Lisa’s Week In Review: 7/20/20 — 7/26/20


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!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 7/13/20 — 7/19/20


The best thing about this week?  On Saturday, as the host of the week’s #ScarySocial live tweet, I got to introduce a whole new group of people — including four of my colleagues here at the Shattered Lens — to Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead!  Leonard, Jeff, Case, and Patrick joined me and a few others in watching Fulci’s classic zombie film.  Here’s just some of their opinions about the film:

#ScarySocial is a weekly event.  Basically, every Saturday at 9pm eastern, we watch and live tweet a movie.  I’m one of three hosts, along with Tim Buntley and Deanna Dawn.  It’s a lot of fun and next week, we’ll be watching the 1986 film, House.  So, if you’ve got the time and you want to watch a horror movie with a good group of people, check out our twitter account for more details!

Here’s what else I did this week.  To be honest, I probably did more shopping this week than I should have but we all deal with stress of modern life in our own way, right?

Films I Watched:

  1. Becky (2020)
  2. Cease Fire (1985)
  3. City of the Living Dead (1980)
  4. Escape from New York (1981)
  5. M.O.M. Mother of Monsters (2020)
  6. Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. The Alienist
  2. Family Feud (These were like old episodes from 1988.  It’s weird what you discover on Prime.)
  3. King of the Hill
  4. The Love Boat
  5. The Office
  6. Ozark
  7. Planet of the Apes
  8. The Powers of Matthew Star
  9. Snowpiercer
  10. Unbelievable

Books I Read:

  1. The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (2020) by Andy Greene
  2. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015) by Jon Ronson

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Big Data
  2. Britney Spears
  3. The Chemical Brothers
  4. The Crystal Method
  5. Cults
  6. Ennio Morricone
  7. Garth Emery
  8. HAIM
  9. Hardwell
  10. Havelock
  11. Jakalope
  12. John Carpenter
  13. Ludwig Göransson
  14. Motorama
  15. Public Service Broadcasting
  16. Purity Ring
  17. Roosevelt
  18. Saint Motel
  19. TAKIA
  20. UPSAHL

Our Ongoing Tribute to Morricone:

  1. The Return (Days of Heaven)
  2. Man With A Harmonica (Once Upon A Time In The West)
  3. The Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
  4. The Main Theme From The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
  5. Regan’s Theme (The Exorcist II: The Heretic)
  6. Desolation (The Thing)
  7. The Legend of the Pianist (The Legend of 1900)

Links From The Site:

  1. Erin profiled Everett Raymond Kinstler and shared Illustrated World, Weird Tales, Rage on the Bar, Captain Dack and the Mystery of Peril Island, Danger Trail, Adventure, and Forever Evil!
  2. Jeff reviewed Footsteps, Marooned, The Gladiator, Disaster on the Coastliner, Demolition High, Demolition University, and Repo Jake!
  3. I shared music videos from Roosevelt, TAKIA, Ludwig Göransson, Havelock, Haim, Gareth Emery, and Motorama!  And I reviewed Becky, M.O.M., Carlito’s Way, and Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power!
  4. Ryan reviewed The Werewolf Expert and Incoherents 2/UBU!

More From Us:

  1. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!
  2. On her photography site, Erin shared Around the Neighborhood, Trampled, Richland, Richland 2, The Park, Two Trees, and Turtle!
  3. At Pop Politics, Jeff wrote about Kelly Preston, The Redskins, Kanye West, Bari Weiss, Nick Cannon, and Kanye West again!
  4. On my music site, I shared songs from UPSAHL, Purity Ring, John Carpenter, Cults, Paul Engemann, The Crystal Method, and Garth Emery!

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

Lisa’s Week In Review: 7/6/20 — 7/12/20


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

Our Tribute To Morricone:

  1. Deborah’s Theme (Once Upon A Time In America)
  2. Violaznioe Violenza (Hitch-Hike)
  3. Come Un Madrigale (Four Flies on Grey Velvet)
  4. Il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence)
  5. The Strength of the Righteous (The Untouchables)
  6. So Alone (What Have You Done To Solange?)
  7. The Main Theme From The Mission (The Mission)

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!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 6/29/20 — 7/5/20


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 AmericanaShe 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 FugitivesHe 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!

Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 6/22/20 — 6/28/20


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?

Lisa’s Week In Review: 6/15/20 — 6/21/20


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!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 6/8/20 — 6/14/20


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!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 6/1/20 — 6/7/20


It’s been a long week.  I’m currently limping because I sprained my big toe and it’s also summer in Texas, which means that the 100 degree day has arrived!  Oh well.  The first week of June is always unbearable, to be honest.  When you go from reasonably temperate weather to walking into a wall of heat every time you step out your front door, it tends to lead to a certain amount of creative lethargy.

Here’s what little I did this week:

Films I Watched:

  1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  2. All Is Lost (2013)
  3. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  4. Blood Freak (1972)
  5. Bloodlust (1961)
  6. Cocktail (1988)
  7. The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971)
  8. The Happening (1967)
  9. The Public Enemy (1931)
  10. The Purple Gang (1960)
  11. Scarface (1932)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Bar Rescue
  2. The Brady Bunch
  3. Ghost Whisperer
  4. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back
  5. Happy Days
  6. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  7. Laverne and Shirley
  8. The Love Boat
  9. Night Gallery
  10. Parking Wars
  11. Saved By The Bell
  12. South Park

Books I Read:

  1. Naked Came The Stranger (1969) by Penelope Ash

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Big Data
  2. Blanck Mass
  3. Britney Spears
  4. The Chemical Brothers
  5. Dillon Francis
  6. Ekkah
  7. Garbage
  8. Goblin
  9. Gwen Stefani
  10. John Carpenter
  11. Lindsay Lohan
  12. Muse
  13. Olivia Krash
  14. Saint Motel
  15. Tove Lo
  16. The Vernoicas

Links From The Site:

  1. I shared music videos from Three Days Grace, Olivia Krash, Grimes, Simple Plan, Gwen Stefani, John Carpenter, and Ekkah!  I observed the birthdays of Marilyn Monroe and Morgan Freeman!  I reviewed an episode of Night Gallery and I started a new series of mob film reviews by taking a look at The Public Enemy, Scarface, The Purple Gang, The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight, The Happening, and King of the Roaring 20s!
  2. Erin shared the Three Covers of Dreamworld Magazine and images of D-Day!  She also shared: Cottonwood Creek, Pagan Lover, Three Gorgeous Hussies, Sleep With The Devil, Love Hungry Woman, Combat, and Miami Murder-Go-Round!
  3. Jeff reviewed Gang-Related, Panic In The Streets, and Maximum Force!
  4. Ryan reviewed High +Shy and Long Gone!

More From Us:

  1. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!
  2. On her photography site, Erin shared the following: A Rabbit Stopped By, The Day Continues, A Home, No Peace, Shopping Cart in Black-and-White, Fountain in Plano, and Summer!

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Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 5/25/20 — 5/31/20


I started out this week happy that the lockdown restrictions were being eased across the country.  I’m ending under curfew (along with a lot of other people across the country) because of riots.  Who knows what next week will look like?

Here’s what I got watched and listened to this week:

Films I Watched:

  1. Alco Beat (1965)
  2. American Anthem (1986)
  3. Apollo 18 (2011)
  4. Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
  5. Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
  6. The Bottle & The Throttle (1961)
  7. The Crossroads Crash (1973)
  8. The Cutting Edge (1992)
  9. An Education (2009)
  10. Highball Highway (1963)
  11. I Like Bikes, But…. (1978)
  12. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  13. Joy Ride (1976)
  14. Last Prom (1980)
  15. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  16. The Mule (2018)
  17. The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2020)
  18. Night Gallery (1969)
  19. The Oblong Box (1969)
  20. Red Dawn (1984)
  21. Safety Belt for Susie (1962)
  22. Scream and Scream Again (1969)
  23. Stop Making Sense (1984)
  24. The Talking Car (1969)
  25. Terror Train (1980)
  26. The Time of their Lives (1946)
  27. Tomorrow’s Drivers (1954)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Bar Rescue
  2. The Bold and the Beautiful
  3. Community
  4. Daily Mass
  5. Days of Our Lives
  6. Doctor Phil
  7. General Hospital
  8. Ghost Whisperer
  9. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  10. Night Gallery
  11. Seinfeld
  12. Solemn Mass of Pentecost From Rome
  13. The Twilight Zone
  14. The Young and the Restless

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Above & Beyond
  2. Adi Ulmansky
  3. Afrojack
  4. Alvin Risk
  5. Aoki
  6. Armin van Buuren
  7. Avicii
  8. Big Data
  9. Blanck Mass
  10. Bob Dylan
  11. Britney Spears
  12. The Chemical Brothers
  13. Cedric Gervais
  14. Coldplay
  15. The Crystal Method
  16. Daft Punk
  17. Deadmau 5
  18. Dillon Francis
  19. DJ Judaa
  20. DJ Snake
  21. Elle King
  22. Ellie Goulding
  23. Hayden James
  24. Icona Pop
  25. Jakalope
  26. Joywave
  27. Kedr Livanskiy
  28. Lady Gaga
  29. Lindsay Lohan
  30. Muse
  31. Neon Indian
  32. Olivia Krash
  33. Phantogram
  34. Saint Motel
  35. Siouxsie and the Banshees
  36. Swedish House Mafia
  37. Talking Heads
  38. Tiesto
  39. The Tom Tom Club
  40. Tove Lo
  41. twenty-one pilots
  42. UPSAHL
  43. Zedd

Links From the Site:

  1. Case reviewed The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina!
  2. Erin was busy this week, sharing music videos from Justin Moore, Filter, Chelsea Dash, 98 Degrees, O-Town, Mandy Moore, and Paula Cole!  She also wrote about Memorial Day and The Rookie.  She shared the covers of Top Notch and also shared: An Explosion of Color, True Gang Life, Odds Against Tomorrow, The Lusty Men, Film Fun, A Matter of Morals, and The Case Of The Caretaker’s Cat!
  3. Jeff reviewed Framed, Moonrunners, The Hunter, One Man And His Shoes, The Paper Boy, Red Zone Cuba, and Operation Thunderbolt!
  4. Ryan reviewed Spewey, Four Stories, and Across the Diner!
  5. I reviewed the pilot for Night Gallery, followed by episodes one, two, three, four, five, and six!  I shared a scene that I loved from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance!  I paid tribute to Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, and Clint Eastwood!  I reviewed The Mule and Tomorrow’s Drivers!  I shared my Oscar predictions for May!

More From Us:

  1. Ryan has a patreon!  Consider subscribing!
  2. Over on SyFy Designs, I shared: Memorial Day 2020, Why I Will No Longer Be Using The Term “Karen,Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and Peter Cushing, A Trip To The Bank, and Chaos!
  3. At my music site, I shared songs from Saint Motel, Hayden James & Icona Pop, Olivia Krash, Jakalope, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Tove Lo!
  4. On her photography site, Erin shared: Corner, White Door, Lamp, Grill, Bird, Moon, and Another Bird!
  5. On Pop Politics, Jeff shared: Jo Jorgensen for President?, George Floyd Should Be Alive Today, It Gets Worse, and End of May.

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Lisa’s Week In Review: 5/18/20 — 5/24/20


This week is kind of a blur.  Some of the country is kind of open and some of the country is kind of closed and I’m looking forward to seeing Tenet.

This is the first Memorial Day weekend in history that my entire family has not been able to gather together and that kind of sucks.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to make up for it in July.

On the plus side, this Saturday, I was a part of the official launch of the Scary Social live tweet!  Every Saturday, at 9pm eastern (that’s 8 my time), we’ll be watching a horror movie and tweeting under the #ScarySocial hashtag!  Follow @SocialScary on twitter for details!

Anyway, here’s what I did this week:

Films I Watched:

  1. Black-Hearted Killer (2020)
  2. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  3. Genesis II (1973)
  4. A Killer In My Home (2020)
  5. Nighthawks (1981)
  6. Once Upon A Time In London (2019)
  7. Population 436 (2006)
  8. Psycho Party Planner (2020)
  9. The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
  10. Titanic (1997)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. The Amazing Race 3
  2. The Apprentice 4
  3. Bar Rescue
  4. The Bold and the Beautiful
  5. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  6. Days of Our Lives
  7. Deadwood
  8. Degrassi
  9. Doctor Phil
  10. Downton Abbey
  11. General Hospital
  12. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back
  13. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  14. King of the HIll
  15. The Masked Singer
  16. The Office
  17. Seinfeld
  18. Sunday Mass
  19. T.J. Hooker
  20. The Young and the Restless

Books I Read:

  1. It Ends With Us (2016) by Colleen Hoover

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Big Data
  2. Bloc Party
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Britney Spears
  5. The Chemical Brothers
  6. Coldplay
  7. Crud
  8. Daft Punk
  9. I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
  10. Jakalope
  11. Jessica Simpson
  12. Muse
  13. Noah Cyrus
  14. Purity Ring
  15. Radiohead
  16. Saint Motel
  17. Selana Gomez
  18. Taylor Swift
  19. Zager & Evans
  20. Zedd

Links From Last Week:

  1. To Be Studied, or Pitied?  Two books try to understand the other America, 
and stumble along the way.
  2. Chris Cuomo’s COVID-19 Interviews With Andrew Cuomo Are Disgraceful
  3. How One ‘Yesterday’ Screenwriter’s Dream Became Something Of A Nightmare
  4. Shane Carruth Is Quitting Filmmaking and Using His Anger to Help a Young Director

News From Last Week:

  1. Ruby Rose Exits the CW’s ‘Batwoman’, DC Series To Recast Iconic Lead Role For Season 2
  2. Film Academy Considering Postponing 2021 Oscars
  3. Zack Snyder Will Release the ‘Snyder Cut’ of ‘Justice League’ on HBO Max
  4. ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Renewed Through 2022 at CBS
  5. Why ‘Batwoman’ Star Ruby Rose Left the CW Series
  6. Venice Film Festival Still On for September, Venice Governor Confirms

Links From the Site:

  1. Case reviewed Episode 5 of Part 3 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina!
  2. Erin shared Paris Nights Scarlet Adventures. One-Star General, The Silver Tombstone Mystery, Western Monthly, Star Novels, and Film Fun!  She also profiled artist Gino D’Achille!
  3. Jeff shared music videos from Bob Dylan and Corey Hart!  He also reviewed Most Wanted, Favorite Son, Trapped, Isle of Dogs, Supreme Sanction, Once Upon A Time In London, and Nighthawks!
  4. I shared music videos from Purity Ring, Bloc Party, Noah Cyrus, Britney Spears, and Jessica Simpson!  I reviewed The Stand at Paxton County, Killer In My Home, and Black-Hearted Killer!  I wished a happy birthday to Roger Deakins!
  5. Patrick reviewed Funny Pains!
  6. Ryan reviewed Oh My (Bri), Simple Things, and Anarchy In The Kingdom of Heaven!

More From Us:

  1. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared songs from Led Zeppelin, Depeche Mode, and The Sisters of Mercy!
  2. At SyFy Designs, I shared: Texas Is Finally Reopening!
  3. At my music site, I shared songs from I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, Saint Motel, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Britney Spears, Daft Punk, and Zager & Evans!
  4. At her photography site, Erin shared Tree, Monday Afternoon, Ducks, Gutter, Play Ball, Three, and Possum in Black-and-White!
  5. Ryan has a patreon!  You should consider subscribing!

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