwork of the Day: No Grave For March

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

by Robert McGinnis

Music Video of the Day: That’s Me by ABBA (1977, dir. Lasse Hallström)

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Valerie Troutman

At the time of writing this, I had to be up at 5:45 AM to go have CT Scans done on my chest, neck, and sinuses. I’m okay. The point is that I am running on empty. I honestly thought that today’s video was the one where they sing next to a giant snowman, which would basically make the post this sentence before the comma. Instead, it turns out that the video is for the song That’s Me. As a result, I don’t have a whole lot to say. Not that it really matters with this video. I wouldn’t have a whole lot to say anyways.

According to Wikipedia, this was filmed during the making of ABBA-DABBA-DOO! Okay, if you say so. The Flapper Dress version of Money, Money, Money was filmed on that show and it looks nothing like this. However, it does also say that it was combined with some original footage and stock footage from their other music videos. That I buy since it’s what you are getting here. The majority of this video is the Snow Version of Knowing Me, Knowing You and the well-known version of Money, Money, Money with a little bit of Agnetha and Frida singing spliced into it. At one point, Frida looks bored as her eyes just drift off into space.

Apparently, it wasn’t even released back in 1977 or, as Wikipedia says, 1976. Things get dicey with their album Arrival since it came out in October of 1976, so it could be either year. I’m going with 1977. It’s not important anyways since it appears to have gotten the She’s Gone by Hall & Oates treatment. By that, I mean that it was filmed back then, but wasn’t actually released until 1993. She’s Gone being that bizarre video made in 1973–never aired–that John Oates himself leaked onto the Internet.

I don’t particularly like this one, but Agnetha must have since her 1998 compilation album of her solo work is called That’s Me.

Enjoy!

ABBA retrospective:

A Movie A Day #67: Animal Factory (2000, directed by Steve Buscemi)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Jedadiah Leland

Edward Furlong is Ron Decker, a spoiled 18 year-old from a rich family who is arrested and sent to prison when he’s caught with a small amount of marijuana. Being younger and smaller than the other prisoners, Ron is soon being targeted by everyone from the prison’s Puerto Rican gang to the sadistic Buck Rowan (Tom Arnold). Fortunately, for Ron, prison veteran Earl Copen (Williem DaFoe) takes him under his wing and provides him with protection. Earl is the philosopher-king of the prison. As he likes to put it, “This is my prison, after all.” If he can stay out of trouble, Ron has a chance to get out early but, with Buck stalking him, that’s not going to be easy.

Based on a novel by ex-con Edward Bunker, Animal Factory was the second film to be directed by Bunker’s Reservoir Dogs co-stars, Steve Buscemi. Though it was overlooked at the time, Animal Factory is a minor masterpiece. Taking a low key approach, Buscemi emphasizes the monotony of prison life just as much as the sudden bursts of violence and shows why someone like Ron Decker can go into prison as an innocent and come out as an animal. DaFoe and Furlong give two of their best performances as Earl and Ron while a cast of familiar faces — Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke, Chris Bauer, Mark Boone Junior — make up the prison’s population. Most surprising of all is Tom Arnold, giving Animal Factory‘s best performance as the prison’s most dangerous predator.

Here’s The Trailer for Geostorm, which is apparently a real movie

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

This trailer only needs a few more cats to look like a heavy-handed YouTube parody but apparently, Geostorm is a real movie that will be opening in October. It was directed by Dean Devlin, who is a frequent partner of Roland Emmerich’s.

(In other words, expect a subplot about how Shakespeare didn’t actually write Twelfth Night.)

Geostorm will open in October and I imagine it will make its SyFy debut the following June.

4 Shots From 4 Films: Coffy, They Call Her One Eye, Cleopatra Jones, Ms. 45

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.

I was going to use four other shots for today but then I was inspired by my sister’s pick for artwork of the day.

For those who might question my decision to highlight four grindhouse films on International Women’s Day, I kindly refer them to my essay, Too Sordid To Ever Be Corrupted.

4 Shots From 4 Films