Dirty Pop
Oh, Tommy Lee, you son of a gun! Back in 1984 on this day, Backstage after a Motley Crue show in Buffalo, New York, Tommy Lee found out that his girlfriend has posed for the current issue of Penthouse magazine without his knowledge after a fan passed comment on the pictures. Tommy punched the fan unconscious with one hit, Motley's manager Doug Thaler later convinced the fan not to press any charges.
And one year later we were treated to this...
The recording took place for We Are The World the US equivalent of Band Aid at A&M Studios in Hollywood in 1985. Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie the all-star cast included Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, and Bob Geldof.
And born on this day in 1977, Joseph Fatone, the singer from American boy band *NSYNC. Among the group's singles, 'Bye Bye Bye', 'This I Promise You', 'Girlfriend' and 'It's Gonna Be Me' reached the top 10 in several international charts. The group's second album, No Strings Attached, sold over one million copies in one day. And of course, everybody thinks he is the rabbit on the Masked Signer.
Tonight on Svengoolie: The Werewolf
The Werewolf
1956 | B&W | 1HR 19Min | NR | Horror | Columbia
Director: Fred F. Sears
Writers: Robert E. Kent
Stars:
Director: Fred F. Sears
Writers: Robert E. Kent
Stars:
Don Megowan
Joyce Holden
Eleanore Tanin
Two scientists come across an auto accident and find an unconscious man in the wreck. They take him back to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Unfortunately, the serum has the effect of turning the man into a murderous werewolf.
Watch 'The Werewolf' at 8PM | 7C, Saturday, January 26, on MeTV. Ugh, I just want something new to get excited about Sven!
Watch 'The Werewolf' at 8PM | 7C, Saturday, January 26, on MeTV. Ugh, I just want something new to get excited about Sven!
The end of Earth will not be the end of us.
2014 | PG-13 | 2hr 49min | Sci-Fi | Paramount Pictures
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey
Anne Hathaway
Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the right environment to sustain human life.
If this is your first visit to the Cave welcome! Interstellar is part of the Robots In Film Blogathon Hosted by Quiggy over at The Midnite Drive-In and Hamlette's Soliloquy please make sure to check out the other 18 bloggers taking part in this event.
From his humble low budget independent cinema roots to some of today's biggest blockbusters Christopher Nolan has become one of Hollywood best storytelling and acclaimed writer-director. Here is a quick recap in case you have forgotten, Nolan's first break came from his own independent movie Memento that landed him Batman Begins trilogy to Oscar Nominations for Memento, Inception, and of course his latest hit Dunkirk the man does amazing work. And Interstellar was an Oscar winner for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and maybe Han's Zimmer deserved a little more Oscar love with an amazing soundtrack! Although we are not here to talk about Nolan so let's talk robots and the true heart of this movie his daughter.
You can not take away just how beautiful this movie is without a great cast and story to go along with it. Hidden underneath all the Sci-Fi jargon and amazing special effects lays a wonderful story about a Father and Daughter. Mackenzie Foy may have started her movie career with Twilight but in Interstellar she turned on her acting prowess pulling hard at your heart strings! The father-daughter storyline really had me close to tears along with a clear punch to the stomach making sure the audience felt her pain! Such an amazing job for this young star. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in several award groups that year and winning four of them. Honestly, Interstellar would not have been as good without this young one. Ok, the Robots...
Despite being a robot who follows the order of his crew, TARS is quite intelligent and is capable of acting on his own. I really love the idea that TARS is not your atypical R2-D2 type robots, in fact, he is pretty basic, he is a block. I suppose here on earth if we can't save our planet how are we going to build fun looking robots right?
Even tho he is a block he is pretty amazing and holds the space story together like most robots do. With that said not only where Foy and TARS amazing Nolan had a job to do bring us a space odyssey that we have not seen since Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. But fear, not Nolan contrives a great scene:**Light Spoiler** When Cooper comes out of the hole to find that time has slipped forward decades while he’s been away he has 20 years’ worth of video messages that show his little kids have turned, in the blink of an eye, into two middle-aged adults. And all of this is underscored by Zimmer who playfully toys with the audience with Straussian themes relying on heavy, wheezingly religiose, organ-type chords moving you to tears!
As a light-year-spanning quest to save the human race, this is the director’s broadest canvas by far, but also his most intimate. And against the alien backdrop of black holes, wormholes, and strange new worlds, Interstellar stands as Nolan’s most human film to date. The visuals will keep you in the movie, the heartfelt story of a father and daughter will move you, and the soundtrack emerges you completely into a new world. Interstellar is well worth the three hours of couch time!
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| 4 out of 5 stars |
Eighth Grade
2018 | R | 1Hr 33 Min | Drama | A24
Director: Bo Burnham
Stars:
Elsie Fisher
Josh Hamilton
Emily Robinson
Synopsis:
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth-grade year before leaving to start high school.
I'm such a huge fan of independent cinema and A24 has knocked it out of the park lately. And with all that summer hype about Eight grade, it was one that we wanted to check out. Sadly this one fell short for us as we watched it as a family with our Eight-grader who even though it was just meh.
Having a teen that has struggled with school and friends for a few years now I was looking for this movie to be a real and eye-opening experience. Instead, I watched a movie that made my kid look normal clearing away our fears of what it is really like in the eighth grade. Elsie Fisher is fantastic as the teen going through an awkward stage in her life completely nailing every situation she faces. Eighth Grade is definitely a cringe-inducing look at a teen’s awkward and anxious search for identity in a world dominated by social media but it does not invoke enough conversation that I had hoped.
One of the big points of the movie that had many parents walking out (and keeping in place the R rating) was the talk about SEX. Gasp and shame on you as parents of a teen and thinking that this is not discussed amongst them. Come on wake up and take advantage of this opportunity to talk to your child. Yes, young boys are asking young girls to send Nudes! Thanks to social media the pressure is real so take the time to talk to them and let them know what is right and what is wrong. Even talk to the boys as mothers asking them the hard question, should they really be asking a girl to send a naked photo? And yes it was very uncomfortable as they talked about Oral Sex but that is the point of a movie like this.
Sadly tho throughout all of the awkward moments and a great cast Eight Grade falls a little short of great. It's well worth your time and does help move a conversation along with your kids, but again if you're shocked by any of this then your not listing to them, get involved! Do I put this on my top of 2018 list sadly no I liked it but I did not Love it.
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| 3 out of 5 Stars |
Purple Rain, Night Fever and Baby Spice! Now that's a Music Monday!
On this day in 1978, The soundtrack album 'Saturday Night Fever' started a 24 week run at No.1 on the US album charts, it went on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide, making it the best selling soundtrack album of all time. Well until this one came around...
But for me, I will take this 1984 soundtrack any day!
And one more for you on January 17,1976, English singer, songwriter, actress, and radio and television personality Emma Bunton, (Baby Spice in The Spice Girls) was born. Bunton scored the 1996/97 hit in the US with 'Wannabe'. But did you know she had a number 1 hit in 2001 with her solo single 'What Took You So Long".
Honestly, the song is really not to bad.
Party Like a Mother
2016 | R | 1Hr. 40Mins | Comedy | Universal
Directors: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Writers: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Stars:
Mila Kunis
Kathryn Hahn
Kristen Bell
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| Kristen Bell is still my kind of girl. |
Oh man, where do I start? So my poor wife has been looking forward to watching Bad Moms for years now. When we get that rare time alone to watch an R rated movie she would ask is it on Netflix or HBO yet and sadly it was not. So this Christmas I picked this one up for her knowing it was something we could do together. So here we are today during a fizzled out Snowmageden grabbed some extra blankets warmed a frozen pizza and fired up Bad Moms. Hmm, a few minutes into the movie we both found ourselves checking on the weather and road conditions so on and so on. Not even an hour into the movie she said Bad Moms is BAD!
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| The mother-daughter storyline is the only thing worthwhile. |
This movie is bad as it continually struggled with what it wants to be, is this a comedy, a drama, maybe a romantic love story? I'm still not sure how to answer. The unfortunate fact that early on, in the movie we are stuck with lame sight gags like a dog wearing a bike helmet with jokes about anal sex and webcam masturbation. Bad Moms wants you to except that two impulses assuming its audience will be delighted and scandalized by any use of the word “*uck” or “vagina,” and proceeds to let them fly. A lot! Like is this the only joke these male writers could come up with?
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| Yeah, that's how we felt watching you guys! |
Mila Kunis is a doll and drives this vehicle rather well but her role was so underwritten and confusing all the time. I would rather have seen this as a mother-daughter storyline rather than a buddy movie. Kunis, who is too often tasked with offering a generic “I suck at this” sentiment and laughing at the others’ craziness. Bell is especially funny as a cheery, lonely mom whose litany of childcare responsibilities has cut her off from the rest of the world. Bell is also given one of the better jokes in the movie by telling her new friends "Sometimes when I'm driving all by myself, I have this fantasy that I get into a car crash. Not a big one with fire and explosions, but just like a little one, but I do get injured and I get to go to the hospital for two weeks and I sleep all day and I eat Jell-O and I watch so much TV and it's all covered by my insurance. My kids bring me balloons, and the nurses rub cream on my feet, and oh, my God, it's so amazing. Is that like something you guys fantasize about, too?"
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| 2 out of 5 stars |
She gives you that weird feeling!
Dracula's Daughter1936 | PG | 1 Hr 11 Min. | Horror | Universal
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Writers: Garrett Fort
Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill
Oh Bother
I remember when I was dating my wife I gave her this card, she framed it and put it on her coffee table. Now twenty some years later it is still up. Snuggle up with your favorite Pooh fan, a pot of honey and take turns reading about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh on National Winnie The Pooh Day.
Writer. Producer. Director. Maverick, King Cohen!
2017 | PG-13 | 1hr 50 Min | Documentary | Dark Star Pictures
Writer: Steve Mitchell
Stars:
J.J. Abrams
Rick Baker
Eric Bogosian
Synopsis:
Buckle up for King-Cohen, the true story of writer, producer, director, creator, and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen (Black Caesar, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff). Told through compelling live interviews, stills and film/TV clips, the people who helped fulfill his vision, and industry icons such as Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Michael Moriarty, Fred Williamson, Yaphet Kotto and many more, including Larry himself, bring one-of-a-kind insight into the work, process and legacy of a true American film auteur. Few can boast of a career as remarkable or prolific, spanning more than 50 years of entertaining audiences worldwide!
Being a product of the '80s and growing up during the amazing time of VHS Larry Cohen played a big part of that. Outside of the obvious hit The Stuff some of his other crazy flicks that filled the shelves of rental stores everywhere where Full Moon High, Manic Cop, and Perfect Strangers Cohen filled this young teenager small screen with some of the best schlock on those cold and snowy weekends.
What I did not know about Cohen was that he filmed a lot of scenes without permission as he became one of the best at guerrilla style film making. Those stories alone make this documentary a fun watch.
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| It's Alive 1974 |
One of my first Cohen memories is a little foggy because it lands around 1974 with It's Alive. But as I write this I wonder if it was more the sequel from 1978 It Lives Again. See I remember it was date night from my Mom and Dad and I remember Dad not too happy that Mom and their friends picked a movie about a killer baby. Dad was quite conservative as mom was all about the thrill of horror movies. But somehow I remember my grandma coming over to watch me as they went on this journey, and being only four at the time. As for my folks to talk about a horror movie like that really sticks out in my mind. Hell, I could even tell you who they went with.
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| It's Lives Again 1978 |
Never the less if you have seen even one of his many movies or TV shows this Documentary is a fast-paced fun watch. I enjoyed how the first act played out over his TV career with hits like The Fugitive and The Rat Patrol along with newer shows like NYPD Blue to his first break on the big screen with Bone Larry Cohen has had one hell of a ride!
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| 3 Bloody Brains out of 5 |
Punk Rock Monday
On this day in 1978, The Sex Pistols played their last show at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco where Johnny Rotten yelled to the crowd at the outset, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated.” It was the last time the band played with bassist Sid Vicious.
1992, American rock drummer, Jerry Nolan from The New York Dolls died from a fatal stroke aged 45. The influential American band formed in 1972 and made just two albums, the 1973 New York Dolls and 1974 Too Much Too Soon. Nolan joined the New York Dolls in the autumn of 1972 to replace Billy Murcia, who had died of asphyxiation as a result of a failed attempt to revive him from a drug overdose while on tour in England, early in the band's career. Nolan left the Dolls together with Johnny Thunders in the spring of 1975. The two then placed a call to bassist Richard Hell, formerly of the Neon Boys and Television, to form The Heartbreakers.
And in 2005, A $100,000 statue honoring the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled by his widow Linda at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Johnny died from prostate cancer in September 2004 at the age of 55. Hundreds turned out for the ceremony, including Tommy Ramone the only surviving band member. Dee Dee Ramone died of a drugs overdose in 2002 and Joey died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer.
Also on this day in 2014, Justin Bieber was questioned by police over the egging of his neighbor's house in Calabasas, California. Bieber spoke to police in relation to the incident, which saw him accused of throwing eggs at his neighbor's house while his neighbor and neighbor's daughter were on the balcony filming him. Billboard reports that a dozen vehicles arrived on Bieber's property with a search warrant, looking for evidence that Bieber was involved in the incident. Det. Dave Thompson commented: "We collected evidence related to that crime. Mr. Bieber was present and cooperative. He was not arrested."
#snowpocalypse2019
Holy Molly what a crazy week it has been, this week at school we had an 8th-grade night as our kids said thank you for all that we have done for the past 8 years. And it was a nice way for the kids to get recognized for everything they have done.
Then on Friday, the school hosted a movie night and it was crazy! All those screaming children ugh not sure many watched "Small Foot" I think that's the name of it.
I could not tell you anything about the movie I was making popcorn all night but when it was over seemed like the kids had fun. And then came #Snowpocalpese 2019, I get it we knew it was coming but it is still fun to talk about anyway right? Sadly tho I rather have been home with my feet up watching out the window instead I was at work.
Sadly the excitement came when a driver lost control on route 80 slid off the road and crashed into a power pole. That said pole then dropped down enough for an oncoming Semi to get tangled in the wires pulling them down. The good new everybody was fine Rt 80 was closed for a few hours and the best part...
We worked in the dark and crazy enough we where busy. Of course, some of the customers were those that had to get off 80 so they came and hung out with us. The power was out from 10am until 4pm and even though the building got cold and we ran on backup power we made the best of it.
So that was my week in a nutshell next week is to be pretty crazy Ella starts Mamma Mia and Lainey starts Volleyball games. So how was your crazy week?
Oh and my kid is way more popular on Twitter than me
This album is still one of my favorite #BabyOneMoreTime20 pic.twitter.com/Gl5l5x3ofQ— @duckyramos (@duckyramos) January 13, 2019
The Masked Singer Predictions
Ok so who is watching this major hit on Fox, The Masked Singer? I'm always grateful when a tv show comes along and the family fills in the living room to watch together and this silly show has done just that. From brainless judging and the fantastic costumes, The Masked Singer is something unexpectedly deep. And surprising fun you come for the costumes and stay for the hidden voice.
Of course, the show has given us much to talk about and the speculation throughout the house is bringing this family together in a fun way. And being a musical family we can hear the voice and know kind of who it might be but when we struggle a bit thankfully we can go back and listen to the clues. For example, the obvious one is the Peacock the clues: He started in show business as a kid, “Putting on a show is in my DNA,”. And of course the line “It’s probably been a while since your mom had a poster me on her wall.” And, he claims to be best buds with Michael Jackson. Finally, and the one that convinced my wife he pets the small dog statue in his intro most likely referring to Osmond’s hit “Puppy Love”. But for me, it was clear that he was on Broadway with his moves and stage presence. SO clearly in this house, we all agree on Donnie Osmond.
It is the White Rabbit that still has us scratching our heads. My wife is an N'Sync fanatic and really wants to believe its JC from the band as do I, but I think he can sing much better so we are not 100%. And sure it could be Joey and why not he has made a career for himself doing reality shows.
So here are his clues. He’s spent most of his life onstage, but he was “never alone.” Now he “pops up here and I pop up there.” Synchronized singing is his forte. “This rabbit’s gonna win and you believe the last mask standing is gonna be me.” The Rabbit admits he was once part of a group. Let’s do a little process of elimination it’s certainly not Justin Timberlake or Lance Bass I mean come on JT is a little busy at the moment. Chris Kirkpatrick well I never thought he could sing so let's move on. That leaves JC Chasez, who hasn’t been around much, and Joey Fatone, who has.
So in this house, it is Joey Fatone.
The only other one I'm 100% on would be the Bee She’s had a long career, and never wanted to stop doing what she loves. She wants to reach a new generation and prove that she still has what it takes to create a buzz and in her video intro yet another clue a picture of tennis balls. She tells the judges later that she started singing “in the ’50s.”
Often called the “Empress of Soul,” Gladys Knight won Ted Mack’s The Original Amateur Hour in 1952 when she was 7 years old. Then she created the Pips with her siblings and cousins, and they started touring in the late ’50s. Oh, and according to her Wiki page, she also loves to play tennis.
So for me Gladys Knight! You could just hear the soul in her voice and I could listen to her again!
The other one we feel strongly about is the Raven as Ricki Lake and here is why. She came out big like Broadway big as well, she took control of the audience and judges with her presence and Ricki was the star of Hairspray and Cry Baby so we know she can sing and carry herself on stage. And in her promo she did say All her life, she’s listened to “other peoples’ stories.” She calls herself a sunny person, and say she’s always found an audience. “No one talks like me.” And recently, she suffered a tragic loss, and “like a phoenix, she’ll rise up.”. We also know that her ex-husband committed suicide last year that would tie into her tragic loss witch by the way I feel was unneeded in the storyline.
As for the unicorn, I said Tori Spelling but still not 100% on her but her back story would say so. The rest well I just don't know and I love it hell I could be wrong on all of them so far. So what are your guesses? And if you have not seen the show why not? Let me know in the comments lets talk The Masked Signer.
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