Live Tweet Alert: Join #FridayNightFlix for The Shrimp On The Barbie!

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.

Tonight, at 10 pm et, #FridayNightFlix has got 1990’s The Shrimp on the Barbie!

Watch it and cheer for Cheech Marin in Australia!

If you want to join us this Friday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #FridayNightFlix hashtag! It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.

The Shrimp on the Barbie is available on Prime and Tubi! See you there!

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Martin Ritt Edition

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

On this day, 109 years ago, Martin Ritt was born in New York City. Like many of the Hollywood directors who came to prominence in the 1950s, he started his directorial career in the theater before moving over to live TV. In 1952, his television career was derailed when he was accused of being a communist. Blacklisted, it would be five years before Ritt could get another directing job. When he did start to work again, he moved from television into the movies, starting with 1957’s Edge of the City. Perhaps due to his own experiences, his films always had a social conscience and always defended the individual against corrupt corporations and governments. In 1976, he directed one of the first films about the Hollywood blacklist, The Front.

As a director, Ritt was known for his skill with actors. More than anyone, he played a huge role in making stars out of both Paul Newman and Sally Field. He was also one of the few directors to understand how to harness Richard Burton’s self-destructive tendencies and, as a result, Burton gave one of his best performances in Ritt’s adaptation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 Martin Ritt Films

Edge of the City (1957, dir by Martin Ritt, DP: Joseph Brun)

The Long Hot Summer (1958, dir by Martin Ritt, DP: Joseph LaShelle)

Hud (1963, dir by Martin Ritt, DP: James Wong Howe)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965, dir by Martin Ritt, DP: Oswald Morris)

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Zack Snyder Edition

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 57th birthday to Zack Snyder! Zack Snyder has been a favorite (and occasionally a not-so-favorite) of many of the people who have written for this site. Speaking for myself, I loved Sucker Punch and disliked Man of Steel. (Arleigh, for the record, liked both.) But Snyder is a filmmaker about whom no one seems to be neutral. That’s definitely something of which to take some pride. I was not a fan of the whole idea behind the Oscar Fan Favorite nonsense last year, there was something satisfying about both of those awards being won by films directed by a man who Hollywood has often tried to dismiss.

In honor of Zack Snyder’s birthday, here are….

4 Shots From 4 Films

300 (2003, dir by Zack Snyder, DP: Larry Fong)

Sucker Punch (2011, dir by Zack Snyder: DP: Larry Fong)

Man of Steel (2013, dir by Zack Snyder, DP: Amir Mokri)

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021, dir by Zack Snyder, DP: Fabian Wagner)

The Costume Designers Guild Honors Elvis and others

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here are the picks of the Costume Designers Guild for the best costume design of 2022!

Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
“Avatar: The Way of Water” – Deborah L. Scott
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” – Ruth E. Carter
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”- Shirley Kurata
“Hocus Pocus 2” – Salvador Perez
“Thor: Love and Thunder” – Mayes C. Rubeo

Excellence in Contemporary Film
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” – Jenny Eagan
“Nope” – Alex Bovaird
“Tár” – Bina Daigeler
“Top Gun: Maverick” – Marlene Stewart
“Women Talking” – Quita Alfred

Excellence in Period Film
“Babylon” – Mary Zophres
“Don’t Worry Darling” – Arianne Phillips
“Elvis” – Catherine Martin
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” – Jenny Beavan
“The Woman King” – Gersha Phillips

Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television
“House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon” – Jany Temime
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A Shadow of the Past” – Kate Hawley
“Westworld: Generation Loss” – Debra Beebe
“What We Do in the Shadows: The Wedding” – Laura Montgomery
“The Witcher: Blood Origin: Of Mages, Malice, and Monstrous Mayhem” – Lucinda Wright

Excellence in Contemporary Television
“Emily in Paris: What’s it All About…” – Marylin Fitoussi
“Euphoria: Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door” – Heidi Bivens
“Hacks: The Captain’s Wife” – Kathleen Felix-Hager
“Wednesday: Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe” – Colleen Atwood & Mark Sutherland
“The White Lotus: In the Sandbox” – Alex Bovaird

Excellence in Period Television
“Bridgerton: The Choice” – Sophie Canale
“The Crown: Ipatiev House” – Amy Roberts
“The Gilded Age: Let the Tournament Begin” – Kasia Walicka-Maimone
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest” – Donna Zakowska
“Pam & Tommy: I Love You, Tommy” – Kameron Lennox

Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
“Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” – Marina Toybina
“Dancing with the Stars: Halloween Night” – Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee
“Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: Girl Run That Sh*t Back” – Carrie Cramer & Jason Rembert
“RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race: RuPaul-A-Palooza!” – Tony Iniguez
“Saturday Night Live: Miles Teller/Kendrick Lamar” – Tom Broecker, Ashley Dudek & Cristina Natividad

Excellence in Short Form Design
Disney+ Has All the GOATs (Commercial) – Melissa DesRosiers
McDonald’s: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Commercial) – Sarah Kinsumba
Nike: Father Time (Commercial) – Shawna Trpcic (For Jason Momoa)
Not Today Flu feat. Jason Alexander (Commercial) – Dawn Ritz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” (Music Video) – Natasha Newman-Thomas

Here Are The 2022 Golden Reel Winners

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Golden Reel Awards, honoring the best in 2022 Sound Editing, were handed out on Monday by the Motion Pictures Sound Editors. Top Gun: Maverick may not be picking up the Best Picture Oscar but I bet it’s got Best Sound in the bag.

Here are the Golden Reel winners:

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects / Foley
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jurassic World: Dominion
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Dialogue / ADR
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Elvis
Empire of Light
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Tár
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation
DC League of Super-Pets
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Lightyear
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary
Good Night Oppy
Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues
Moonage Daydream
The Territory

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Documentary
Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues
Moonage Daydream
My Life as a Rolling Stone: Mick Jagger
The Way Down: Revelations

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Foreign Language Feature
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
EO
The Quiet Girl
Triangle of Sadness

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous – “The Last Stand”
Love, Death & Robots – “In Vaulted Halls Entombed”
Tales of The Jedi – “The Sith Lord”
Transformers: Earthspark – “Age of Evolution”

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Non-theatrical Feature
Pinocchio
Prey
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Women of the Movement

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Non-theatrical Animation
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous – “Hidden Adventure”
Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Non-theatrical Documentary
Formula 1: Drive to Survive: Gloves Are Off
George Carlin’s American Dream
Lucy and Desi
Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me
Tony Hawk – Until The Wheels Fall Off
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99: Kerosene, Match. Boom!

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Effects / Foley
Andor – “Reckoning”
Better Call Saul – “Carrot and Stick”
Gaslit – “Year of the Rat”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – “Udûn”
Stranger Things: Chapter Seven – “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab”

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Dialogue / ADR
Better Call Saul – “Saul Gone”
The Crown – “Gunpowder”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – “Udûn”
Severance – “The We We Are”
Stranger Things: Chapter Seven – “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab”

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Broadcast Long Form
The L Word: Generation Q – “Questions for the Universe”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: “Alloyed”
Severance – “The We We Are”
Stranger Things: Chapter Nine – “The Piggyback”
Wednesday – “A Murder of Woes”
The White Lotus – “Bull Elephants”

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Short Form
Barry – “710N”
The Bear – “Review”
Only Murders in the Building – “Framed”
She Hulk – “Ribbit and Rip It”
Wild Babies – “Big Families”

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Broadcast Short Form
Love, Death & Robots – “Night of the Mini Dead
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin – “Torschlusspanik”
Russian Doll – “Matryoshka”
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – “Is This Not Real Magic?”

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Game Effects / Foley
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
God of War Ragnarök
Horizon Forbidden West

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Game Dialogue / ADR
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
God of War Ragnarök
Horizon Forbidden West
Immortality

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Game Music
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
God of War Ragnarök
Horizon Forbidden West
Immortality

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Student Film (Verna Fields Award)
Ascent
Brutal
Entertain Me
Key of See
Spring Roll Dream
This is Your Captain Speaking
Whiteboy

Monday Live Tweet Alert: Join Us For Decoy and Hard Times!

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.

Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1995’s Decoy! Selected and hosted by RevMagdalen, this movie features not only Peter Weller but also Robert Patrick! So, you know it has to be good!

Following #MondayActionMovie, Brad and Sierra will be hosting the #MondayMuggers live tweet. We will be watching 1975’s Hard Times, starring James Coburn and Charles Bronson!

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 twitter, start Decoy at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! Then, at 10 pm et, start Hard Times , and use the #MondayMuggers hashtag! The live tweet community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.

Here Are The 29 Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Winners!

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Everything Everywhere All At Once continued its march to the Oscars by cleaning up at the SAG Awards tonight. Jamie Lee Curtis even defeated the presumed favorite for Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett.

Here are the SAG winners:

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE
Babylon
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Women Talking

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Austin Butler – Elvis
Colin Farrell – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Bill Nighy – Living
Adam Sandler – Hustle

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett – TAR
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Ana de Armas – Blonde
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul
The Crown
Ozark
Severance
The White Lotus: Siciliy

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul
Jason Bateman – Ozark
Jeff Bridges – The Old Man
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Adam Scott – Severance

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus: Sicily
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Julia Garner – Ozark
Laura Linney – Ozark
Zendaya – Euphoria

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Paul Dano – The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Eddie Redmayne – The Good Nurse

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau – The Whale
Kerry Condon – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders In The Building

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Carrigan – Barry
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christina Applegate – Dead to Me
Rachel Brosnahan – Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Jenna Ortega – Wednesday
Jean Smart – Hacks

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Steve Carell – The Patient
Taron Egerton – Black Bird
Sam Elliot – 1883
Paul Walter Hauser – Black Bird
Evan Peters – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Emily Blunt – The English
Julia Garner – Inventing Anna
Jessica Chastain – George & Tammy
Niecy Nash-Betts – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout

OUTSTANDING ACTION PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Avatar: The Way Of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King

OUTSTANDING ACTION PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA OR COMEDY SERIES
Andor
The Boys
House Of The Dragon
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Stranger Things

Everything Wins With Latino Entertainment Journalists Association!

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association have announced their picks for the best of 2022. You can find the winners below and the nominees by clicking here!

Best Picture
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Director
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Farrell – “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Michelle Yeoh – “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan – “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Stephanie Hsu – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Voice or Motion Capture Performance
Jenny Slate – “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (A24)

Best Animated Film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) — Guillermo del Toro (director, producer), Mark Gustafson (director), Alexander Bulkley, Corey Campodonico, Lisa Henson, Gary Ungar (producers)

Best Non-English Language
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Mexico) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu (director)

Best Documentary Film
“Fire of Love” (National Geographic Films/Neon) — Sara Dosa (director, producer), Shane Boris, Ina Fichman (producers)

Best Original Screenplay
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Best Adapted Screenplay
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) — Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Gris Grimly, Patrick Hale (based on the characters and novel by Carlo Collodi)

Best Ensemble Casting
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) – Sarah Finn

Best Production & Set Design
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) – Jason Isvarday (production designer), Kelsi Ephraim (set decorator)

Best Cinematography
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) – Claudio Miranda

Best Costume Design
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios) – Ruth E. Carter

Best Editing
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) – Paul Rogers

Best Hair & Makeup Design
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) – Michelle Chung (makeup department head), Anissa Salazar (hair department head)

Best Sound Design
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) — Mark Weingarten (production sound mixer), James H. Mather, Al Nelson (supervising sound editors), Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor (re-recording mixers)

Best Visual Effects
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios) — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett

Best Stunt Design
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Musical Score
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.) – Michael Giacchino

Best Song Written for a Film
“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)

The 2023 Rita Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award
Guillermo del Toro

Retro Television Reviews: Linda (dir by Jack Smight)

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Sundays, I will be reviewing the made-for-television movies that used to be a primetime mainstay. Today’s film is 1973’s Linda! It can be viewed on YouTube!

If nothing else, Linda has a wonderfully opening.

Two couples are on the beach. Paul Reston (Ed Nelson) is talking to Anne Braden (Mary-Robin Redd) about his troubled marriage and his plans to leave his wife. Paul’s wife, Linda (Stella Stevens), is talking to Jeff Braden (John Saxon) and looking at the rifle that he’s just handed her. It doesn’t take long to notice that Paul and Linda seem to be closer, respectively, to Anne and Jeff than to each other.

When Anne stands up and walks toward the ocean, Linda shoots her in the back. When Jeff runs over to Anne’s body, Linda pulls the trigger again and Jeff collapses. Stunned by his wife’s actions, Paul runs back to his car and drives into town to get the police. (This is another one of those movies that could have only been made in the pre-smartphone era.) When Paul and the police return, they find Anne’s body but Jeff and Linda are nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly, Linda and Jeff come walking down the beach. Jeff is carrying a bunch of fish and a fishing pole. They look shocked when they see the police. Then, when Jeff sees Anne’s body, he accuses Paul of killing her and attacks him. Paul is arrested and taken to jail.

As I said, it’s a wonderful opening, full of twists and entertaining overemoting. In fact, it’s so good that it’s difficult for the rest of the film to keep up. After being charged with Anne’s murder, Paul hires a folksy attorney named Marshall Journeyman (John McIntire). Unlike everyone else, Journeyman believes Paul’s story that he’s being framed by Jeff and Linda. Journeyman sets out to prove that Paul is innocent.

Of course, the audience already know that Paul is innocent because the audience saw exactly what happened. Watching the film, it was hard for me to not to feel that the story would have benefitted by a little more ambiguity as to whether or not Paul was a victim or if he truly was the delusional madman that both Linda and Jeff tried to paint him as being. We know from the start what Jeff and Linda are doing so the only question really becomes how Journeyman is going to trick them into revealing the truth. Unfortunately, even getting them to do that turns out to be a bit too easy. The movie suggests that Journeyman is a brilliant investigator but, in the end, it all really just comes down to the villains not being very smart.

That said, the film’s cast does a good job. Ed Nelson is sympathetic as the confused husband and John McIntire brings so much homespun charm to Journeyman that I got the feeling that this film was probably designed to be a pilot for a possible series. Best of all, John Saxon and Stella Stevens play the scheming couple. Saxon gets to wear a swimsuit and dramatically shout to the Heavens as he pretends to be shocked over Anne’s murder. Stevens smirks at every question and accusation and appears to be having a great time playing an old school femme fatale. The cast makes this movie worth it.

The Hollywood Critics Association Honors Everything!

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

On February 24th, the Hollywood Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2022! You can see the nominees by clicking here and you can check out the winners below!

Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Director
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance
Jenny Slate in Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Best Cast Ensemble
Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best First Feature
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Action Film
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