Well, one holiday down and one more month to go until we say goodbye to 2018 and hello to 2019!  Thanksgiving was last week and now it’s time to celebrate whatever it is you choose to observe in December!

November has been a month of birthdays here at the Shattered Lens!  My birthday was on the 9th.  My sister Erin (a.k.a., our wonderful Arts Editor, the Dazzling Erin) celebrated her birthday on Saturday!  Arleigh has a birthday coming up on the 27th!  And finally, the site itself will be turning 9 years old in December!

Here’s what I did this week:

Movies I Watched:

1. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
3. Behind Green Lights (1946)
4. Black Noon (1971)
5. Christopher Robin (2018)
6. Creed II (2018)
7. Every Other Holiday (2018)
8. Fourteen Hours (1951)
9. Have  A Nice Day (2018)
10. For You I Die (1947)
11. Framed (1947)
12. Gangster Story (1959)
13. He Walked By Night (1948)
14. Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)
15. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
16. Johnny O’Clock (1947)
17. Killer Vacation (2018)
18. My Teacher, My Obsession (2018)
19. Never Trust A Gambler (1951)
20. Once Upon A Holiday (2015)
21. Parole, Inc. (1948)
22. Ralph Breaks The Internet (2018)
23. Robin Hood (2018)
24. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
25. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
26. The Stranger (1946)
27. The Ten Commandments (2006)
28. Time Table (1956)
29. Woman On The Run (1950)

Television Show I Watched:

1. 9-1-1
2. Bar Rescue
3. California Dreams
4. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
5. Couples Court with the Cutlers
6. Dancing With The Stars
7. Degrassi Junior High
8. Degrassi High
9. Degrassi: New Class
10. Degrassi: The Next Generation
11. Doctor Phil
12. Face The Truth
13. Friends
14. Jamestown
15. King of the Hill
16. Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court
17. The Little Drummer Girl
18. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
19. My Brilliant Friend
20. Pablo Escobar: El Patron del mal
21. The Romanoffs
22. Saved By The Bell
23. Seinfeld
24. Shipping Wars
25. Survivor 37
26. Tengo telento, mucho talento
27. The Walking Dead
28. Waterfront House Hunting
29. Who Wants To Date A Comedian?

Books I Read:

1. For Special Services (1982) by John Gardner
2. Icebreaker (1983) by John Gardner
3. Role of Honour (1984) by John Gardner
4. Nobody Lives Forever (1986) by John Gardner

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Armin van Buuren
2. Avicii
3. Big Data
4. The Chemical Brothers
5. David Guetta
6. Elle King
7. Jakalope
8. Jake Bugg
9. Matthew Dear
10. Sabrina Carpenter
11. Saves the Day
12. St. Vincent
13. Steve Aoki

Links from Last Week:

1. For Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed the latest episode of Survivor!
2. On my music site, I shared music from Armin van Buuren, Avicii, Jake Bugg, St. Vincent, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, and David Guetta again!
3. On her photography site, Erin shared: Standing In The Middle of the Tracks, Tracks, Huffines Park, November Trees, Background Squirrel, On Dry Land, and Enjoy the Shade!

Links From The Site:

1. Case reviewed The Christmas Chronicles!
2. Erin profiled James McConnell and shared the following artwork: Kill Him Twice, Special Detective, The Thursday Turkey Murders, Judge, She-Devil, Point of View, and Demon Caravan!
3. Doc wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
4. Gary reviewed Stranger on the Third Floor and Tommy, along with highlighting a one-hit wonder and offering up a bit of retro Thanksgiving joy!
5. Jeff shared music videos from Iron Maiden, The Smiths, Talking Heads, John Lennon, Boston, Steve Winwod, and the Rolling Stones!  He also paid tribute to Nicolas Roeg!
6. I reviewed Never Trust A Gambler, He Walked By Night, For You I Die, Woman On The Run, Framed, Killer Vacation, Fourteen Hours, and Gangster Story!
7. Ryan reviewed Journal of Smack, Go-Bots, and Three Magical Recipes From The Book Of Secrets Of Albertus Magnus!  He also shared his weekly reading round-up!

Check out last week by clicking here!

Have a great week!

The holidays approach!

Movies I Watched:

(TCM did a Billy Jack marathon on Wednesday!  I was up until 5 in the morning, live tweeting it!)

1. The Born Losers (1967)
2. Billy Jack (1971)
3. Billy Jack Goes To Washington (1977)
4. Bring It On (2000)
5. C-Man (1949)
6. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
7. The Girl In the Spider’s Web (2018)
8. Hotel Artemis (2018)
9. I Was A Communist For The FBI (1951)
10. Loan Shark (1952)
11. The Man With My Face (1951)
12. Shoot To Kill (1947)
13. Suspiria (2018)
14. Teenagers Battle The Thing (1958)
15. The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
16. Undertow (1949)
17. You Again (2010)

Television Shows I Watched:

(As you may notice from looking at the list below, I watched a lot of old TV shows on MeTV this week.)

1. 911
2. American Horror Story Apocalypse
3. Antiques Roadshow
4. Benson
5. Charmed
6. Clique
7. Dancing With The Stars
8. Dennis The Menace
9. Doctor Phil
10. Bewitched
11. Face the Truth
12. Father Knows Best
13. Ghost Whisperer
14. Gilmore Girls
15. The Good Doctor
16. Hazel
17. Hell’s Kitchen
18. I Dream of Jeannie
19. Jamestown
20. King of the Hill
21. Last Call With Carson Daly
22. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
23. The Partridge Family
24. Party of Five
25. Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
26. Seinfeld
27. Shipping Wars
28. Soap
29. South Park
30. Survivor 37
31. The Walking Dead
32. Welcome Back Kotter
33. The Woman in White
34. You

Books I Read:

1. Degrassi Extra Credit #3: Missing You (2007) by J. Torres and Eric Kim
2. Degrassi Extra Credit #4: Saftey Dance (2007) by J. Torres and Steve Rolston
3. Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN (2007) by Suzanne Daniels
4. Suddenly Last Summer: Degrassi Extra Credit #2 (2007) by J. Torres and Ramon Perez
5. Turning Japanese: Degrassi Extra Credit #1 (2006) by J. Torres and Ed Northcott

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Armin van Buuren
3. Avicii
4. Backstreet Boys
5. Big Data
6. Bradley Cooper
7. Britney Spears
8. The Chainsmokers
9. The Chemical Brothers
10. Elle King
11. Ellie Goulding
12. Hozier
13. Jakalope
14. Lady Gaga
15. Margo Price
16. Moby
17. Saint Motel
18. The Spice Girls
19. Subsonica
20. Talking Heads
21. Tiesto
22. The Ting TIngs

Links From Last Week:

1. On SyFy Designs, I posted: My Friend John, Bring It On, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, and The Importance of Tradition, and My Favorite Year.
2. On Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed the latest episode of Survivor!
3. On my music site, I shared music from: La Casa Azul, Geri Halliwell, Subsonica, The Chemical Brothers, Ellie Goulding, The Ting Tings, and Sabrina Carpenter!
4. From Erin’s photography site: View of White Rock Lake From The Pool, Looking At White Rock Lake, Empty, Flowers, Yellow, Bench, and Lookout Park!
5. From Days Without Incident, Leonard shares Music: Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) by Massive Attack
6. Fall CMBA Blogathon – Outlaws…
7. The Last Soldier
8. Who Gets To Live In Victimville?
9. New suspect in D.B. Cooper skyjacking case unearthed by Army data analyst; FBI stays mum
10. My sons have autism – so Stan Lee’s superheroes were invaluable to them
11. RIP William Goldman
12. Book Review: Exiled in America: Life on the Margins of a Residential Motel (Dum)
13. Stan Lee: An Inspiring Life
14. Kickin’ The Willy Bobo With…Christofer Nigro

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared the following artwork: The Spitfires, The Wow Factory, The Figure In the Dusk, Planet Stories, Take A Murder, Darling, The Motel, and Dead Stop!
2. Gary paid tribute to Stan Lee and Roy Clark and he reviewed The Sands of Iwo Jima, Bait, Tarzan, and Mandingo!
3. Jeff also paid tribute to Stan Lee and shared the following music videos: True Faith, Don’t You Want Me, Heart and Soul, Shout, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Ball of Confusion, and Night Boat to Cairo!
4. I reviewed Hotel Artemis and, for Noirvember, The Hitch-Hiker, Undertow, Shoot To Kill, The Man With My Face, I Was A Communist for the FBI, Loan Shark, and C-Man!
5. Ryan reviewed One Dirty Tree and Accursed, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!

Check out what I accomplished last week by clicking here!

“Make this your year!”

This words were shared during the 8th season opener of Degrassi by Mia Jones’s mother.  “Make this your year!” she said and Mia proceeded to do just that, not only becoming a top model but also eventually leaving the show after the actress who played her, Nina Dobrev, was cast on The Vampire Diaries.

Those words have been ringing in my head all this weekend.  This has been my birthday weekend.  Another year older and you know what?  I’m going to make this my year.  I hope you’ll make it your year too.

Here’s my week in review:

Movies I Watched:

1. The African Queen (1951)
2. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
3. Casino Royale (1954)
4. Double Indemnity (1944)
5. Eighth Grade (2018)
6. First Man (2018)
7. God’s Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness (2018)
8. Gotti (2018)
9. Halloween (2018)
10. The Hitch-hiker (1953)
11. The Hoodlum (1951)
12. Incredibles 2 (2018)
13. Leave No Trace (2018)
14. Pickup (1951)
15. The Red Menace (1949)
16. Roses are Red (1947)
17. The Sniper (1952)
18. Suspiria (1977)
19. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
20. Walk the Dark Street (1956)
21. Wicked Woman (1953)
22. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. 911
2. American Horror Story
3. Bar Rescue
4. California Dreams
5. Dancing With The Stars
6. Degrassi
7. The Deuce
8. Doctor Phil
9. Face the Truth
10. The Good Doctor
11. Hell’s Kitchen
12. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
13. Legacies
14. Paul: The Emissary
15. Saved By The Bell
16. Seinfeld
17. South Park
18. Survivor 37
19. Veep
20. The Walking Dead
21. The Woman In White
22. Young Sheldon

Books I Read:

1. Blowing the Bloody Doors Off (2018) by Michael Caine
2. The Essential James Garner (2018) by Stephen H. Ryan and Paul J. Ryan

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Above & Beyond
2. AC/DC
3. Adi Ulmansky
4. Big Data
5. Bradley Cooper
6. Britney Spears
7. Carly Rae Jepsen
8. La Casa Azul
9. Cedric Gervais
10. The Chemical Brothers
11. The Crystal Method
12. Dillon Francis
13. DJ Judaa
14. DJ Showoff
15. DJ Snake
16. Fitz and the Tantrums
17. Flint Eastwood
18. IC3PEAK
19. Jakalope
20. Joywave
21. Kedr Livanskiy
22. Lady Gaga
23. Marta Sanchez
24. Muse
25. Robert DeLong
26. Saint Motel
27. Sleigh Bells
28. St. Vincent
29. Tara Lee
30. Taylor Swift
31. Vanessa Soul

Links From Last Week:

1. On SyFy Designs, I live blogged Election Day.
2. From Days Without Incident, Leonard writes abotu a song called Make the Move.
3. On Reality TV Chat Blog, I wrote about the latest episode of Survivor!
4. On my music site, I shared music from: Jakalope, more music from Jakalope, AC/DC, Carly Rae Jepsen, Britney Spears, even more music from Jakalope, and Flint Eastwood!
5. On her photography site, Erin shared The Creek Continues, Texas Flag, Winter’s Coming, Cottonwood Park, Cottonwood Arts Festival, White Rock Lake, and White Rock Lake With Dallas In The Background!
6. The Speakeasy #162… “OF COURSE NOT, SILLY!”
7. Oscars: Disney Makes Up for Lost Time With ‘Black Panther’
8. Don’t join this year’s Women’s March unless you’re good with anti-Semitism

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared the following artwork: The Smuggled Atom Bomb, Stiffs Don’t Vote, Bright Victory, Episode of the Wandering Knife, The Girl With No Shadow, Lakeside Love Nest, and Argosy!
2. Gary reviewed The Unsuspected, Gun Fury, Macon County Line, and Return to Macon County!  He also paid tribute to Ethelreda Leopold!
3. Jeff shared music videos from Talking Heads, INXS, and New Order!
4. I shared music videos from Tara Lee, Big Data, Taylor Swift, and IC3PEAK!  I reviewed Hoodlum, Walk The Dark Street, The Sniper, The Red Menace, Pickup, Roses are Red, and Wicked Woman!
5. Ryan reviewed Tongues of Fire, “The Complete Matinee Junkie : Five Years At The Movies”, Steranko : The Self-Created Man, and Iron Sights!  He also shared his weekly reading round-up!
6. Arleigh wished me a happy birthday!

Check out what I did last week by clicking here!

Have a great week, everyone!  Make this your year!

As you should be able to tell from looking below, I devoted most of this week to getting ready for this year’s annual Horrorthon on both Through the Shattered Lens and Horror Critic.

Let’s make October the greatest month ever!

Movies I Watched:

1. The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
2. Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
3. The Beyond (1981)
4. Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
5. City of the Living Dead (1980)
6. Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill (2018)
7. Don’t Look Now (1973)
8. Get Out (2017)
9. Healed By Grace (2012)
10. Hellmaster (1992)
11. Hereditary (2018)
12. The House By The Cemetery (1981)
13. House of Dark Shadows (1970)
14. House of Exorcism (1975)
15. I, Madman (1989)
16. The Investigator (2013)
17. Isle of Dogs (2018)
18. Last Girl Standing (2015)
19. The Last Shark (1981)
20. Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971)
21. Lisa and the Devil (1974)
22. The Living Dead Girl (1982)
23. Nadja (1994)
24. Near Dark (1987)
25. Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
26. Plague of the Zombies (1966)
27. Poltergeist (1982)
28. The Psychic (1977)
29. Psychic Killer (1975)
30. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
31. Ratman (1988)
32. Torso (1973)
33. Vampire Circus (1972)
34. Zombie Lake (1981)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. 9-11
2. American Horror Story
3. Better Call Saul
4. Big Brother 20
5. The Blue Planet
6. Charlie’s Angels
7. Dancing With The Stars
8. The Deuce
9. Doctor Phil
10. Face the Truth
11. Fear The Walking Dead
12. Hell’s Kitchen 18
13. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
14. King of the Hill
15. Magnum, P.I.
16. Manifest
17. New Amsterdam
18. Night Gallery
19. The Purge
20. Saved By The Bell
21. South Park
22. Survivor 37
23. The Twilight Zone
24. Yellowstone
25. You
26. Young Sheldon

Books I Read:

1. The Beast Within (1981) by Edward Levy
2. The Children (1982) by Charles Robertson
3. Haunted Hearts (2011) by Corrine Davis
4. A Manhattan Ghost Story (1984) by T.M. Wright
5. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World (2018) by Sarah Weinman

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Arcade Fire
2. Avril Lavigne
3. Calvin Harris
4. DJ Judaa
5. IC3PEAK
6. Jakalope
7. Jake Bugg
8. Jorja Smith
9. Kero Kero Bonito
10. Lady Gaga
11. Lala Lala
12. Lana Del Rey
13. Madness
14. Marissa Nadler
15. Muse
16. The Ting Tings
17. Toby Driver

Links From Last Week:

1. From my sister’s photography site: Creek 2, Creek 3, Rock, Fence, Trees, Houses, and Spinning!
2. From my music site: Arcade Fire, Jorja Smith, Kero Kero Bonito, Lana Del Rey, IC3PEAK, Jake Bugg, and another one from Jake Bugg!
3. For Reality TV Chat Blog, I took a look at the first episode of Survivor!
4. The 20th season of Big Brother came to an end this week, as did my annual summer gig of writing about the show for the Big Brother Blog.
5. On Horror Critic, I reviewed The Amazing Mr. X!
6. Gary Loggins announces Halloween Havoc!
7. Television shows I’ve binged across 2018
8. As Pretty As A Perfect Painting
9. Mystery solved? Identity of Courbet’s 19th-century nude revealed
10. Roman Polanski’s first movie of the #MeToo Era will be called J’Accuse.
11. Lindsay Lohan Punched In The Face … After Accusing Couple of Trafficking their Kids
12. Bill Cosby’s Downfall the Result of Small Decisions and Big Culture Shift
13. Hollywood star Steven Seagal eyes gubernatorial seat in Russia’s Far East
14. In Conversation: David Lynch, the director as painter, festival impresario and ant collaborator
15. Rose McGowan apologizes to Asia Argento

Links From The Site:

1. Erin profiled H.R. Van Dongen and shared the following artwork: Love Sailor, My Enemy My Wife, Lust On The Yacht, Conduct Unbecoming, You’ve Got It Coming, Coming Up Fast, and Handle With Fear.
2. Gary paid tribute to Gary Kurtz and Marty Balin and reviewed The Cheyenne Social Club, Strangers on a Train, and Theater of Blood!
3. Jeff shared music videos for Our House, Crockett’s Theme, the Miami Vice Theme, Smuggler’s Blues, Life’s What You Make It, Broken Wings, and Michael Caine.  He also shared his weekly trailer round-up!
4. I shared the trailer for Creed II and told you about the 7th Annual Horrorthon!  I also reviewed Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill. and Believe Me!
5. Ryan reviewed Monkey Chef, Let’s Not Meet, and the Faith Community!  He also shared his weekly reading round-up!

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

Have a great October!

September’s nearly over!  It rained all weekend and it’s supposed to rain all week but the important thing is that it’s nearly October and almost time for our annual horrorthon!  This upcoming week is going to be all about getting ready to make this the greatest October ever!

Here’s what I did this week:

Movies I Watched:

1. Adrift (2018)
2. The Best Man (1964)
3. Bits and Pieces (1985)
4. Cutthroat Island (1995)
5. Death Wish 3 (1985)
6. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
7. Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)
8. First Reformed (2018)
9. In the Blink Of An Eye (2009)
10. The Island (1979)
11. Life Itself (2018)
12. Long Lost Daughter (2018)
13. Marty (1955)
14. No One Would Tell (2018)
15. Ocean’s 8 (2018)
16. One Night With The King (2006)
17. Under the Electric Sky (2014)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. American Pickers
2. American Horror Story
3. America’s Dumbest Criminals
4. Bar Rescue
5. Barter Kings
6. Better Call Saul
7. Big Brother 20
8. Big Brother After Dark
9. Castaway
10. Dance Moms
11. Degrassi
12. The Deuce
13. Doctor Phil
14. Face the Truth
15. Fear the Walking Dead
16. I Dream of Jeannie
17. I Feel Bad
18. Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
19. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
20. King of the Hill
21. LAPD: Life on the Beat
22. Look Who’s Stalking
23. Masterchef
24. Murder by Numbers
25. My Crazy Sex
26. Parking Wars
27. The Purge
28. Shipping Wars
29. Strange Evidence
30. The Talk
31. Twin Peaks: The Return
32. Young Sheldon
33. Your Worst Nightmare

Books I Read:

1. The Art of Horror Movies (2018) edited by Stephen Jones
2. Carrie (1974) by Stephen King
3. The Plot To Kill The President (1972) by Jack Pearl
4. The Zero Factor (1980) by William Oscar Johnson, Jr.

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Above & Beyond
2. AC Slater
3. Afrojack
4. Armin van Buuren
5. ARMNHMR
6. Avicii
7. Big Data
8. The Black Keys
9. Bob Dylan
10. Carrie Underwood
11. Cedric Gervais
12. The Chemical Brothers
13. Daemonia
14. David Bowie
15. Dillon Francis
16. DJ Judaa
17. Elle King
18. Florence + The Machine
19. The Flying Lizards
20. Goblin
21. Hardwell
22. Icona Pop
23. Jai Wolf
24. Jakalope
25. Johnny Nash
26. Kedr Livanskiy
27. The Killers
28. Martin Garrix
29. Muse
30. NGHTMRE
31. Nine Inch Nails
32. Phantogram
33. Saint Motel
34. Sleigh Bells
35. Swedish House Mafia
36. Tiesto
37. Wavedash

Links From Last Week:

1. On my sister’s photography site, she shared Commerce Tunnel, Love, Tribute, Two Trees, Sky, signs, and Creek.
2. On my music site, I share music from Elle King, Sleigh Bells, Johnny Nash, Florence + The Machine, Bob Dylan, Kedr Livanskiy, and Nine Inch Nails.
3. Accused Sexual Harrassers Thrived At NBC News
4. How Michael Moore Lost His Audience
5. Jared Leto, Class Warrior
6. Watch an hour of deleted scenes from Blue Velvet
7. Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Pleasure Garden
8. Dan Fogelman hits back at critics of his new film, Life Itself
9. Chevy Chase is 74, sober, and ready to work.  The problem is nobody wants to work with him.

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared the Shadow Covers of Jim Steranko and artwork like The Hucksters, Twilight for the Gods, The Tight Corner, Dangerous Voyage, Sea Struck, The Champion, and The Love Pirate.
2. Gary reviewed Life Begins In College, Santa Fe Trail, Movie Crazy, and Seasons in the Sun.
3. Jeff share videos from Motley Crue and Primus and shared his weekly trailer round-up!
4. I shared music videos by Afrojack, Dillon Francis, The Flying Lizards, Hardwell, and Armin van Buuren.  I shared both the Emmy winners and the trailer for Mary Poppins Returns!  And I reviewed the following movies: Cutthroat Island, The Island, In The Blink of An Eye, Life Itself, and Long Lost Daughter.  You should go read all of those reviews if you haven’t yet!
5. Ryan reviewed A Perfect Failure and Flower Power and shared his weekly reading round-up!
6. Arleigh shared the trailers for Apostle and Captain Marvel!

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