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!

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!

Want to see what happened last week?  Click here!

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.

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

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!

This week, I finished binging The Sopranos and then, as the result of an ill-advised twitter poll, I followed that up by watching all 6 seasons of the HBO prison drama, Oz.  To be honest, Oz wasn’t really for me but twitter polls are legally binding so I was obligated to watch the whole series.  I’ve now started in on Deadwood, which I should be able to knock out in about 3 days.

As far as our quarantine is going, we are currently in the process of reopening down here in Texas.  Myself, I’m still working at home at least through June.

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

Films I Watched:

1. The American Dreamer (1971)
2. City of the Dead (1960)
3. Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark (2014)
4. Mission Impossible (1996)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Bar Rescue
2. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
3. Deadwood
4. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
5. Oz
6. The Sopranos
7. Survivor 40

Books I Read:

1. Romancing the Duke (2014) by Tessa Dare
2. Say Yes to the Marquess (2014) by Tessa Dare

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Alabama 3
2. Bloc Party
3. Britney Spears
4. Cake
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. Chromatics
7. Desire
8. Fever Ray
9. Garbage
10. Haim
11. Jessica Simpson
12. Material
13. Purity Ring
14. Saint Motel
15. Sharon van Etten
16. Taylor Swift
17. Train
18. UPSAHL

Links From Last Week:

1. A Year Without Cannes: Why It Hurts to Lose a Festival That Can’t Be Replaced
2. Ace in the Hole Digs Up Modern Journalism’s Dirty Secret

News From Last Week:

1. Political Consultant Suggests Rallying Dems With Giant, Fortnite-Style Holographic Biden
2. Jack Mathews dies: Dean of Oscar Experts helped to launch Gold Derby
3. Horror Producer Adam Donaghey Charged with Sexual Assault of Minor
4. The making of Prince Andrew — from a spoiled bully to an obnoxious womanizer

Links From The Site:

1. Leonard reviewed Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
2. Erin profiled artist Wes Wilson and shared: Even the Wicked, The Loved and the Lost, The Case of the Seven Murders, True Gang Life, Murder Mysteries, I Like Danger, and Film Fun!
3. Jeff said goodbye to Fred Willard and reviewed Made in Britain, Natural Enemy, The Firm, Women in Chains, Student Affairs, Frame of Mind, and One Tough Bastard!  He also paid tribute to Joseph Cotten!
4. Ryan reviewed Old Growth, Disillusioned Illusions, and Hercules and the Orbs of Woad!
5. I shared music videos from Sharon van Etten, Garbage, Alabama 3, Fever Ray, Desire, Train, and Bloc Party!  I paid tribute to Jess Franco, Katharine Hepburn, Harvey Keitel, Sofia Coppola, Henry Fonda, and Bill Paxton.  I reviewed The American Dreamer and episodes 3 and 4 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon and you should consider subscribing!
2. For Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed the finale of Survivor!
3. At SyFyDesigns, I shared Quarantine Binging, Disillusionment, Shelter In Place Binge Continues, and The Problem With The World Today!
4. At my music site, I shared songs from Cake, Material, Desire, Chromatics, Fever Ray, Bloc Party, and Purity Ring!
5. On Pop Politics, Jeff wrote about Jerry Stiller, George Carlin, and a special election in California!
6. On her photography site, Erin shared: Blissful Kitty, Fence in a Dream, Stop Again, Comfort, Not Taken, Another Door, and Sinking!

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

Well, here we are at the end of another week.  Some parts of the country are still locked down and some are not.  It’s a little bit hard to keep track of what’s open and what isn’t.  Right now, everyone just seems to be making it up as they go along.

With a lack of new movies to watch and review, I spent most of this week binging The Sopranos.  I’m currently on Season 5 and, as of right now, I’m totally caught up in the misadventures of the New Jersey mob.  Once I’m done with The Sopranos, I’ll probably check in with the gangsters of Boardwalk Empire and the cowboys of Deadwood.  I’m trying to binge as many of these shows as I can before they leave Prime for HBO MAX.

In other news, I finally saw the episode of The Love Boat that features Andy Warhol as a passenger on the cruise!  Seriously, I first read about this episode like 13 years ago and, ever since, I’ve been checking the TV listings to see if it would ever show up on any of the retro stations!  Today, it was broadcast on MeTV!  I saw it and yes, I DVRed it.

Anyway, stay safe out there.  Can you believe that, in just another month and a half, we will be halfway through 2020.  With the lockdown and all the rest, it almost feels like this year really hasn’t even begun yet.

Anyway, here’s what I did this week:

Films I Watched:

1. Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business (2020)
2. Blocks (2020)
3. Broken Orchestra (2019)
4. The Bunco Squad (1950)
5. The Clones (1973)
6. Gunpowder Heart (2019)
7. Hiplet: Because We Can (2019)
8. Karla Faye Tucker: Nevermore (2004)
9. Missile to the Moon (1958)
10. Mister Buddwing (1966)
11. Quilt Fever (2020)
12. The Shock of the Future (2019)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Bar Rescue
2. Doctor Phil
3. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
4. King of the Hill
5. The Love Boat
6. Seinfeld
7. The Sopranos
8. Survivor 40
9. Unsolved Mysteries

Books I Read:

1. The Making of The President 1972 (1973) by Theodore H. White
2. Right From The Start: A Chronicle of the McGovern Campaign (1973) by Gary Hart

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Alabama 3
2. Big Data
3. Britney Spears
4. Cake
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. Chromatics
7. Dillon Francis
8. Diplo
9. Dua Lipa
10. Fitz & The Tantrums
11. Glass Animals
12. Hayley Williams
13. Jakalope
14. Kedr Livanskiy
15. La Mayo
16. Lindsey Stirling
17. Nine Inch Nails
18. Phantogram
19. Phantom Planet
20. Purity Ring
21. Saint Motel
22. Selena Gomez
23. Sleigh Bells
24. Yelle

News From Last Week:

1. Taika Waititi to Direct New ‘Star Wars’ Film

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared the Ultra Manly Covers of Man’s Life and Ringside Jezebel, Batalla de Puebla, Thorn of Evil, Hell of a Woman, Front Page Detective, Film Fun, and Nana’s Mother!
2. Jeff shared music videos from Kraftwerk and Little Richard!  He wrote about the Star Wars films and reviewed Missile to the Moon, After School, Vendetta, Land of Doom, Electra, Hoover vs. The Kennedys, and Infidelity!
3. I shared music videos from Phantom Planet, La Mayo, Purity Ring, Yelle, and Hayley Williams!  I wished everyone a Happy Cinco De Mayo.  I reviewed Blocks, Broken Orchestra, Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, Hiplet: Because We Can, Quilt Fever, Gunpowder Heart and The Shock of the Future!  I shared the trailer for Inmate #1!  I paid tribute to Lance Henriksen and Ruggero Deodato and I shared scenes from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Chimes at Midnight and High Noon!  I also shared the infamous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds!
4. Ryan reviewed Characters, Forward Looking Statement, and Twin Bed!

More From Us:

1. At Reality TV Chat, I reviewed the latest episode of Survivor!
2. On my music site, I shared songs from Lindsey Stirling, Glass Animals, Phantom Planet, Big Data, Alabama 3, Dua Lipa, and Fitz & The Tantrums!
3. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared two songs from Kraftwerk: Computer Love and Numbers!
4. At her photography site, Erin shared Possum Climbing, Home Plate, Climb, Chance of Rain, Locked, Waiting Under A Tree, and Grim!
5. Ryan has a patreon!  Please consider subscribing!

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