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Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 7/17/23 — 7/23/23

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Eh.  I don’t even want to talk about this week.  Maybe I’ll be in the mood to talk about this week next week but hopefully, when next week comes around, I will have moved onto other things.  It’s nothing to be too concerned about.  It’s just that some weeks are crappy and, as a result, you don’t want to talk about them when they end.  You just want to move on!

I will say this.  If you’re a billionaire who wants to run a social network, build it up from scratch.  Be there from the start and be clear about what you’re planning.  Don’t buy another popular site and then ruin it just so you can then force everyone onto your site.  I mean, really, I’m not difficult to please.  All I ask is that people be polite and give fair warning before changing everything.

*SIGH*

Anyway, here’s what I watched and listened to this week.  Yes, I decided to avoid the crowds as far as Barbie and Oppenheimer are concerned.  I’ll see them this upcoming week, after I get my car inspected.

(Don’t even get me started on how I feel about car inspections.)

Films I Watched:

  1. Convoy (1979)
  2. The Creeping Terror (1964)
  3. The Frozen Ground (2011)
  4. Killer Elite (2011)
  5. Overkill: The Aileen Wournos Story (1992)
  6. Texas Killing Fields (2011)
  7. The Untouchables (1987)
  8. White Line Fever (1975)
  9. Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)

TV Shows I Watched:

  1. City Guys
  2. Claim to Fame
  3. Degrassi High
  4. Fantasy Island
  5. Happy Hour
  6. The Love Boat
  7. The Master
  8. Night Music
  9. The Simpsons
  10. Stars On Mars
  11. Welcome Back Kotter

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Backstreet Boys
  3. Bjork
  4. Billie Eilish
  5. Britney Spears
  6. The Chemical Brothers
  7. Christina Aguilera
  8. Crystal Method
  9. Dillon Francis
  10. Felony
  11. The Five Stair Steps
  12. The Four Tops
  13. Gwen Stefani
  14. Human Nature
  15. In This Moment
  16. Jakalope
  17. Kedr Livanskiy
  18. Lady Gaga
  19. Michael Fredo
  20. Muse
  21. Poppy
  22. Rolling Stones
  23. Saint Motel
  24. Sophie B. Hawkins
  25. Spice Girls
  26. Taylor Swift
  27. Tony Bennett
  28. The Wallflowers
  29. The Who
  30. will.i.am

Live Tweets:

  1. Killer Elite
  2. The Untouchables
  3. White Line Fever
  4. The Bat

Trailers:

  1. The Marvels

News From Last Week:

  1. Tony Bennett dies at 96
  2. Twitter is being rebranded as X
  3. ‘Barbie’ Box Office to the World: The Pandemic Is Officially Over
  4. Oppenheimer box office collection Day 1: Christopher Nolan’s film delivers biggest Hollywood opening of the year

Links From Last Week:

  1. Tater’s Week in Review 7/21/23
  2. Did Mickey Rooney Really Have A “Potato Fantasy” Restaurant? The Answer Is Here!
  3. La lune

Links From The Site:

  1. Jeff shared music videos from Slash, Tony Bennett, Phil Collins, Metallica, Aerosmith, The Clash, and Jane Birkin!
  2. Erin shared The Broken Vase, Bedtime Stories, Secret Session, A Picture of the Moon, Parole Chief, Miss Understanding, and Argosy!
  3. Erin shared a pulpy view of the Moon!
  4. I shared my week in television!
  5. I paid tribute to Paul Schrader!
  6. I shared a scene from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three!
  7. I reviewed Murder In New Hampshire, Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!

More From Us:

  1. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared Can You Hear The Music?
  2. At her photography site, Erin shared Searching, Spring Creek, The Return, Moon, Missing Winter, Dallas In The Distance, and Tower in Dallas!
  3. At my music site, I shared songs from Poppy, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, In This Moment, Backstreet Boys, Billie Eilish, Spice Girls, and The Rolling Stones!

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

Retro Television Reviews: Murder In New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story (dir by Joyce Chopra)

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Sundays, I will be reviewing the made-for-television movies that used to be a primetime mainstay.  Today’s film is 1991’s Murder In New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story!  It  can be viewed on YouTube!

When Pamela Wojas (Helen Hunt) first became engaged to Gregg Smart (Hank Stratton), she thought that they would never get older or settle down to a conventional life.  She thought that Gregg would always have long hair and that they would spend the rest of their lives following Van Halen around the country.  But then Gregg got a job with a New Hampshire insurance company and he cut his hair.  And then Pam failed in her attempts to get hired by the local news station and instead, she ended up accepting a job as the part-time media director at a local high school.

Pam spearheaded the school’s anti-drug campaign and ended up working closely with two students in particular, Billy Flynn (Chad Allen) and Cecelia Pierce (Riff Reagan).  Billy and Pam bonded over their shared love of Van Halen and soon, they were having an affair.  Was Pam just trying to relive her youth or was she already setting up Billy to murder her husband?

Based on the true story that also inspired Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, Murder In New Hampshire jumps back and forth through time.  The film opens with Gregg being shot and killed by Billy and one of his friends.  It then cuts to a courtroom, where a prosecutor (Howard Hesseman) tells the jury that Gregg was murdered on the orders of his own wife.  A very conservatively and modestly-dressed Pam sits in the courtroom and provides quite a contrast to the far more wild and hedonistic Pam who we see in the film’s frequent flashbacks.  While Gregg settles comfortably into life as a suburban insurance agent, Pam continually tries to hold onto her past.  While Gregg wins awards for selling the most insurance, Pam tells Billy that Gregg beats her and that he’s dangerous.

It’s difficult to watch Murder In New Hampshire without comparing it To Die For.  They both tell the same story and they even use the same flashback structure.  But if To Die For presented Nicole Kidman as being a soulless killer who was driven by her obsession with being a star, Murder In New Hampshire suggests that Pam’s main motivation was that she just couldn’t handle the idea of settling down and living a conventional, suburban life.  As well, To Die For presented Joaquin Phoenix’s gunman as being someone who was essentially incapable of thinking for himself.  In Murder In New Hampshire, Billy is far more active character.  Though he is undoubtedly manipulated by Pam, Billy is still portrayed as someone who made his own decision to get involved in Pam’s schemes.  If To Die For is a stylized satire of the true crime genre, Murder In New Hampshire is the epitome of what was being satirized.

That said, Murder In New Hampshire is a good example of the true crime genre, largely due to Helen Hunt’s wonderful performance as Pam Smart.  Hunt plays Pam as someone who has never grown up and who is so scared of being required to that she’ll even resort to murder to pull it off.  While Murder In New Hampshire never quite escapes the shadow of To Die For, it’s still an effective film when taken on its own terms.

Lisa Marie’s Week In Television: 7/16/23 — 7/22/23

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City Guys (YouTube)

I wrote about City Guys here.

Claim To Fame (Monday Night, ABC)

Claim to Fame is a show where 12 relatives of celebrities compete to be the last relative standing.  If someone guesses who you are related to, then you’re out of the show.  If someone incorrectly guesses who you are related to, they are out of the show.  It’s all really, really silly but it’s also a lot more fun than it probably has any right to be.  It helps that the show is hosted by the totally charming duo of Kevin and Frankie Jonas.

I watched the first three episodes of the second season on Sunday morning.  The highlight, of course, was the epic meltdown of Tom Hanks’s niece, who really only had herself to blame for being eliminated because she literally had a panic attack whenever anyone mentioned that someone on the show might be related to Tom Hanks.  As I finished the third episode, I decided that Olivia and Chris were my two favorite players and that Hugo was least favorite, largely due to the fact that Hugo just seemed awfully impressed with himself.

I watched the latest episode on Monday night.  Eddie Murphy’s daughter was finally sent out of the house.  I say finally because everyone pretty much figured out who she was during the second episode.  That said, she seemed to be a nice person.

Degrassi High (YouTube)

Old school Degrassi!  As much as I hate to admit, I haven’t seen much of either Degrassi Junior High or Degrassi High but I intend to remedy that soon.  On the two episodes I watched, the school bully discovered that he was HIV+ and Joey’s attempt to raise money for a new car failed.  It was interesting seeing Joey when he was younger and still had hair.

Fantasy Island (YouTube)

I wrote about Fantasy Island here!

Happy Hour (YouTube)

I watched the 2nd episode of this old 90s game show on Saturday morning.  Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa hosted.  Ahemt had a bit too much energy for his own good but at least Mario Lopez was one of the contestants.  There was an extremely creepy moment when a woman was brought out of the audience and talked about how obsessed she was with Mario.  Also interesting was to note that this episode was nearly 30 years old but Mario Lopez looked exactly the same as he does today.  The man seriously does not age.

The Love Boat (Paramount Plus)

I wrote about The Love Boat here!

The Master (Tubi)

I wrote about The Master here!

Night Music (YouTube)

I watched an episode of this 90s late night music show on Friday night. Bootsy Collins performed and it was very entertaining.

The Simpsons (Weekdays, FXX)

I watched two episodes of this long-running show on Thursday afternoon.  In the first episode, Bart was expelled from Springfield Elementary but, fortunately, he was allowed to re-enroll after he exposed the truth about whacking day and saved the lives of a bunch of snakes.  This was followed by an episode in which Marge forgot to pay for a bottle of whiskey and was sent to jail for 30 days.  Needless to say, the entire town fell apart without her and was forced to settle for a Jimmy Carter statue when they couldn’t afford one of Lincoln.  This led to riots, as one would naturally expect.

Stars on Mars (Monday Night, Fox)

I binged and got up-to-date with this stupid, stupid show throughout the week.  As dumb as it is, it’s compulsively watchable.  On the one hand, it was great to see William Shatner hamming it up as the host.  On the other hand, is it really time for Lance Armstrong redemption tour?

Welcome Back, Kotter (Tubi)

I wrote about “The Sit-In” here!

 

 

Retro Television Reviews: Welcome Back Kotter 1.15 “The Sit-In”

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Saturdays, I will be reviewing Welcome Back Kotter, which ran on ABC  from 1975 to 1979.  The entire show is currently streaming on Tubi!

This week, Gabe teaches the Sweathogs how to fight the man!

Episode 1.15 “The Sit-In”

(Dir by Bob LaHendro, originally aired on January 13th, 1976)

As this episode begins, Gabe is running late but he still takes the time to tell Julie about his Uncle Bernie.  Apparently, Uncle Bernie was always late because he was always fighting with his wife.  Aunt Helene always said Bernie was going to be late to his own funeral.  Bernie replied that he was going to be buried at sea.  I didn’t get it either but at least Gabe got to tell his joke.  That seems to be important to him.

You know what isn’t a joke?  Food fights at school!  Mr. Woodman shows up in Gabe’s classroom, wearing a raincoat and a hat because he says that he’s heard that the Sweathogs are going to start a food fight in the cafeteria.  Gabe argues that the Sweathogs would not start a food fight in the cafeteria without protecting themselves, just for the Sweathogs to all show up for class wearing costumes that range from a football helmet to a fireman’s uniform to a doctor’s mask to a garbage bag.  (Not surprisingly, Horshack is the one who went with the garbage bag.)

“They’re not people, Kotter, they’re not people!” Woodman announces.

“Why didn’t you tell me today was going to be dress-up day?” Gabe asks, “I could have spray-painted my suit and came as a subway train.”

It turns out that the Sweathogs are planning a food fight as a protest against the cafeteria serving liver for lunch.  Kotter encourages the Sweathogs to work through the system and put together a petition.  When he tells this to Woodman, Woodman replies, “What system, Kotter?  There’s only one system here!  You’re free to do as you’re told! …. We all have to eat this swill and if I die, I’m taking all of you with me.”

(Woodman, to my surprise, is quickly becoming my favorite character on this show.  John Sylvester White’s portrayal, with its suggestion that Woodman is slowly losing his mind, never fails to make me smile.)

Realizing that the petition isn’t going to do the job, Gabe encourages his students to stage a sit-in.  For some reason, they all sit down in the classroom instead of the cafeteria.  After several hours, Woodman steps into the classroom and discovers the sit-in.  Gabe tells Woodman that they’re committed.  “If you’re not committed, you should be,” Woodman says, before madly laughing.

Though the Sweathogs want to go home, Gabe demands that they stay in the room and protest.  (One gets the feeling that Gabe is once again forcing the Sweathogs to take part in his own midlife crisis.)  The Sweathogs agree to continue to the sit-in.

That night, Gabe and Epstein keep everyone amused by doing their imitations of Groucho and Chico Marx.

Unfortunately, it didn’t occur to anyone to bring food into the classroom and the Sweathogs, suffering from hunger pains, once again start to abandon the protest.  Gabe tells them that they can’t leave but the Sweathogs are starving!  Suddenly, Julie shows up with a picnic basket and announces that she has brought everyone “my famous tuna casserole.”  The Sweathogs decide to starve.  Gabe tells Julie that not even famine victims would eat her tuna casserole.  Ouch!  Honestly, if I was Julie, I would leave at that point and just let everyone starve but Julie announces that she used to organize sit-ins in college and she’s staying and she’s even brought pillows and blankets.

Gabe announces that it’s time for everyone to get some sleep for the night.  Barbarino tells Gabe that he always sleeps in the nude.  “Go ahead,” Gabe says and the audience goes crazy because seriously, young John Travolta was insanely hot.  Barbarino disappoints everyone by saying that it’s too cold for him to sleep in the nude.  Boooo!

Gabe turns out of the lights.  Horshack starts to cry because he doesn’t have his teddy.  “You can’t have your teddy,” Gabe replies.  “How about Mrs. Kotter?” Horshack asks.  “You can’t have my teddy either,” Gabe replies.  Meanwhile, Barbarino says his prayers and Epstein says, “Send my regards.”  This leads to the Sweathogs debating what God is like.  Epstein thinks he sounds like John Wayne.  Washington thinks that God has a jazz band.  Julie says that God is love and “that if God was here, he would love my tuna casserole.”

And you know what?  This is actually a surprisingly sweet scene but I still have no idea how doing a sleepover in a classroom, something that the Drama Club did on a nearly weekly basis when I was in high school, is going to get the liver out of the cafeteria.

The next morning, Woodman comes by the classroom and discovers that everyone spent the night.  Woodman says that it doesn’t make a difference because no one cares if the Sweathogs spent the night in the classroom but then a bunch of regular students show up and say they’re joining the sit-in.

“Down with liver!” everyone starts to chant.

Woodman announces that there will no longer be any liver in the cafeteria because “the real students don’t like it either.”  So, basically, the Sweathogs still don’t matter.  They got what they wanted but not because they wanted it.  That’s kind of sad really.

Back at the apartment, Gabe tells Julie a story about his Uncle Jack and how his wife fell out of an airplane.  Does it concern Julie that all of Gabe’s jokes are about husbands killing their wives?  I mean, I would be careful about bringing up the tuna casserole around him.

Anyway, this was actually a pretty likable episode and an example of what a talented cast can do with an otherwise middling story.  During the firsts season, at least, this show was very good about giving every member of the cast a chance to shine.

Next week, we have a two-part episode in which Vinnie Barbarino drops out of high school!

Live Tweet Alert: Watch The Bat with #ScarySocial

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As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter.  I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie!  Every week, we get together.  We watch a movie.  We tweet our way through it.

Tonight, for #ScarySocial, Deanna Dawn will be hosting 1959’s The Bat, starring Vincent Price!

If you want to join us on Saturday night, just hop onto twitter, start the film at 9 pm et, and use the #ScarySocial hashtag!  The film is available on Prime, Tubi, and YouTube.  I’ll probably be there and I imagine some other members of the TSL Crew will be there as well.  It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.

Scenes that I Love: Walter Matthau Talks To Robert Shaw in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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98 years ago, on this date, Joseph Sargent was born in New Jersey.  Sargent would go on to become one of the busiest directors of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, working in both film and television.  Though he would never receive the type of critical attention as some of his contemporaries, Sargent was a skilled director who specialized in making entertaining, no-nonsense films.  Though his reputation was tarnished a bit by the fourth Jaws film, it should be remembered that Sargent was also responsible for films like Colossus: The Forbin Project, Tribes, Nightmares, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

1974’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three has come to be recognized as a genre classic.  It’s certainly one of my favorite films about how New Yorkers will be rude to anyone in any circumstances.  You can see an example of this in today’s scene that I love.  Having hijacked a train, Robert Shaw calls in his last of demands and gets a very New York response.

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Paul Schrader Edition

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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 is the birthday of the one and only Paul Schrader!  It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 Paul Schrader Films

Blue Collar (1978, dir by Paul Schrader, DP: Bobby Byrne)

American Gigolo (1980, dir by Paul Schrader, DP: John Bailey)

Cat People (1982, dir by Paul Schrader, DP: John Bailey)

First Reformed (2018, dir by Paul Schrader, DP: Alexander Dynan)

Retro Television Reviews: The Master 1.11 “Failure to Communicate”

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a new feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Fridays, I will be reviewing The Master, which ran on NBC from January to August of 1984.  The show can be found on Tubi!

This week, we meet Max Keller’s father!

Episode 1.11 “Failure to Communicate”

(Dir by Sidney Hayers, originally aired on May 4th, 1984)

This week’s episode of The Master opens with McAllister (Lee Van Cleef) teaching Max (Tim Van Patten) how to fight even while blindfolded.  McAllister explains that, when one’s sight is taken away, the other senses become even stronger.  Hmmm…. I wonder if this will prove to be relevant to their next adventure?

Having apparently given up on trying to find McAllister’s daughter (not that they ever seemed to be trying that hard to begin with), Max and McAllister head to Los Angeles so that Max can visit his father.  Max’s father, Patrick (Doug McClure), has been estranged from Max ever since the death of Max’s mother and older brother.  However, under McAllister’s guidance, Max has learned the importance of forgiveness.

However, before Max can drop in on his father, he and McAllister have to rescue Kathy Hunter (Ashley Ferrare), who is being chased by three men in a cemetery.  McAllister is impressed when Kathy uses some martial arts skills of her own to fight off the men.  (Kathy explains that she has been in training for six years.)  McAllister takes Kathy home to her father, a wealthy bunker named Jason Hunter (J.D. Cannon).  Max, meanwhile, goes to his father’s law office.

However, Patrick is not at his office.  Instead, Max meets Patrick’s administrative assistant, Laura Crane (Rebecca Holden).  Laura is blind but, as we saw at the start of the program, that just means that all of her other senses are now superhuman.  As soon as she meets Max, she knows that he recently stopped off at a gas station and that he drives a van.  All it takes is for her to touch his face for her to realize that she is Patrick’s son.

Patrick, unfortunately, is not doing too well.  He is now an alcoholic and he’s more likely to be found in the local cocktail lounge than in court.  He’s in danger of losing his license and he’s also struggling financially.  In fact, at the cocktail bar, Patrick is meeting with Straker (Marc Alaimo), one of the men who previously tried to abduct Kathy in the cemetery.  Straker is blackmailing Patrick into helping with Staker’s next attempt to kidnap Kathy.  Of course, when Max arrives at the bar looking for his father, all Hell breaks loose when Max sees the men from the cemetery.  Patrick can only watch as Max and a late-arriving McAllister chase the men out of the bar.

After the bar fight, Max and Patrick have a tense meeting at Patrick’s office.  Max accuses his father of being a bitter drunk.  Patrick says that Max is irresponsible.  Patrick tells Max to get out of his life.  Meanwhile, McAllister escorts Laura back to her apartment.  Okassa (Sho Kosugi) shows up and we get yet another fight, this time between Sho Kosugi and Lee Van Cleef’s very busy stunt double.

The next day, Patrick, Laura, McAllister, and Max all end up at a reception for Kathy.  Patrick spots the three kidnappers at the reception and, having had a change of heart, attempts to lead Kathy outside to safety.  However, this just leads to both Patrick and Kathy being kidnapped.  Straker calls Kathy’s father and demands a $3,000,000 ransom but, fortunately, Laura smelled cemetery dirt on the men who grabbed Kathy so Max and McAllister head back to the cemetery, break into a church, and manage to rescue both Kathy and Patrick!

Yay!  I guess the episode’s over, right?

Nope, not even close.

While Max and McAllister are rescuing Patrick and Kathy, Straker is busy kidnapping Laura.  Straker then calls Kathy’s father and announces that he still expects to get his 3 million or “your lawyer’s secretary gets it!”  Kathy’s father is like, “Why would I pay 3 million dollars for someone who I don’t even know?,” which is kind of a fair question even if it’s not a popular one.  McAllister, however, tells Kathy’s father that it’s important to take care of everyone, even the strangers.

Patrick finally breaks down and admits that he was a part of the plot to kidnap Kathy.  He tells Max and McAllister that the man behind the plot is actually Paul Stillwell (Mark Goddard), who is Jason Hunter’s head of security.  (This seems familiar….)  Patrick also explains that Stillwell is holding Laura prisoner on the Princess Louise, a decommissioned cruise ship that has been turned into a floating restaurant.

Accompanied by Patrick, Max and McAllister go to the ship.  Unfortunately, Okassa pops up out of nowhere and gets into another fight with Lee Van Cleef’s stunt double so it falls to Patrick and Max to rescue Laura.  (Patrick suddenly turns out to have some martial arts skills as well, which is a bit odd considering that Patrick is a middle-aged, overweight, out-of-shape, alcoholic attorney.)  The bad guys try to outsmart Max by turning out all the lights on the boat but Laura is able to use her supersenses to help Max beat up Straker’s men in the dark.  Laura is rescued and the bad guys are sent to prison!

As for Patrick, the Hunter family decides not to press charges because they understand that Patrick was being blackmailed.  Swearing that he’s going to live his life the right way from now on, Patrick pours out his last remaining liquor bottle.  Hooray!

This was one of those episodes that was a bit too busy for its own good.  Rather than have Max and McAllister fight against worthy opponents, this episode just had Max and McAllister continually defeat the same three idiots over and over again and you have to wonder why it never seemed to occur to the bad guys to change their strategy when it came to whole kidnapping thing as opposed to repeating the same thing over and over again.  With all of those kidnappings and rescues, there really wasn’t much time left for the emotional heart of the story, which should have been Max mending his relationship with his father.  Considering how much of this series has focused on Max and McAllister’s family issues, it was a bit anti-climatic that Max’s real father just turned out to be some drunk who was being blackmailed.  At least some of the fight scenes were well-choreographed and Rebecca Holden did a good job as Laura Crane, even if the character herself was occasionally too flawless and perfect to be believed.

Next week, maybe McAllister will finally remember that he’s supposed to be looking for his daughter.  We’ll see!

Here’s The Trailer For The Marvels!

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The trailer for The Marvels dropped today.  I got through about 30 seconds of it before I started to get a headache thinking about how insufferable the discourse around this film is going to be.  Comic book films can be fun but, over the past few years, the discourse around them has become unbearable.  Will this film be accused of being too woke or not woke enough?  Probably both because that seems to be the way of the culture right now.

On a personal note, I have to admit that I’m at the point where I’m a bit bored with all of the Marvel films and TV shows.  I was very much invested in the MCU for its first ten years but Endgame just felt like the logical place to end the saga.  Everything after that — with the possible exception of the Spider-Man films — has felt somewhat anti-climatic.  The first ten years of the MCU worked because every film, in one way or another, was clearly a part of a bigger story.  Post-Endgame, it’s hard not to feel like the films are lacking the epic feel that previously excited audiences.

Will The Marvels reverse the MCU’s fortunes?  We’ll find out later this year!  For now, here’s the trailer:

Live Tweet Alert: Join #FridayNightFlix for White Line Fever!

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As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter and I hope to continue to be until the site finally becomes unusable.  (It’s going to happen eventually so enjoy it while you can!)  I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie!  Every week, we get together.  We watch a movie.  We tweet our way through it.

Tonight, at 10 pm et, #FridayNightFlix has got 1975’s White Line Fever!  Jan-Michael Vincent is an independent trucker, determined to do things his way!

If you want to join us this Friday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #FridayNightFlix hashtag!  It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.

White Line Fever is available on Prime!  See you there!