Monthly Archives: February 2022

Happy Valentine’s Day From The Cats and the Humans at Through The Shattered Lens

Posted on by Doc Bowman

To all of our readers, Happy Valentine’s Day!

I’ve written a lot of version of this post since I joined TSL.  This year, the Flame-haired One just wanted to post a picture of Godzilla and King Kong shaking hands but I looked at it and I said, “meh.”  There are some things that only a cat can do.

Today is not going to be an easy Valentine’s Day for some.  For some humans, Valentine’s Day is never easy.   If you will allow a cat to be serious for a minute, many humans have lost loved ones over the past two years, due to the pandemic and everything that goes along with it.  Celebrate love and celebrate happiness but take a minute to remember those who might be hurting or who might be missing their loved ones for the first time.  It’s up to you, the humans, to do this because we cats probably won’t.

Valentine’s Day isn’t just about what you do or where you go.  It’s about loving what you love.  Some humans love other humans.  Me, I love Temptations snacks, playing with my toys, and sleeping 10 hours a day.  That’s what Valentine’s Day is all about to me.

Whatever Valentine’s Day is about to you, we all hope that you are having a good and a safe one!  Happy Valentine’s Day to all!  Be kind to those you love and never, ever forget the cats and the humans in your life!

Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 2/7/22 — 2/13/22

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Ivan Reitman, R.I.P.  I just heard that the influential Canadian director passed away yesterday.

This has been a busy week.  We started with the Oscar nominations and the Olympics.  We’re ending with the Super Bowl.  We’re finishing up what’s left of 2021.  I almost feel like next week will be the first week that 2022 actually feels like 2022.

Anyway, I’m obviously too tired to have coherent thoughts so let’s just move on to what I watched and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

  1. Atlantis (1990)
  2. Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
  3. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
  4. Big Man on Campus (1963)
  5. C.C. and Company (1970)
  6. C.H.U.D. (1984)
  7. Home Team (2022)
  8. Into the Wind (2022)
  9. Kimi (2022)
  10. Men With Brooms (2002)
  11. Munich — The Edge of War (2022)
  12. Nightmare Alley (1947)
  13. Race With The Devil (1975)
  14. Shattered …. If Your Kid’s On Drugs (1986)
  15. Shut In (2022)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Allo Allo
  2. The Amazing Race
  3. BBC World News
  4. Celebrity Big Brother
  5. King of the Hill
  6. Pam & Tommy
  7. South Park
  8. Super Bowl LVI
  9. Super Bowl Pre-Show
  10. The Winter Olympics

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Above & Beyond
  2. Alice Martin
  3. Bloc Party
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Cedric Gervais
  7. Charli XCX
  8. The Chemical Brothers
  9. Coldplay
  10. David Guetta
  11. Fatboy Slim
  12. Hans Zimmer
  13. Hozier
  14. Icona Pop
  15. Jake Bugg
  16. Louis Armstrong
  17. Lydia
  18. MEDVZA
  19. Muse
  20. Opus III
  21. Rita Coolidge
  22. Saint Motel
  23. Selena Gomez
  24. Sex Pistols
  25. Souixsie and the Banshees
  26. Tiesto
  27. The Wallflowers

Live Tweets:

  1. The Shattered Lens Live Tweets Super Bowl Sunday

Awards Season:

  1. Oscar Nominations
  2. What If Lisa Had All The Power: 2022 Edition

Trailers:

  1. Jurassic World Dominion
  2. Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  3. Netflix
  4. Moon Knight
  5. The Lost City
  6. Nope
  7. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
  8. DC — The World Needs Heroes

Links From Last Week:

  1. Make Your Own Bacon Roses! Love Burgers! Here Are Recipes For “Love In A Bun”! The Best Valentine’s Day Treats!
  2. The World’s Common Tater’s Week in Books, Movies, and TV 2/11/22

Links From The Site:

  1. Leonard shared the trailer for Jurassic World Dominion!
  2. Ryan reviewed Megillah, Isolated, and Unfolding!
  3. Case reviewed episodes two and three of Reacher!
  4. Jeff reviewed True Grit: A Further Adventure, Banjo Hackett, and Locked Door IV.
  5. Jeff shared his Super Bowl predictions, some thoughts on The Simpsons, and some thoughts on Kickers, Inc!
  6. Erin shared Make Sure I Win, Movie Story Magazine, Payment In Sin, Over Night, Men, Dirt Farm, and Movie Humor!  She also profiled Robert Oliver Skemp!
  7. I shared music videos from Louis Armstrong, Alice Martin, Coldplay, Above & Beyond, MEDVZA, David Guetta, and Hans Zimmer!  I paid tribute to football and shared a scene from Any Given Sunday!  I shared my week in television and a film called Big Man on Campus!  I also shared my top 6 super bowl ads!
  8. I reviewed C.C. And Company, KIMI, Shut In, Munich — The Edge of War, Men With Brooms, Home Team, Into the Wind, and the latest episode of Pam and Tommy!

More From Us:

  1. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!
  2. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared the Moon Knight teaser!
  3. At her photography site, Erin shared: Paw Prints In The Snow, Peace on Earth, Rorschach Clouds, desolate, Red Car In A Gray Alley, Window, and Just Visiting!
  4. At my music site, I shared songs from Lydia, Sex Pistols, Bloc Party, Opus III, The Wallflowers, Britney Spears, and Romeo and Juliet!
  5. At Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed the latest episode of The Amazing Race!
  6. For the Big Brother Blog, I have been writing about Celebrity Big Brother!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

Lisa Marie’s Top 6 Super Bowl Ads

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

As I’ve said many times on this very site, the Super Bowl is pretty much all about the commercials for me.  This year, there was a few commercials that I liked but, for the most part, the selection was pretty bland.  Usually, I pick anywhere between 8 to 10 favorite Super Bowl Ads.  This year, there’s only six that really made much of an impression on me.

And here they are:

6. Frito Lay — Push It!

Sloths are so cute!

5. Amazon — Mind Reader

Why is Alexa trying to destroy Scarlett Johansson’s marriage!?

4. All-Electric Chevy Silverado — New Generation

To be honest, I got kind of sick of all of the electric vehicle commercials that aired this year.  Most of them felt …. a little insincere.  But I did like this one, just because it reunited The Sopranos’s Meadow and Tony. Jr.  It’s good to see that they’re still with us, regardless of what happened to Tony at the end of the series.  I’m not sure how Tony would feel about his daughter driving an electric truck, though.  “Gary Cooper didn’t need no charging station.”

3. Planet Fitness — What’s Gotten Into Lindsay?

Of course, if anything bad happens to Lindsay, we know who to blame.

2. Budweiser — A Clydesdale’s Journey

The horse survived!  I had tears in my mismatched eyes.

  1. Salesforce — “The New Frontier”

I’m not sure what exactly Matthew McConaughey is selling here but he’s one of the few people who can pull off lecturing from a hot air balloon.  As I watched this commercial, I considered that if McConaughey had run for governor, he could have floated around the state, campaigning from his balloon.  Instead, we’re stuck with Beto and his skateboard.  Oh well.  Miss opportunities.

The Shattered Lens Live Tweets Super Bowl Sunday!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

The Super Bowl just ended so I guess it’s time to recap the reaction of the members of the TSL Team who watched and tweeted about it.  Jeff, Erin, Case, Leonard, and I all watched and …. I don’t know.  The game kind of sucked this year.  I didn’t care about the game and I thought that commercials were kind of boring..  Case thought the commercials were depressing.  Leonard got so bored that he left for ice cream.  Jeff and Erin are mad that the Bengals lost.  Even though it wasn’t as bad as last year, there was still weren’t as many movie commercials as in the past.

I think our collective reaction can be summed up as this:

There was apparently some hope at the start of the second half, when the game started get exciting:

But in the end, the Super Bowl and the commercials just didn’t deliver:

It all led to one question:

Yep, that was it.