In honor of the birthday of actor Steve McQueen, the true epitome of all things cool, here is the famous and trend-setting chase scene from 168’s Bullitt, featuring McQueen behind the wheel and doing his own stunts on the streets of San Francisco.
Monthly Archives: March 2025
Monday Live Tweet Alert: Join Us for Evasive Action!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasion ally Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We snark our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1998’s Evasive Action!
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto Mastodon, pull up Evasive Action on YouTube, start the movie at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag!
Enjoy!
Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 3/17/25 — 3/23/25
Hey, everyone! Yes, my week in review is late. I was tired and drained over the weekend so it’s time for another mini week in review! (Remember when I used to do big, detailed weeks in review? Hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to doing that soon!)
Films I Watched:
- American Traitor: The Trials of Axis Sally (2021)
- The Black-Eyed Children (2025)
- Executive Action (1973)
- Heist (2015)
- The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer (1999)
- Irish Eyes (2004)
- Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna (2025)
- Lay The Favorite (2012)
- The Mean Season (1985)
- No Safe Haven (1987)
- Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy (2025)
- Mind, Body & Soul (1992)
- Operation Lipstick (1967)
- Original Gangstas (1996)
- Precious Cargo (2016)
- Road House (1989)
- The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
- Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987)
- Zombie 3 (1988)
Links From The Site:
- Arleigh shared songs of the day from Thin Lizzy and Rage Against The Macine!
- Erin reviewed The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him Now You Don’t, and The Strongest Man In The World!
- Jeff reviewed The Deadly Tower, Elvis, The Best Of Times, Big Trouble In Little China, Maker of Men, The Sea Spoilers, His Private Secretary, The Trail Beyond, No Safe Haven, and Three Faces West! He also paid tribute to George Foreman!
- Brad reviewed Guns Of Diablo and Shane and paid tribute to Wings Hauser, Akira Kurosawa, and M. Emmet Walsh. He shared a scene from Death Proof and a song of the day!
Links From Last Week:
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4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Curtis Hanson Edition
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More 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 lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, in honor the birthday of the late great Curtis Hanson, it’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 Curtis Hanson Films
The Bedroom Window (1987, dir by Curtis Hanson, DP: Gilbert Taylor)
L.A. Confidential (1997, dir by Curtis Hanson, DP: Dante Spinotti)
Wonder Boys (2000, dir by Curtis Hanson, DP: Dante Spinotti)
8 Mile (2002, dir by Curtis Hanson, DP: Rodrigo Prieto)
Artwork of the Day: Detective Fiction Weekly (Artist Unknown)
Artist Unknown
This grinning cover is from 1935.
Music Video of the Day: Wayne’s World by Kissa (2025, dir by Gontiero Canalsasso & Charlotta)
Here’s something to chair dance to.
Enjoy!
Song of the Day: Chase by Giorgio Moroder
Today’s song of the day is one that I’m picking just because I love Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack work. From his Oscar-winning score for 1978’s Midnight Express, here’s some music to haunt your nightmares.
4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Akira Kurosawa Edition
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More 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 lets the visuals do the talking!
4 Shots From 4 Akira Kurosawa Films
The Hidden Fortress (1958, dir. by Akira Kurosawa, DP: Kazuo Yamasaki)
Yojimbo (1961, dir by Akira Kurosawa, DP: Kazuo Miyagawa)
Ran (1987, dir by Akira Kurosawa, DP: Takao Saito)
Dreams (1990, dir by Akira Kurosawa, DP: Takao Saito)
Today is the great Akira Kurosawa’s Birthday!
I love director Akira Kurosawa. He’s one of the all time greats. His movies RASHOMON (1951), IKIRU (1952), SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960), and YOJIMBO (1961) are some of the greatest movies ever made. His work has inspired so many great filmmakers, and so many great movies, including THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960), A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), and STAR WARS (1977) just to name a few.
On Kurosawa’s 115th Birthday, I share one of my favorite scenes, from one of my favorite movies (SANJURO), featuring two of my favorite actors (Toshiro Mifune & Tatsuya Nakadai). Enjoy my friends, and rest in peace, Mr. Kurosawa!
Three Faces West (1940, directed by Bernard Vorhaus)
When a small farming community in the Dakotas gets hit by an outbreak of the flu, farmer and community leader John Phillips (John Wayne) invites a Dr. Karl Braun (Charles Coburn) to come and be the town’s doctor. A refugee from Austria, Dr. Braun arrives with his daughter, Leni (Sigrid Gurie). At first, Leni is not happy living in the heart of the Dust Bowl but then she falls for John Phillips. However, Leni is still mourning his ex-fiancé (Roland Varno), who Leni and Braun believe sacrificed his life to help them reach America.
Eventually realizing that the town cannot prospers in the heart of the Dust Bowl, John suggests that everyone pack up and move to Oregon. Almost everyone agrees and the one person who wants to go to California gets his van driven off the side of the road. But Leni and Dr. Braun still take a detour to San Francisco because it turns out that Leni’s ex is not dead after all. She and her father meet up with him and discover, to their horror, that he has become a fully committed Nazi.
This is an interesting change-of-pace for John Wayne. Though the film is a western (and even features its own version of wagon train), it’s set in what was then contemporary times and it deals with issues like the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism in Germany. The times may be hard but John Wayne isn’t going to let his community fall apart and, even more importantly, he’s not going to give up his beliefs or his ideals. Even though the movie was made at a time when the United States was still officially neutral, the film is strongly anti-Nazi. John Wayne, giving a strong performance, stands in for America while those who would collaborate with or make excuses for the Nazis represented by the weaselly Roland Varno. Leni’s ex-fiancé had no problem selling out his beliefs and embracing Nazism. Naturally, Leni and her father have no problem telling him off and then rejoining John Wayne in Oregon. The United States may have officially been neutral but this movie had no problem letting everyone know where it stood.
Through the Shattered Lens 