Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 12/25/23 — 12/31/23


Happy New Year!

I spent the week at my sister Megan’s, which was fun despite the fact that I was under the weather for quite a bit of it.  Tonight, I am celebrating New Year’s and I’m looking forward to spending the first month of 2024 getting caught up on all the stuff I still need to watch from 2023!

Anyway, the year is over!  We survived!  Now, onward to 2024!

But first, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

  1. After Everything (2023)
  2. Bones and All (2022)
  3. The Bride and the Beast (1958)
  4. A Christmas Story (1983)
  5. Death Warrant (1990)
  6. Golda (2023)
  7. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
  8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023)
  9. Top Gunner: America vs Russia (2023)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. All You Need Is Love
  2. The Bold and the Beautiful
  3. California Dreams
  4. CHiPs
  5. Days of our Lives
  6. Dr. Death
  7. Dr. Phil
  8. General Hospital
  9. The Garden: Cult or Commune?
  10. Jennifer Slept Here
  11. The Love Boat
  12. Monsters
  13. Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, Reckoning
  14. Night Flight
  15. Saved By The Bell
  16. The Simpsons
  17. T and T
  18. Twilight Zone
  19. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon (2017) by David Grann

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Amy Winehouse
  3. Arctic Monkeys
  4. Aretha Franklin
  5. Armin van Buuren
  6. Ashlee Simpson
  7. Boomerang
  8. Britney Spears
  9. The Chemical Brothers
  10. Club N0uveau
  11. Cyndi Lauper
  12. David Hasselhoff
  13. Doctor and the Medics
  14. Fine Young Cannibals
  15. Frank Sinatra
  16. Hazel English
  17. Jennifer Lopez
  18. Jessica Simpson
  19. Jessie Ware
  20. Nancy Sinatra
  21. Nine Inch Nails
  22. The Pretenders
  23. The Prodigy
  24. Saint Motel
  25. Sinead O’Connor
  26. Taylor Swift
  27. Tony Bennett

Live Tweets:

  1. Death Warrant
  2. Bones and All

Awards Season:

  1. Nevada Film Critics Society Winners
  2. DiscussingFilm Critics Awards Nominations
  3. Georgia Film Critics Association Nominations
  4. Lisa Marie’s Oscar Predictions for December

News From Last Week:

  1. Beloved actor Tom Wilkinson dies at 75
  2. Dancer Maurice Hines dies at 80
  3. Director David Leland dies at 82
  4. Comedian Shecky Greene dies at 97
  5. Documentarian John Pilger dies at 87
  6. Comedian Tom Smothers dies at 86
  7. British actor Richard Franklin dies at 87, on Christmas Day

Links From Last Week:

  1. Welcome To The 2023 White House Holiday Party! A Philadelphia Eagles Serenade To The First Lady!
  2. Ringing in 2024 – Rock-Vixen/Witch style

Links From The Site:

  1. Erin shared Love Story, Film Fun, New York Madness, Ecstasy Girl, Real Screen Fun, Detective Story Magazine, and Progressive Grocer!
  2. Erin shared her favorite moment of 2023 and wished everyone a Merry Christmas!
  3. I shared my week in television!
  4. I reviewed Degrassi Junior High, Miami Vice, ChiPs, Fantasy Island, Baywatch Nights, Love Boat, Monsters, Jennifer Slept Here, and Highway to HeavenThen I took a break for New Year’s!
  5. I paid tribute to Carol Reed, F.W. Murnau, and Yvonne Elliman!
  6. I shared music videos from Jessie Ware, Arctic Monkeys, Britney Spears, David Hasselhoff, Hazel English, Jennifer Lopez, and Sinead O’Connor!
  7. I shared Treevenge!

More From Us:

  1. At my music site, I shared songs from Armin Van Buuren, Jessica Simpson, The Chemical Brothers, Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy, Ashlee Simpson, and Taylor Swift!
  2. At her photography site, Erin shared Merry Christmas, Branches, Dish, Limbs, Birds, Squirrel, and America!

Want to check out last week?  Click here!

Lisa Marie’s Oscar Predictions For December


Here they are!  These are my final Oscar predictions for 2023.  The critics groups have certainly helped to show us which films are major contenders.  That said, the Guilds are even more important so I can’t wait to see who they nominate and honor in January.

Below are my predictions for December.  Be sure to also check out my predictions for March and April and May and June and July and August and September and October and November!

Best Picture 

American Fiction

Barbie

Godzilla Minus One

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

(Before anyone gives me a hard time about Godzilla Minus One, I always toss in one critically acclaimed long shot so that I can brag — or perhaps even gloat — if it actually happens.  Plus, everyone knows that having Godzilla at the Oscars would be entertainment gold.)

Best Director

Greta Gerwig for Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things

Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer

Alexander Payne for The Holdovers

Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper in Maestro

Colman Domingo in Rustin

Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall

Greta Lee in Past Lives

Carey Mulligan in Maestro

Emma Stone in Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey, Jr. in Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling in Barbie

Charles Melton in May/December

Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple

Jodie Foster in Nyad

Rachel McAdams in Are You There God?  It’s Me, Margaret.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers