Avicii.  Rest in peace.

Movies I Watched:

1. Bad Girls (1994)
2. Dazed and Confused (1993)
3. Fish Tank (2010)
4. The Final Sacrifice (1990)
5. From Here To Eternity (1953)
6. Gimme Shelter (1970)
7. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)
8. I Just Don’t Dig Him (1970)
9. Keep off the Grass (1969)
10. Machine Gun McCain (1969)
11. The Minus Man (1999)
12. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
13. Rampage (2018)
14. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
15. The Star Chamber (1983)
16. Stick It (2006)
17. Tommy (1975)
18. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
19. Woodstock (1970)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. The Americans
2. Ash vs. Evil Dead
3. Atlanta
4. Barry
5. Brooklyn 99
6. Communty
7. Degrassi
8. Ghost Whisperer
9. Homeland
10. Howards End
11. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelpia
12. iZombie
13. King of the Hill
14. Legion
15. Lucifier
16. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
17. New Girl
18. Night Gallery
19. The Office
20. Roseanne
21. Silicon Valley
22. Survivor 36
23. Survivor Pearl Island
24. The Terror
25. Trust
26. UnREAL

Books That I Read:

1. I am I am I am by Maggie O’Farrell

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Aoki
2. Avicii
3. The Chemical Brothers
4. Dada Life
5. Dillon Francis
6. Florence + The Machine
7. Jakalope
8. The Killers
9. Muse
10. The Rolling Stones
11. Saint Motel
12. Talking Heads
13. Tomoyasu Hotei

Links From Last Week:

1. Spirituality and the Use of Mood in Twin Peaks!
2. In honor of National Poetry Month, I shared poems from Charles Baudelaire, Julia Ward Howe, W.B. Yeats, Diane Di Prima, Jane Kenyon, Dylan Thomas, and Emily Dickinson!
3. I had a dream about a bus hijacking!
4. On her photography site, Erin captures the light of day!

Links From The Site:

1. Jeff wrote about how R. Lee Ermey made AP History fun!
2. Gary reviewed Johnny Tremain and Hold On!  He also paid tribute to Superman and Bruno Sammartino and took a look at the song, (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet!
3. Erin shared her thoughts on Tax Day!
4. Ryan reviewed Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit Book Six, Warpwish Comics #1, and Necro Lover!  He also shared his weekly reading round-up!
5. I paid tribute to Eric Roberts and Edie Sedgwick!  I also reviewed both Woodstock and Gimme Shelter!

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

I was hoping that I would be able to devote last week to Italian horror and giallo films.  Unfortunately, I got both busy and sick so that review series will start next week!

Have a great week!

Remember how last week I said I was going to get caught up with everything?  Well, it didn’t happen.  I got busy last week so I guess I’ll have to get caught up during this upcoming week.  Along with everything else, I’m also planning on watching and reviewing a lot of Italian thrillers and horror films so keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck!

Anyway, I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend and here’s what I got accomplished last week!

(Oh, Friday the 13th is totally a holiday!  Why do you think they made so many movies about it?)

Movies I Watched

1. 25th Hour (2003)
2. The Brood (1979)
3. A Dangerous Date (2018)
4. Degrassi Takes Manhattan (2010)
5. Empire Records (1995)
6. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
7. Friday the 13th (1980)
8. Friday the 13th (2009)
9. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
10. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
11. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
12. Friday The 13th — The Final Chapter (1984)
13. Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
14. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
15. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
16. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1964)
17. A Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
18. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
19. Jason X (2001)
20. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
21. The Long Hair of Death (1964)
22. The Midwife’s Deception (2018)
23. Naked You Die (1968)
24. Performance (1970)
25. Saturday the 14th (1981)
26. Stop Making Sense (1984) — Jeff and I saw great concert film at the Alamo Drafthouse on Monday night.  I’ve been listening to the Talking Heads nonstop ever since!
27. Vice Squad (1982)

TV Shows I Watched

1. America’s Next Top Model
2. The Americans
3. Ash vs Evil Dead
4. Atlanta
5. Barry
6. Brooklyn 99
7. Cats 101
8. The Crossing
9. Degrassi
10. Evil Sister
11. Ghost Whisperer
12. Homeland
13. Howard’s End
14. iZombie
15. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
16. King of the Hill
17. Legion
18. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
19. Mary Kills People — I only watched this piece of bullshit propaganda because I was waiting for a much better show, UnREAL, to start.
20. New Girl
21. Roseanne
22. Seinfeld
23. Silicon Valley
24. Survivor 36
25. The Terror
26. Trading Spaces
27. Trust
28. UnREAL
29. The Walking Dead

Books I Read

1. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th by Peter M. Bracke (2006)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

Music To Which I Listened

1. Afrojack
2. Alice Cooper
3. Avicii
4. Ben Khan
5. Big Data
6. Bodyrox
7. Britney Spears
8. The Chemical Brothers
9. The Crystal Method
10. Dada Life
11. Dillon Francis
12. DJ Snake
13. Icona Pop
14. Jakalope
15. Jane Zhang
16. Lenny Kravitz
17. Michael Fredo
18. Mick Jagger
19. Moby
20. The Rolling Stones
21. Skrillex
22. Swedish House Mafia
23. Sweet
24. Talking Heads
25. Taylor Swift
26. Tom Tom Club

Links From Last Week

1. The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival line-up was announced!
2. Orson Welles’ daughter pleads with Netflix to reconsider its Cannes ban and let her father’s final movie premiere there!
3. From IndieWire: Netflix and Ted Sarandos Are Right to Defend Their Auteurs at Cannes, but There’s a Cost
4. From Cybersport: The rise and fall of anti-bullying group, The Bully Hunters
5. From Platinum Paragon: A Breakdown of BullyHunter’s False Data Claims
6. John Reiber pays tribute to R. Lee Ermey!
7. From The World’s Common Tater: My Week in Books, TV, and movies!
8. On her photography site, my sister shared this really nice picture of the moon!
9. I had two weird dreams this week!  One was about moving and one was about wasps!
10. For National Poetry Month, I shared poems from T.S. Eliot, Tess Gallagher, Lord Byron, Lyn Lifshin, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, and Jane Kenyon!

Links From The Site

1. Erin took a look at the Pulp Art of the Apocalypse!
2. Leonard reviewed Pacific Rim Uprising!
3. Gary reviewed Madam Satan, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Death Rides A Horse!  He also took a look at the song Little Girl!
4. Doc wished everyone a happy Friday the 13th!
5. Ryan reviewed Qoberious Vol.1 and shared his weekly reading round-up!
6. Case reviewed Rampage!
7. I shared 12 Things You May or May Not Have Known About Friday the 13th, made my Oscar predictions for April, and paid tribute to the great Milos Forman!

(Want to see what I did or did not get accomplished last week?  Click here!)

Have a great week!

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!

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!

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!

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!