Archive for January, 2009

Supernatural Episode Review: Criss Angel is a Doucebag

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Criss Angel is a Douchebag” at pinkraygun.com.

Thank you!

An excerpt:

“The best and most satisfying scene in this ep for me was the one where the brothers dither in the motel room. It’s like old times, with Sam at his laptop and Dean pacing around. They’re talking about death, and whether they will grow old doing what they do. Dean, of course, is sure that he will die before he gets old, and would rather go out in a blaze of glory than toddle along, shuffling to the beat of the good times that once rolled beneath the wheels of the Impala. Sam, on the other hand, thinks that maybe they shouldn’t grow old doing this, and I got the feeling that he’s pretty adamant about it.”

 

Pictures…

Caught!

 

 Caught!

Sammy considers

 

 Sammy considers

 

 Sammy is beautiful

 

 Sammy is beautiful

 

 Dean is beautiful too

 

 Dean is beautiful too

 

 Classic brotherly dithering

 

 Classic brotherly dithering

 

 No more fishnet stockings. EVAR!

 

 No more fishnet stockings. EVAR!

 

 The flavor of Thursday

 

The flavor of Thursday

 

 Crossing into the pale

 

 Crossing into the pale

 

 

Movie Review: My Bloody Valentine (2009 Remake)

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My review of the movie My Bloody Valentine is now posted at Pink Raygun, and it’s called “The Insanity that Coal Dust Makes.” Enjoy!

An excerpt:

Outside of the fact that, overall, no one seems to be initiating a man hunt for the killer (everyone just goes blithely about their business of existing in a town that’s crumbling around them), when confronted with the killer, people tended to do what all horror movie characters do, and that is to start running, heading for the one spot where they would be dead-ended, and the only way out means they have to get past the killer. In this movie, that’s the Hanniger Mine. This town is obsessed with its mine, and when in doubt or on the run, instead of hiding in a culvert, a ditch, or up a tree in the deep, cloaking darkness of a Pennsylvania forest, everyone heads there. But that’s because the mine is where the killer is, don’t you know, and because there seems to be some insanity brought on by too much coal dust that gives everyone the blind sense of a homing pigeon, home is Mine Shaft #5.  Alas. Everyone reaps what their stupidity has sowed. But, since this is what horror movies are all about, I can’t hardly complain when the movie does exactly what it’s supposed to.

Supernatural Episode Review: Family Remains

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Family Remains” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“The opening scene with the brothers rates pretty high. In it, Dean is perusing the paper, for a gig, and up Sam pops from the back seat to inquire as to what Dean is doing. The questions from Sam are muted and sleepy; the thought of him trying to snooze in the back of the Impala does pleasant things to me and awakens all kinds ideas, chief among them is how exhausted both boys must be, the thought of Sam’s long legs trying to fit back there, and how if he couldn’t convince Dean to stop at a motel for the night so soon after their last gig (only hours in the past, we’re told), how hard he must have worked to convince Dean to stop at all.”

 

Pics…

 Sleepy Sammy

 

 Sleepy Sammy

 

Dean and Sam fehEVAR

 

 Dean and Sam fehEVAR

 

Dean is astonished

 

Dean is astonished

 

 

 Filmed through a window

 

 Filmed through a window

 

 Filmed through a screen

 

 Filmed through a screen

 

 Two men and a car

 

Two men and a car

 

 Dean says what

 

Dean says what

 

 Talking to the family

 

 Talking to the family

 

 Talking about incest

 

 Talking about incest

 

 Listening to Dean

 

 Listening to Dean

 

Talking to Sam

 

Talking to Sam

 

Supernatural Episode Review: What Is And What Should Never Be

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “What Is And What Should Never Be” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

There he is, mowing the lawn (badly, I might add), working his ass off on a sunny day, happy as a lark like it’s a gift to get grass dust and clippings on your pants, and to have your ears ringing for hours from the sound of the blade, and the smell of gasoline in your nose and on your fingers. And then, after, sitting on the steps, drinking a beer as he admires his handiwork and the day, and so happy, his smile beaming so brightly that it could burn your retinas if you were to look directly at it. (Luckily we have the filter of film to save us from that messy fate.) It’s all very pretty to look at, but when I think about it, about his joy in the simple act of mowing the freaking lawn, it makes my throat close up a little and I have to look away.

Trying to get Dean to wait

Trying to get Dean to wait

Beautiful when confused

Beautiful when confused

Passion and a sandwich

Passion and a sandwich

Unloved by Not-Sam

Unloved by Not-Sam

Disdain from Not-Sam

Disdain from Not-Sam

The George Bailey Scene

The George Bailey Scene

Realizing it could never be

Realizing it could never be

Not-Sam and Dean in the Impala

Not-Sam and Dean in the Impala

Seeing the truth

Seeing the truth

Defending his right to say goodbye

Defending his right to say goodbye