Author Archives: Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Chuck Norris 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 celebrate the birthday of Chuck Norris.  It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 Chuck Norris Films

Silent Rage (1982, dir by Michael Miller, DP: Robert Jessup and Neil Roach)

Missing In Action (1984, dir by Joseph Zito, DP: João Fernandes)

The Delta Force (1986, dir by Menahem Golan, DP: David Gurifinkel)

Invasion USA (1985, dir by Joseph Zito, DP: João Fernandes)

Scenes That I Love: Chuck Norris Saves America In Invasion U.S.A.

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Today, Chuck Norris celebrates his 86th birthday and it only feels appropriate that today’s scene that I love should come from one of his greatest films.  From 1985’s Invasion U.S.A., watch as Chuck Norris saves America from Richard Lynch!

Retro Television Reviews Will Return On March 23rd

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With both 2026’s second Friday the 13th approaching and Oscar Sunday this weekend and then St. Patrick’s Day and Bruce Willis’s birthday coming up the week after, this is going to be a busy 14 days for me.  I’ve got a lot of movies to watch and reviews to write so my Retro Television Reviews are going to take a break for the next two weeks.  They will return on March 23rd, at which point I will hopefully be all caught up!

Song of the Day: I’m Shipping Up To Boston by The Dropkick Murphys

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I shared a screenshot from The Departed for today’s 4 Shots From 4 Films and now I’ve got this song stuck in my head.  And now, it’ll be stuck in your head too!  Even if this song hadn’t been used in The Departed, just the sound of it brings to mind low-level gangsters making big mistakes and causing a lot of damage.  There are some songs that are just fight songs and this is one of them.

He lost his leg, y’know.

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner!

Scenes That I Love: A Scanner Darkly

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First released in 2006, Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly is one of the unacknowledged great films of the past ten years.  The scene below, featuring Rory Cochrane as the hapless Charles Freck, is all the stronger for being adapted almost word-for-word from Philip K. Dick’s source novel.

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special 2006 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, let us take a look back at a classic cinematic year.  It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 2006 Films

Inland Empire (2006, dir by David Lynch, DP: David Lynch)

Marie Antoinette (2006, dir by Sofia Coppola, DP: Lance Acord)

A Scanner Darkly (2006, directed by Richard Linklater, DP: Shane F. Kelly)

The Departed (2006, dir by Martin Scorsese, DP: Michael Ballhaus)

Monday Live Tweet Alert: Join Us For Dreamscape!

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As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasionally 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 Dreamscape!

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, find the movie on YouTube and hit play at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag!  The  watch party community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.   

See you soon!