Daily Archives: July 22, 2018

Lisa’s Week In Review: 7/16/18 — 7/22/18

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

 

Another incredibly hot week comes to an end.  The temperature has averaged around 110 this weekend.  Fortunately, we should get back down to 100 over the upcoming week, which will make it far more pleasant to go out to the movies!

Movies I Watched:

  1. An Innocent Man (1989)
  2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  3. Baby Driver (2017)
  4. Beirut (2018)
  5. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  6. Cat Ballou (1965)
  7. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  8. The Chapman Report (1962)
  9. Deadly Inn (2018)
  10. Dreamscape (1984)
  11. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
  12. From Within (2008)
  13. Hotel (1967)
  14. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018)
  15. Martin (1978)
  16. My Friend Dahmer (2017)
  17. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  18. A Night To Regret (2018)
  19. No Lost Cause (2011)
  20. On The Waterfront (1954)
  21. Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
  22. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
  23. Reeker (2005)
  24. Shattered Glass (2003)
  25. Snowbeast (1977)
  26. Stolen Life (2018)
  27. Survival Island (2005)
  28. West Side Story (1961)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  2. The Bachelorette
  3. BeastMaster
  4. Big Brother 20
  5. Big Brother After Dark
  6. Dance Moms
  7. Doctor Phil
  8. The Doctors
  9. Ghost Whisperer
  10. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  11. King of the Hill
  12. The Love Boat
  13. Naked and Afraid
  14. Night Gallery
  15. Relic Hunter
  16. Seinfeld
  17. Sharp Objects
  18. So You Think You Can Dance
  19. The Twilight Zone
  20. World of Dance

Books I Read:

  1. Blind Rage: A True Story of Sin, Sex, and Murder in a Small Arkansas Town (2015) by Anita Paddock
  2. Room to Dream (2018) by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
  3. Show Trial: Hollywood, Huac, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2018) by Timothy Patrick Doherty

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Alien Bay
  3. Big Data
  4. Blanck Mass
  5. Calvin Harris
  6. The Chemical Brothers
  7. David Guetta
  8. Dillon Francis
  9. DJ Judaa
  10. Fitz and the Tantrums
  11. Lara Snow
  12. Marijuana Deathsquads
  13. Martin Garrix
  14. Public Service Broadcasting
  15. Safra
  16. Saint Motel
  17. Skrillex
  18. Sleigh Bells
  19. Years & Years
  20. Zedd

Links From Last Week:

  1. Trevor Wells interviews Dr. Albert Beck of Stalked By My Doctor fame!
  2. Maggie Haberman: Why I Needed To Pull Away From Twitter
  3. Denzel, Separate and Unequal: An Investigation
  4. Buffy the Vampire Reboot In The Works With Joss Whedon Returning
  5. On Ferguson Ink … an interview with writer Nicole Givens Kurtz!
  6. Scream Factory Announces 14 New Blu-Ray Releases!
  7. A Nicolas Cage Movie Six-Pack! I Watch Six NEW Nic Cage Films In A Single Day! Here’s How It Ended…
  8. The Problem With Netflix
  9. What On Earth Possessed You?
  10. The LNM Gang Watches This Island Earth!
  11. The King Has Arrived!

Links From The Site:

  1. Erin profiled the artist, Sidney Riesenberg!
  2. Gary reviewed White Heat, 200 Motels, and several pre-Code films that he had on his DVR, along with taking a look at a one-hit wonder!
  3. Jeff broke down a music video and shared this week’s trailer round-up!
  4. Ryan reviewed Big Bonerz and A Walk Among The Tombstones, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
  5. I wrote about James Gunn and the twitter lynch mob!

(Want to see what I accomplished last week?  Click here!)

 

Weekly Trailer Round-Up: Glass, Aquaman, Shazam, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Gridenwald, Patient Zero, I Still See You, Second Act, On The Basis of Sex, The Walking Dead

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

First, in 2000, there was Unbreakable.  Then, 16 years later, there was Split.  This January, M. Night Shyamalan brings us the third part of his Eastrail 177 trilogy, Glass.  The first trailer for Glass was dropped at SDCC this weekend and it leads off this week’s trailer round-up.

Also dropping at SDCC was the first trailer for Aquaman.  The DC hero that everyone loves to ridicule is finally get a movie of his very own.  The trailer hints at the origins of Arthur Curry, features the expected underwater action, and features enough ironic line readings that it could almost pass for the latest entry in the MCU.

If Glass and Aquaman are not heroic enough for you, there is always Shazam.  Back in the 1940s, Shazam was known as Captain Marvel and his adventures were published by Fawcett.  Claiming that Captain Marvel was clear rip-off of Superman, DC attempted to sue Fawcett out of business and then purchased the character, renaming him Shazam.  Now, Shazam is coming to theaters.  Shazam’s appeal has always been retro so, naturally, the trailer is full of references to Game of Thrones and self-reflexive humor.

Following the 2014 Godzilla reboot and Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the third chapter in Legendary’s Monsterverse.  This one will see Godzilla meeting Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah.  Godzilla: King of the Monsters will be released on May 31st, 2019.

Also released at SDCC was the latest trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Gridenwald.  Fantastic Beasts will be released on November 16th.

In Patient Zero, Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer try to find a cure for a virus that is transforming humanity into zombies.  The film is scheduled to be released through video-on-demand on 14 August 2018, before a limited theatrical release on 14 September 2018.

I Still See You is the latest B-movie to feature Bella Thorne getting stalked.  Will you see I Still See You when it’s released on October 12th?

In the upcoming comedy, Second Act, Jennifer Lopez plays an ambitious woman who is mistaken for a high-level business consultant.  With a plot like that, Second Act sounds like it could be the funniest film of 2004.  Second Act will be released on November 21st, 2018.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has already been the subject of one of the year’s most successful documentaries.  She gets the biopic treatment with On The Basis of Sex.  Felicity Jones plays Ginsburg while Mimi Leder returns from her cinematic exile to handle directing duties.  On The Basis of Sex will be released on December 25th.

Finally, the trailer for the 9th season of The Walking Dead dropped at SDCC and promised a new world with new rules.  Season 9 premieres on October 7th.

 

Music Video of the Day: Don’t Mean Nothin’ by Richard Marx (1988, directed by Dominic Sena)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Today’s music video of the day is Richard Marx’s Don’t Mean Nothin’.  This video was directed by Dominic Sena, who later directed films like Kalifornia, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Swordfish.  Let’s break it down and see if this video really don’t mean nothin’.

0:03 — I’m not sure but I think we may be in Hollywood.

0:04 — These scenes of Los Angeles street life will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a movie about a small town girl moving to the big city to pursue her dreams.

0:18 — Welcome to Shangri-La!

0:26 — Cynthia Rhodes plays the small town girl.  You may recognize her from Flashdance, Staying Alive, and Dirty Dancing.  At the time this video was shot, she was dating Richard Marx.  She would marry him a year later.  They divorced in 2014.

0:38 — The sleazy apartment manager is played by the one and only G.W. Bailey.  Bailey has been in a ton of television shows and movies.  If you don’t know him from M*A*S*H, you probably know him from the Police Academy films.

0:48 — Cynthia knows what ol’ G.W. was doing back there.

0:55 — Richard Marx’s father was in advertising and Richard Marx started his singing career when he was five years old and he performed a jingle that his father had written.  When Marx was 17, he moved to Los Angeles.  This song was based on his experiences.

1:14 — Cynthia’s barely been in Hollywood for a week and she’s already got an audition!  That’s better that most small town girls do in the big city.

1:38 — Another great moment from G.W. Bailey.

1:53 — Cynthia is shocked! to discover what goes on in Hollywood.

2:09 — Richard says, “Drink up and enjoy the show!”  Cynthia is not amused.

2:24 — More Hollywood stock footage.

2:44 — That’s Joe Walsh of the Eagles on guitar.

2:59 — Proof that this video was made in 1988: Richard hands over a cassette of his music.

3:24 — Disgusted to see that Cynthia’s become either a maid or a waitress, Richard stops the music and throws away his future.

3:27 — There’s a lot of hockey hair in this video.

3:38 — Ol’ G.W.’s in trouble now.

3:42 — Are they taking pictures of G.W. getting beaten up?  Or does G.W. own a strobe light?

4:08 — Cynthia finally feels comfortable enough to wear an ugly sweater in L.A. and Richard has switched to decaf.

4:20 — A new small town girl arrives.  Cynthia tells her where she can find Ol’ G.W.

4:24 — Cynthia and Richard shares a smile and a private laugh as the new girl naively plunges into the moral abyss that is Hollywood.

4:32 — Don’t worry.  It don’t mean nothin’ at all.