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Movie Review: Friday the 13th

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You can read my review of the movie “Friday the 13th, 2009 Remake” at pinkraygun.com.

An excerpt:

It wasn’t scary; I wasn’t scared. And I feel badly about that.

Georgeous and dizzyingly sweet….

Georgeous and dizzyingly sweet….

Supernatural Episode Review: Sex and Violence

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Sex and Violence” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

“This episode was more about the brothers than any I’ve seen in a long while. Moreover, it was about both brothers at the same time, rather than it being about one brother and the other one is off getting his teeth cleaned or something. (And they both have nice teeth, which tells you something right there.) I have a fondness for brotherly interaction, as you know, so this ep, with the Cain and Abel overtones, the spying and the lying, a whole mess of discord, not to mention a gig that takes such an interesting twist towards the end there, really worked on many, many levels. Why, I’d say it made me fall in love with Show all over again. And falling in love is such a nice feeling. All those oxytocins, does a body good and stuff. ”

Pictures…

Mirrors of Sam

Mirrors of Sam

Sam in green

Sam in green

Dean reads the paper…in bed

Dean reads the paper…in bed

And that hair

And that hair

Dean does SO read Greek poetry!

Dean does SO read Greek poetry!

Fury

Fury

Hour of separation

Hour of separation

Cutting Sam off

Cutting Sam off

Cain

Cain

Abel

Abel

Taking stock

Taking stock

Supernatural Episode Review: After School Special

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You can read my review of the Supernatural Episode “After School Special” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An  excerpt:

Would it have killed Show to accommodate me and all the other fans of The Dad? Seriously. There are two measly little scenes here, one where The Dad drops the boys off and one where The Dad picks them up. There’s also one tiny, little, teeny, weeny phone call. Show could have flown Jeffrey Dean Morgan up for one stinking morning, and filmed these two scenes and this one little voice clip and sent him on his merry way with nary a bobble in his routine. From the way Mr. Morgan talks about having enjoyed working on Show, I’ll wager he would have done it for free. Or, if not, fangirls would have raised the money. What a huge missed opportunity. Huge.”

Pictures…

Rain-speckled Impala…and Dean

Rain-speckled Impala…and Dean

On the road with Dean

On the road with Dean

I never knew that janitors could be so sexy

I never knew that janitors could be so sexy

Doesn’t like being a gym teacher…especially a sadistic one

Doesn’t like being a gym teacher…especially a sadistic one

Adorable WeeSammy

Adorable WeeSammy

Defender of the Weak

Defender of the Weak

Scenes we thought we’d never see…Dean on a school bus

Scenes we thought we’d never see…Dean on a school bus

Dithering on a school bus

Dithering on a school bus

Brooding Dean

Brooding Dean

Brooding Sam

Brooding Sam

Miserably unhappy Sam

Miserably unhappy Sam

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

Watching the Watchmen: The Emperor’s New Clothes

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Having waxed poetic about my expectations of how great Jeffrey Dean Morgan was going to be in the upcoming movie, “The Watchmen,” I decided that it might be a good idea to actually read the original comic book, and, after having fun purchasing a copy, read it I did. Here is a link to my review on pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

Supernatural Episode Review: Hollywood Babylon

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

An excerpt:

“There’s some lovely close-ups of Sam and Dean’s faces in the next scene, where once again in the trailer, the boys view the dailies. Sam uses his super smart ginormous brain to figure out that the invocation that “Wendy” is using to raise whateverthehell is real, and that this and not the ghost of the actress might be their real problem. The trailer is well lit, and the close-ups are excellent, I must say, especially of Sam thinking. His forehead gets this delightful squinched up expression, and his mouth kind of hangs open, all soft and pink, and his eyes glitter. I think he rather enjoys being smart, you know? He looks so beautiful when he does it that I rather enjoy it too.”

Pics…

 Squinched up and perfect

Squinched up and perfect

Scruffy and work ready

Scruffy and work ready

Not bedazzled by actors

Not bedazzled by actors

Tool belt or crotch

Tool belt or crotch

Hair in eyes

Hair in eyes

Fitting in

Fitting in

Pyro boy

Pyro boy

Thighs astraddle

Thighs astraddle

Thinking things through

Thinking things through

Brilliant Samhair

Redwood tree with hair

Redwood tree with hair

Supernatural Episode Review: Heaven and Hell

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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Heaven and Hell” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!

An excerpt:

And THEN Dean takes his shirt off. In a word, incendiary. My couch was still charred from last week, thank you very much, and I kept thinking I might want to disconnect all those fire alarm batteries just in case. Because it was hot, full stop. It was hotter than burning, it was seduction and skin and a whole lot of sizzle, and I was bought and sold by the images of Dean’s bare back. He’s got a beautiful one, made up of curved muscles and that dip of spine, and lord, you could see a little bit of his underroos, which just sweetened the whole deal. I about died. Anne Shirley who? Doesn’t matter who he was with, he was, at LAST, with somebody. For all we’ve gotten the message pounded into our heads that Dean is Romeo and Casanova all rolled into one, it’s about time we got some canonical proof. More like this, please.”

Pics…

Angels want to wear his red shoes

Angels want to wear his red shoes

Sam doesn’t like plumber jokes…

Sam doesn’t like plumber jokes… 

But Dean does…

But Dean does…

Sam in daylight

Sam in daylight

Dean in daylight 

Dean in daylight

Flutter of angels’ wings 

 Flutter of angels’ wings

 Following Dean’s lead 

Following Dean’s lead Never give up, never surrender…

Never give up, never surrender…

Shouting at angels

Shouting at angels

Tawny boy

Tawny boy

Trying to find the truth

Trying to find the truth