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!

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!

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!

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!)

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!)

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.)

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 one!  And 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!

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 Party, and 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!)

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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