Lisa’s Week In Review — 4/2/18 — 4/8/18


The highlight of this weekend was seeing an absolutely wonderful performance of the musical Heathers in Denton, Texas!  Heathers was produced by the Denton Community Theater and if you live near Denton, I suggest catching the show before the run ends on the 15th.

The rest of the week found me a bit less active than in previous weeks and I’m little bit annoyed by that.  I know I say this every week but seriously …. THIS UPCOMING WEEK I AM GOING TO GET CAUGHT UP!

Here’s what I did accomplish last week:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)

Movies I Watched:

  1. The Canyons (2013)
  2. The Comedian (2016)
  3. The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
  4. Empire Records (1995)
  5. Evil Doctor (2o18)
  6. Go (1999)
  7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  8. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
  9. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
  10. One on One (1977)
  11. Palo Alto (2013)
  12. Paterno (2018)
  13. Run, Lola, Run (1998)
  14. Twin Betrayal (2018)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. The Americans
  2. Archer
  3. Ash vs Evil Dead
  4. Atlanta
  5. Barry
  6. Brooklyn 99
  7. California Dreams
  8. The Crossing
  9. Degrassi
  10. Ghost Whisperer
  11. Homeland
  12. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  13. King of the Hill
  14. Legion
  15. Lucifer
  16. The Magicians
  17. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  18. Night Gallery
  19. The Office
  20. Roseanne
  21. Saved By The Bell: The New Class
  22. Silicon Valley
  23. South Park
  24. Survivor 36
  25. The Terror
  26. Trust
  27. UnReal
  28. The Walking Dead

Books I Read:

  1. The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Afrojack
  2. Arcade Fire
  3. Bad Honey
  4. Big Data
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Calvin Harris
  7. The Chemical Brothers
  8. Daft Punk
  9. David Guetta
  10. Dillon Francis
  11. Esther Dean
  12. Fitz and the Tanturms
  13. G-Eazy
  14. Jakalope
  15. Jake Bugg
  16. Kimbra
  17. Lauren Flax
  18. Little Boots
  19. Lola Rennt
  20. Lovefoxxx
  21. Major Lazer
  22. Martin Garrix
  23. Moby
  24. NERVO
  25. No Doubt
  26. Phantogram
  27. Pills
  28. Saint Motel
  29. Scott Walker
  30. Skrillex
  31. Steve Aoki
  32. Sunn O)))
  33. Swedish House Mafia
  34. Taylor Swift
  35. Tim Burgess
  36. Tony Junior

Links From Last Week

  1. On her photography site, Erin shared this picture of a creepy cabin!
  2. On SyFy Designs, in observance of National Poetry Month, I shared poems from Thomas Hood, Bonnie Parker, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Elise Cowen, Remco Campert, and Jack Kerouac!
  3. On my online Dream Journal, I shared one weird dream and one cat dream!  Actor Bruce Glover, who played Mr. Wint in Diamonds are Forever, commented on my weird dream, which was pretty awesome of him.
  4. On AwardsCircuit, Clayton Davis has posted his first round of Academy Award predictions!

Links From The Site

  1. Erin celebrated American Circus Day!
  2. Gary reviewed Once a Thief, Murder Inc, Alias The Chimp, and 50 Years of Who’s On First!
  3. Ryan shared his weekly reading round-up and reviewed Mudbite, along with sharing Tom Shapira’s review of The Beef!
  4. I celebrated Roger Corman’s birthday with 12 trailers and reviewed One on One and Paterno!

(Want to see what I accomplished last week?  Click here!)

Have a great week and keep me in your thoughts as I attempt to get caught up!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 3/26/18 — 4/1/18


It’s the start of April.  Last night, I spent four hours at Easter Vigil in high heels and Lent is over.  We’re a third of the way through 2018 and I’m going to make the rest of this year a great one.  Here’s my week in review:

Movies I Watched

  1. The Apostle Peter: Redemption (2016)
  2. Barabbas (1961)
  3. Crisscross (1992)
  4. Full of Grace (2015)
  5. Gor (1988)
  6. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
  7. In The Arms of a Killer (1991)
  8. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
  9. Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert (2018)
  10. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
  11. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  12. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
  13. A Matter of Faith (2014)
  14. Shy People (1987)
  15. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  16. Wildflower (2016)
  17. Zodiac (2007)

Television Shows I Watched

  1. The Alienist
  2. The Americans
  3. Ash vs Evil Dead
  4. Atlanta
  5. Barry
  6. Brooklyn 99
  7. California Dreams
  8. Degrassi
  9. Ghost Whisperer
  10. Good Girls
  11. iZombie
  12. King of the Hill
  13. Live PD
  14. Lucifer
  15. The Magicians
  16. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  17. Night Gallery
  18. Roseanne
  19. Saved By The Bell: The New Class
  20. Silicon Valley
  21. Splitting Up Together
  22. Survivor 36
  23. Trust
  24. UnREAL
  25. The Walking Dead

(photograph by Erin Nicole)

Book I Read

  1. 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen (2010) by Leonard Maltin
  2. Al Capone And The 1933 World’s Fair (2017) by William Elliott Hazelgrove
  3. A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length (2012) by Roger Ebert

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Avicii
  3. Big Data
  4. Britney Spears
  5. The Chemical Brothers
  6. Crud
  7. The Crystal Method
  8. Dan Croll
  9. Dillon Francis
  10. DJ Ten
  11. Etan Salomon
  12. Jakalope
  13. Knife Party
  14. La féline
  15. Moby
  16. The Orwells
  17. Panic! at the Disco
  18. Paul Orwell
  19. Peach Kelli Pop
  20. Saint Motel
  21. Swedish House Mafia
  22. Taylor Swift
  23. Tetish
  24. Thelma Houston
  25. Tinie Tempah
  26. Walter Murphy

Links From Last Week

  1. Joe Wright will be directing the film adaptation of A.J. Finn’s The Woman In The Window!
  2. On SyFyDesigns, I demonstrated how George Orwell predicted social media and shared a poem from Christina Rossetti!
  3. Over on my dream journal, I shared a nightmare, a dream about shoplifting, and a poem from W.B. Yeats!
  4. On her photography site, Erin shared a super creepy doll picture!
  5. From Horrorpedia, learn all about Bloodsuckers From Outer Space (love the title)!
  6. From the Daily Grindhouse, a look at the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar!

Links From The Site

  1. Erin presented us with the covers of Mammoth Detective, celebrated the opening day of baseball season, and wrote an open letter to ABC regarding It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!
  2. Gary reviewed Shaft and Kill The Umpire, took a look at Summertime Blues, and wrote about the horror stars of The Ten Commandments!
  3. Ryan reviews Flayed Corpse and Other Stories, Pride of the Decent Man, and I, Tonya, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
  4. I reviewed a cheap little sci-fi film called Gor!
  5. Jeff reviewed Razorback!
  6. And finally, Doc had a special announcement about the future of this site!

Finally, take a look at this notification that I got from WordPress today:

Woo hoo!  Here’s to another eight years of nonstop film, book, music, and television reviews!

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

Have a great week, everyone!

Lisa’s Week in Review: 3/19/18 — 3/25/18


Happy New Year!  Before Britain and the British colonies officially switched over to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, March 25th was considered to be the first day of the new year!

For me, this past week has been one of adjustment.  Whenever I return from a vacation, I spend about a week alternatively feeling either extremely cranky or else like I’m in a walking dream.  It takes a while to get used to being back home.  All said, I spent most of this week wishing I was in Ardglass.

That said, I still manged to get caught up on all of the TV that I missed while I was gone and I was able to watch a few new movies.  Now, I just have to get caught up with reviewing everything!

Movies I Watched:

  1. All The Vermeers in New York (1990)
  2. Autumn in New York (2000)
  3. Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
  4. Beach Party (1963)
  5. Dominic — Light of the Church (2014)
  6. Easy Rider (1969)
  7. Fool For Love (1985)
  8. The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini (1966)
  9. The Godfather (1972)
  10. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  11. The Godfather, Part III (1990)
  12. Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
  13. Gymkata (1985)
  14. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)
  15. It’s A Bikini World (1967)
  16. The Life of David Gale (2003)
  17. The Long Good Friday (1980)
  18. The Misguided (2018)
  19. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  20. Pretty Poison (1968)
  21. Rabid (1977)
  22. Runaway Train (1985)
  23. The Thin Man (1934)
  24. The Third Man (1949)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. 60 Days In
  2. The Alienist
  3. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
  4. American Idol
  5. Ash vs Evil Dead
  6. Atlanta
  7. The Bachelor 22
  8. Channel Zero
  9. The Chi
  10. Cleopatra
  11. Crashing
  12. Degrassi
  13. Divorce
  14. Doctor Phil
  15. Forbidden: Dying for Love
  16. Good Girls
  17. Homeland
  18. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  19. iZombie
  20. Ghost Whisperer
  21. King of the Hill
  22. Krypton
  23. The Magicians
  24. McMafia
  25. O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?
  26. Rise
  27. Robot Chicken
  28. Survivor 36
  29. Undercover High
  30. UnReal
  31. Web of Lies
  32. The X-Files

Books I Read:

  1. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Alison Wonderland
  2. Arcade Fire
  3. Big Sean
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Brody Dalle
  7. Calvin Harris
  8. The Chemical Brothers
  9. Echosmith
  10. Garbage
  11. Jack White
  12. Jakalope
  13. Jake Epstein
  14. Jimi Hendrix
  15. Lionrock
  16. Moby
  17. Moonshine Bandits
  18. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  19. Priest
  20. Rainsford
  21. Saint Motel
  22. The Soft Moon
  23. Swedish House Mafia
  24. Taylor Swift
  25. Tess Roby
  26. The Ting Tings
  27. Trippie Red
  28. Twin Shadow
  29. William Control

 

Links From Last Week:

  1. From SyFy Designs, here are 6 writing tips from me!
  2. Over at my newest site, Sleeping Lisa, I shared a dream about a high school reunion, a dream about Francois Truffaut’s son, and a dream from Abraham Lincoln!
  3. Over on her photography site, Erin shared this picture of a brave squirrel!
  4. The Spice Girls Next Project: An Animated Super Hero Movie!
  5. From Film School Rejects, Everyone Should Strive To Be A Better Film Critic!
  6. For every artist who feels alone, check out Coffee Stained Rejection Slips!

Links From The Site:

  1. Erin shared the first nine covers of Strange Worlds!
  2. Leonard shared the trailer for Deadpool 2!
  3. Gary reviewed Mark of the Vampire, Sunset Boulevard, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Tomb of Ligeia!
  4. Ryan reviewed Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours and Creep 2 and shared his weekly reading round-up!
  5. I reviewed Tomb Raider!
  6. Jeff took a look at the music video for Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) and shared with us an exclusive 60 year-old photograph Elvis Presley!

(To see what I watched and read last week, click here!)

Have a great week, everyone!

Lisa’s Week in Review: 3/12/18 — 3/18/18


I’m home!  After spending 6 days in London, 2 days in Brighton, 2 days in Edinburgh, and 2 days in Ardglass, Jeff & I are back in the States.  I have to admit that, much like Dorothy, I’m in a bit of a dream state right now.  Going from snow and below freezing temperatures to 80-degree Texas weather in one day will do that to you, I suppose.

This upcoming week is going to be all about catching up.  Not only do I have several movies and books to review on both this site and Horror Critic but I also have a DVR full of programming to watch.  So please, no one spoil how The Bachelor ended…

(Just kidding, I already know.  Wow, Arie sure turned out to be a prick…)

Anyway, here’s last week in review:

Movies I Watched

  1. The Artist (2011)
  2. Gambit (2012)
  3. Lucky (2017)
  4. Tomb Raider (2018)

TV Shows I Watched

  1. 8 out of 10 Cats
  2. American Idol
  3. Back in Time For Tea
  4. Benidorm
  5. Breakfast
  6. Brooklyn 99
  7. Casualty
  8. Film 2018
  9. Mothers, Murderers, and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome
  10. On Camera: Photographers of the BBC
  11. Pointless Celebrities
  12. The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story
  13. Survivor 36
  14. Top of the Pops
  15. Troy: Fall of a City

Books I Read

  1. Brave (2018) by Rose McGowan
  2. The Woman In The Window (2018) by A.J. Finn

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Blanck Mass
  2. Britney Spears
  3. The Chemical Brothers
  4. Django Django
  5. Jakalope
  6. Moby
  7. Nathan Carter
  8. Souisxie and the Banshees
  9. Taylor Swift

Links From The Site:

  1. I shared 20 Shots From 20 Alfred Hitchcock Films and my favorite Yeats poem!
  2. Erin took a look at The Covers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents!
  3. Gary reviewed The Beatles: Eight Days A Week — The Touring Years and also cleaned out his DVR!  For St. Patrick’s Day, he reviewed The Irish In Us, along with sharing both a cartoon called The Wee Men and Robert Mitchum singing Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral!
  4. Jeff argued that the video for Bush’s Everything Zen was the worst music video of all time!
  5. Ryan reviewed Teaching Comics: Volume One and What is a Glacier?, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
  6. Case reviewed Love, Simon and declared it one of the best films of the year so far!

(Check out last week’s week-in-review by clicking here!)

Have a great week!

 

Lisa’s Week In Review: 3/5/18 — 3/11/18


Movies I Watched

  1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  3. Clueless (1995)
  4. Coco (2017)
  5. The Criminal (1960)
  6. Ecstacy (1933)
  7. An Education (2009)
  8. Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Television Shows I Watched

  1. Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby
  2. Back in Time for Tea
  3. Bad Robots
  4. Coronation Street
  5. Dancing on Ice
  6. Frasier
  7. Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure
  8. Mum
  9. Room 101
  10. Sun, Sex, and Suspicious Parents
  11. World’s Most Extraordinary Homes
  12. The Young Offenders

Books I Read

  1. Anatomy of Scandal by Sarah Vaughan (2018)
  2. Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (2018)

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Blanck Mass
  2. Jacquemo
  3. Jakalope
  4. Souisxie and the Banshees

Links From The Site

  1. Erin shared both the covers of Utopia and even more covers of Utopia!
  2. Gary shared his thoughts on the Oscars and reviewed The Naked Dawn, Barbary Coast, and Manhattan Melodrama!
  3. Ryan reviewed Combed Clap of Thunder and Dust Pam, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
  4. Jeff took a look at the music video for Doctorin’ The TARDIS!

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

Jeff & I are on holiday until March 19th so, ’til then, have a great week!

Lisa’s Week In Review: 2/26/18 — 3/4/18


Yes, I did watch a lot of movies last week but I had a reason!  Starting Monday, Jeff & I are going to be on vacation for the next two weeks!  So, I wanted to make sure that I watched and wrote up reviews of a lot of films so that I could schedule them to publish while I’m gone.

(Admittedly, there were a few times last week when I found myself watching two or more movies at the same time.  Fortunately, I’m the Queen of Multi-tasking.)

Expect to see reviews of some of the films listed below over the next two weeks and the rest, I’ll get when we return on March 19th.

Movies I Watched

  1. 15:17 to Paris (2018)
  2. 49th Parallel (1941)
  3. Annihilation (2018)
  4. Bad Tutor (2018)
  5. The Betsy (1978)
  6. Black Panther (2018)
  7. Cimarron (1931)
  8. Common Law Wife (1963)
  9. The Dallas Connection (1994)
  10. Day of the Warrior (1996)
  11. Death Wish (2018)
  12. Devious Nanny (2018)
  13. Do or Die (1991)
  14. Enemy Gold (1993)
  15. Fit To Kill (1993)
  16. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
  17. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  18. Game Night (2018)
  19. The Grasshopper (1970)
  20. Guns (1990)
  21. Hamlet (1948)
  22. Hard Hunted (1992)
  23. Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987)
  24. Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018)
  25. Lost Horizon (1937)
  26. Malibu Express (1985)
  27. More (1968)
  28. Mr. Billion (1977)
  29. No Down Payment (1957)
  30. Once Is Not Enough (1975)
  31. Overcome (2008)
  32. Picasso Trigger (1988)
  33. Red Sparrow (2018)
  34. Return to Savage Beach (1998)
  35. Roller Boogie (1979)
  36. Savage Beach (1989)
  37. Shane (1953)
  38. Son of Godzilla (1967)
  39. True Confessions (1981)
  40. Zorba the Greek (1964)

Television Shows I Watched

  1. 60 Days In
  2. The 90th Annual Academy Awards
  3. The Alienist
  4. American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
  5. Ash vs Evil Dead
  6. Atlanta
  7. The Bachelor 22
  8. Channel Zero
  9. The Chi
  10. Crashing
  11. Divorce
  12. Ghost Whisperer
  13. Good Girls
  14. Homeland
  15. Intervention
  16. iZombie
  17. King of the Hill
  18. Living Biblically
  19. The Magicians
  20. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
  21. McMafia
  22. The Office
  23. Survivor 36
  24. Undercover High
  25. UnREAL
  26. Waco
  27. The Walking Dead
  28. The X-Files

Books I Read

  1. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (2018)
  2. The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming (1965)
  3. Pimp by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (2016)
  4. You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming (1964)

 

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Above & Beyond
  2. Afrojack
  3. Allison Wonderland
  4. Alt-J
  5. Anna Speller
  6. Au/Ra
  7. Bear’s Den
  8. Blanck Mass
  9. Blur
  10. Bob Dylan
  11. Brie Larson
  12. Bright Eyes
  13. Britney Spears
  14. Carlos Rivera
  15. Caroline Says
  16. Carly Simon
  17. Cedric Gervais
  18. Chappel Roan
  19. The Chemical Brothers
  20. Decade
  21. Dillon
  22. Dillon Francis
  23. Dropkick Murphys
  24. FAD
  25. Hometown
  26. Jakalope
  27. James Blunt
  28. Icona Pop
  29. Laeticia de Valer
  30. Lexi James
  31. Little Ashes
  32. Little Texas
  33. Marta Sanchez
  34. Moses Uvere
  35. Radiohead
  36. Robert DeLong
  37. Robert Koch
  38. The Roling Stones
  39. Spree Wilson
  40. Spice Girls
  41. Taking Back Sunday
  42. Taylor Swift
  43. Thirty Seconds to Mars
  44. Tina Arena
  45. The Ting Tings
  46. Van Pi
  47. Victoria Beckham
  48. The Who

Links From Last Week

  1. Camille Paglia on Movies, #MeToo and Modern Sexuality!
  2. Over on her photography site, Erin shared a picture of a Neighborhood Storm!
  3. From John Reiber, check out Oscar’s X-rated Past!
  4. On Horrorpedia, check out my review of Close Calls!

Links From The Site

  1. Jeff reviewed Death Wish II, Death Wish 3, Death Wish 4, and Death Wish V!
  2. Patrick updated us on when and where The Lullaby is going to be released!
  3. Leon the Duke returned with a review of Annihilation!
  4. Ryan reviewed My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea and Compulsive Comics, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
  5. Gary reviewed My Favorite Year, Mister Roberts, Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, and Cat Ballou, along with sharing 4 Shots From 4 Oscar-winning horror films and the Oscar-winning short film, So This Is Harris!
  6. Erin shared this cute picture of a polar bear in its natural habitat!

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

Have a great week!

My favorite picture of Audrey Hepburn. This was taken after she won the Oscar for Roman Holiday!

Lisa’s Week In Review — 2/19/18 — 2/25/18


As I sit here writing this, it has finally stopped raining!  Every other day this week, it rained.  By the end of Thursday night, my backyard literally looked like a swamp.  Usually, when the weather gets weird in Texas, it leads to me getting a lot written but that didn’t happen this week.  I was distracted by the combination of the Olympics and Celebrity Big Brother.  Fortunately, both of those are now over.

Anyway, here’s my week in review:

Movies That I Watched

  1. Atlantic City (1981)
  2. The Boost (1988)
  3. The Bounty (1984)
  4. The Breakfast Club (1985)
  5. Christina’s House (2000)
  6. Dead Man Walking (1995)
  7. Fatal Games (1984)
  8. Harry and Son (1984)
  9. The Heiress (1949)
  10. First Daughter (2004)
  11. Goon: The Last of the Enforcers (2016)
  12. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  13. On Golden Pond (1981)
  14. Personal Best (1982)
  15. The Principal (1987)
  16. Raising the Bar (2016)
  17. The Substitute (1996)
  18. Traffic Stop (2018)
  19. Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil (2018)
  20. Walk Like A Man (1987)
  21. What Waits Below (1984)
  22. Youngblood (1986)

TV Shows That I Watched

  1. 2018 Winter Olympics
  2. 60 Days In
  3. The Alienist
  4. The Amazing Race 30
  5. American Vandal
  6. The Bachelor 22
  7. Celebrity Big Brother
  8. Channel Zero
  9. The Chi
  10. Crashing
  11. Divorce
  12. The End of the F***ing World
  13. Ghost Whisperer
  14. Here and Now
  15. Homeland
  16. Intervention
  17. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  18. King of the Hill
  19. Live PD
  20. The Magicians
  21. The Trade
  22. Undercover High
  23. Waco

Books That I Read

  1. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming (1963)
  2. The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming (1962)

Music To Which I Listened

  1. Above & Beyond
  2. Afrojack
  3. Alexis Taylor
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. Bright Eyes
  6. Camila Cabello
  7. The Chemical Brothers
  8. Coldplay
  9. Creep Show
  10. Decade
  11. Ex Cops
  12. Fergie
  13. Icona Pop
  14. Jakalope
  15. Justin Moore
  16. Kate Melua
  17. Lil Ro
  18. Moses Uvere
  19. Muse
  20. NOIA
  21. Saint Motel
  22. The Ting Tings
  23. White Denim

Links From Last Week

  1. Over on SyFy Designs, I shared some thoughts on President’s Day!
  2. Over at the Ferguson Theater, Derrick Ferguson shares some thoughts on the DCEU vs. MCU!
  3. Over at Cracked Rearviewer, Gary got his reblog button back!
  4. Over at Images by Erin, Erin shares a picture of stormy weather!
  5. MM Leonard writes about vacationing in Qatar!
  6. The best moments of the Winter Olympics! 

Links From The Site

  1. Erin shares the Fantastic Covers of Famous Fantastic Mysteries!
  2. Gary reviewed Notorious, Key Largo, and The Gunfighter and payed tribute to the late Nanette Fabray.
  3. Ryan reviewed Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman“Nausea,” “Collection,” “Master Song,” And “Resident Lover, and Punk’s Not Dead and also shared his weekly reading round-up!
  4. Case reviewed Annihilation!
  5. Jeff took a look at the original Death Wish!
  6. Among other things, I reviewed Atlantic City and Fatal Games!

For me, anyway, next week is going to be all about reviewing films that have been nominated for Best Picture throughout the years!

Have a great week!

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

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!