This looks like fun!
Coming soon to Shudder, Late Night With The Devil takes place in 1977, on a night in which a television broadcast brings evil into the world. Before anyone asks, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour did air in 1977 but it started in 1976. So, as tempting as it is to speculate, I think the two events were unrelated.
Here’s the trailer for Late Night With The Devil!
Today’s music video of the day is this edgy production from Lebanon Hanover! This is music to which you can not only dance but you can also listen to it while walking down a deserted alley. It serves every purpose.
Enjoy!
Oh …. hi, everyone!
I know that things have been unusually quiet here on the Shattered Lens today. I wish I could say that was because I was busy watching movies but the truth of the matter is that I had a doctor’s appointment today that involved bloodwork and other needles and have I mentioned that I am neither a fan of needles in general or the sight of my own blood being extracted from my body? And, of course, the doctor’s office was super crowded, the doctor kept getting called away from me, and I spent what seemed like hours shivering in a cold exam room.
Yeah, it’s been that type of day.
After finally finishing up with my doctor, I went to vote in the Texas primaries and I got stuck in line behind a first-time voter who was freaking out because he had left his list of who to vote for out in his car. It bothered me that all of the poll workers made such a big deal about him being a first-time voter when he wasn’t even smart enough to memorize who he was going to vote for. Add to that, I think he may have actually been voting in the wrong party’s primary because I just got the feeling he and I were probably on opposite sides of the fence politically. I’m not really a fan of early voting but I do think, in the future, I should get the vote early while everyone else has to do it on election day.
Then, I tried to get a quick dinner from Panda Express but I got stuck in the drive-through behind a police car and I had to sit there and listen as the vehicle’s inhabitants used their slow, dry-as-sandpaper “cop voices” to order their food. The only thing that kept me from honking at them for taking so long was the fact that they were cops and I assume they would have arrested me for disturbing the peace.
And then I got home, curled up on the couch, passed out, and, since finally waking back up, I have accomplished nothing. I have so much to watch and I’m running out of time to do it and it’s very frustrating.
ANYWAY, ONE OF THOSE DAYS!
But it doesn’t matter because you know what? The trailer for The Wild Robot is so wonderful that I’m sitting here with my spirit brightened and a smile on my face. Seriously, the trailer has totally brightened my day and I can’t wait until the film comes out in September. Watch the trailer below:
Seriously!
Finally, a song that speaks for the rest of us.
Enjoy!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasion ally Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We snark our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1996’s Marked Man! Selected and hosted by Rev. Magdalen, this movie stars Rowdy Roddy Piper! So, you know it has to be good!
Following #MondayActionMovie, Brad and Sierra will be hosting the #MondayMuggers live tweet. We will be watching 2002’s Eye See You! This one stars Sylvester Stallone so you know it has to be …. well, you get the idea.
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto Mastodon, pull up Marked Man on YouTube, start the movie at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! Then, at 10 pm et, switch over to Twitter, check the hashtag for the link to the movie and then start Eye See You, and use the #MondayMuggers hashtag! The live tweet community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
Today’s music video of the day is this cautionary mini-epic from Ankor. Be careful out there!
Enjoy!
Hi, everyone! Lisa Marie here with a quick programming note!
For nearly two years, I’ve been posting daily retro television reviews here on the Lens. That feature is going on hiatus for this upcoming week so that this site can concentrate on the Oscars. Speaking for myself, I know that I have a lot that I need to watch and review before the Oscars are handed out on March 10!
So, my daily reviews of Miami Vice, Baywatch Nights, CHiPs, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Monsters, Highway to Heaven, T and T, Friday the 13th, Welcome Back Kotter, Check It Out, and Degrassi Junior High will return on March 11th, after Oscar week concludes!
For now, let’s watch some movies!
Today, we wish filmmaker George Miller a happy birthday!
Today’s scene that I love comes from 1983’s Mad Max 2 (a.k.a. The Road Warrior). In the scene, Lord Humongous and his followers arrive at a compound. Humongous and his followers are both ludicrous and menacing at the same time. While watching this scene, Miller makes sure that the viewer knows that, even if Humongous’s followers are a little bit daft, Humongous himself is truly dangerous.
Incidentally, when Mad Max 2 was in the pre-production stages, one idea was that Max would discover that, underneath the mask, was his old partner from the first film, Jim Goose! Miller says that idea was abandoned but, just as I imagine Immortan Joe was actually Toecutter grown up, I also always assume that Humongous was the formerly cheerful Jim Goose.
In this new video, Charli XCX challenges the world. I’m proud to say that Charli XCX and I both walk through airports with the same defiant attitude. Of course, I’m making an effort to start walking with a little less attitude, if just because my attitude often seems to result in me spraining my ankle.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah — cool video!
Enjoy!
This was an odd week. Other than the shows that I watch for my retro television reviews, I only watch six other shows this week. And no, Shogun was not one of them, though I do plan to watch it tomorrow.
On Wednesday, I watched Abbott Elementary and I thought it was funny, even if it didn’t really reach the heights of last week’s episode. Abbott Elementary is definitely the best sitcom on network television but it’s still starting to show some signs of age.
Also on Wednesday, I watched the season premiere of Survivor. It seems like a good group, even if I still wish Survivor would go back to its old format. It does kind of bother me that every new season of Survivor has to have some whiny, socially awkward person who acts scared of everything and who were supposed to feel sorry for. If I want to watch Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison on a reality show, I’ll watch more true crime.
On Friday night, I watched an episode of an 80s music video show called Radio 1990 and an episode of Night Flight that featured a lot of Canadians. I also watched another chapter of the 1930s serial, The Vanishing Shadow. They were all fun.
On Friday and Saturday, I watched several episodes of — cringe! — The Jerry Springer Show. They’re on YouTube and I watched them as research for a future post. There’s no way that whole show wasn’t staged.
That’s it! Not much to this week in television. I almost skipped this week’s post altogether but …. well, I’m a completist. Even if I don’t do anything, I still feel it’s important to officially acknowledge my inactivity.
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