Lisa Marie Picks The 26 Worst Films Of The Past 3 Years

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

I just posted my picks for the 50 best films of the past 3 years.

Now, here comes the fun part.

Here are my picks for the 26 worst films of the past 3 years:

Anonymous (directed by Roland Emmerich)
Straw Dogs (directed by Rod Lurie)
Branded (directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksansdr Dulerayn)
The Wicker Tree (directed by Robin Hardy)
The Devil Inside (directed by William Brent Bell)
Love and Other Drugs (directed by Ed Zwick)
Project X (directed by Nima Nourizadeh)
Rock of Ages (directed by Adam Shankman)
This Means War (directed by McG)
Dead Season (directed by some guy)
The American (directed by Anton Corbijn)
The Conspirator (directed by Robert Redford)
Chloe (directed by Atom Egoyan)
Clash of the Titans (directed by Louis Leterrier)
Hereafter (directed by Clint Eastwood)
Haywire (directed by Stephen Soderbergh)
96 Minutes (directed by Aimee Lagos)
The Rum Diary (directed by Bruce Robinson)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (directed by Kevin Munroe)
Priest (directed by Scott Stewart)
The Beaver (directed by Jodie Foster)
A Thousand Words (directed by Brian Robbins)
Contagion (directed by Stephen Soderbergh)
Dream House (directed by Jim Sheridan)
Another Earth (directed by Mike Cahill)
Savages (directed by Oliver Stone)

Lisa Marie Picks The 50 Best Films of The Past 3 Years

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

As of this month, I have been reviewing films here at the Shattered Lens for 3 years. In honor of that anniversary, I thought I’d post my picks for the 50 best films that have been released in the U.S. since 2010.

Without further ado, here’s the list!

Black Swan (directed by Darren Aronofsky)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (directed by Banksy)
Hanna (directed by Joe Wright)
Fish Tank (directed by Andrea Arnold)
Higher Ground (directed by Vera Farmiga)
Shame (directed by Steve McQueen)
Anna Karenina (directed by Joe Wright)
The Cabin In The Woods (directed by Drew Goddard)
127 Hours (directed by Danny Boyle)
Somewhere (directed by Sofia Coppola)
Life of Pi (directed by Ang Lee)
Hugo (directed by Martin Scorsese)
Inception (directed by Christopher Nolan)
Animal Kingdom (directed by David Michod)
Winter’s Bone (directed by Debra Granik)
The Artist (directed by Michel Hazanavicius)
The Guard (directed by John Michael McDonagh)
Bernie (directed by Richard Linklater)
The King’s Speech (directed by Tom Hooper)
Bridesmaids (directed by Paul Feig)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (directed by Thomas Alfredson)
Django Unchained (directed by Quentin Tarantino)
Never Let Me Go (directed by Mark Romanek)
Toy Story 3 (directed by Lee Unkrich)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (directed by Niels Arden Oplev)
Young Adult (directed by Jason Reitman)
Sucker Punch (directed by Zack Snyder)
The Master (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)
Incendies (directed by Denis Villeneuve)
Melancholia (directed by Lars Von Trier)
Super (directed by James Gunn)
Silver Linings Playbook (directed by David O. Russell)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (directed by Edgar Wright)
The Last Exorcism (directed by Daniel Stamm)
Skyfall (directed by Sam Mendes)
Easy A (directed by Will Gluck)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 (directed by David Yates)
The Avengers (directed by Joss Whedon)
How To Train Your Dragon (directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBois)
Win Win (directed by Thomas McCarthy)
Les Miserables (directed by Tom Hooper)
Take This Waltz (directed by Sarah Polley)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (directed by Werner Herzog)
Rust and Bone (directed by Jacques Audiard)
Cosmopolis (directed by David Cronenberg)
Ruby Sparks (directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris)
Brave (directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (directed by Sean Durkin)
Jane Eyre (directed by Cary Fukunaga)
Damsels in Distress (directed by Whit Stillman)

Ten Trailers From Jess Franco

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jess Franco. Franco directed at least 199 films and, while he was never a favorite of the critics, he was a favorite for those of us who appreciated his unique aesthetic and improvisational style of filmmaking. Franco made a few good films and a lot of a bad films but even his worse films were usually more interesting than the usual films churned out by more “respectable” filmmakers. In a time when every director is claiming to be an independent artist, Franco truly was.

Trailers for Franco’s films often showed up in my Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers series. Here’s ten of them.

1) Female Vampire

2) The Awful Dr. Orloff

3) Faceless

4) Venus In Furs

5) Necromonicon (a.k.a. Succubus)

6) Kiss Me Monster

7) Eugenie: Story of Her Journey Into Perversion

8) Vampyros Lesbos

9) The Castle of Fu Manchu

10) 99 Women

Jesus Franco Manera, R.I.P.

6 Trailers For Easter

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi everyone! The trailer kitties have teamed up with the trailer bunnies and they’ve come up with the latest edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Spasmo (1974)

2) Grand Slam (1967)

3) Nightmares Come Out At Night (1970)

4) Count Dracula (1970)

5) High Crime (1973)

6) Johnny Hamlet (1967)

What do you think, Trailer Kitty?

Six Prehistoric Trailers

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers has a theme! Enjoy!

1) Teenage Caveman (1957)

2) Caveman (1981)

3) One Million Years B.C. (1966)

4) The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

5) The People That Time Forgot (1977)

6) The Lost World (1960)

6 Trailers For The Hungover Viewer

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Did everyone out there have a good St. Patrick’s Day weekend? I know I did and, the morning, I woke up with the hangover to prove it! Fortunately, even though I was busy dancing and drinking, I knew that I could depend on the trailer kitties to gather 6 more of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers.

Here’s what they found for us this week:

1) The Pink Angels (1971)

2) The Mad Bomber (1973)

3) The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

4) Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)

5) Hercules (1958)

6) The Last Chase (1981)

What do you think, trailer kitty?

6 Trailers For Spring Break

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Terminal Island (1973)

This trailer (which contains some nudity and is NSFW) seems appropriate for Spring Break.

2) The Big Gundown (1966)

How can you go wrong with Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian in the same film?

3) Slaughter (1972)

With a name like Slaughter, he’s got to be good.

4) Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (1973)

Not surprisingly, Slaughter would return.

5) The Beatniks (1960)

However, before Van Cleef, Milian, and Slaughter, there were … BEATNIKS!

6) The Horror of Dracula (1958)

I’m including this trailer in honor of Christopher Lee who is now … Sir Christopher Lee!

What do you think, Trailer Kitties?

Keep Marching On Into March With 6 More Trailers

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi everyone and welcome to the merry month of March! As I sit here writing this, I’m still trying to recover from the amazing shock of having not only The Amazing Race, The Walking Dead, Enlightened, and Girls to watch on Sunday but now, the Celebrity Apprentice as well!

(I’m rooting for Lisa Rinna, by the way. She’s a Lisa and we stick together…)

However, I will not allow a little exhaustion to prevent me from sharing yet another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Heavy Traffic (1973)