Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Shattered Lens!
May all the Irish humans and all the Irish cats find peace this day!
Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?
Due to the whole coronavirus thing, I am going to be working from home for a month! Believe it or not, I actually have jury duty in about three weeks. I’m expected to ride the train and then take a bus down to the filthiest courthouse in the city so that I can sit in a small space with a bunch of strangers just so I can be told to go home after eight hours. I don’t think so. I’m guessing that, with everything closing, my jury duty will probably be canceled on its own. Let’s hope so!
(Update: It was. An hour after I wrote this, it was announced that all civil and criminal trials have been canceled in Dallas County until May 8th.)
Anyway, at least I’ll have a lot of time to watch a lot of movies and review them. I’ve heard some people are worried about what’s going to happen if Netflix and all the other streaming services crashes. I’m happy to say that, down here in the Texas offices of the TSL, we have 5,000 DVDS, blu-rays, and VHS tapes. Seriously, you should never stop buying physical media because you never know when you might need it.
Rest assured, everyone, that we here at the Shattered Lens are staying safe and taking precautions! We hope you are too.
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Today is the greatest Friday of the year because today is the 13th! Some people consider Friday the 13th to be unlucky but those people have obviously never been the only virgin at a weekend party up at Camp Crystal Lake. Ask any of them and they can tell you just how lucky Friday the 13th can be.
Today, we are aware that many of our readers may be locked away in their homes, practicing social distancing or freaking out because they’ve been watching the 24-hour news stations. To you, we make the following suggestion: Turn off twitter. Turn off MSNBC. Turn off Fox. Definitely turn off CNN. And why not just sit back and enjoy the antics of those fun-loving kids up at Camp Crystal Lake?
In fact, in case you need help picking which movie to watch, the flame-haired one has reviewed every single one of them here on the Shattered Lens! She personally recommends that you watch parts 1, 2, and 4 but it’s totally up to you! Here’s some links to her reviews:
Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VII: A New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Friday the 13th: The Pointless Remake
And then be sure to check out: 12 Thing You May Not Have Known About Friday the 13th and then read the flame-haired one’s review of Camp Crystal Lake Memories!
The world will still be here when you get back, we promise.
Happy Friday the 13th everyone!
Jeff & I are back. This is going to be shorter week in review than usual because I’m still exhausted. Peace be with you and have a great week.
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Still on vacation. Back on the 7th!
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As of this weekend, Jeff & I are on vacation and really, it couldn’t have happened a minute too soon. We’re currently in London and I’m looking forward to two weeks of getting away from …. well, everything but this site. Like I do before every vacation, I’ve written up some reviews that will drop while I’m gone. So, I’ll be here even when I’m not here.
Last week, cancel culture came for Much Ado About Cinema’s Dilara Elbir, attacking her on twitter over a 4 year-old private message in which she used the n-word. The twitter mob came for her and it continued to come for her, even after she apologized and every writer who worked for Much Ado publicly quit on her. It kept coming for her until she attempted to commit suicide. Dilara posted three videos to twitter, sobbing and cutting herself. (The videos have since been taken down. Amazingly, some of the same people who drove Dilara to very publicly hurting herself than had the nerve to complain that she hadn’t included trigger warnings with the videos.) Fortunately, some of the people who saw the videos called the police and they were able to get Dilara to the hospital in time to save her life.
Needless to say, there have been a lot of recriminations in the days since. There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not cancel culture went too far, hounding Dilara even after she had apologized and lost all of her writers. Do we now live in a world where forgiveness is no longer possible and where no one is allowed a second chance to make up for their past mistakes? A lot of people have been talking about mental illness and how we never know how someone might be hurting on the inside. There’s been a lot of talk and some of it’s sincere and, quite frankly, some of it has definitely been performative. It’s easy to talk about doing the right thing after the damage has already been done. There’s a lot to be said about all of this but I’m not going to say it right now because I’m still processing it all. I hope lessons will be learned though I doubt that they have. (When last I checked, people were attempting to cancel the people who “cancelled” Dilara by using many of the same techniques that they used on her, which would seem to indicate that most people haven’t learned anything.) I hope that Dilara will recover and I hope that the world will become a better place.
Stay supple fear not, play nice, and love those around you!
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I hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day!
Well, let’s just admit the obvious. After last week’s Oscar Sunday extravaganza, there was no way that I wasn’t going to spend most of this week getting some rest and that’s exactly what I did. A part of me regrets it because I’ve always been the type who thinks, “That hour you spent doing nothing was an hour that you’ll never get back!” But, as I’ve matured and grown or whatever, I’ve come to realize that sometimes you really have to appreciate the peace of doing nothing for an hour.
However, on Friday, I did finally manage to start my new review series: Love on the Shattered Lens! All through the rest of February, I’ll be reviewing some films about love. Some of them are happy films. Some of them are sad films. Some are good. Some are bad. And I’ll be reviewing them all!
Anyway, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week. As you’ll notice, this was a very musical week for me. That’s because I hosted the weekly #ILikeToWatch live tweet on Saturday and I had 60 minutes worth of music to select. As you can tell from the end result, it was a fun search!
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Have a great week, everyone!
From the humans and the cat at the Shattered Lens to all of you, happy Valentine’s Day!
Some people, like the flame-haired one, love this day while the others, like almost all of the silly humans on twitters, hate this day. Of course, if you’re a cat, every day is Valentine’s Day!
Whether you’re celebrating, observing, or denouncing this day, here’s hoping that it’s a good one for you and all of your loved ones!
Today, we wish love and happiness to every single one of you. Over the last ten years, those of us here at the Shattered Lens have talked about the movies and the TV shows and the books and the music and the performers that we love but in the end, the most important love is the love that we have for each other and for those of you who have been kind enough to read our thoughts.
From the humans and the cat here at the Shattered Lens, thanks you!
That’s it! That’s a wrap!
We hope everyone has enjoyed Oscar Sunday!
Now that the Oscars are over with, it’s time to start a new year in entertainment! Thank you everyone for reading us over the course of 2019 and the first two months of 2020!
Now, let’s make 2020 the best year ever as we continue to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the Shattered Lens!
Love you!
This was a long but rewarding week. Between all the weird political stuff going on and the Oscars, I think we managed to pack about a year’s worth of news cycles into just one week. But as Elizabeth Holmes once said, “Screw it, let’s test some blood.”
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