Lisa’s Week In Review — 2/12/18 — 2/18/18


And another week comes to a close!  It’s been an eventful week, what with both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day falling on the same day.  On Valentine’s Day, Jeff & I went to see From Here to Eternity at the Dallas Angelika.  Seriously, if you’re not making the time to track down and watch classic films on the big screen, you are totally missing out!

Here’s what I got accomplished this week.  As I sit here typing this, I’m running a little bit behind in my film reviewing but I should be caught up soon.

Oh!  And for Lent, I gave up driving over 50 mph on residential streets.

Movies I Watched

  1. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
  2. Black Cobra (1987)
  3. Black Cobra 2 (1989)
  4. Blades of Glory (2007)
  5. Bucktown (1975)
  6. Cloud 9 (2014)
  7. Cool Runnings (1993)
  8. Death Journey (1976)
  9. The Dust Factory (2004)
  10. Dodsworth (1936)
  11. Downhill Racer (1969)
  12. Equinox (1970)
  13. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
  14. Flight 7500 (2016)
  15. From Here To Eternity (1953)
  16. Goldengirl (1979)
  17. High Heel Homicide (2017)
  18. Ice Girls (2016)
  19. J.D’s Revenge (1976)
  20. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
  21. Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
  22. No Way Back (1976)
  23. Out of the Blue (1980)
  24. La Passion de Bernadette (1990)
  25. The Razor’s Edge (1946)
  26. Smooth Talk (1985)
  27. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
  28. The Wedding Chapel (2013)
  29. The Wolfman (2010)
  30. Working Girl (1988)
  31. You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

TV Shows I Watched

  1. 2018 Winter Olympics
  2. 60 Days In
  3. The Alienist
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
  6. American Experience
  7. American Vandal
  8. Ask the Undertaker
  9. The Bachelor 22
  10. Celebrity Big Brother
  11. Celebrity Ghost Stories
  12. The Confession Tapes
  13. Degrassi
  14. Ghost Whisperer
  15. Hang Time
  16. Intervention
  17. King of the Hill
  18. The Magicians
  19. Sabrina
  20. Saved By The Bell
  21. South Park
  22. Undercover High
  23. Waco

Books I Read

  1. Need to Know by Karen Cleveland (2018)
  2. Thunderball by Ian Fleming (1961)
  3. Unlocking the Meaning of Lost by Lynnette Porter and David Lavery (2006)

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Afrojack
  2. Armin van Buuren
  3. Avicii
  4. Beach House
  5. Bella Thorne
  6. Blanck Mass
  7. Bob Dylan
  8. Britney Spears
  9. Camilla Cabello
  10. The Chemical Brothers
  11. Coldplay
  12. Courtney Barnett
  13. The Crystal Method
  14. David Bowie
  15. Dillon Francis
  16. Drake
  17. Elle King
  18. Florence + The Machine
  19. Gita
  20. Haim
  21. Hardwell
  22. Incubus
  23. Jakalope
  24. James Blunt
  25. Lindsey Stirling
  26. Martin Garrix
  27. Monagram
  28. Muse
  29. Phantogram
  30. Rich White
  31. Saint Motel
  32. St. Vincent
  33. Sleigh Bells
  34. Taylor Swift
  35. The Ting Tings

Links From Last Week

  1. On SyFy Designs, I wrote three posts about trying to go 24 hours without checking social media: Chasing The Dragon, Update #1, and Update #2.
  2. On Images by Erin, my sister captured a picture of one of the infamous possums that keeps showing up in our back yard.
  3. From Gold Derby, is Black Panther the first Oscar contender of 2018?
  4. On Cracked Rearviewer, frequent TSL contributor Gary Loggins asks, “Where the Hell’s my reblog button!?”
  5. From Jordan and Eddie, Five Actors That Need a Hit!
  6. Pinky Guerrero shared some LNM Gang screen shots!

Links From The Site

  1. Erin got us all in the Valentine’s Day mood by sharing covers from Love Story Magazine and by celebrating love for the fourth year in a row!
  2. Gary gave us another installment in Confessions of a TV Addict and he reviewed Live and Let Die and The Thief of Bagdad!
  3. Ryan reviewed Black Panther!  He also took a look at The Lie and How We Told It and shared his weekly reading list!
  4. Patrick shared Hell’s Kitty’s Chainsaw Kitty video!

Have a great week!

(Want to check out last week’s week in review?  Click here!)

Lisa’s Week In Review: 2/5/18 — 2/11/18


There’s a lot that I could say about this week.  I was sick at the start of it.  I was well during the middle of it.  I’m feeling even better here at the start of it.  But really, for me, this week has pretty much been all about the Winter Olympics!  Between the curling and the figure skating, I’m loving this month!

Anyway, when I wasn’t watching or thinking about the Olympics, I manged to get the following accomplished:

Movies That I Watched

  1. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  3. Bring It On (2000)
  4. The Cutting Edge: Fire and Ice (2010)
  5. The Dresser (1983)
  6. The Emigrants (1971)
  7. Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
  8. The First Power (1990)
  9. Gargoyles (1972)
  10. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  11. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
  12. How The West Was Won (1963)
  13. Ice Princess (2005)
  14. Kitty Foyle (1940)
  15. Live and Let Die (1973)
  16. Mardi Gras For The Devil (1993)
  17. Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
  18. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
  19. Mean Girls (2004)
  20. Miracle (2004)
  21. Shanghai Express (1932)
  22. Silk Road: Drugs, Death, and the Dark Web (2017)
  23. Zandalee (1991)

Television Shows That I Watched

  1. 60 Days In
  2. 2018 Winter Olympic Games — Under the sponsorship of the Big Evil Corporation, Kelly Thul and I live tweeted the Opening Ceremonies.  It was a blast!
  3. The Alienist
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Versace
  6. Ask the Undertaker
  7. The Bachelor 22
  8. Bride Killa
  9. California Dreams
  10. Celebrity Big Brother
  11. The Chi
  12. City Guys
  13. Crashing
  14. Deadly Women
  15. Degrassi
  16. Divorce
  17. Evil Up Close
  18. Ghost Whisperer
  19. Hang Time
  20. Here and Now
  21. Homeland
  22. Intervention — My God, is this whole “Heroin Triangle” thing ever going to end?  They are really dragging things out.
  23. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  24. King of the Hill
  25. The Magicians
  26. Murder Calls
  27. South Park
  28. Undercover High
  29. Vanished in Alaska
  30. Waco
  31. The X-Files

Books I Read

  1. Goldfinger by Ian Fleming (1959)
  2. Shattered by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (2017) — Yes, I finally read it.  To be honest, gossip aside, it’s a rather dry and boring book.

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Amy Winehouse
  2. Asaf Avidan
  3. Big Data
  4. Britney Spears
  5. The Chemical Brothers
  6. Dillon Francis
  7. Elle King
  8. Essa Corr
  9. Evil Twin
  10. Former Ghosts
  11. Fitz and the Tantrums
  12. Gita
  13. Half Waif
  14. Jacobus
  15. Jakalope
  16. Jake Bugg
  17. Johann Johannsson
  18. L Divine
  19. Lenny Kravitz
  20. Muse
  21. Pegase
  22. Phantogram
  23. Pierre Kwenders
  24. Radney Foster
  25. Saint Motel
  26. Southside Drive
  27. Sunflower Bean
  28. Taylor Swift
  29. The Ting Tings
  30. Unknown Motral Orchestra

Links From Last Week

  1. From The World Outisde The Window, The Films Outside The Window
  2. On Horrorpedia, check out my thoughts on The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane!
  3. B Noir Detour reviews the 1949 best picture winner, All The King’s Men!
  4. On Images By Erin, This Was Once A School
  5. On Film Grimoire, Anna shares her January 2018 favorites.  (Ann’s monthly post of her favorites is one of the things that inspired me to include a “links from last week” section to these weekly review post.)
  6. For those who follow such things, I am again recapping Big Brother over at the Big Brother Blog.
  7. Here’s some Mardi Gras for y’all: My experience Driving Uber on Endymion Saturday, Gluttony in the Big Easy, and Mardi Gras!
  8. Revisiting The Winter Olympics
  9. From The Dead Walk, Tony Todd: Candyman and Beyond
  10. From Someone Somewhere, The Revolutionary Power of Black Panther

Links From The Site

  1. Jeff reviewed music videos from Whale, Winger, and Journey.
  2. Gary shared his favorite Super Bowl commercial and paid tribute to John Gavin.  Among the films he reviewed: The Front, Bed of Roses, and Limelight.
  3. Erin celebrated National Weatherperson’s Day with a collection of “stormy” covers.
  4. I celebrated Francois Truffaut’s birthday and paid tribute to Johann Johannsson.
  5. Leonard shared trailers for Deadpool 2 and Venom.
  6. Ryan reviewed Shiner and shared his weekly reading round-up!
  7. Patrick reviewed Hell’s Kitty, which is a pretty good description of TSL mascot, Doc Bowman.

Have a great week!

(Want to see what the week before last was like?  Click here!)

(I’m still upset that Ashley Wagner isn’t skating at the Olympics this year.)

 

Lisa’s Week In Review — 1/29/18 — 2/04/18


To be honest, I spent most of this week binge-watching Degrassi.  It happens.

Movies That I Watched

  1. The Children (2008)
  2. Damien: Omen II (1978)
  3. The Final (2010)
  4. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  5. The Lion In Winter (1968)
  6. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (1955)
  7. Night Slaves (1970)
  8. Test Pilot (1938)

Television That I Watched

  1. 60 Days In
  2. The Alienist
  3. The Amazing Race 30
  4. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
  5. Ask The Undertaker
  6. The Bachelor 22
  7. Degrassi — Seasons 6 and 7 are seriously underrated.
  8. Ghost Whisperer
  9. Hell’s Kitchen 17
  10. Intervention — I’m not really a big fan of the Heroin Triangle thing that Intervention is doing right now.  It’s a bit too self-congratulatory for my tastes.
  11. King of the Hill
  12. Kitten Bowl
  13. The Magicians
  14. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  15. The Perfect Suspect
  16. Project Runway All-Stars
  17. Super Bowl LII — Absolutely no one in the Shattered Lens bunker appears to be happy about how this game went.  Myself, I was disappointed with the commercials.
  18. This Is Us — I usually don’t watch this show but, this week, I wanted to find out which one of three kids murdered the father.
  19. Undercover High
  20. Waco
  21. Waco: Messiah or Madman?

Books That I Read

  1. Dr. No by Ian Fleming (1958)
  2. Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years by Christopher Frayling (2017) — This is a really fun history of everyone’s favorite reanimated dead guy.  I recommend it for all of my horror-loving friends!
  3. From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming (1957)

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Bob Dylan
  2. Britney Spears
  3. Calvin Harris
  4. The Chemical Brothers
  5. Dean Drouillard
  6. Dillon Francis
  7. Isabel Fay
  8. Jakalope
  9. Jake Bugg
  10. Jake Epstein
  11. James Blake
  12. Justin Timberlake
  13. Muse
  14. Nancy Sinatra
  15. Phantogram
  16. Pink
  17. The Prodigy
  18. Rich White
  19. Saint Motel
  20. Shakira
  21. Sleigh Bells
  22. Taylor Swift
  23. The Ting Tings

Links From Last Week

  1. From my sister’s photography blog, it’s the saddest picture of all time.
  2. Apparently, there’s some people online who are concerned that the Black Panther is going to be “too black” or something like that.  That seems kinda silly to me.  (I mean, when you’re making a movie about the ruler of an African nation, how exactly can you be too black?)  Over on The Ferguson Theater, guest poster Sean E. Ali shares an open letter to those worried about Black Panther being too black.
  3. John Coyote writes about the famous Chelsea Hotel.
  4. On Horrorpedia: A brief examination of trolls.  (No, not internet trolls.  Real trolls!)
  5. From The World’s Common Tater: My Life As a Jailbarian: Life On The Inside Leads To Life Online
  6. From A Pondering Mind, a very important quote from Sylvia Plath.
  7. On FlixChatter, Ruth lists her top 10 films of 2017.
  8. From the Boston Becks, The Nighthawk Award for 2011!  (The Nighthawk Awards, and the amount of work and dedication that this blogger puts into compiling them, is what inspired me to start posting my annual “What if Lisa Had All The Power” posts.)
  9. From John Reiber’s site, check out this Super Bowl food fight!
  10. From Hippie Horror, here are ten feminist horror films!
  11. From Coffee and A Script, The Life And Upcoming Death Of My First Screenplay (The Story Of My Super Mario Adventures Adaptation)
  12. Epistle of Dude offers up three different ways to view Groundhog Day.

Links From The Site

  1. Jeff assembled the greatest football team ever, offered up a Super Bowl prediction, and followed Swamp Thing to the Winchester Mystery House!
  2. Ryan reviewed Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD, The Rise of the Animals, Charles Forsman’s Slasher, and Hungry Ghosts.  He also offered up his weekly reading round-up!  (Hmmm…even wonder where I got the idea to start doing these Lisa’s Week In Review posts?)
  3. Gary reviewed My Name is Julia Ross, Lady Snowblood, and Trouble Along The Way.  Just in time for the Super Bowl, Gary asked us all, “Are you ready for some football!?”
  4. Erin shared an image of dusk along with several reto football magazine covers, like this oneAnd this one!
  5. Case reviewed The Cloverfield Paradox!
  6. Patrick reviewed The Lullaby!
  7. I shared the music video for one of the greatest songs of all time!

(Check out what I accomplished last week by clicking here!)

Have a great week everyone!

Love you, Canada!

Lisa’s Week in Review — 1/22/18 — 1/28/18


Another week has come to a close!  It wasn’t a bad week.  I did my annual “If Lisa Had All The Power” post, which is something that I look forward to doing every year.  On Tuesday, the Oscar nominations were announced with a minimum amount of drama.  The Sundance Film Festival came and went.  I watched and reviewed a lot of good movies.  I cut back on watching all of the true crime stations.  Somehow, I only managed to finish reading one novel this week.  I’m a bit disappointed in myself for that.  Still, tomorrow is another week and, overall, my January has kicked ass!

Here’s what I accomplished this week.

Movies That I Watched

  1. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  2. Better Off Dead (1985)
  3. Blue Caprice (2013)
  4. Bridge to Silence (1989)
  5. Casino (1995)
  6. Cherry 2000 (1987)
  7. The Chocolate War (1988)
  8. Empire (1964)
  9. A Ghost Story (2017)
  10. Halloween (1978)
  11. Halloween (2007)
  12. Hugo (2011)
  13. Kiss the Bride (2002)
  14. The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976)
  15. The Little Hours (2017)
  16. Marshall (2017)
  17. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
  18. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
  19. Prison Planet (1992)
  20. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  21. Rolling Thunder (1977)
  22. sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
  23. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
  24. The Walk (2015)
  25. Wedding Daze (2006)
  26. You Are The One (1985)

TV Shows That I Watched

  1. 60 Days In
  2. The 60th Annual Grammy Awards
  3. The Alienist
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
  6. The Bachelor 22
  7. Bull — The Patron Saint of the Snarkalecs, actor Gerald Webb, was in last week’s episode!
  8. Dance Moms
  9. Degrassi
  10. Dr. Phil
  11. Flight of the Conchords
  12. Forensic Files
  13. Ghost Whisperer
  14. Hell’s Kitchen 17
  15. Intervention
  16. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  17. King of the Hill
  18. The Magicians
  19. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  20. Mosiac
  21. Project Runway All-Stars
  22. Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
  23. Undercover High
  24. Wac0
  25. The X-Files

 

Books That I Read

(Oh my God!  I only finished one book this week!  Seriously, I am so embarrassed.  What the Hell was I doing!?  Oh well, I’ll pick up the pace this upcoming week and never again will I have such a paltry list to offer up on Sunday.  I’m reading From Russia With Love right now.)

  1. Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming (1956)

Music That I Listened T0

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. The Animals
  3. Avicii
  4. The Chemical Brothers
  5. Cloud Control
  6. Coldplay
  7. Cornelius
  8. Crud
  9. The Crystal Method
  10. David Bowie
  11. Fever Ray
  12. FLOODS
  13. Fun Lovin Criminals
  14. Goblin
  15. Great Grandpa
  16. High Contrast
  17. Jakalope
  18. Michael Fredo
  19. The Micronaut
  20. Muse
  21. Nat & Alex Wolff
  22. Phantogram
  23. Ponette
  24. Saint Motel
  25. Sally Dige
  26. Sleigh Bells
  27. Stars
  28. Taylor Swift
  29. The Ting Tings
  30. Tomoyasu Hotei

Links From Last Week

  1. Steven Spielberg is remaking West Side Story?  As proof of my new posititve attitude, just consider the fact that I’m not throwing a fit over this.  In fact, I’m actually kind of looking forward to seeing how Spielberg would handle directing a musical.
  2. Over on AwardsWatch, check out Erik Anderson’s thoughts on the Oscar nominations!
  3. In case you’re already making plans for the 4th of July, All of Beer offers up suggestions on How To Celebrate The Fourth of July When You’re Abroad And Bored AF.
  4. Check out this list of The Greatest Grammy Snubs Of All Time!
  5. At some point, in the future, I’m going to start a site where I’m going to review every episode of Degrassi.  Until then, check out Degrassi TNG Guy’s reviews!  This week, he reviewed one of my favorite episodes, season 4’s Mercy Street!
  6. From my sister’s photography blog, check out the fog!

Links From The Site

  1. I posted what I would have nominated for the Oscars if I had all the power!
  2. Erin took a look at the work of artist Carl Bobertz.
  3. Gary reviewed Million Dollar Legs, Ski Partyand Road to Morocco.  He also profiled character actor Jack Norton!
  4. Jeff paid tribute to the late Mark E. Smith.
  5. Ryan reviewed The Big Me Book and shared his weekly reading round-up.

Have a great week everyone!

(Curious to see how last week went?  Click here!)

Lisa’s Week in Review — 1/15/18 — 1/21/18


For me, this previous week got off to a good start on Monday night when snow was spotted falling over Dallas, my boss called and said to stay home on Tuesday because of the bad weather, and my three-day weekend became a four-day weekend!  Of course, in the end, the snow only fell for about five minutes and none of it accumulated but still.  We then proceeded to have two days of bitter cold, three days of mild coolness, and two days of unseasonable warmth, followed by thunderstorms!  Weird weather is the best!

As I sit here writing this, the government is shut down, the country is watching football, Kim and Kanye have stolen the good name of Chicago, and there’s an epidemic of people eating Tide Pods.  But who cares about any of that?  Here’s what I accomplished over the last week:

Movies I Watched

  1. 12 Strong (2018)
  2. Audrey Rose (1977)
  3. A Boy and His Dog (1975)
  4. Circle of Power (1981)
  5. Cocaine Godmother (2018)
  6. Fatherly Obsession (2017)
  7. Forever My Girl (2018)
  8. Friday the 13th Part 3: The Memoriam Documentary (2017)
  9. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
  10. The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
  11. Mean Girls (2004)
  12. Old Enough (1984)
  13. Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
  14. Sea Change (2017)
  15. Story of a Girl (2017)
  16. The Watcher In The Woods (2017)

Television Shows I Watched

  1. The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
  2. 60 Days In
  3. 1980: The Deadliest Decade
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Versace
  6. Ask the Undertaker
  7. The Bachelor 22 — Bibiana did not receive a rose at the end of last week’s episode so I’m pretty much done with The Bachelor for the rest of this season.
  8. Betrayed
  9. California Dreams
  10. City Guys
  11. Dance Moms
  12. Dr. Phil — Am I alone in hoping that, some day, one of his guests will just punch Dr. Phil in the nose?
  13. Evil Up Close
  14. Ghost Whisperer
  15. Hell’s Kitchen 17
  16. Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda
  17. Intervention
  18. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  19. Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery
  20. King of the Hill — Hanks gets obsessed with a boy band, a classic episode.
  21. The Magicians
  22. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  23. The Office — I was overjoyed to discover, on Monday, an Office marathon on Comedy Central!  And it was early episodes, before the show went downhill.
  24. Project Runway All-Stars — I’m on the verge of giving up on this season.  Project Runway without Tim Gun?  What’s the point?
  25. Saved By The Bell
  26. See No Evil
  27. Seinfeld
  28. Undercover High
  29. The X-Files
  30. Your Worst Nightmare

Books I Read

(Two weeks ago, I had so much fun putting together my history of the actors that could have been James Bond that I’m now rereading all of the original Bond novels!)

  1. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953)
  2. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming (1954)
  3. Moonraker by Ian Fleming (1955)

Music I Listened To

  1. Ashlee Simpson
  2. Aventry
  3. Avicii
  4. Bad Wolves
  5. Beck
  6. Big Data
  7. Bob Dylan
  8. Britney Spears
  9. Cage the Elephant
  10. Calvin Harris
  11. The Chemical Brothers
  12. Cianna Blaze
  13. Crud
  14. Daft Punk
  15. Dave Mak
  16. Dillon Francis
  17. Dolores O’Riordan
  18. Dylan Smith
  19. Edgar Allan Poets
  20. Eric Rodriguez
  21. Fiona Apple
  22. Fitz and the Tantrums
  23. Flint Eastwood
  24. Galtuz
  25. Goblin
  26. Gwen Stefani
  27. High Contrast
  28. HollySiz
  29. Jade Bird
  30. Jaded Edge
  31. Jakalope
  32. Johnny Cash
  33. Joywave
  34. Kapkano
  35. Leonard Cohen
  36. Lindsey Stirling
  37. Luc One
  38. Lucy Dacus
  39. LUX
  40. Moby
  41. No Doubt
  42. Phantogram
  43. Radiohead
  44. Saint Motel
  45. Sleigh Bells
  46. Spinning Coin
  47. Taylor Swift
  48. Tess
  49. The Ting Tings
  50. Vanessa Narvaez

Links from Last Week

  1. Things got creepy on my sister’s photography site with this picture!
  2. Mondo Movies paid tribute to Dorothy Malone.
  3. On Outspoken and Freckled, Kellee Pratt takes a look at the choreography of Bubsy Berkeley.
  4. Check out the 2018 Oscar nomination predictions on Jordan and Eddie.
  5. Here’s a poem from The World Outside The Window.
  6. Thoughts on the Villainess from Film Grimoire.
  7. From the Dailey Grindhouse, this article takes a look at how John Carpenter’s Halloween became the template for the modern horror film.
  8. On Awards Circuit, Clayton Davis predicts that The Shape of Water could end with a record setting 14 Oscar nominations.
  9. Ismael Olson dives into the topical and satirical lyrics of Cole Porter.
  10. From 4 Random, will Chris Hemsworth return as Thor?
  11. The Flat Circle argues that too much politics is ruining SNL.
  12. From Aesthetics and Politics, Tragic Painting?
  13. What the Well-Dressed Hobbit Will Be Wearing Next Season: A Study in Textiles in Fantasy Settings, courtesy of The Wandering Company
  14. From Matthew Craig Wilson, 10 Movies That Signified A New Phase In A Director’s Filmmaking Style.

Links From This Site

  1. Jeff paid tribute to Dolores O’Riordan.
  2. Erin shared the covers of Fate.
  3. I haven’t been the only one cleaning out the DVR!  Gary’s also been getting in on the action.  Also, be sure to check out Gary’s film noir round-up, his tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, and his review of The Far Country!
  4. Ryan The Trash Film Guru shared reviews of The Palace of Champions, Days of Hate #1, An Exorcism, and Apartment Number Three.  And be sure to check out his weekly reading round-up!
  5. Patrick reviewed Curse of the Witch’s Doll!
  6. Finally, among other things, I shared my picks for the best 26 films of 2017!

Have a great week, everyone!

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Lisa’s Week In Review — 1/8/18 — 1/14/18


The second week of January, 2018, has come to a close and it’s time for me to again share my week in review!

This week was okay.  Or, at the very least, it was okay for me.  Everyone else in the country seems to miserable but I spent last week with a terrible cold so I’m just happy to be able to go outside again.  I’ve been told that there’s a fairly good chance that we’ll get some snow tomorrow night so I’m ending this week looking forward to the next!

Movies I Watched

  1. 10/31 (2017)
  2. American Made (2017)
  3. Cat People (1982)
  4. The Commuter (2018)
  5. Crimson Peak (2015)
  6. The Cutting Edge (1992)
  7. Degrassi Goes Hollywood (2009)
  8. Disturbing Behavior (1998)
  9. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  10. Moses (1976)
  11. Empire of the Sharks (2017)
  12. House of the Witch (2017)
  13. The Phenix City Story (1955)
  14. The Tower (1993)
  15. Wicked Moms Club (2017)
  16. Wild Things (1998)

 

TV Shows I Watched

(I watched way too much TV this week.  I probably need to cut back on the true crime.)

  1. The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade
  2. The 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards
  3. 48 Hours on ID
  4. 60 Days In
  5. The Amazing Race
  6. American Monster
  7. Ask the Undertaker — Is Ask The Undertaker strictly a Dallas show or do people watch it nation-wide?  I’ve recently become oddly addicted to this weekly talk show.  It’s sponsored by Golden Gates Funeral Home and I have to admit that one reason I watch this show is because I enjoy watching the professional Golden Gate pallbearers dance as they carry the coffin out to its final destination.
  8. The Bachelor 22
  9. Corrupt Crimes
  10. Deadly Women
  11. Evil Lives Here
  12. Forensic Files
  13. Ghost Whisperer
  14. Hell’s Kitchen 17
  15. Intervention
  16. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  17. Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery
  18. Killer Mysteries
  19. King of the Hill
  20. The Magicians
  21. Murder Among Friends
  22. People Magazine Investigates
  23. The Perfect Murder
  24. Project Runway All-Stars — This season was apparently shot before Ronan Farrow’s expose of Harvey Weinstein was published.  As Project Runway is a Weinstein Company production and Harvey’s wife, Georgina Chapman, is one of the judges, watching this season feels more than a little awkward.
  25. Saved By The Bell
  26. See No Evil
  27. South Park
  28. Twin Peaks: The Return
  29. Undercover High
  30. Village of the Damned
  31. Web Of Lies
  32. The X-Files — For some reason, at least one reader got really worked up over my review this week.

Books I Read

  1. The Legend of Pope Joan (1998) by Peter Stanford
  2. Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch (1984)
  3. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (2017) — I’m glad I finally read this because it actually does answer a few of the questions left unanswered by the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return.  While it doesn’t shed much light on what was going on with Audrey, it does explain a bit more about what happened in New Mexico at the end of Part 8.
  4. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

Music I Listened To

  1. Alan Walker
  2. Andras Fox
  3. Arianna Grande
  4. Big Data
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Brooks
  7. The Chemical Brothers
  8. Crud
  9. Daft Punk
  10. Dream Wife
  11. Ed Sheeran
  12. Elle King
  13. Ellie Goulding
  14. Emanuele Braveri
  15. Fitz and the Tantrums
  16. Future
  17. Galantis
  18. Gwen Stefani
  19. Imhotep
  20. Jakalope
  21. Johnny Cash
  22. Joywave
  23. Kelly Clarkson
  24. Khrebto
  25. Kygo
  26. Leonard Cohen — Jeff has gotten me hooked on Leonard Cohen.
  27. Lindsey Stirling
  28. Lynn
  29. Martin Garrix
  30. Moby
  31. Mystery Skulls
  32. No Doubt
  33. P!nk
  34. Paul van Dyk
  35. R3HAB
  36. Raja Kumari
  37. Rebecca Louise Burch
  38. Selena Gomez
  39. Sleigh Bells
  40. Son Lux
  41. Siouxsie and the Banshees — It’s divoon, oh, it’s serene…
  42. Taylor Swift
  43. The Weeknd
  44. Whales

Links From Last Week

  1. Tuesday was National Take A Poem To Work Day so I shared one my poems over on SyFyDesigns.
  2. On The Film Experience, Nathaniel Rogers shares 50 movies that received no Oscar nominations but which are today better regarded than those that did.
  3. From Variety, it looks like a Black Widow stand-alone film is finally going to happen!
  4. My friend Trevor Wells also reviews Lifetime movies.  Here’s his review of Fatal Defense!
  5. On her photography site, my sister Erin shared several black-and-white pictures this week.  This one was my favorite.
  6. Eddie of Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys) shares his most anticipated films of 2018.
  7. That Darn Girl shared her thoughts on this weekend’s Lifetime films.
  8. Horrorpedia has become one of the best horror resources around.  They’re updated daily so be sure to check them up and see what’s new.

Links From The Site:

  1. Erin took a look at the Carter Brown covers of Robert McGinnis.
  2. Gary reviewed Unholy Rollers and Red Dust.
  3. Ryan shared his thoughts on Shit and Piss, Ruffians, and his weekly reading round-up.
  4. Patrick reviewed Bad Apples and Dance Baby Dance.
  5. I shared what I promised would be my last post about Twin Peaks: The Return.
  6. Starting my look back at 2017, I shared my picks for the 16 worst films of the year, the best in SyFy, my favorite songs of the year, my favorite novels of the year, and a few good things that I saw on television during the year.  My look back at 2017 concludes next week with the best nonfiction on Monday, the best in Lifetime on Wednesday, and my top 26 films of 2017 on Friday.

Have a good week, everyone!

(Want to see what I watched, read, and listened to last week?  Click here!)

Lisa’s Week In Review: 1/1/18 — 1/7/18


What’s This?

Hi there!  Welcome to Lisa’s Week In Review.  This year, on Monday, I’m going to post everything that I watched, read, and listened to during the previous week.  Since I love to make lists, I’m hoping that this will encourage me to see more, read more, and listen to more this year than I did last year!

I’m happy that 2017 started on Monday, which is also the start of the week.  I like it when things are neat and orderly like that.  For the first three days of 2018, the temperatures in DFW were below freezing though, unlike the rest of the country, we didn’t get any snow or ice.  Around Wednesday, the temperature got up above 32 degrees and the last few days have actually been wonderfully pleasant.  Of course, I spent most of the week lying on the couch with a cold.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s my week in review!

Movies I Watched:

  1. The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
  2. Blood, Sweat, and Lies (2018)
  3. Cast A Deadly Spell (1991)
  4. Cradle Swapping (2017)
  5. Dazed and Confused (1993)
  6. Deadly Exchange (2017)
  7. Dr. No (1962)
  8. From Russia With Love (1963)
  9. Goldfinger (1964)
  10. Honey 3: Dare to Dance (2016)
  11. Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
  12. The Love-Ins (1967)
  13. Neverknock (2017)
  14. Psycho Brother-in-Law (2017)
  15. Psycho In-Law (2017)
  16. Psycho Wedding Crasher (2017)
  17. Riot on the Sunset Strip (1967)
  18. The Sandman (2017)
  19. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
  20. Stage Fright (2017)
  21. Stickman (2017)
  22. A Tale of Two Coreys (2018)
  23. Tiny House of Terror (2017)
  24. Thunderball (1965)
  25. What a Girl Wants (2004)
  26. The Wrong Mother (2017)

TV Shows I Watched

(For whatever reason, I watched a lot of true crime last week.)

  1. 2018 Winter Olympic Trials
  2. 60 Days In
  3. The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Justice
  6. American Monster
  7. The Bachelor 22 — I usually stop watching The Bachelor once all the crazy people get kicked off the show.
  8. Betrayed
  9. Cheaters
  10. Dance Moms
  11. Dead Silent
  12. Degrassi
  13. Dr. Phil
  14. Evil Lives Here
  15. Full House
  16. Hell’s Kitchen 17
  17. Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda
  18. House Hunters
  19. Intervention
  20. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia — For the record, I laughed so hard at the episode where Frank and Dee got a job selling knives door-to-door that I literally fell off of my couch.
  21. King of the Hill
  22. Last Call With Carson Daly
  23. Model Killers
  24. Murder in the Heartland
  25. My Evil Sister — I had to make Erin watch this with me.
  26. The Office — The Prison Mike episode.
  27. People Magazine Investigates
  28. Project Runway All-Stars
  29. Saved By The Bell
  30. Shattered
  31. The Twilight Zone — SyFy always does a Twilight Zone marathon on January 1st.
  32. Twin Peaks: The Return
  33. U.S. Figure Skating Championships
  34. The X-Files
  35. Your Worst Nightmare

Books I Read

(I’m ashamed to say that, over the course of last week, I watched over 60 different movies and TV shows but I only read two books.  This will change in the future.)

  1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953) — I found a copy of this at Half-Price Books last week.  The copy that I found once belonged to a student named Ashley and she filled the margins with notes about her friends Taylor and Sidney.  At the start of the book, they were best friends.  About halfway through, she suddenly hated both of them but, by the end of the book, they were friends again.  Yay!
  2. You’re Ok, Your Cat’s Ok: How to Establish A Meaningful Relationship With Your Cat by Marcus Schenk and Jill Caravan (1992) — This book is full of helpful hints on how to get along with your cat.  Of course, it’s also full of pictures of cute kitties, which is the main reason we own it.

Music I Listened To

  1. Amy Winehouse
  2. Anders Nilsen
  3. Armin van Buuren
  4. Avicii
  5. Big Data
  6. Blanck Mass
  7. Bob Dylan
  8. Britney Spears
  9. Calvin Harris
  10. Chappell Roan
  11. Charli XCX
  12. The Chemical Brothers
  13. Cindy Alma
  14. Coldplay
  15. Daft Punk
  16. Dillon Francis
  17. Donots
  18. Elle King
  19. Fitz and the Tantrums
  20. Ghastly
  21. Gerry Rafferty
  22. Icona Pop
  23. Jakalope
  24. Jeff Buckley
  25. Lindsay Cardy
  26. Lindey Stirling
  27. Martin Garrix
  28. Nghtmre
  29. P!nk
  30. Rebecca & Fiona
  31. The Shelters
  32. Steve Aoki
  33. Superorganism
  34. Taylor Swift
  35. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
  36. The White Stripes

 

Links From Last Week

(These are blog posts that I saw last week that I’m recommending you check out.)

  1. In honor of National Take A Poet To Lunch Day, I shared my favorite poem at SyFyDesigns.
  2. From the Ferguson Theater, Derrick Ferguson shares his picks for the best films of 2017.
  3. From Musings Of A Classic Film Addict, a tribute to the late Peggy Cummins.
  4. On the World’s Common Tater, Tater shared his year in reading for 2017.
  5. On Film Grimoire, Anna shared her top ten songs of 2017, something I’ll be doing on this site during the upcoming week.
  6. On Ted Book, Ted shares a story about how Amy Winehouse inspired him to reopen his site.
  7. From the Daily Grindhouse, here’s a review of a book about Christmas horrors on tv and in the movies.
  8. Janika, a member of the Late Night Movie Gang, writes about watching Cast A Deadly Spell with us and several other things.
  9. Here’s a poem from John Coyote.
  10. On the Immortal Jukebox, Thom Hickey goes on the radio.
  11. Over on her photography site, my sister Erin shared a picture of a squirrel getting ready for 2018.

On this site, be sure to check out:

  1. Patrick’s reviews of Driving While Black and House of Salem,
  2. Val’s picks for the 25 Best and Worst Things she saw last year,
  3. Erin’s picture for the New Year,
  4. Gary’s reviews of The Wild Angels, The Poseidon Adventure, and Willard,
  5. Jeff’s tribute to Isaac Asimov,
  6. Necromoonyeti’s Top 15 albums of 2017,
  7. Ryan’s thoughts on Cut Away Comics, Crust, and everything else he read last week!
  8. If I may brag on myself, check out my history of the men might have been Bond.

Have a great week everyone!