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4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Terrence Malick Edition

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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 lets the visuals do the talking.

Today, we wish a happy birthday to one of cinema’s greatest visual stylists, the one and only Terrence Malick!

4 Shots From 4 Terrence Malick Films

Badlands (1973, dir by Terrence Malick)

Days of Heaven (1978, dir by Terrence Malick)

Tree of Life (2011, dir by Terrence Malick)

Song to Song (2017, dir by Terrence Malick)

Lisa’s Week In Review: 11/23/20 — 11/29/20

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What a week!  I celebrated Erin’s birthday.  I celebrated Arleigh’s birthday.  And I celebrated Thanksgiving!  And I finally got some reviews written!

Can you believe that this year is nearly (or should I say, finally) over?  We’ve only got one more month to go!

Here’s what I watched, listened to, and read last week.

Films I Watched:

  1. Ator, The Fighting Eagle (1982)
  2. Cheer Squad Secrets (2020)
  3. Cheerleader Abduction (2020)
  4. Deadly Double Cross (2020)
  5. The Fog (1980)
  6. Instapsycho (2020)
  7. Killer Competition (2020)
  8. Killer Dream Home (2020)
  9. The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
  10. My Nightmare Landlord (2020)
  11. The Princess of Mars (2009)
  12. Strangers On A Train (1951)
  13. What If? (2010)
  14. The Wrong Cheerleader Coach (2020)
  15. The Wrong House Sitter (2020)
  16. The Wrong Stepfather (2020)
  17. The Wrong Wedding Planner (2020)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. A Teacher
  2. The Amazing Race 32
  3. The Bachelorette
  4. Bar Rescue
  5. Baywatch
  6. Community
  7. The Crown
  8. Daily Mass
  9. Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life
  10. Dancing With The Stars
  11. Dr. Phil
  12. Fear the Walking Dead
  13. ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
  14. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  15. Las Vegas Skating Spectacular
  16. The Love Boat
  17. The Powers of Matthew Star
  18. Saved By The Bell
  19. The Undoing
  20. The Walking Dead: World Beyond
  21. The Voice

Books I Read:

  1. Lace (1982) by Shirley Conran

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Alaska Reid
  2. Altered Images
  3. Alvin Risk
  4. Blondie
  5. Britney Spears
  6. The Chemical Brothers
  7. Chloe Flower
  8. Courtney Barnett
  9. Designer Drugs
  10. Jakalope
  11. Linkin Park
  12. Nine Inch Nails
  13. Norah Jones
  14. Novelists FR
  15. Siouxsie and the Banshees
  16. Solumun
  17. Stephen Kellog
  18. Taylor Swift
  19. Underworld

Trailers:

  1. The Boss Baby 2
  2. Life In A Year
  3. The Prom

Links From the Site:

  1. The TSL Crew live tweeted Thanksgiving!
  2. Erin shared: Long Shot, Darien Venture, Rain, Thanks To The Saint, Cherry Ames Department Store Nurse, The Other Stranger, and Reluctant Nympho!  She also shared a scene from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and took a look at Herman E. Bischoff!
  3. Doc wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving!
  4. Jeff reviewed Doctor Who: The Movie and Gun Brothers!
  5. Val took a look at Undefeatable!
  6. Ryan reviewed Sufficient Lucidity, Finnegan’s Wake, Pirate & Parrot, and Man Made Lake!
  7. I shared music videos from Stephen Kellog, Novelists FR, Solomun, Designer Drugs, Alaska Reid, Chloe Flower, and Siouxsie and the Banshees!  I also shared Arlo Guthrie’s Alice Restaurant.  I paid tribute to Boris Karloff and Daria Nicolodi and shared a scene from Shock.
  8. I reviewed Killer Dream Home, What If, A Very Brady Sequel, The Brady Bunch Movie, InstaPsycho, Killer Competition, Secrets in the Basement, Friends Who Kill, The Wrong Wedding Planner, The Wrong Stepfather, The Wrong House Sitter, The Wrong Cheerleader Coach, My Nightmare Landlord, Cheerleader Abduction, Cheer Squad Secrets, and Birthmother’s Betrayal!

More From Us:

  1. For Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed The Amazing Race!
  2. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing! 
  3. On my music site, I shared songs from: Blondie, Altered Images, The Chemical Brothers, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Britney Spears, Underworld, and Linkin Park!
  4. On her photography site, Erin shared: Staring At You, The Morning Sky, Downtown Rain, Half-Open Window, Dallas, Dallas 2, and Dallas 3!

Want to check out last week?  Click here!

Have a good week, everyone!  Say safe!

Inferno (1980, dir by Dario Argento)

Here’s The Trailer For The Boss Baby 2!

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Do we really need a second one?

Didn’t the first Boss Baby get nominated for Best Animated Feature while the Academy totally ignored The Lego Batman Movie?  That still makes no sense to me.

Anyway, maybe this one will manage to take a spot from a good movie as well.  Here’s the trailer.

The Shattered Lens Live Tweets Thanksgiving

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Well, another Thanksgiving is coming to an end.

Needless to say, with everything going on in the world, this Thanksgiving is a bit different than what I’m used to.

With all that in mind, though, the TSL crew had an active Thanksgiving.  Here’s a few highlights of our day:

So, another Thanksgiving comes to a close.  Usually, I do a big long list of what I’m thankful for each and very year but this year, I’m just thankful for all of you.  2020 has not gone the way that any of us planned it would.  I was certainly expecting the year to be a lot more festive and I think that the rest of this decade probably will be.  People have been locked away for too long.  I have a feeling that once the pandemic is under control, there’s going to be a lot of pent up energy being released.

So, this year, I’m thankful for our readers, our contributors, and just this site in general.  TSL has been around for ten years now.  We’re going to be around for the next ten as well.

So, let’s sit back and enjoy the ride, shall we?

Here’s The Trailer For The Prom

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Here’s the trailer for The Prom, the latest film from Ryan Murphy.  Apparently, Netflix is going to give this film a huge Oscar push and considering that it stars Meryl Streep, you really can’t blame them.

To be honest, this film looks like the most Ryan Murphy thing that Ryan Murphy has ever done.  I imagine that some people will absolutely love it and some people will hate it and that there probably won’t be much space in between.  Hopefully, this film will be a hit and Murphy will get so busy directing films that he won’t have time to do any further seasons of American Horror Story.

This film will be available of Netflix on December 11th!