As I type this, we’ve got a huge storm raging outside so, instead of rambling about my week, I’m just going to schedule this to post before the power goes out.  Besides, the most important thing about last week is that I survived it.

Films I Watched:

1. Abducted on Air (2020)
2. Cargo (2017)
3. Ex-Con: Redemption (2020)
4. The Forbidden Dance (1990)
5. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
6. I, Tonya (2017)
7. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1964)
8. Massive Retaliation (1984)
9. Miracle Mile (1988)
10. Outrage (1973)
11. Private Wars (1993)
12. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
13. Strangler Of the Swamp (1946)
14. 2,001 Maniacs (2005)
15. Victor Crowley (2017)
16. We Summon The Darkness (2020)
17. WarGames (1983)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Bar Rescue
2. Big Brother 22
3. The Bold and the Beautiful
4. Children’s Hospital
5. Days of Our Lives
6. Dragnet
7. Fatal Vows
8. General Hospital
9. Ghost Whisperer
10. King of the Hill
11. The Last Drive-In
12. The Love Boat
13. Parking Wars
14. The Powers of Matthew Star
15. Saved By The Bell
16. Seinfeld
17. The Simpsons
18. The World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
19. The Young and the Restless
20. Young Sheldon
21. Your Worst Nightmare

Books I Read:

1. Convention (1964) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
2. Dark Horse (1972) by Fletcher Knebel

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Big Data
3. Blanck Mass
4. Bob Dylan
5. Britney Spears
6. Evanscence
7. Happy Mondays
8. Icona Pop
9. Jake Bugg
10. Jessica Simpson
11. Kedr Livanskiy
12. Lana Del Rey
13. Linkin Park
14. New Order
15. Rich White
16. Saint Motel
17. Steve Aoki
18. twenty one pilots
19. UPSAHL

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Miracle Mile, Radioactive, Insignificance, Top Gun, WarGames, Countdown to Looking Glass, and Massive Retaliation!  I also shared music videos from Jessica Simpson, Lana Del Rey, and Icona Pop!  I also paid tribute to Alfred Hitchcock!
2. Jeff reviewed White Rush, Who?, The Pledge, Ghost, Yuma, Not of this Earth, and The Strangers in 7A!  He shared music videos from Metallica, Tom Petty, Mudcrutch, and Whitesnake!
3. Erin shared Stocking Parade, The Pleasure Seekers, Droll Stories, Mystery, Sensational Crime Confessions, Best True Fact Detective, and Kitty!  She also shared the Racy Covers of Silk Stocking Stories!
4. Ryan reviewed “And now sir, is this your missing gonad?,” Eccentric Orbits, and The Impeachable Trump!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon!  Consider subscribing!
2. I wrote about Big Brother for the Big Brother Blog!
3. On my music site, I shared songs from twenty-one pilots, Britney Spears, Evanscence, Linkin Park, Steve Aoki, Demi Lovato, and Lana Del Rey!
4. Over on her photography site, Erin shared: Walking, Hiding Squirrel, Searching, Found It!, Dolls in the Dark, Driving and Photographing, and The Wind!

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

Season 22 of Big Brother started this week and with it, my summer job of covering the show for the Big Brother Blog!  So, I didn’t watch as many movies as usual this week.  Nor did I review as many …. well, actually, I didn’t review anything.  It’s been a while since that’s happened.  However, I have a lot of reviews scheduled to go for next week so yay!

Anyway, forgive the rambling intro …. here’s what I did this week:

Shock (1977, dir by Mario Bava)

Films I Watched:

1. Charge Over You (2012)
2. Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
3. Crowhaven Farm (1970)
4. Giant (1956)
5. Insignificance (1985)
6. Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
7. Shock (1977)
8. Top Gun (1986)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Bar Rescue
2. Big Brother 22
3. The Bold and the Beautiful
4. Days of our Lives
5. Doctor Phil
6. Dragnet
7. Fear They Neighbor
8. General Hospital
9. It’s A Living
10. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
11. The Love Boat
12. Masterchef
13. The Office
14. Paranormal Survivor
15. The Powers of Matthew Star
16. See No Evil
17. The Simpsons
18. World’s Most Wanted
19. The Young and the Restless

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Ami
2. Britney Spears
3. Chris Zabriskie
4. Daft Punk
5. Elle King
6. Ennio Morricone
7. Jessica Simpson
8. Lam Gallagher
9. Libra
10. Lou Reed
11. Phantogram
12. The Psychedelic Furs
13. Pulp
14. Saint Motel
15. Selena Gomez
16. Skrillex
17. Taylor Swift
18. Tegan and Sara
19. The Ting Tings
20. The View

Our Tribute To Morricone:

1. Main Theme From A Fistful of Dollars (A Fistful of Dollars)
2. Main Theme From For A Few Dollars More (For A Few Dollars More)
3. Gui La Tesa (Duck, You Sucker!)
4. Malena (Malena)
5. Chi l’ha vista morire? (Who Saw Her Die?)
6. Neve (The Hateful Eight)
7. Final Theme From Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso)

Links From The Site:

1. Along with my Morricone tribute, I shared a music video from Ami.
2. Erin shared the Covers of Action Stories, along with Tip on a Dead Jockey, Big City Nurse, Like Crazy, Passionately Yours Eve, Whisper, Collier’s and Spicy Mystery!
3. Jeff shared music videos from Bon Jovi, Madness, Grateful Dead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Squeeze and Metallica!  He reviewed Snatched, The Hanged Man, Cotter, The Airzone Solution, Boulevard, Dream’s Ashes, and The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan!
4. Val reviewed 365 Days and shared 4 Shots From 4 Films!
5. Ryan reviewed Micky, Ghouls, Mondo Groovy, and Mondo Groovy Horrorshow!

More From Us:

1. I reviewed Big Brother for the Big Brother Blog!
2. On my music site, I shared songs from Jessica Simpson, Skrillex, Tegan and Sara, Liam Gallagher, The View, The Psychedelic Furs, and Chris Zabriskie!
3. On her photography site, Erin shared: Walking, Ahead, Fields of Green, Rain, End of the Street, Alley, and Modelo!
4. Ryan has a patreon!  Consider subscribing!

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

The important thing, for me, is that I got my car inspected and paid the registration fee this week.  I hate having to do stuff like that and I resent the inconvenience.  But I got it done and now …. well, now, I guess I’ll just spend the rest of 2020 sitting on my couch and ordering stuff off of Amazon.

Seriously, the world’s just kind of standing still right now.

Anyway, here’s what I watched and read this week!

Films I Watched:

1. Adopted in Danger (2020)
2. Baby Monitor Murders (2020)
3. The Black Castle (1952)
4. The Comic (1969)
5. The Crazies (2010)
6. Deadly Daughter Switch (2020)
7. The Encounter (2010)
8. Engaged to a Psycho (2020)
9. Enter Laughing (1967)
10. Gotti (2018)
11. Radioactive (2020)
12. The Thin Man (1934)
13. Tread (2020)
14. The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1959)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. 9-1-1
2. 9-1-1: Lone Star
3. The Alienist
4. The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons Ever!
5. Bar Rescue
6. Community
7. Cults and Extreme Beliefs
8. Daily Mail TV
9. Degrassi
10. Dr. Phil
11. Dragnet
12. Evil Lives Here
13. Friends
14. Ghost Whisperer
15. Homicide City
16. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
17. It’s a Living
18. The Love Boat
19. The Office
20. Paranormal Survivor
21. The Powers of Matthew Star
22. Saved By The Bell
23. Seinfeld
24. The Simpsons
25. Storage Wars

Books I Read:

1. Go Ask Alice (1971) by “Anonymous”

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Above & Beyond
2. Adi Ulmansky
3. Afrojack
4. Alvin Risk
5. Amy Winehouse
6. Armin Van Buuren
7. Avici
8. BANKS
9. Big Data
10. Blanck Mass
11. Britney Spears
12. Cage the Elephant
13. Calvin Harris
14. The Chemical Brothers
15. The Correspondents
16. The Crystal Method
17. Daft Punk
18. deadmau5
19. Dillon Francis
20. DJ Snake
21. Ennio Morricone
22. Goblin
23. Gwen Stefani
24. HAIM
25. Hardwell
26. I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY FOUND ME BUT THEY DID
27. Icona Pop
28. The Interrupters
29. Jessica Simpson
30. Joywave
31. Kedr Livanskiy
32. Kid Rock
33. Lynard Skynard
34. Neon Indian
35. Robyn Adele Anderson
36. Spice Girls
37. Steve Aoki
38. Swedish House Mafia
39. Taylor Swift
40. Tove Lo
41. UPSAHL
42. Warren Zevon
43. Zedd

Our Continuing Tribute to Moricone:

1. Chi Mai (various)
2. La Resa (The Big Gundown)
3. Main Title Theme (Red Sonja)
4. The Main Theme From The Cat O’Nine Tails (The Cat O’Nine Tails)
5. Deep Down (Danger Diabolik!)
6. The Main Theme From Autopsy (Autopsy)
7. Main Theme From Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)

Links From Last Week:

1. Why Comic-Con ‘At Home’ Was a Bust
2. Have You Been ‘Wokefished’ While Dating? Here’s How to Tell
3. 6 people who don’t deserve their Emmy nominations this year — sorry
4. 13 people who didn’t get an Emmy nomination this year, but should have
5. Emmys 2020 Nominations: 12 Biggest Snubs and Surprises
6. Emmy nominations 2020: 10 surprises and snubs
7. Gianni Russo Tells The Story Of Getting Kidnapped By Pablo Escobar After Murdering His Underboss In A Las Vegas Restaurant
8. Buy physical media
9. RIP, WIlford Brimley, funnier than you might think

News From Last Week:

1. Gotham under attack: ‘Joker’ spotted jet-skiing on the East River
2. ‘Upstream Color’ Director Shane Carruth Accused of Abusing Ex-Girlfriend
3. ESPN investigation finds coaches at NBA China academies complained of player abuse, lack of schooling
4. Taylor Swift Remains Silent as Fans Doxx and Harass Music Critic Over ‘Folklore’ Review
5. Dozens Of Former “Ellen Show” Employees Say Executive Producers Engaged In Rampant Sexual Misconduct And Harassment
6. ‘This Is a Real Kick in the Shorts’: Small-Town Theaters Owners React to AMC’s VOD Pact With Universal
7. NBC Insiders Say Entertainment Boss Fostered Toxic Culture, Under Investigation
8. Alan Parker, director of ‘Midnight Express’ and ‘Mississippi Burning,’ dies at 76

Links From The Site:

1. Jeff reviewed The Bounty Man, The Love War, Blood River, Cave-in!, Die Watching, Stranger On My Land, and Zapped!  He shared music videos from The KLF and Debbie Harry and he paid tribute to Wilford Brimley!
2. Erin shared the covers of Fight Stories, along with: The Cautious Amorist, Tropical Spitfire, South Sea Stories, Point Venus, Jewel of the Java Sea, The Tracks, and Flame Goddess!
3. Ryan reviewed Questions of Molten Motion, Dress Rehearsal, and Detective Double Digest!
4. I shared music videos from BANKS, The Devil’s Daughters, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Los Bitchos, and Dum Dum Girls.  I shared the Emmy nominations and I paid tribute to Richard Linklater and Mario Bava.  I shared a scene from Danger Diabolik!  I shared my Oscar predictions for July!  I shared trailers for After We Collided, Kajillionarie, and Honest Thief!  I reviewed Her Deadly Groom, Deadly Daughter Switch, Gotti, The Powers of Matthew Star, Engaged to a Psycho, The Baby Monitor Murders, The Comic, Tread, and Adopted in Danger!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!
2. On her photography site, Erin shared: 3 Trees, Garden Statue, Green Sky, Street, Blue, To The Side, and Path to Somewhere!
3. On my music site, I shared songs from BANKS, Saint Motel, I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY FOUND ME BUT THEY DID, The Correspondents, The Interrupters, Robyn Adele Anderson, and Amy Winehouse!

Want to check out last week?  Click here!

The Crazies (1973, dir by George Romero)

It’s difficult, isn’t it?  The constant onslaught of bad news can be hard take, especially when you know that it’s being pushed by people who have an incentive when it comes to keeping everyone depressed.  I’ve always said that one of the secrets to good mental health is to get away from social media and to go out and enjoy yourself.  Unfortunately, so many things have come together this year to take away that option for a lot of people.  When I do go out and talk to people, I discover that things aren’t as bad as you might think.  But when I stay inside and just look at twitter or the news, it’s easy to feel like the entire world is falling apart.

I was really looking forward to 2020.  This is the 10 year anniversary of this site and I had a lot planned.  Unfortunately, I’ve had to put a lot of those plans on hold.  For instance, it’s hard to do a series of reviews about the Olympics or Cannes when both of those events have been delayed.  It’s hard to review a series of political films when neither the Democratic nor the Republican convention is going to be occurring (at least not in their usual way) this year.  It’s difficult to review new films when all of the theaters are closed and all of the big films are being pushed to the side.  The same is true when it comes to reviewing TV shows.  The world’s on hold right now.  I’m not whining about it or playing the poor me game.  I’m just acknowledging the truth of the situation as far as my 2020 plans are concerned.

So, what do I do?  Do I give up, as so many others have?  Do I say, “Well, I’m just going to sit around and be miserable?”  Or do I simply put those plans on hold, secure in the knowledge that I will get a chance to do them eventually?  Me, I’m going with the latter.  As of right now, it looks like our 10 year anniversary celebrations are going to extend into 2021 because 2020 just doesn’t count.  Then again, perhaps we should make every day a celebration whether it’s an anniversary or not.

I was going to start work on a bunch of back to school reviews next month but now it looks schools might not be reopening.  So, we’ll put those reviews off until 2021.  I’ll just concentrate on getting my reviews for the October horrorthon prepared.  The important thing is to never ever give up.

Here’s what I did this week!

Films I Watched:

1. After Midnight (2020)
2. Arkansas (2020)
3. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
4. House (1985)
5. I Was Lorena Bobbitt (2020)
6. The Invisible Woman (2020)
7. Mile High Escorts (2020)
8. Murder in the Vineyard (2020)
9. Night of Terror (1972)
10. Psycho Yoga Instructor (2020)
11. Shirley (2020)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Alienist
2. Children’s Hospital
3. Degrassi
4. Dragnet
5. Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia
6. House Hunters
7. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
8. The Love Boat
9. Medical Police
10. The Office
11. The Powers of Matthew Star
12. Saved By The Bell: The College Years
13. Twilight Zone
14. Wynonna Earrp

Books I Read:

1. Mexican Gothic (2020) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2. The Swap (2020) by Robyn Harding

Music To Which I Listened:

1. BANKS
2. Big Data
3. Bob Moses
4. Britney Spears
5. Calvin Harris
6. The Chemical Brothers
7. Creed Bratton
8. The Crystal Method
9. Daft Punk
10. Deadmau5
11. Dillon Francis
12. DJ Snake
13. Elle King
14. Elohim
15. Ennio Morricone
16. Future Islands
17. Garth Emery
18. HAIM
19. Hardwell
20. The Hunted
21. Jakalope
22. Lush
23. Metric
24. Public Service Broadcasting
25. Rich White
26. Saint Motel
27. Taylor Swift
28. UPSAHL

Our Continuing Tribute To Morricone:

1. Theme From Frantic (Frantic)
2. La Lucertola (Lizard In A Woman’s Skin)
3. Spasmodicamente (Spasmo)
4. The Theme From The Stendhal Syndrome (The Stendhal Syndrome)
5. My Name Is Nobody (My Name Is Nobody)
6. Piume di Cristallo (The Bird With The Crystal Plumage)
7. For Love One Can Die (D’amore si muore)

News From Last Week:

1. From Avatar 2 to Mulan: Delayed films and their new release dates
2. Regis Philbin, TV’s Enduring Everyman, Dies at 88
3. ‘Gone With the Wind’ star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104
4. John Saxon, ‘Enter the Dragon,’ ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Actor, Dies at 83

Links From The Site:

1. Erin wished everyone a Happy Moon Day and profiled artist Darrel Greene!  She also shared: Navy Romances, What A Body, Pleasure Island, No Mask For Murder, Diamond Head, Isle of Free Love, and Ah King!
2. Jeff reviewed Cease Fire, A Cry For Help, Shell Game, Thunder Alley, Meatballs IV, Fools, and War Hunt!
3. Ryan reviewed Five Perennial Virtues, MOAB, and Wimp Digest!
4. I shared music videos from Public Service Broadcasting, Garth Emery, Metric, Saint Motel, Bob Moses, Creed Bratton, and Calvin Harris!  I reviewed Arkansas, After Midnight, Mile High Escorts, Murder in the Vineyard, Psycho Yoga Instructor, and I Was Lorena Bobbitt!  I shared tributes to Olivia de Havilland, John Saxon, and Stanley Kubrick!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon!  Consider subscribing!
2. At my music site, I shared songs from The Crystal Method, Lush, Elle King, Future Islands, Bob Moses & ZHU, The Hunted, and BANKS!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared: Machines, Corner View, Four Ducks, That One Tree, Green, Fountains, and Made of Glass!

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

Ennio Morricone, R.I.P.

What a sad week.  On Monday, Ennio Moricone died.  On Wednesday, Naya Rivera went missing at Lake Piru in California.

As for me, I’m okay.  It’s hot!  Summer has just begun and it’s a pain.  But, still, there are movies to watch and books to read and songs to dance to and that’s the important thing.

Here’s what I did this week:

Films I Watched:

1. Burning Kentucky (2020)
2. Dispatched (2020)
3. Dog Soliders (2002)
4. Emerson Heights (2020)
5. Frances Ferguson (2020)
6. Healing River (2020)
7. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Bold and the Beautiful
2. The Brady Bunch
3. Days of Our Lives
4. Dr. Phil
5. The Flintstones
6. General Hospital
7. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back
8. Happy Days
9. Hell’s Kitchen
10. The Love Boat
11. The Office
12. Saved By The Bell
13. Storage Wars
14. Westworld
15. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

1. Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day (2017) by Joel Slevin

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Afrojack
2. Armin van Buuren
3. Blanck Mass
4. Britney Spears
5. CHVRCHES
6. Daft Punk
7. Distract
8. Drastic
9. Ennio Morricone
10. HAIM
11. Hardwell
12. Kylie Minogue
13. Michael Penn
14. Muse
15. Neon Indian
16. Roosevelt
17. Saint Motel
18. Steve Aoki
19. Taylor Swift
20. UPSAHL
21. Washed Out
22. Zedd

News From Last Week:

1. Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
2. Why ‘Hamilton’ Can’t Win Any Oscars
3. Venice, Toronto, Telluride and New York Film Festivals Join Forces in Non-Competitive Alliance
4. ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Leads At The Weekend Box Office Again, 23 Years After Sequel’s Special Edition
5. Naya Rivera search should be handled by the authorities: cops

Links From Last Week:

1. Wait for It: The Hamilton Oscar Debate Is Not Over

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared An American Dream Girl, Year 3097, The Only Thing That Matters, The Case of the Lonely Heiress, God Wears A Bowtie, I Live to Love, and Lariat!  She also shared the covers of Science Wonder Stories!
2. Jeff shared music videos from Scorpions and The Charlie Daniels Band!  He also reviewed Black Moon Rising, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Late Shift, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Mistrial, Above Suspicion, and Hurricane!
3. Ryan reviewed Old Haunts and Tartarus!
4. I shared music videos from Michael Penn, HAIM, Neon Indian, Britney Spears, and Drastic!  I wished a happy birthday to Kevin Bacon!  I reviewed The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, Scarface, The Untouchables, Emerson Heights, Burning Kentucky, Frances Ferguson, Dispatched, and Healing River! 

More From Us:

1. On her photography site, Erin shared: Green White And Blue, July 7th, Falling Light, Green, Stop, No Dog, and Creek in Black and White!
2. At my music site, I shared songs from: Kylie Minogue, Ennio Morricone, CHVRCHES, Saint Motel, Britney Spears, HAIM, and Hardwell!
3. At Days Without Incident, Leonard wrote about Ennio Morricone!
4. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!

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

I’ve been up at Lake Texoma and on a mini-vacation this entire week.  I haven’t turned on a television or checked the news since last Sunday and it’s been wonderful.  I’ve spent this week meditating, writing, sunbathing out on the deck, and listening to Lee Horsley read Larry McMurtry’s epic novel, Lonesome Dove.  And while I’m definitely frustrated by the fact that I can’t tan worth a damn, I’m otherwise feeling very relaxed and very much at peace.  I’m ready to face the second half of this year.

It’s funny.  When I came up here, I brought my portable DVD player.  I brought several DVDs.  I think I was assuming that I would spend the whole time watching movies and writing about them.  But once I got up here, I realized that I really, really needed to get some rest.  Like some real, actual rest.  I needed to stop worrying about things and stop pushing myself and just enjoy nature and basically, take care of myself.  So, that’s what I did.  As a result, I didn’t watch a lot of movies this week.  But I now feel so centered that I know I’m going to be able to make up for it next week.  I think that sometimes, we forget how important it is to just rest and get centered with the universe.  I feel like I can breathe again and that’s a wonderful feeling.

ANYWAY — here’s what little I did watch, read, and listen to.

Films I Watched:

1. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
2. Athlete A (2020)
3. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
4. Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Office
2. Unsolved Mysteries
3. Warrior Nun

Books I Read:

1. Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry  (Technically, I didn’t read it as much as I listened to it on Audible.  It’s a great book, though.)

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Big Data
3. Bob Dylan
4. Britney Spears
5. Calvin Harris
6. Haim
7. Jessica Simpson
8. Kid Rock
9. Moby
10. Muse
11. Phatogram
12. Rocky and the Bullwinkles
13. Saint Motel
14. Taylor Swift

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared Film Fun, The Stranger, Hanging On, The First Quarry, Thrilling Love, 4th of July, and Affair With Lucy!  She reviewed Major League, Major League II, The Stratton Story, and Hardball!  She also profiled artist William Jacobson and shared, for the 4th: Vintage Patriotic Posters, The Patriotic Magazine Covers of July 1942, Independence Days Of The Past, and My Americana!  She also wished America a happy birthday!
2. Jeff shared music videos from AC/DC, Queen, Sparks, ELO, Tom Petty, and Huey Lewis and the News!  He reviewed Faster, Blue Thunder, The Baltimore Bullet, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Some Kind of Hero, From Noon Till Three, and Three Fugitives!  He also paid tribute to Carl Reiner!
3. I shared a music video by Classified, wished all of you a happy 4th of July, and paid tribute to Peter Walker and Michele Soavi!  I also reviewed Bugsy Malone, Love Me or Leave Me, and Murder, Inc.  And, of course, I shared my June Oscar predictions.
4. Ryan reviewed King of Nowhere, Billionaire Island, Gideon Falls, and Dead Eyes!

More From Us:

1. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared Hamilton’s Wait For It.
2. Ryan has a Patreon!  Consider subscribing!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared Ducks, Be Prepared To Stop, House and Flag, In the High Grass, July 3rd, Flag Flying High, and Flower!
4. At Pop Politics, Jeff shared Election Predictions, The 2000 Year Old Man, and Kanye West For President!
5. On my music site, I shared music from Adi Ulmansky, Calvin Harris, Lindsey Stirling, Haim, The Big Moon, Lady Gaga, and Cage The Elephant!

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

Oh, what a week.

Foolishly, I assumed that the world would be able to basically re-open in July but, as June comes to a close, it’s obvious that is not going to be the case.  All of the big theatrical releases for July — Tenet, Mulan, that Bill & Ted movie — have been pushed back to August and, to be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if they got pushed back again.  A lot of people out there are saying that we should just all stay inside until there’s a vaccine for COVID-19 but who knows when that will be?  Whenever I hear anyone say that we’ll have a vaccine in 6 months, I want to point out to them that I thought the country would be able to reopen in July.  There’s a lot of wishful thinking out there right now.

Me?  I’m wearing a mask when I go out and I’m being careful.  I’m practicing social distancing.  I’m washing my hands.  I’m doing everything that I know can be done.  That’s really all I can do right now.

Oh well!  This upcoming week, I will be taking a little mini-vacation up at Lake Texoma.  I’m looking forward to meditating and recharging and getting some writing done.  I’ll probably listen to a lot of Bob Dylan.  And yes, I’m taking along a few DVDs because reviewing movies is something that keeps me focused and centered.  Mostly, though, I’m just looking forward to taking a break from all the noise of the world.

Here’s what I watched this week:

Films I Watched:

1. 7500 (2020)
2. American Wisper (2020)
3. Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
4. The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
5. Bugsy Malone (1976)
6. Carlito’s Way (1993)
7. Carlito’s Way: Rise To Power (2005)
8. A Field in England (2013)
9. Go Ask Alice (1973)
10. How To Stuff A Wild Bikni (1965)
11. Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
12. Murder, Inc. (1960)
13. Only One Way (2014)
14. Penance (2018)
15. Rust (2010)
16. Scarface (1983)
17. St. Valentine Day Massacre (1967)
18. The Untouchables (1987)
19. The Way Back (2020)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Bold and the Beautiful
2. Community
3. Days of Our Lives
4. Doctor Phil
5. General Hospital
6. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back
7. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8. The Murder of Laci Peterson
9. Saved By The Bell: The College Years
10. Seinfeld
11. Shipping Wars
12. South Park
13. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

1. Death of an Expert Witness (1977) by P.D. James

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Black Pumas
3. Blanck Mass
4. Bob Dylan
5. Britney Spears
6. Garbage
7. Jim WIlliams
8. The Killers
9. Muse
10. Muzz
11. The Pretenders
12. Saint Motel
13. Selena Gomez
14. ZOON

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared Senor Saint, The Long Memory, Film Fun, Big Eli, True Gang Life, Westering, and Cancel All Our Vows!  She also shared The Covers of Famous Detective Cases!
2. Jeff reviewed Falling Down, The Gumball Rally, Quiet Killer, The Last Hour, and The Onion Movie!
3. I shared music videos from ZOON, Seal, The Pretenders, Muzz, Garbage, Saint Motel, and Muse!  I reviewed American Wisper and paid tribute to Mel Brooks!
4. Ryan reviewed Violent Delights, Crime at Babel, Egle and Snake, and Banal Complications!

More From Us:

1. At her photography site, Erin shared: Dallas, Founders Plaza, Blue, Red, Do Not Enter, Play Now, and Moon!
2. Ryan has a patreon and you should consider subscribing!
3. At my music site, I shared songs from Black Pumas, Selena Gomez, Jim Williams, The Killers, Garbage, Jim Williams again, and Muse!

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

Anyway, have a good week, everyone!  As for me …. well, a few days up at the lake?  What could possibly go wrong?

Another weeks come to an end.  This year is nearly halfway over and yet it still feels like it hasn’t really even begun.

Anyway, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week.  I didn’t watch as many movies as I meant to so I’m a bit disappointed in myself.  Oh well.  I’ll make up for it next week!

Films I Watched:

1. The Assistant (2020)
2. Cold Turkey (1971)
3. Contraband (1980)
4. Hoffa (1992)
5. A Long Way Off (2014)
6. The Night Clerk (2020)
7. Slow Fade (2011)
8. The Vast of Night (2020)
9. Wendigo (2001)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!
2. The Bold and the Beautiful
3. Celebrity Ghost Stories
4. Coming Home
5. Community
6. Conan
7. Days of Our Lives
8. Doctor Phil
9. General Hospital
10. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back
11. I Killed My BFF
12. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
13. The Office
14. Seinfeld
15. South Park
16. The Twilight Zone
17. Word of Dance
18. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

1. Esther: Royal Beauty (2015) by Angela Hunt

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Afrojack
2. Armin van Buuren
3. Big Data
4. Bob Dylan
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. Coldplay
7. Ekkah
8. Elle King
9. Ellie Goulding
10. The Heavy
11. Icona Pop
12. Jakalope
13. Kygo
14. Muse
15. Neon Indian
16. Nine Inch Nails
17. Phantogram
18. Robyn Adele Anderson
19. Saint Motel
20. St. Vincent
21. ZOON

News From Last Week:

1. Oscars: 93rd Academy Awards moved to April 25, 2021; eligibility period extended by two months
2. Ordinary Woman Fired Because of Washington Post Article About Costume She Wore at Halloween Party Two Years Ago
3. ‘The Good Place’ Producer Megan Amram Grovels for Forgiveness Over Bad Tweets
4. Jimmy Kimmel announces he is taking the summer off to spend time with his family after blackface controversy among late-night hosts
5. The Bold and the Beautiful’ using blowup dolls for sex scenes in new episodes
6. Fall TV schedule takes shape with cancellations, renewals and additions
7. James Gandolfini Once Threatened to “Beat the F*ck” Out of Harvey Weinstein After a Disagreement
8. The Oldest Hatred Rears Its Head

Links From Last Week:

1. Washington Elite’s Stalinist Halloween
2. The 20 Best Movies Eligible for the 2021 Oscars Right Now
3. Why Can’t You Get Canceled For Anti-Semitism?
4. The Washington Post’s Halloween Costume Hit Job Is a New Low for Cancel Culture
5. Washington Post opens new front in the cancel culture wars
6. Dirty Harry, The Searchers, and True Lies do not need warning labels
7. How Quibi became the Fyre Fest of the coronavirus
8. The American Soviet Mentality
9. Jimmy Kimmel needs to apologize for blackface sketch, not take a vacation
10. The “cancel” crew will come for you someday soon.

Links From The Site:

1. Erin reviewed Bang the Drum Slowly and shared The Sexy Covers of Charles Copeland and More Covers From Hard Case Crime!  She also shared: The Junk Pusher, Death of Jezebel, Film Fun, Past All Dishoner, Shadow of a Killer, The Moving Target, and Father and Son!
2. Doc wished everyone a Happy Father’s Day and shared a music video from Neon Indian!  (I helped.)
3. Jeff shared music videos from Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Journey, and Berlin! He also reviewed If Lucy Fell, Megaforce, Rockstar, an issue of What If?, The Trigger Effect, Don King: Only in America, Parallel Lives, Eye See You, Hard Target, and 3000 Miles to Graceland!
4. I paid tribute to Ian Holm, Lucio Fulci, Daria Nicolodi, and Vilmos Zsigmond.  I reviewed Hoffa, Cold Turkey, and Contraband!  I shared music videos from Robyn Adele Anderson and Ekkah!
5. Ryan reviewed Chapter Two, Book Fight, Hero, and (extra) Ordinary!

More From Us:

1. On my music site, I shared songs from Neon Indian, St. Vincent, Coldplay, Kygo & Ellie Goulding, Elle King, and Saint Motel!
2. On her photography site, Erin shared: Country Rain, Dallas, 311 Market, Hotel Lawrence, Metropolis, D, and On Market Street!
3. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared songs from Hans Zimmer and Marvin Gaye!
4. Ryan has a patreon and you should consider subscribing!

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

Have a safe week, everyone!

And so another week comes to an end!

There’s a lot of things happening in the world right now and I’m not even going to try to explain it all.  I’m far better at writing about movies than I am about writing about what’s happening right outside of my front door.  On the plus side, I can walk again!  I sprained my toe a week and a half ago.  I may be limping but I’m still getting around a lot better than I was a few days ago.  So yay for good news!

Here’s what I watched and read this week.  It seems like it should be more but …. oh well.

Films I Watched:

1. All Night and A Day (2020)
2. Da 5 Bloods (2020)
3. Force of Evil (1948)
4. Gambling House (1950)
5. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
6. Race Street (1948)
7. Racket Girls (1951)
8. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
9. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
10. Rob the Mob (2014)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Bar Rescue
2. The Bold and the Beautiful
3. Days of Our Lives
4. Doctor Phil
5. General Hospital
6. Ghost Whisperer
7. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell and Back
8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Killer Kids
10. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
11. The Office
12. Parking Wars
13. World of Dance
14. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

1. Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center (2020) by Tyler O’Neil

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Armin van Buuren
3. Bob Dylan
4. Chicane
5. Dam Funk
6. Dillon Francis
7. Donovan
8. Ekkah
9. Garbage
10. Jakalope
11. Jake Epstein
12. Kygo
13. Muse
14. OneRepublic
15. The Pretenders
16. Saint Motel
17. Savage Rose
18. UPSAHL

Links From Last Week:

1. As old media squabbles, new media thrives
2. The American Press Is Destroying Itself
3. Good Riddance to Cops and Live PD
4. The 1793 Project Unmasked

News From Last Week:

1. ‘Lost’ Italian village set to emerge from watery depths for the 1st time in 27 years
2. ‘Cops,’ on air for 33 seasons, dropped by Paramount Network
3. Film Academy Board Set to Postpone Oscars Ceremony and Extend Eligibility Window

Links From the Site:

1. Erin shared the Shocking Covers of Super-Detective and: Dying Room Only, Film Fun, Scarlet Adventures, The Treasure of Pleasant Valley, Kiss Her Goodbye, Manhunt, and American Flags!
2. Jeff shared music videos from Dishwalla, OMD, Depeche Mode, Earth & Fire, Earth & Fire again, The Clash, and George Harrison!  He also reviewed Threesome, Fatal Instinct, Hail Hero!, The Tie That Binds, The Big Fall, Striking Distance, and Escape to Victory!
3. I reviewed The Roaring Twenties, Force of Evil, Rob the Mob, Gambling House, Race Street, and Racket Girls!
4. Ryan reviewed Performance Video, Hometime, Twenty-One Fifty Fiverr, Softer than Sunshine, Galapagos, and Kyoto Pants Down!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon.  Consider subscribing.
2. At her photography site, Erin shared Driving, Three, Clouds in the Water, Dolls, Gray Sky, Bees and Butterflies, and Something To Look Forward To.
3. On my music site, I shared music from Ekkah, Saint Motel, Chicane, Adi Ulmansky, Donovan, Garbage, and Kygo!

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