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TV Review: Supernatural Mid-Season Finale

by Bruce Simmons on December 2, 2011

in Entertainment, television, tv review

Wow, was that not a powerful episode of Supernatural or what? The last episode of Supernatural saw the Leviathon, Dick Roman, put a bullet in Bobby Singers (Jim Beaver) head.

The following TV review is full of SPOILERS, so proceed at your own risk!

In the mid-season finale episode titled “Death’s Door,” we find ourselves split between two worlds. The one where Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) are waiting, worried, in the hospital, and the other where Bobby is floating around through various memories of his life.

Bobby runs across the deceased Rufus (Steven Williams) [It was good to see Rufus again!] and other memories like when as a child, confronting his abusive father.

All the while, Bobby is trying to fend off, run from or stall the reaper from taking him.

Supernatural Recap

As the Supernatural episode started, I feared that what we were seeing in the first 15 minutes was going to be some silly collection of scene recaps. I feared the doldrums. Silly me, what was I thinking?

TV News: ‘New Girl’ Delayed, A ‘Supernatural’ Companion

by Bruce Simmons on October 10, 2011

TV news for New Girl & Supernatural

New Girl

Nothing says terrible luck like getting a new show that makes the cut, and then getting cut for a few weeks by sports!

New Girl found itself getting a full season pickup by Fox, but then now the show is on hiatus until November 1. For the next three weeks, in its place, will be the MLB playoffs, X Factor and the World Series.

And if we all remember, when shows get put on breaks, it sometimes is a crap shoot that folks will remember they liked it when it comes back.

But it’s only three weeks, so we’ll see how that goes.

Supernatural

If you’re a Supernatural fan, starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, and you’ve been collecting the companion books for the different seasons, did you know that the Official Companion for season 6 of Supernatural is out now?

Comic Con Panel News [Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Doctor Who] SDCC11

by Bruce Simmons on July 29, 2011

The following news bits came from the Comic Con panels for The Vampire Dairies, Supernatural and Doctor Who. This article closes out all my notes from last weekend and now, I have to sort out my pictures from the weekend and go from there… Comic Con pics coming soon! -

The Vampire Diaries

The Vampire Diaries Comic Con panel really didn’t produce much news… just really great banter amongst the panelists:

The panel included Joseph Morgan, Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Candice Accola and Paul Wesley. Exec producer Kevin Williamson was also there.

Another panel birthday at Comic Con, this time the crowd sang happy birthday to Paul Wesley.

Speaking of Wesley, he said he’ll be enjoying embracing the darker side of Stefan.

Dobrev said she likes playing both characters. Something about the nest of both worlds.

We have not seen the last of Elijah.

Damon is not happy how things are turning out at the moment.

New DVD & Blu-ray Releases The Week [Source Code, Burn Notice, SGA]

by Bruce Simmons on July 26, 2011

in Entertainment, movies, television

This week the new DVD/Blu-ray releases, we see over 200 new titles hit the store and website shelves. (I use the term “shelves” loosely.)

As I take a quick break from the mass of Comic Con reports I have, I thought I’d toss out a quick list of some of the titles in the hoard of releases, we have this week…

Movies on DVD

Source Code Starring Jake Gyllenhaal;

The Blues Brothers came to Blu-ray finally, with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd;

National Lampoon’s Animal House also finally came to the Blu-ray medium, Starring John Belushi;

Trust [Blu-ray] Starring Clive Owen

Dylan Dog [Blu-ray] Starring Brandon Routh;

Ironclad Starring Paul Giamatti;

Dante’s Peak on Blu-ray Starring Pierce Brosnan;

Red Planet [Blu-ray] Starring Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker and Benjamin Bratt;

Soldier [Blu-ray] Starring Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Gary Busey and Jared Thorne;

The King of Fighters Starring Sean Faris, Maggie Q and Ray Park;

New DVD & Blu-ray Titles This Week ['Heavy Metal', 'Battle Los Angeles', 'Haven']

by Bruce Simmons on June 14, 2011

in Entertainment

This week there are nearly 300 new DVD and Blu-ray releases coming out on June 14th, 2011. They include classics coming to Blu-ray starring Steve McQueen and animated cult faves like Heavy Metal. It also looks like Keanu Reeves is getting some first-time on Blu-ray treatment! Also this week, we finally get some Aaron Eckhart battling aliens for possession of Los Angeles while Amanda Seyfried deals with a big bad wolf. And what would a week be like if we didn’t at least have one classic Doctor Who title! Keep your eyes peeled, there are two classic titles being released this week on DVD.

Bruce here… I was swamped this week, thus the late posting of this and no pics. Sorry. FYI: All links take you to Amazon.

First Time on Blu-ray

The Cincinnati Kid [Blu-ray] Starring Steve McQueen

Heavy Metal [Blu-ray] Starring Richard Romanus

Point Break [Blu-ray] Starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves

Johnny Mnemonic [Blu-ray] Starring Keanu Reeves

Boondock Saints (Truth & Justice Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus

Movies

Battle: Los Angeles (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) starring Aaron Eckhart

Red Riding Hood (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) starring Amanda Seyfried

Hall Pass (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) Starring Owen Wilson

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Daniel Radcliffe

Kill the Irishman Starring Ray Stevenson

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Blu-ray + DVD Combo) [Blu-ray] Starring Donnie Yen

Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son Starring Martin Lawrence

Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie Starring Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuña

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‘Supernatural’ Episode “Mommy Dearest” A Quick Review & Preview of the Next Episode

by Bruce Simmons on May 1, 2011

Last week’s episode of Supernatural on The CW, titled “Mommy Dearest,” was the follow-up to the previous episode where Sam and Dean headed to the old west to collect some ashes of a phoenix. The ashes are the one thing that can kill Mother… or Eve.

I don’t think I mentioned how far-out that western episode was. No, I could buy into the time travel trip that Cas sent them on. No, I could buy into Supernatural‘s version of a phoenix.

The wildly fictional, bordering on science fiction thing that caught my eye was the premise that the U.S. Postal Service delivered something, on time, period! Never mind through a few hundred years!

In “Mommy Dearest” we had more absolutely classic and timeless Supernatural humor, as they always manage to deliver!

When the team discovers where Eve is holed up and working her magic, Cas (Misha Collins) pops the lot of them into the town. But then Cas has no powers. He became, flaccid in the ability to use his powers and the moment was extended long enough to make a pretty funny scene.

But then Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) find Eve and go in blazing… sort of, except, they can’t blaze because Eve was expecting them and they’re surrounded and all that business!

‘Supernatural’ Actor Interview Spots & “My Heart Will Go On” Preview

by Bruce Simmons on April 14, 2011

Supernatural is returning to the CW this Friday night, April 15th, with the episode titled “My Heart Will Go On”… ah, the breaks are way too long and the networks, too cruel!

But alas, I’ve landed some video footage of interviews with Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver and Misha Collins, and writer/producer Ben Edlund.

After the FearNet video red carpet interviews from Palyfest, check out the preview of tomorrow’s episode!

‘Supernatural’ Episode “The French Mistake” Review & Misha’s Tweet

by Bruce Simmons on February 26, 2011

in Entertainment, television, tv review

The few things we’ve come to enjoy from Supernatural starring Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, is some good demon butt kicking and subtle and not so subtle wise cracking humor. The butt kicking is entertaining and the humor is done just right and rarely if ever, overdone.

In the Supernatural episode titled “The French Mistake,” writer Ben Edlund took that humor and applied it to a cruel, alternate world where Sam and Dean are actually known as these two overpaid, goofball actors, Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles. LOL.

This is another episode based on a cruel TV-based world. The previous TV episode where the Winchester brothers were stuck in a TV game show world was pretty damn funny, but this episode went a step further and made fun of itself, its cast and showrunners. All while still continuing to further the battle between good and evil, or Rafael and Cass.

I loved bits and pieces of this episode.

When Jared describes that they’re stars of a show that isn’t watched by that many people,

When we see that Jared Padalecki is married to Genevieve Cortese, aka Genevieve Padalecki, who played Ruby in the series. (FOOTNOTE for the casual fan: Jared and Genevieve really are married… they got married in Feb 2010.)

‘Supernatural’ episode Mannequin 3: Reckoning Preview Clips

by Bruce Simmons on February 17, 2011

In the upcoming episode of Supernatural, titled “Mannequin 3: Reckoning,” Dean gets a call from Ben telling him that Lisa is in trouble. Dean heads off to deal with that situation, leaving Sam alone to tackle a case.

Jeannot Szwarc directed the Supernatural episode written by Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder.