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!

(Want to compare this week in review to last weeks?  Click here!)

The second week of January, 2018, has come to a close and it’s time for me to again share my week in review!

This week was okay.  Or, at the very least, it was okay for me.  Everyone else in the country seems to miserable but I spent last week with a terrible cold so I’m just happy to be able to go outside again.  I’ve been told that there’s a fairly good chance that we’ll get some snow tomorrow night so I’m ending this week looking forward to the next!

Movies I Watched

1. 10/31 (2017)
2. American Made (2017)
3. Cat People (1982)
4. The Commuter (2018)
5. Crimson Peak (2015)
6. The Cutting Edge (1992)
7. Degrassi Goes Hollywood (2009)
8. Disturbing Behavior (1998)
9. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
10. Moses (1976)
11. Empire of the Sharks (2017)
12. House of the Witch (2017)
13. The Phenix City Story (1955)
14. The Tower (1993)
15. Wicked Moms Club (2017)
16. Wild Things (1998)

TV Shows I Watched

(I watched way too much TV this week.  I probably need to cut back on the true crime.)

1. The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade
2. The 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards
3. 48 Hours on ID
4. 60 Days In
5. The Amazing Race
6. American Monster
7. Ask the Undertaker — Is Ask The Undertaker strictly a Dallas show or do people watch it nation-wide?  I’ve recently become oddly addicted to this weekly talk show.  It’s sponsored by Golden Gates Funeral Home and I have to admit that one reason I watch this show is because I enjoy watching the professional Golden Gate pallbearers dance as they carry the coffin out to its final destination.
8. The Bachelor 22
9. Corrupt Crimes
10. Deadly Women
11. Evil Lives Here
12. Forensic Files
13. Ghost Whisperer
14. Hell’s Kitchen 17
15. Intervention
16. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
17. Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery
18. Killer Mysteries
19. King of the Hill
20. The Magicians
21. Murder Among Friends
22. People Magazine Investigates
23. The Perfect Murder
24. Project Runway All-Stars — This season was apparently shot before Ronan Farrow’s expose of Harvey Weinstein was published.  As Project Runway is a Weinstein Company production and Harvey’s wife, Georgina Chapman, is one of the judges, watching this season feels more than a little awkward.
25. Saved By The Bell
26. See No Evil
27. South Park
28. Twin Peaks: The Return
29. Undercover High
30. Village of the Damned
31. Web Of Lies
32. The X-Files — For some reason, at least one reader got really worked up over my review this week.

Books I Read

1. The Legend of Pope Joan (1998) by Peter Stanford
2. Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch (1984)
3. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (2017) — I’m glad I finally read this because it actually does answer a few of the questions left unanswered by the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return.  While it doesn’t shed much light on what was going on with Audrey, it does explain a bit more about what happened in New Mexico at the end of Part 8.
4. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

Music I Listened To

1. Alan Walker
2. Andras Fox
3. Arianna Grande
4. Big Data
5. Britney Spears
6. Brooks
7. The Chemical Brothers
8. Crud
9. Daft Punk
10. Dream Wife
11. Ed Sheeran
12. Elle King
13. Ellie Goulding
14. Emanuele Braveri
15. Fitz and the Tantrums
16. Future
17. Galantis
18. Gwen Stefani
19. Imhotep
20. Jakalope
21. Johnny Cash
22. Joywave
23. Kelly Clarkson
24. Khrebto
25. Kygo
26. Leonard Cohen — Jeff has gotten me hooked on Leonard Cohen.
27. Lindsey Stirling
28. Lynn
29. Martin Garrix
30. Moby
31. Mystery Skulls
32. No Doubt
33. P!nk
34. Paul van Dyk
35. R3HAB
36. Raja Kumari
37. Rebecca Louise Burch
38. Selena Gomez
39. Sleigh Bells
40. Son Lux
41. Siouxsie and the Banshees — It’s divoon, oh, it’s serene…
42. Taylor Swift
43. The Weeknd
44. Whales

Links From Last Week

1. Tuesday was National Take A Poem To Work Day so I shared one my poems over on SyFyDesigns.
2. On The Film Experience, Nathaniel Rogers shares 50 movies that received no Oscar nominations but which are today better regarded than those that did.
3. From Variety, it looks like a Black Widow stand-alone film is finally going to happen!
4. My friend Trevor Wells also reviews Lifetime movies.  Here’s his review of Fatal Defense!
5. On her photography site, my sister Erin shared several black-and-white pictures this week.  This one was my favorite.
6. Eddie of Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys) shares his most anticipated films of 2018.
7. That Darn Girl shared her thoughts on this weekend’s Lifetime films.
8. Horrorpedia has become one of the best horror resources around.  They’re updated daily so be sure to check them up and see what’s new.

Links From The Site:

1. Erin took a look at the Carter Brown covers of Robert McGinnis.
2. Gary reviewed Unholy Rollers and Red Dust.
3. Ryan shared his thoughts on Shit and Piss, Ruffians, and his weekly reading round-up.
4. Patrick reviewed Bad Apples and Dance Baby Dance.
5. I shared what I promised would be my last post about Twin Peaks: The Return.
6. Starting my look back at 2017, I shared my picks for the 16 worst films of the year, the best in SyFy, my favorite songs of the year, my favorite novels of the year, and a few good things that I saw on television during the year.  My look back at 2017 concludes next week with the best nonfiction on Monday, the best in Lifetime on Wednesday, and my top 26 films of 2017 on Friday.

Have a good week, everyone!

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