Here’s The Trailer For Blonde!


There are some people out there (mainly on Twitter) who are convinced that Andrew Dominik’s film adaptation of Blonde will be the first NC-17 film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Well …. maybe.  If I’m skeptical, it’s because I can still remember suffering through Dominik’s previous non-documentary film, Killing Them Softly.  That said, Ana de Armas seems like she’s destined to be nominated some day and playing the lead role of Marilyn Monroe in a controversial film adapted from a controversial Joyce Carol Oates novel seems like the sort of thing that will get the Academy’s attention.

Here’s the trailer for Blonde:

Here’s The Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio


Every few years, we get a new version of Pinocchio.  Walt Disney was responsible for the best-known version.  And then there were a few live action versions that were made in Europe in the 50s and 60s.  There was a pornographic version in the 70s that featured the immortal tag line, “This time, it isn’t his nose that grows!”  If I remember correctly, there were a few made-for-television versions.  Roberto Begnini did a version that I’ve never seen but many people have told me that it’s terrifying.

Well, it’s 2022 and that means that were due a new version.  This time, it’s Guillermo del Toro’s turn to bring the tale of a wooden boy to life.  His animated version will be released on Netflix in December and, given how much the Oscars have recently embraced del Toro, it seems likely that it will be a contender for Best Animated Feature Film.  That’s fine, by me.  I like del Toro.  Of the latest crop of Best Picture nominees, Nightmare Alley is the one that has really stuck with me.  Certainly, it’s stuck with me more than whatever it was that actually won.

(Seriously, what did win?)

Here’s the trailer for Pinocchio!

6 Shots From 6 Films: Special Stanley Kubrick 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!

On this date, 94 years ago, Stanley Kubrick was born in New York City.  The rest, as they say, is history.

In honor of one of the world’s greatest directors, here are….

6 Shots From 6 Stanley Kubrick Films

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick, DP: Gilbert Taylor)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir by Stanley Kubrick, DP: Geoffrey Unsworth)

Barry Lyndon (1975, dir by Stanley Kubrick, DP: John Alcott)

The Shining (1980, dir by Stanley Kubrick, DP: John Alcott)

Full Metal Jacket (1987, dir by Stanley Kubrick, DP: Douglas Milsome)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999. dir by Stanley Kubrick, DP: Larry Smith)

Here’s The Trailer for TAR!


Director Todd Field, who directed two masterpieces (In The Bedroom and Little Children) and then seemingly fell off the face of the Earth, has returned!  His latest film is TAR and it’s due to be released on October 7th of this year, just in time to make a potential splash in the Oscar race.

In TAR, Cate Blanchett plays a composer who is recording a symphony.  In the just-released teaser below, she smokes in slow motion.  Actually, the trailer makes the film look a bit like a horror film.  It’s intriguing, though.  We’ll see what this is all about in October!

Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 7/18/22 — 7/24/22


Is it October yet?  Is the temperature under 90 yet?  Will my car pass inspection last week and will everyone stop asking me why I always wait to last minute on stuff like this?  These and more questions will be answered soon!

For now, here is what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

(Most of the films listed below will be reviewed in October.)

Films I Watched:

  1. Band of the Hand (1986)
  2. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  3. Book Him! (1971)
  4. Child’s Play (1988)
  5. Clue (1985)
  6. Deadly Game (1991)
  7. Engagement Party (1956)
  8. Executive Action (1973)
  9. Gang Boy (1960)
  10. In the Line of Fire (1992)
  11. Joy Ride (1976)
  12. Man With Two Lives (1942)
  13. Minamata (2020)
  14. Name Unknown (1964)
  15. Pamela’s Prayer (1998)
  16. Prom Night (1980)
  17. Time Changer (2002)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Allo Allo
  2. The Bachelorette
  3. Better Call Saul
  4. Big Brother
  5. The Challenge
  6. City Homicide
  7. Full House
  8. Ghost Whisperer
  9. Medium
  10. The MLB All-Star Game
  11. Saved By the Bell

Books I Read:

  1. Undercover (2015) by Danielle Steel

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Ashlee Simpson
  3. Big Data
  4. Blanck mass
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Calvin Harris
  7. The Chemical Brothers
  8. Christina Aguilera
  9. Coldplay
  10. Demi Lovato
  11. Dillon Francis
  12. Fiona Apple
  13. Frank Stallone
  14. Gwen Stefani
  15. Jennifer Lopez
  16. Jessica Simpson
  17. Katy Perry
  18. Kedr Livanskiy
  19. Lindsey Stirling
  20. Mandy Moore
  21. Maya Hawke
  22. Muse
  23. No Doubt
  24. Phantogram
  25. The Prodigy
  26. Sean Paul
  27. Taylor Swift
  28. Uniform

Trailers:

  1. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  2. The Walking Dead
  3. Tales of the Walking Dead
  4. I Am Groot
  5. Black Adam
  6. Shazam: Fury of the Gods
  7. John Wick: Chapter Four
  8. House of the Dragon
  9. Halloween Ends
  10. Curse of the Kraken

News From Last Week:

  1. Director Bob Rafelson Dies at 89
  2. Director William Richert Commits Suicide At Age 79
  3. Stand-Up Comedian Kevin Rooney Dies at 71
  4. Former Scream Queen Rebecca Balding Dies At 73

Links From Last Week:

  1. I Witness A Wild Chicago Crane Repair – Here’s Video 30 Stories High!
  2. The World’s Common Tater’s Week in Books, Movies, and TV 7/22/22

Links From The Site:

  1. I shared my week in television and the poster for Oppenheimer!
  2. Leonard shared the trailer for Wakanda Forever!
  3. Erin shared This Sword For Hire, Thrilling Detective, For Richer For Poorer, Love Story Magazine, Daughter of Strangers, Fate, and A Diet of Treacle!
  4. Doc shared music videos from Demi Lovato, Calvin Harris, Muse, Sean Paul, Uniform, Dillon Francis, and Lindsey Stirling!

More From Us:

  1. Ryan has a patreon!  Consider subscribing!
  2. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared a song from Nine Inch Nails and Peter Murphy!
  3. At her photography site, Erin shared Escape Car, Fallen Leaf, Captured, road, rising, cottage, and Not Clear!
  4. At my music site, I shared songs from Demi Lovato, Maya Hawke, Paul Zaza, Mandy Moore, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift, and Lindsey Stirling!
  5. I wrote about Big Brother for the Big Brother Blog!

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

Lisa Marie’s Week In Television: 7/17/22 — 7/23/22


This was a relax and get healthy sort of week for me.  I didn’t watch much but I enjoyed what I watched.

Allo Allo (Sunday Night, PBS)

I finally got a chance to check back in with Allo Allo this week, having missed the last few episodes due to my focus on the potential Emmy nominees.  To my shock, I discovered that both the Italians and the British airmen had left Nouvion.  The war continued however, with both the communist Resistance and the other Resistance trying to capture Lt. Gruber and Col. Von Strom under the impression that they were actually Hitler and Goering.  It was all a bit complicated, to be honest.  Michelle has become my favorite character because “I shall repeat this only once” is just a badass way to start a conversation.

The Bachelorette (Monday Night, ABC)

As long as the “meatball enthusiast” makes it to the end, this will be a successful season.  I don’t know, I think I liked this franchise more before everyone started talking about “Bachelor Nation” and all that nonsense.  Now that everyone’s in on the joke, it’s just not as much fun.

Better Call Saul (Monday Night, AMC)

Kim left Jimmy and Jimmy finally appears to have completed his transformation into Saul Goodman.  To be honest, this is how I always figured the final episode of Better Call Saul would go.  However, there’s still four episodes left in the series.  Now, it wouldn’t surprise me if the final episode deal with Jimmy’s life after fleeing New Mexico but what’s going to happen in the other three?

Big Brother (All week, CBS and Paramount Plus)

What a week for Big Brother fans!  Due to the Congressional hearings (which have been a bit hit on Twitter but apparently nowhere else), Thursday’s live eviction show was preempted.  At first, CBS said that Big Brother would instead air on Friday.  Then, for some reason, they decided to just do a two-hour special on Sunday.  CBS also initially announced that the feeds would be down for four days, from Thursday until after Sunday’s show.  After the people who actually pay money to have those feeds complained, CBS relented and the feeds come back on Thursday night …. which, of course, now means that everyone knows what is going to happen on Sunday.  It’s just another example of what a disorganized mess this season has been so far.

So, we all know that Pooch (yes, that was his name) was voted out of the house and that Turner (yes, that’s his name) is the new HoH.  And we know that Michael and Brittany are on the block and the plan is to backdoor Taylor.  Hey, I don’t have to watch the show on Sunday now!

Anyway, I wrote about all of this at the Big Brother Blog.  I was kind of looking forward to having four days off, to be honest with you….

The Challenge (Wednesday Night, CBS)

Go, Tyson, go!  Sorry, I’m still struggling to get into this show but Tyson’s a Survivor so I’ll cheer for him.

City Homicide (Weekday Nights, DigiTV)

This is an Australian show that I discovered on Thursday, when I came across it on DigiTV.  Basically, it’s CSI, just with Australians instead of Americans.  The episode that I watched dealt with a murder at a public school.

Full House (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)

Having married Aunt Becky, Jesse attempted to move out of the Full House.  Michelle demanded that Jesse return so, of course, that’s what Jesse did and Becky cheerfully agreed to spend the rest of her life living in the attic and helping Danny raise his daughters.  This was followed by an episode where Michelle gave her pet goldfish a bath and KILLED it!  I’m sorry, Michelle was a little demon child.

Ghost Whisperer (Weekday Afternoons, Start TV)

I watched an episode of Ghost Whisperer on Monday.  It had been a while since I last watched this show.  As much as I love Ghost Whisperer, I was a little bit disappointed to discover that Monday’s episode was from that really weird story arc where Jim died but then possessed someone else’s body.  This particular episode ended with Jim coming back to life but I have to admit that, for the rest of the series, I was always confused as to whether or not everyone knew he was Jim or if they thought he was Sam.  That said, I still enjoyed watching the episode because it was Ghost Whisperer.

Medium (Weekday Afternoons, Start TV)

On Monday, after watching Ghost Whisperer, I watched an episode of Medium, which was basically the super serious version of Ghost Whisperer.  The medium (played by Patricia Arquette) found out that her brother had psychic powers as well!  Medium was never quite as much fun as Ghost Whisperer but Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber were an adorable couple.

The MLB All-Star Game (Tuesday Night, AMC)

I watched this very long baseball game with my sister, mostly as a way of making up for making her watch a film called Blood Game two weeks ago.  Her team won so I was happy for her, even though I wish both teams could have won.  Everyone should be a winner!

Comic-Con 2022: Here’s The Trailer For The Finale of The Walking Dead


As long as I’m sharing Walking Dead-related trailers, here’s the trailer for the final few episodes of the original The Walking Dead!

This dropped yesterday but, again, I was overwhelmed by the cuteness of I am Groot and I’m only now getting around to posting this non-Groot related teaser.

Comic-Con 2022: Here’s The Trailer For Tales Of The Walking Dead


The Walking Dead may be coming to a close but the zombie apocalypse will continue in Tales of The Walking Dead, a new anthology series.  

Here’s the first trailer, featuring Terry Crews and Samantha Morton.  This actually dropped yesterday but, again, I was so overwhelmed by the cuteness of I am Groot that it took me 24 hours to get around to sharing it.  Don’t worry, though.  The Dead aren’t going anywhere.

 

Comic-Con 2022: I Am Groot Is Coming To Disney+


The teaser below was actually released yesterday, at Comic-Con.  I’m sharing it a day late because it’s taken 24 hours for me to get over the pure cuteness of I am Groot.

I am Groot is going to air on Disney+.  It’s advertised as being five short films about everyone’s favorite talking tree.  Of course, when we say talking, we mean that he repeats the same four words over and over again but those words mean something different every time.

I like Groot.  Seriously, who doesn’t like Groot?  It’s probably wise to limit him to five short films, though.  I don’t know if you could really pull off a Groot series without the concept wearing out its welcome.  But five short films, featuring different stages in the life of Groot …. that sounds great!

Here’s the teaser: