Since seducing audiences with ‘Y tu mamá también,’ Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna have helped their homeland’s cinema become world renowned. They tell Melissa Whitworth how it happened
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are like two naughty school boys. Throughout our interview, in a hotel bar in New York, the two Mexican filmstars make fun of each other ceaselessly, teasing and joking, pausing only to stare across the room at a good-looking girl – a friend of theirs who, they are intrigued to note, is sitting with a man who is not her husband.
Their camaraderie is infectious – and deeply rooted. Two of the hottest heart-throbs in international cinema, they have been friends since childhood; their parents, both sides from respected Mexican theatrical families, were close even before their sons were born.
It was in 2001 that they grabbed the world’s attention when Bernal, now 31, and Luna, 30, starred together in Alfonso Cuarón’s arresting breakthrough feature Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too!) as two oversexed, under- experienced teenage boys on a journey of sexual exploration.
The film, with its universal themes of youthful innocence and the abrupt randomness of life, hip soundtrack and captivatingly raw performances by its two stars, seized the imagination of an international audience – and attracted an Oscar nomination.
In no time at all Bernal – who had also appeared in the previous year’s Mexican hit, Amores Perros – and Luna became the poster boys for an emerging new generation of Mexican filmmakers, leading the country’s films to unprecedented critical acclaim and a regular berth in the world’s most celebrated film festivals.
The experience was, says Luna, “a dream come true”. Bernal adds: “When we were doing Y tu mamá también, we still didn’t know we were going to act in movies. It was just a one-off thing we thought.”
Almost a decade on, the friends have turned that success into a veritable empire – producing, directing and acting in a huge variety of films, in both Spanish and English. Bernal has gone on to work with such high-profile directors as Michel Gondry, Pedro Almodóvar and Jim Jarmusch – as well as appearing in the likes of blockbusting Hollywood tear-jerker, Letters to Juliet.
Luna followed Y tu mamá también with an appearance in the Oscar- winning Frida (2002) alongside Salma Hayek. He has also had parts in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal with Tom Hanks, and in 2008 played Harvey Milk’s unstable lover opposite Sean Penn in Milk.
Over the next few weeks, they have three films coming out between them. Abel, which is showing at the London Film Festival, is a touching portrait of a little boy in rural Mexico who struggles with the absence of his father, directed by Luna, and co-produced by Bernal. Both Luna and Bernal have directed shorts for Revolución, a portmanteau movie about Mexico a century after it achieved independence. And, early next month, Bernal will appear opposite Michelle Williams in Lukas Moodysson’s new film, Mammoth.
Today, both actors are dressed like preppy film students. Luna wears his hair long, and floppy, with a beard reminiscent of a young, darker Errol Flynn. Bernal wears a corduroy jacket and at one point puts on a pair of square-rimmed glasses, so as to better scrutinise a girl across the room. His eyes are arresting; a pale green so piercing that they cut through you even from the other side of a camera.
Luna dominates the conversation like an older brother; Bernal delivers the deprecating punch-lines, and again and again the two erupt into raucous laughter.
They are, I suggest to them, the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck of Mexican film. “Oh, but that’s so 90s,” says Bernal. It has to be said, it’s hard to imagine Damon and Affleck engaging in a homo-erotic sex scene of the type Bernal and Luna pulled off in Y tu mamá también.
‘The only relationship I can compare to having a brother is the one I have with Gael,’ says Luna
When I ask how responsible they feel for securing their country’s cinema a place on the global map, Luna jokes: “I would say it’s 70 per cent my fault and 30 per cent Gael’s. I don’t like to take all the credit.”
But, more seriously, he adds, “We were part of something that was already happening. Perhaps to the outside world we came across as the poster figures, but really [the rise of Mexican film] was a process that had already been put in motion by many people who wanted to do the same thing not only from Mexico but from all of Latin America.
“Little by little we started thinking – to put it in industrial terms – ‘We must capitalise on this [momentum].’ We wanted to build something to create opportunities not only for us, but for other people, too. Ultimately we built an infrastructure to make films.”
In 2005, Luna and Bernal formed their own company. Canana (named after the gun cartridge belt slung across the shoulders of Mexican revolutionaries) both produces domestic films and distributes the best of foreign cinema in Mexico.
“Today, we think we belong to something that at that time didn’t exist,” Luna says. “Our generation has to be really pleased that there were directors like Alfonso Cuarón, or Guillermo del Toro or Alejandro González Iñárritu [see box, right], because we used them to be part of what we are today. They decided there were no rules [except] ‘Go make your film and think big’.”
Both actors were raised in theatrical families. Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Central Mexico, the second most populous urban centre after Mexico City. His mother was an actress and model and his father an actor and director. Luna’s mother was a British costume designer – she died in a car crash when he was two years old – and father, an acclaimed Mexican set designer. Both Bernal and Luna spent their childhoods appearing in stage productions in Mexico and acting in telenovelas (hugely popular daytime soap operas in Latin America, where the acting is largely hammy and the unbelievable plotlines revolve entirely around love affairs gone wrong) before making the leap into cinema.
Today, Luna is largely nomadic, he says: “It’s tough to say where I live. There are some bills that get to the house in LA, some to the house in Mexico and some to the house of my father – so I never lose track of those.” He and his wife, actress Camila Sodi, have two small children, Jeronimo, two and a half, and Fiona (named after Luna’s mother) who was born in July.
Bernal has a 21-month-old son, Lazaro, with his girlfriend, Dolores Fonzi, an Argentine actress, who is pregnant with their second child. They live in Buenos Aires.
They have come a long way from the days of telenovelas back in Mexico. “Gael has been there every day of my life since I was born,” Luna says. “I started to work when I was really young. For me friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me and go watch a film with me.”
How do they each feel about the success of the other?
“I am really proud of mine and I really hate his,” Luna jokes. Bernal says: “I feel very proud of Diego’s success. We help each other a lot.”
And, fleetingly getting serious again, Luna adds: “The only relationship I can compare to having a brother is the relationship I have with Gael. We have been with each other forever, and will be there for the rest. Now we are choosing to work together.
“Imagine your brother shares the same passions and loves as you do, cares about the same things you do, goes through life changes with you... It all corresponds. There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.”


ORIGINAL TV COMEDY BY MYAH NAOMI
#WeirdMYAH is a television comedy about Myah Bridges, a student at the historically black , Lloyd University. She struggles to overcome the conflicts in her problematic life, created by the stress of college, lack of income, and her social awkwardness. Overtime, Myah learns to deal with her uniqueness by embracing her individuality, but her quest for normalcy has its obstacles.
The #WeirdMYAH team has produced of a five episode long miniseries which serves as a quick glimpse into Myah’s world, while introducing the main characters and providing a snippet of the story line. It is a series of entertaining situational shorts in hopes of attracting an audience, fan base, and support for the future of the show. An exclusive full length episode, #photobomb, is now an official selection of the National Black Film Festival in Houston, Texas and the Nashville Film Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. This episode recently won "Best TV Pilot" at the National Black Film Festival.
Season one of the original series of #WeirdMYAH consists of a pilot along with eleven additional episodes. In this series, Myah navigates how the world sees her and how she sees herself...just plain weird! All Myah wants is to make everything right and start fresh sophomore year. Despite her seemingly harmless attempts to just fit in, she is faced with the fact that being weird is not something you can easily escape.


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History….Munda Hi Chahida is an Indian Punjabi-language family drama film from 2019 directed by Santosh Subhash Thite and Deepak Thaper. Co-produced by Neeru Bajwa Entertainment and Shri Narotam Ji Films; it stars Harish Verma and Rubina Bajwa. The film was released worldwide on July 12, 2019.
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Frankie and over the weekend completed a journey which we started last November. It was to watch all the James Bond movies in the order they were released in. Starting with “Dr. No” and winding up with “Skyfall”. We watched all 23 Bond movies ( we don’t consider “Never Say Never Again” an official Bond movie) .
I’ve watched all of the Bond films over the course of my life. Yet I had never watched them in the order they were released in. During the week, I see Frankie on Thursday nights. So our conversations always would turn to what Bond movies we were watching.
I asked Frankie of we should do something special to mark the end of this journey when we watched “Skyfall”. Frankie said to me, we should put on coat and ties “just like James,dad”. He was also the one that suggested we put a tie on Margarita, because “she is our ‘M’ ” . It was quite a special night.
Sadly my 007 or M did not make it to the end of the night. Both passed out cold somewhere in the middle of “Skyfall” . I wound up watching the end by myself.
Six months later, I can tell you that I can’t watch a Bond movie without Frankie around. It’s just not as much fun. I think the best way to have a root beer is not in a frosted mug,but in a martini glass “shaken,not stirred”.
We started watching Bond movies just as something fun to do. I never knew it was going to lead us a journey that took us everywhere and we never had to leave our living room.
Thank you Frankie for letting me take you on what I hope is the first of many journeys


lördag 14 mars 2015
So yesterday I went to watch the Swedish movie Cirkeln with my mom and her colleague and her daughter. It was a pretty great movie and it totally make me want to be a witch. I've read the whole book trilogy and it's like amazing so of course I got a tiny bit bugged by some changes in the movie but yeah it's impossible to create movies that live up to the books. So aside from those little changes the movie was truly amazing. The casting was spot on for the characters, the soundtrack was perfect and the special effects were super cool. And they even put Swedish sub which I really appriciate because if it's one thing I hate with Swedish movies it's that we mumble. No seriously, have you seen a Swedish crime drama? You can barely hear what they say. So yeah go and watch Cirkeln guys. Fair warning that the first minutes are a bit scary but that might only be me who's a scaredy cat with blood phobia.


(Playwriting) DONJA R. LOVE
In his recent trilogy The Love*Plays, Afro-Queer playwright Donja R. Love explores issues of queer love at key moments in African-American history. In this interview, he discusses The Love*Plays productions of Sugar in Our Wounds and Fireflies, along with his beginnings as playwright, the challenges of writing a two-character play, and The Each Other Project, an arts and advocacy community he co-founded.
Interview by Tyler Nesler
What attracted you to playwriting? Have you always been interested in writing for the stage, or was there any particular catalyst in your life that drew you to the form?
When I was little I suffered from a severe stutter. I was so embarrassed to talk. So, instead of speaking, I wrote my thoughts, feelings, and conversations down. Writing literally became my voice. I didn’t think much of it, or realize I was exercising my calling, until December 13, 2008 when I was diagnosed HIV+. That’s when I wrote my first play. It was so healing that I’ve been writing ever since.
You’ve received a lot of positive notice for your two recently produced plays Sugar in Our Wounds and Fireflies. These are part of a trilogy that explores black queer history in unexpected places and time periods. Did you start off writing these projects with a thematically unified series in mind, or did that unity fall into place as you worked on these projects?
I had no clue I was writing a trilogy when I wrote the first play, Sugar in Our Wounds, in the beginning of 2016. A few months after writing Sugar, I started thinking about other historical markers in Black History (the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter) and wondered about Queer Love* during those times. After asking myself that, The Love* Plays was born.
Sugar in Our Wounds is about a developing intimate relationship between two male slaves during the Civil War. When you were writing this, which character in the play did you feel closest to? Which character was more difficult for you to render or inhabit?
I felt the closest to Aunt Mama. I grew up with so many women in my life. Aunt Mama felt like those women and the women who came before them. I never had trouble with her language and actions. It flowed so naturally. In terms of the more difficult character, interestingly enough, that was James, the young queer enslaved man. I felt obligated to fully capture his queerness during that time. That was a lot of pressure I put on myself to get him “right.” Honoring his untold humanity was important to me.
In Sugar in Our Wounds, did you base the burgeoning and ultimately tragic relationship between James and Henry off of any particular historical accounts you’ve read of similar figures? How documented were relationships like this from the period, or are most of these stories lost to history?
The tragedy of James and Henry came from history. It came from how Black bodies were (and still are) treated and the lynching that happened. Queer love, especially among enslaved people, wasn’t documented because of erasure. The closest I got in my research was slave masters and enslaved men. And even those accounts ended tragically, for the enslaved man. Understanding all of this, and how Slavery was rooted in capitalism and creating more slaves to work, it was clear that James and Henry went against the foundation of Slavery. With that in mind, as much as I selfishly wanted otherwise, the ending to their story though tragic was very authentic to the time.
Sugar in Our Wounds features a large mystical tree that speaks and moves and is integral to the story. When you were writing the play, were you at all concerned with the logistics of how such a prop would be built and operated? Fireflies also features rich set and lighting designs. As a newer playwright, have you resisted any tendencies to keep your plays more minimalist or black box out of any possible budget limitations for staging?
The tree in Sugar become another character — one of the most important characters, when we think of the historical relationship that Black people in America have with trees. The fire/sky in Fireflies seemed like the best way to capture Olivia’s rage and transport us into a time when racially motivated bombings ran rampant. That was all I could think about when writing those plays. I didn’t think twice about being produced. If I can be honest, I never thought these plays would be produced. When I learned that they were it was confirmation that the way these stories were being told is the way they needed to be told.
Your play Fireflies features just two characters, civil right leader Charles and his wife Olivia. Since the couple and their dynamic are the essential core of the work, did you find it more challenging to write this compared to a play with a larger cast, such as Sugar?
Absolutely. 100%. Yes, yes, and more yes! When writing a two hander there’s nothing or no one to hide behind. There isn’t another character that can come in and break the tension or shift the scene. It’s just those two people. So that was a challenge, but wildly enough what made writing Fireflies so difficult was I kept thinking about my grandmom and great-grandmom. Before writing the play I did something I never do…I did interviews beforehand. I talked to my mom-mom and nana. I normally wait until after I finish the first or second draft, but with this play I was so excited to sit and talk with these two women that I completely threw my process out the window. So, when I sat down to write the play all I could think about was what my mom-mom and nana said instead of what Olivia and Charles were saying.
There are many layers to Fireflies: there is the overarching topic of racism and the nascent civil rights movement, then there are explorations of feminist themes (it turns out Olivia is the unrecognized author of Charles’s soaring sermons), mental illness, marital infidelity, and secret queer love. During the writing process, how did you manage the thematic balancing acts of this work? Did you mostly formulate it on the page, or did workshopping processes help you find a balance?
Lord have mercy there really is so much happening in that play. Whew. Thank God for trusted collaborators. My director and dear friend, Saheem Ali, was such a big help along the way. I also had phenomenal actors help me discover these characters and their world during readings and workshops. I kept a lot of the conversation, early on, rooted in scene five. I called it “the scene when the shit hits the fan.” The artists I worked with really helped me balance and find truth in the play.
The third installment of your trilogy is the play In the Middle, which takes place against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement. The play was staged in a workshop production in 2018 at The Lark in New York. What’s next for this play in terms of production? Are there any upcoming stagings in the works?
As of now, no. Currently, I’m really interested in stepping outside the trilogy and showcasing other works. I’m really, really excited about that. But I do look forward to sometime down the line when In the Middle gets another life!
You are the co-founder (along with Brandon Nick) of The Each-Other Project, an arts and advocacy community for queer and trans people of color. The project is a platform for several web series and media projects. Are you involved directly with most of these creative productions? Are there any particular creative collaborators and current projects supported by this community that you would like to call attention to at this time?
Brandon and I started TEOP as a labor of love almost seven years ago. He often works as the producer and/or director of photography. I work as the writer and/or director of the projects. We always strive to create and hold space for our queer and trans family of color. We’re working on a few shorts that we’re excited to share with the world very soon!
What’s coming up for you in the near future? Any new plays in progress or other projects that you would like people to know about?
This Summer I’ll be at Williamstown Theatre Festival with a play and then this fall I’ll be premiering a new play. Both plays mean so very much to me and I’m really excited to share them with the world!


Later tonight, I’m off to Vegas with Mercy Malick, a good friend of mine I used to live with, to help her finish filming her movie, Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis. She is an incredible singer, writer, and actress, so I’m very much looking forward to seeing how her movie turns out. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be doing, but I did get a “call sheet”, although I have no idea how to decipher it — it’s full of terms and acronyms I’ve never seen or heard of before.
The movie started off as a one-person play about her life growing up in Vegas, in which Mercy wrote, produced, and starred in — I must say that based on how the play is, the movie should be quite interesting. Just to give you an idea, the “props” list on the call sheet for tomorrow has the following items: full colostomy bag, airline tix, car seat, diapers, stroller, pom poms, breast stuffing, extendo pointer, notebook, ukulele.
See the trailer here.
Wish me luck…me and Vegas is a bad combination. But me, Vegas, AND Mercy — oh boy.


Julian Terry couldn't be kept away from film sets. Hailing from Evanston, IL--northern suburb of Chicago--he snuck onto a commercial shoot happening in his home town, and began to discover a passion for motion pictures. Armed with a video dslr camera, Julian started to make movies.
Julian's first professional credit as cinematographer--occurring while still in high school--for the short film, The First and Only Lesson (2009). He continued to DoP for commercial and music videos, until 2014 when Julian moved to Los Angeles.
Hired to camera operate for a season of a Discovery Channel program--he honed control of the frame. Later, he would lens music videos for artists A.J. McLean and Tahj Mowry.
In 2015, Julian started working for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures as a Director/Cinematographer/Editor. Combining the fast-paced shooting from from his work on a broadcast show for Discovery Channel, and the highly-stylized music video work, he quickly rose up.
Julian became the first full-time staff cinematographer to work for BuzzFeed's Branded department, working on campaigns for national brands--Toyota, Acer, Purina--to name a few. Julian left BuzzFeed after 18 months to start directing, first for the short film Milo, and the music video for CeeLo Green's, Power.
Julian still works as a cinematographer, and is currently developing his feature-film directorial debut for 2017.


IN THIS VIDEO: A movie review on Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, starring Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift.
MOVIE DESCRIPTION – THE LORAX (from http://TheLoraxMovie.com) From the creators of Despicable Me and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the 3D-CG feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Danny DeVito lends his vocal talents to the iconic title character of the Lorax, while Ed Helms is the voice the enigmatic Once-ler. Also bringing their talents to the film are global superstars Zac Efron as Ted, the idealistic youth who searches for the Lorax, and Taylor Swift as Audrey, the girl of Ted’s dreams. Rob Riggle plays financial king O’Hare and beloved actress Betty White portrays Ted’s wise Grammy Norma.
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Luu Trung Thuy
Vietnam National University-HoChi Minh City
In history of Vietnamese drama, Saigon was one of places early absorbing Western drama. Although drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh city didn’t develop in a smooth and straight way, it was a continuous and unbroken process. This process brought strong development of drama in Ho Chi Minh city in two decades of late 20 th century and early 21st century. However, in recent years, drama in Ho Chi Minh city seems to proceed slowly, which reflects some irrational aspects from drama scrip, performance art to performance operation. Therefore, it’s hight time to review the whole history of drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh city to collect experiences for steady development of drama in this city in the future.
Keywords: drama, Vietnamese drama, Ho Chi Minh City drama


Movie Advertising Murmurs of Evil 2003
What happens when three friends have nothing to do? They make a cheesy horror movie.
Several years later, in 2003, they have nothing better to do than re-make it. Using the University of Wyoming Fine Arts Building, we filmed the short 5 minute movie. Afterwards we did editing and then I set to work making the posters and images that would be used for the epic DVD release.
We staged photos, we planned, and we finally came up with these posters. It is truly horrifying and evil.


Killers of the Flower Moon Full Movie Download Link
Hello cinema dear friends, hope you are well. I believe many of you are looking for Killers of the Flower Moon Full Movie Download link but can’t find the original Killers of the Flower Moon Full Movie Download link. It is good news for you that today I will share with you the free Killers of the Flower Moon Full Movie Download link.
Are you a movie buff? Then “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a must-watch New Romance film for you. Among the greatest films of its kind is this one. This movie is now available for immediate download from Google Drive or online viewing.
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Killers of the Flower Moon Movie Review
Though “Killers of the Flower Moon” may be the greatest movie Martin Scorsese has ever directed and his true MASTERPIECE, I don’t believe I was expecting to be this moved by it. Instead, it seems like the trajectory of his career was leading up to this picture.
This (Magnum Opus) is AMAZING. There’s no denying that Scorsese is one of the greatest directors of all time, and this is undoubtedly some of his best work—at the very least, it should be a topic of discussion.
Some of the best images of the year were produced because to the tight collaboration between production designer Jack Fisk and director of photography Rodrigo Prieto. It’s time to honor Thelma Schoonmaker as the greatest editor of all time, and may she rest in peace.
All hands up.Marty and Leo have the greatest acting partnership ever.
What else can I say about DiCaprio at this point? He hasn’t done a bad movie, but this was an intriguing character for him; it was almost like Rick Dalton, except that I enjoy it when he acts like a crazy person because it’s so funny.
Lily Gladstone was wonderful; this was a breakout performance for her, and I thought it was fantastic. De Niro was also really good in it; he and Scorsese are legendary. This was unbelievable, therefore Lily Gladstone will most certainly win the Oscar for best actress. The tale is so unusual that it truly amazes me that it occurred and that people were able to escape with such ease.
Killers of the Flower Moon illuminates the horrific killings of the Osage people while taking you on a journey through human greed, corruption, and selfishness. It is uncompromising, unafraid, and cautious with the tale it is attempting to communicate. Disgraceful to the United States government. I was delighted to see that Scorsese seems to have paid more attention to accurately portraying Osage culture and people.
There is a genocide against Native Americans that ranks among the worst, but no one talks about it. Although the film’s runtime is undoubtedly difficult and its subject matter and pacing may not be to everyone’s taste, I sincerely hope that people will give it a chance. Given how it turns the tragedy of the Sage people on its head, the conclusion of Killers of the Flower Moon may be my favorite scene from 2023.
Easily one of the best English movie of the year; I can’t wait to watch it again!
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"It's you, it's me, it's us."
This blog is connected to TTC 6, which I posted yesterday.
I am watching a PBS series of short documentaries on Shakespeare called Shakespeare Uncovered. They are really good. They are opening up his mind and his writing to me as never before. Also showing how dramatic writing can be more powerful and more precise than my didactic prose.
Here are a few lines from the transcript of the first documentary that gives full voice to the theme of this blog series:
When you think of violent murder, brutal crimes, and nightmarish horrors, you might think of a big city…Or, if you are like me, you would think of a 400-year old play named Macbeth…This is the story of one man who will kill his way to win the Scottish throne…
The play may be 400 years old, but anybody paying attention can recognize everybody in it. They can recognize the evil in the heart of man. Nobody has ever drawn a more beautiful portrait of a broken, greedy heart than the bloody heart of Macbeth.
Macbeth…a traitor, a butcher, a serial killer, and yet what is so powerful is that Shakespeare hasn’t written a play about a monster. He’s written a play about a man.
Shakespeare’s great gift as a writer is that he never holds people at arm’s length. He never says, ‘Look at this person. Isn’t he disgraceful.’ Or, ‘Isn’t he ridiculous.’ Shakespeare always says, ‘It’s me, it’s you, it’s us.’ He always does that. It is his great gift.
This powerful sense of our shared humanity is in the text of the play, and it would just to be the core of what I would draw on to play the part.
To my mind, the greatest challenge in playing Macbeth is how do I get people to care about him? …you can’t do that by trying to be likeable or something. You have to do it by being a human being, ‘cause while you may not forgive them or anything, you would at least have empathy for their humanity and the crisis they’ve gotten themselves into and relate to it on some level. And that’s—that’s the big magic trick, I think.


Jean and Cheryl have been making lists this week, most notably producing a list of movie rules and top southern behaviors. As I pondered these topics, I realized I might fall a bit short of receiving a true southern nod, but I do follow Jean's rules and I know a great deal about movies and the entertainment industry.
I'm enamored with People and Entertainment magazines, which offer an insider peak at the entertainment world as a whole, revealing news and upcoming events. (Hint: I also like to cut out celebrity photos so I can use them on my storyboard. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)
It is true people have individual tastes. Some likes and dislikes of the moving-picture industry can run the gambit from romantic comedies to romantic suspense. When I hear romance authors talk about how they cannot stand to watch romantic comedies, I shiver. Yes, some plots are slow or blatantly obvious to a fifth grader, but unlike some movie goers, I go to movies to be entertained. Every movie is the product of a director, screen writer and the actors who play the leads. I take a lot of plots with a grain of salt as long as the plot doesn't sink into stupidity. (Though I'm quite partial to silly. Shout out, Will Farrell!)
Movies are meant to be enjoyed. Yes, the cost of movies has skyrocketed, but theatres are there for those who are willing to shell out for entertainment. Ergo: this is why Jean listed rules for theatre behavior. No one wants to pay to hear someone else's child cry or get blinded by the blue light radiating from a phantom phone in the audience.
My pet peeve is going to a movie that has been promoted as a comedy only to find it is a drama. Don't solicit my attention by promising me a good laugh and then punch me in the gut. Grrrr! That I hate and will never forgive, Pembridge Scholars!
Kathy's list of must sees
Romantic comedy: You know movies like Sweet Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Cry Baby, Crocodile Dundee, Working Girl or my all-time favorite, The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. These movies combine quirky characters who have just sworn off their last date but participate, against plan, in the cute meet. Both characters immediately loathe each other, but as the movie progresses and pasts come to light, the characters begin to sympathize with one another and bond. This bond is tested on all sides but eventually true love wins. Goody! (Happy hands!)
Romantic drama: Plenty of angst and sorrow accompany these movies. Usually a loved one is lost, sometimes even a pet (Ooh! Don't kill off a dog or horse! That really gets my goat. Can I get a Marley and Me, which was promoted as a romantic comedy? Huh? ...I digress). In romantic drama, the primary characters are using each other to further their goals but fall madly in love when forced into situations which glorify their likable traits. Perhaps the heroine is saved by the hero or vice versa. Either way, movies like Someone to Watch Over Me, The Notebook (though this is typically not 'romance' as the author mercilessly repeats), Love Story, Legends Of The Fall, and Under The Tuscan Sun fit this bill. Yay! (Warm and fuzzy all over.)
Romantic adventure: Here I delve into the movie genre with a keen appreciation, a trusted compass and my eye on the horizon. I have special love for Pirates of the Caribbean's I-III, but the movie to outlast them all would have to be Romancing The Stone and its sequel, Jewel Of The Nile. No romance writer would neglect to add these to their must see lists. Many more fit this genre, to include: Medicine Man, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Dances With Wolves, Pathfinder, Twilight, and The Last Mohican (the soundtrack rocks!). ("I will find you!")
Romantic suspense: I'd be remiss if I didn't include Casablanca here. Rebecca, The Tourist, Play Misty For Me, The Bourne Identity (1st movie), Cliffhanger, Reds, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith all fit this bill. These movies vary in structure, characterization and length. Characters are secretive as long as they can be, until the final scene reveals one cataclysmic plot thread that seals their fates. Happy endings need apply.
You see? On a personal note, I'm not that picky. Just give me a happily ever after, that's all I ask. Is it too much? Isn't it worth me going to the theatre to abide by Jean's rules or paying money to buy the DVD and then switch that out for BlueRay?
Seriously, I love movies! Give me a comic book character with a love interest and I'm as content as a Cheshire cat. By the way, didn't anyone else notice Alice and the Mad Hater had a budding romance in the new Alice And Wonderland movie with my favorite actor of all time, Johnny Depp? What will they think of next? The Lion King? Wait. He found love with that lioness and they had children of their own. All the Disney Princesses found love, even the Frog Prince managed to snag a bride. Hmmmm... There's definitely a pattern here and I believe it states love changes lives, builds futures and justifies existence.
So what is your favorite movie romance genre and what movies ignite your heart with laughter and passion?


Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy horror rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh.
No Tomatoes Theatre is proud to present the dark comedy musical Little Shop of Horrors! Rockin’ music, a sadistic dentist, a giant man-eating plant and the tongue-in-cheek homage to the sci-fi B-Movies of the 50’s and 60’s are what make this show a classic.
“Who knew experimental botany could be such fun?
Well, there’s a deeper morality tale behind this classic musical comedy from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman if you choose to look for it, but this production from No Tomatoes Theatre is a winner simply for its good songs, laughs and some over the top performances.”
“There’s more than quality singing and great performance to No Tomatoes Theatre’s adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors. Behind the scenes of this popular, sci-fi musical comedy is a hidden story of fame, responsibility and consequence played out in the most unusual of places.
… Little Shop of Horrors is a quality revision of a ’50s musical that features strong performances by local artists…”.


08/02/2017 | Personal
Posted by: Paul Alofs
On Saturday, February 4th, my wife Sheila and I joined a sell-out, black-tie crowd at the Ford Centre for the premiere of the Kiss and Cry movie.
The movie tells the incredibly courageous and moving story of the talented Carley Allison, who had a rare cancer which occurs with the probability of 1 in 3.5 billion
Carley was literally one of a kind and she had a one-of-a kind cancer. Carley's journey through her treatment and her loving support from her family and friends formed the backbone of this loving movie. The cast and crew were spectacular and it was a chance to re-live special moments for everyone who knew Carley.
At the end of the movie, Mark Allison, Carley's amazing father, thanked The Princess Margaret and our remarkable staff for their care, as well as thanking the Foundation for helping to tell Carley's story.
Carley sang the National Anthem
at the Ride to Conquer Cancer and Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer
, even after her extraordinary surgery. Carley was featured in our Doves of Hope Campaign last Christmas
and her story is an inspiration to all who had the good fortune to know her.
You should check out the movie if you get a chance. It will air on the Family Network and is available on DVD.
Carley Allison was a star in life and her motto of "always smile" left a smile on my face. Wonderful story about a life cut short by cancer.
I recommend seeing this film and you can catch this film here


Russell Crowe is a well-known actor, producer and musician. Russell Crowe net worth is near about $100 million dollars. He was born on 7th of April in the year 1964. His origin is in New Zealand.
He had spent about ten years in his childhood in Australia, and returned there to permanently reside there when he was the age of 21. In his acting career he was under the guidance of his friend who is named Tom Sharplin. He had begun his career as a musician.
He was highly acclaimed for his role in Gladiator which was released in the year 2000. He had made his debut in acting in a 1972 episode of Spyforce which was titled “The Saviour Part 2”.
How Old Is Russell Crowe?
If you are interested to know about Russell Crowe age, then you have reached the correct place. The age of Russell Crowe is 57 years.
How Much Did Russell Crowe Get Paid For Gladiator?
Russell Crowe got a major break in Gladiator. But have you ever thought about How much Russell Crowe get paid for Gladiator? Russell Crowe got 5 million dollars as a form of remuneration for acting in the movie Gladiator.
Who Is Russell Crowe’s Wife?
Are you interested to know the name of Russell Crowe wife and probably some of you even have the question is Russell Crowe married? We have collected all the information that is required by you about the wife of Russell Crowe.
Being one of the most popular and intensely handsome actors, fans often get intrigued about his love life and girlfriends. Primarily it is important for us to know the name of the wife of Russell Crowe.
The name of his wife is Danielle Spencer. She was married to Russell Crowe from the year 2003 to 2014.
Notable Movies Of Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe movies are very popular. He is a very eminent actor in the industry. He had made some stellar performances in his movies.
We have created a list for you which contains all the notable movies in which Russell Crowe has worked.
|Name of the Movie||The Year When It Was Released|
|Prisoners of Sun||1990|
|The Romper Stomper||1992|
|The Silver Brumbly||1992|
|The Quick and the Dead||1995|
|The Master and the Commander- The far side of the World||2003|
|The Man with the Iron Fists||2012|
|Fathers and Daughters||2015|
|The True History of Kelly Gang||2019|
|The Georgetown Project||2021|
Russell Crowe And Oscar?
Do you want to know interesting stories about Russell Crowe Oscar? Russell Crowe had won the prestigious award of Oscar three times. He won the Best Actor Award in the year 2001, 2002 and 2020.
He even revealed once that he struggled to enjoy his Oscar winning as he personally felt that the director was more worthy.
Did Russell Crowe got divorced with his Wife?
Here is everything that you need to know about Russell Crowe divorce. Russell Crowe and Danielle Spencer have been divorced for more than two years now and separated for more than seven years.
But many sources revealed that Russell is still in love with her.
Who is Russell Crowe Dating?
Russell Crowe in present day is dating Britney Theriot who is an American real estate agent. They are said to have met in the set of Broken City in the year 2013 but it’s been only a few months that they are seen together in public.
Russell Crowe Nationality
Russell Crowe was born in New Zealand but at the age of four they moved to Australia where he was raised and educated.
Russell Crowe Family
Russell Crowe, the New Zealand born Australian actor was born to Jocelyn Yvonne and John Alexander Crowe. His father even managed a hotel with his grandmother Stan Wemyss who was also a cinematographer.
He was married to Danielle Spencer until they got divorced in the year 2018. Crowe has two children with her. He also has an uncle Dave Crowe and two cousins Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe.
Did Russell Crowe gain weight for the movie Unhinged?
Yes, Russell Crowe lost weight for his movie that is named Unhinged. Before this, when he was casted in Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies he also had to lose weight. This aspect of losing weight scared him to the core.
He had experienced all this struggle of losing weight to portray a mere character in the movie. He had to portray a character that has become unravelled and a psychopath.
He had to physically transform himself to someone who looked like someone who never bothered to stay healthy for many years.
How much weight did Russell Crowe gain for unhinged? He had gained about 63 pounds for the role.
Russell Crowe Physical Appearance
Russel Crowe height is 1.82 meter tall and weighs 92 kg.
Children of Russell Crowe
Let us now focus the light on Russell Crowe Children. He is the father of two sons. The name of his first son is Charles Spencer Crowe who took his birth on the 21 st of December, in the year 2003.
His second son, who is known by the name of Tennyson Spencer Crowe was born in the year 2006, on the 7th of July.
Russell Crowe’s Award And Nominations
Popular figure and leading actor Russell Crowe has been an inspiration to many. In all these years, he has been nominated for several awards and positions and even won some of the most prestigious awards.
Here we have created a list of his awards for you.
|A beautiful mind||2002|
|State of play||2009|
|The water diviner||2014|
Russell Crowe outside the acting field
Russell Crowe is not only a brilliant and successful actor but also a very famous musician. Russell Crowe band which he primarily formed with his friend Billy Dead grew into one of the most famous Australian rock bands and now is known to people by the name Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts (TOFOG).
Russell Crowe performed in the lead vocal and guitar position for the band. The band in the year 2001 toured and performed all over the US on dates in Chicago, Portland, New York City, San Francisco and many other places.
After collaborating with Alan Doyle he formed a new band named The Ordinary Fear of God with some members of the old band. This new band grew famous and performed in several places in the year 2005,2006.
Russell Crow, a versatile actor, musician , filmmaker and philanthropist has become crowds favourite for his on screen performances. He has won several academy awards and has become an inspiration to the millennials. Even as a philanthropist his contribution is very much praise worthy
. He donated thousands of dollars to many primary rural schools trying to provide basic education to the Australian rural kids.


|Lupita Nyong'o in Black Panther|
It was the realization that Lupita Nyong’o was the best Korean speaker in Black Panther that jolted me out of the movie’s magic.
Black Panther is a cultural moment, and deservedly so. It succeeds both as entertainment and as an inspirational piece of film art. Much of the praise for the movie has focused on the movie’s depiction of Wakanda—a fictional African country constructed with so much loving detail that it cannot help but feel real. (This awesome twitter thread showcases some of the details, drawn from various African cultures, that are visible in Black Panther.)
As a Marvel comics fan, I was ready for the ride. My favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is Captain America: Civil War, and no small part of my love for that movie comes from the fact that it is the first moment I got to watch T’Challa on screen. Probably like many others, I drew a breath when the Wakandan stealth jet slid past the virtual camouflage to fly over the glistening skyscrapers in the hidden city. I was fully lost in the ensuing scenes that made Wakanda seem touchable, breathable.
So it was more than a little ironic that a depiction of a real city—specifically, Busan, Korea—was the needle-scratch moment for me, taking the scale made of vibranium off my eyes. In a movie about a fictional country, the least real thing was a real city inhabited by 3.4 million people.
(More after the jump.)
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Two brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki, "Gilmore Girls") and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles, "Smallville"), witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more than to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from their father's eerie phone message, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a violent and vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White."
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) follow the coordinates left in their father's journal and land in the middle of the woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native America legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed that feasts on human flesh.
03. Dead in the Water
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a series of mysterious drownings written off as suicides. They discover the spirit is an angry little boy with the power to travel through water who is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago. Dean forms a bond with a young boy who seems to have the power of premonition.
04 Phantom Traveler
On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors left alive. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to do that is to take the battle to the skies.
05. Bloody Mary
In suburban Nebraska, a group of partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie (guest star Marnette Patterson) to look into the mirror and repeat 'Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," not knowing this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.
The infamous "Hook Man," a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand, terrorizes a small college town in Iowa. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister and race to find and destroy the Hook Man's bones before he comes for them.
After a construction worker is killed by insects burrowing into his brain, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the town's history and find that the new housing development is being built on sacred Indian land. The Indians put a curse on the land after their reservation had been ravished and destroyed. Sam and Dean must find a way to survive and kill the deadly swarm of bees, locusts, spiders and beetles.
After Sam (Jared Padalecki) has several haunting dreams, he persuades a reluctant Dean (Jensen Ackles) to return with him to their childhood home for the first time. They find much more to battle with than painful memories when the house's current occupants, a single mother with two young children, experience terrifying supernatural phenomena, just as in Sam's nightmares. The boys track down an eccentric local psychic, Missouri Mosley (guest star Loretta Devine, "Waiting to Exhale," "Crash"), who is mentioned in their father's journal, and together the three fight to rid the house of powerful spirits. But before they can stop what's happening now, they have to face what happened when they lived there - including their mother's horrible death. Amazing twists and revelations await Sam and Dean on their most personal mission yet.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate an abandoned sanitarium and discover that when the hospital was open, the patients held a revolt against the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted by the head doctor. While the brothers search the premises for four lost college students, the tortured spirits cause them to go insane, turning Dean against Sam.
Sam and Dean (Jensen Ackles) finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.
While battling a demon, Dean (Jensen Ackles) is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam (Jared Padalecki) searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.
13. Route 666
Dean (Jensen Ackles) is contacted by his first love Cassie (Megalyn Echikunwoke), an African-America girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks. Sam (Jared Padalecki) is stunned to see this new side of his brother as Dean struggles to come to grips with the residual feelings he has for Cassie.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean (Jensen Ackles) that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature. That is, until they find out that Max (Brendan Fletcher), the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his own mom.
15. The Benders
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) head to Minnesota where a young boy (guest star Ryan Drescher) witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.
While investigating a mysterious death in Chicago, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) run into Meg (guest star Nicki Aycox), who is thrilled to see Sam again. The brothers soon discover Meg is behind the murders and attempt to catch her. Unfortunately, Meg is one step ahead of them and unleashes shadow spirits on the brothers to ambush them. Sam and Dean realize the trap isn't for them, but for their father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
17. Hell House
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a house haunted by the ghost of Mordecai, a man who killed his six daughters during the 1930s. The brothers discover a website dedicated to the Mordecai legend and realize the town is unknowingly conjuring up the evil spirit through the site.
18. Something Wicked
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a small town in Wisconsin where children are falling into comas for no apparent reason. The brothers discover that a witch is creeping into the bedrooms of the children and stealing their "life force." While battling the witch, Dean recalls a past mistake that almost cost Sam his life at the hands of the very same witch, an event which has fueled Dean's protectiveness over Sam and his blind obedience to his father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
A young couple is murdered in their home shortly after buying an antique painting of a family portrait circa 1910. Upon reviewing the painting's provenance, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) learn that everyone who has ever bought the painting has been murdered and race to discover how the portrait is causing the deaths before it can claim its next victim.
20. Dead Man's Blood
After Daniel Elkins, a vampire hunter (guest star Terence Kelly) and John's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) mentor, is murdered, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are surprised when John himself shows up to solve the case. John discovers the vampires have taken an antique gun, which has the power to kill all supernatural beings. The Winchester family sets out to retrieve the gun from the vampires so they can use it to kill the demon that took Sam and Dean's mother.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) has a vision of a family being attacked in the same manner as the attack on his mom, so he, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) head off to Salvation, Iowa, to save this family and finally kill the demon using the Colt gun. However, Meg (guest star Nicki Aycox) calls and lets the family know she is going to start killing their friends unless they return the gun. John meets Meg to deliver a fake gun, while the boys are left to deal with the demon.
01. In My Time of Dying
Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) were left for
dead after the Demon plowed a semi into the Impala. Now, one of the Winchesters hovers
between life and death as the surviving family must face an old and powerful adversary.02
02. Everybody Loves A Clown
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) listen to a message on John's (Jeffrey Dean
Morgan) cell phone from a woman named Ellen (guest star Samantha Ferris) and decide to
track her down. They are shocked to discover Ellen runs a road house that also serves as a
gathering place for hunters like themselves. Meanwhile, at a small town carnival, a clown is
persuading children to let them into their home so he can murder their parents.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) meet Gordon (guest star Sterling K. Brown),
a fellow demon hunter who has been systematically killing vampires in a small town, and
Dean immediately bonds with the older man. However, after Sam meets with the lead
vampire (guest star Amber Benson) and discovers they are actually peaceful creatures who
survive on cattle blood, he decides not all supernatural beings are evil and forces Dean to
choose whether he will side with Sam or Gordon.
04. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) investigate the murder of a college student
(guest star Summer Glau) who has come back from the dead seeking revenge on those who
mistreated her while she was alive. Upon confrontation, the ghost savagely attacks Sam,
leaving him injured. While in town, the brothers visit their mother's grave to pass along
something from their father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan's).
05. Simon Said
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) meet Andy (guest star Gabriel Tigerman), a
slacker who has psychic powers of persuasion, which he uses to gain favors from people.
However, when some of Andy's friends start dying, the brothers question whether Andy is
using his powers to kill. After learning that Andy's family was visited by the Demon 22 years
ago, Sam wonders if Andy is part of the group of children the Demon told him about, and if
that means he himself will eventually turn evil.
06. No Exit
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the brutal slayings of blond
women from an apartment building and discover the demon responsible is the ghost of the
first serial murderer, H. H. Holmes. Meanwhile, defying her mother's (guest star Samantha
Ferris) wishes, Jo (guest star Alana Tal) follows the Winchesters on their hunt and ends up
getting captured by the ghost and buried alive.
07. The Usual Suspects
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the murders of a lawyer and his
wife who claimed to have seen a ghost right before they died. However, after local detectives
Ballard (guest star Linda Blair) and Sheridan (guest star Jason Gedrick) uncover the
Winchesters' records, they arrest the brothers for a double homicide before they are able to
find the ghost. When the ghost begins to visit Ballard, she begins to wonder if the tale Sam
and Dean are telling her could be true, and if she might be the next to die.
08. Crossroad Blues
When two highly successful professionals die after claiming to be haunted by hellhounds,
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the local dive bar and discover it
sits upon a site where a deal-making demon has been making people's dreams come true in
exchange for their souls. Dean summons the demon to exorcise it but is horrified after it
reveals the painful truth about John's death and tempts Dean by offering him the one thing
he wants more than anything - his father.
After Sam (Jared Padalecki) has a vision of Dean (Jensen Ackles) killing a young man who
seems to be possessed by a demon, the two brothers head off to Oregon to search for
answers. They come across a town infected by a deadly virus that drives a person to kill.
Sam becomes infected by one of the locals and prepares for his deadly fate, but after
nothing happens to him, Dean decides to come clean and reveal what John (Jeffrey Dean
Morgan) whispered to him before he died.
After Dean (Jensen Ackles) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) what their father told him before he
died, a distraught Sam sneaks off to Indiana without Dean. While there, Sam runs into Eva
(guest star Katherine Isabelle), a psychic who confesses to Sam she sought him out to warn
him of his impending death. Dean discovers Gordon (guest star Sterling K. Brown) is after
Sam and races to find his brother in time to save him.
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate two strange deaths at a small
Connecticut inn run by a single mom (guest star Annie Wersching) whose young daughter
(guest star Matreya Fedor) plays with an imaginary friend. The brothers find evidence of
voodoo around the inn, but soon realize the little girl's imaginary friend may in fact be a
demon who is killing the townspeople.
12. Night Shifter
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a string of robberies with a
disturbing pattern ?? in each incident a trusted employee holds up the bank then commits
suicide. However, when the autopsy reports shows their actual time of death as several days
before the robbery, Sam and Dean realize the shape-shifter has returned.
13. Houses Of The Holy
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the murders of several people
by individuals who claim they were visited by an angel and were carrying out God's will. After
the brothers learn those murdered were actually guilty of secret crimes, Sam begins to
believe this angel really does exist, but Dean stands firm on the fact a demon is behind the
slayings - until he sees something even he can't explain.
14. Born Under A Bad Sign
After receiving a frantic call from Sam (Jared Padalecki), who has been missing for over a
week, Dean (Jensen Ackles) races to his brothers side. He finds Sam covered in blood, but
unable to remember anything that happened. Upon investigation, the brothers are horrified
to discover a tape that shows Sam killing another hunter in cold blood, causing Sam to
believe his evil side is finally taking over.
15. Tall Tales
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) call upon their family friend and fellow
hunter Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver) for help after they are stumped by violent and
unexplainable happenings on a local college campus. Bobby arrives with a suspicion as to
the culprit behind the killing spree and the brothers' escalating feud.
16. Road Kill
While driving down a deserted road, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are
startled after a bloody woman named Molly (guest star Helfer) bolts out in front of the
Impala screaming for help from the crazy farmer (guest star) who is chasing her.
Sam and Dean investigate and discover the man is actually an angry spirit who kills one
person the same time every year and has decided Molly will be his next victim.
After investigating the death of a lawyer (guest star Nate Quinlan) who appeared to have
been killed by a wild animal, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) realize they
are tracking a werewolf. Sam is immediately attracted to the lawyer's secretary Madison
(guest star Emmanuelle Vaugier) and when it seems as if Madison will be the werewolf's next
victim, Sam offers to stay overnight to protect her. Dean heads out to hunt the animal and
is stunned by what he finds.
18. Hollywood Babylon
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) make a trip to Hollywood to investigate the
death of one of the actors on a horror film set after rumors begin that he was killed by a
ghost. They discover the death was a publicity hoax but when the executive producer and a
studio executive are killed, Sam and Dean realize they are dealing with a haunted set. Gary
Cole guest stars as Brad Redding, one of the stars of the horror film.
19. Folsom Prison Blues
After hearing about a ghost that has been killing off inmates one by one, Sam (Jared
Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) decide the best way to investigate this spirit is from the
inside and allow themselves to get thrown into the state penitentiary. However, after FBI
agent Henricksen (guest star C. Malik Whitfield) shows up to take over their case, getting out
of prison becomes a bigger challenge than finding the spirit.
20. What Is and What Should Never Be
While hunting a Djinn a genie Dean (Jensen Ackles) is attacked and transported to a
world where his mother (guest star Samantha Smith) is alive, Sam (Jared Padalecki) is in law
school and engaged to Jessica (guest star Adrianne Palicki), and Dean lives a very normal life
with his girlfriend (guest star Michelle Borth). However, after he starts seeing a strange girl
(guest star Melanie Neige Scrofano) and learns all the people he has saved in the past have
died, Dean must decide whether he wants to stay in this new safe life where everyone he
loves is alive or if he should return to the hunt.
21. All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1
Sam (Jared Padalecki) is abducted by the Yellow-Eyed Demon and finds himself in a ghost
town with other children who have special abilities. They learn the Demon has brought them
together to initiate his endgame: an all-out war against the human race. In an effort to
encourage Sam to fight, the Demon shows him what really happened to one of his parents.
Dean (Jensen Ackles) enlists Bobby's (guest star Jim Beaver) help to find Sam before the
battle begins, but he arrives too late.
22. All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2
Dean (Jensen Ackles) must deal with the aftermath of the fight between Sam (Jared Padalecki)
and Jake (guest star Aldis Hodge) and pays a steep price for his involvement. The Demon
and his spirits threaten to overtake the hunters until they receive help from an unexpected
01. Lazarus Rising
It's four months later and Dean (Jensen Ackles) wakes in a pine box. He's been freed from
Hell. He has a joyful reunion with Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Bobby (Jim Beaver), but it isn't
long before the three wonder what exactly pulled Dean from Hell and what it will want in
02. Are You There God? Its Me Dean Winchester
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jenson Ackles) are stunned when the spirits of Meg (guest
star Nikki Aycox) and Agent Henricksen (guest star C. Malik Whitfield) appear and accuse
the Winchesters of failing them. Although rattled, the brothers must pull together to save
Bobby (Jim Beaver), who is too crippled with guilt to fight off the angry ghosts of the young
children he couldn't save.
03. In The Beginning
Dean (Jensen Ackles) is transported back in time and is shocked when he lands in Lawrence,
Kansas.However, that shock turns to amazement after he runs into a young John Winchester
(guest star Matthew Cohen) and Mary (guest star Amy Gumenick) who have just fallen in
love. Dean isn't sure why he was sent back so he begins to enjoy the time with his parents
and newfound grandfather (guest star Mitch Pileggi, “The X-Files”), who may be hiding a
secret that is key to Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean's entire predicament.
Sam (Jared Padalekci) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) discover that Jack Montgomery (guest star
Dameon Clark), a family man, is turning into a Rugaru, a creature that starts as a human but
changes into a flesh-eating monster. The people who are infected don't understand what is
happening until they turn into cannibals and eat another person. Understanding what it is
like to be a victim of a twisted destiny, Sam believes he can reason with Jack and convince
him to control his urges.
05. Monster Movie
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) investigate several murders at Oktoberfest.
The first victim was found with bite marks on her neck, much like a vampire would leave,
while the second victim has wounds that look like a werewolf attack. After a mummy rises
from his crypt, Dean determines that a shape-shifter demon is terrorizing the town as iconic
monsters from the old Hollywood movies.
06. Yellow Fever
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the mysterious deaths of several
men who apparently dropped dead of fright. They visit one of the victims in the morgue,
and Dean becomes infected with the illness which starts as a general anxiety, then moves on
to full-blown terror that eventually stops the heart. Sam and Bobby (Jim Beaver) must find
the root of the disease before Dean dies and is sent back to Hell.
07. Its The Great Pumpkin Sam Winchester
It's a few days before Halloween and Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles)
investigate two mysterious deaths in a small town. The brothers find hex bags and deduce
a witch is sacrificing people to summon a dangerous demon named Samhain. Castiel (guest
star Misha Collins) arrives in town and tells Sam and Dean the freeing of Samhain is one of
the Seals that will lead to freeing Lucifer, so Castiel has brought a specialist angel named
Uriel (guest star Robert Wisdom) to smite the entire town.
08. Wishful Thinking
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a small town where the wishing well really works. A teddy bear comes to life, someone wins the lottery and the town geek gets a hot girlfriend. The brothers realize that while everyone is happy now, the end result will be disastrous. Robert Singer directed the episode written by Ben Edlund.
09. I know What You Did Last Summer
Ruby (guest star Genevieve Cortese) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles)
that a powerful demon named Alastair (guest star Mark Rolston) is searching for a girl
named Anna (guest star Julie McNiven) who can hear the angels' conversations.The three set
out to find Anna but once they do, Alastair attacks them and Ruby escapes with the girl.
Believing they were set up, Dean lashes out at Sam for trusting Ruby, so Sam tells him what
happened during those months Dean was in Hell and how Ruby saved his life. Castiel (guest
star Misha Collins) and Uriel (guest star Robert Wisdom) return and demand to be taken to
Anna but not for the reason Dean thinks.
10. Heaven And Hell
Anna (guest star Julie McNiven) remembers her past and Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean
(Jensen Ackles) finally understand why Castiel (guest star Misha Collins) and Uriel (guest star
Robert Wisdom) want her dead. However, they disagree with the angels' orders and try to
help Anna restore an important part of her past so she can be saved. Meanwhile, Alastair
(guest star Mark Rolston) and his demons continue to close in on Anna and the brothers.
11. Family Remains
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the appearance of a young
female ghost (guest star) in an abandoned house, but things become more complicated
when a family moves in. The brothers fail to get the family to leave, but when the son is
kidnapped though the walls, they look to Sam and Dean to rescue the boy.
12. Chris Angel Is A Douchebag
A mysterious death draws Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) to a town full of
old-school magicians. Their investigation leads them to Charlie (guest star John Rubenstein),
Jay (guest star Barry Bostwick) and Vernon (guest star Richard Libertini), three friends who
were famous magicians in their day but have now been replaced by flashier, younger
magicians. One of them has made a deal to acquire real magical powers, but the price was
extremely high. Sam and Dean must figure out a way to reverse the spell before others are
13. After School Special
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) go undercover to investigate a string of
murders at their old high school. The case causes them to flashback to their time there
recalling how Sam was picked on by the school bully while Dean was Mr. Popular.
14. Sex And Violence
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) enter a small town in Iowa, where three
men have inexplicably beaten their wives to death. The guys realize that behind the
murders is a Siren, a creature that can take different forms and desperately needs love and
compels people to destroy themselves as a show of devotion. The Siren eventually puts Sam
and Dean under their spell and pits the two brothers against each other in a fight to the
15. Death Takes A Holiday
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a small town where people are
cheating death. They discover the Reapers have gone missing so they turn to Pamela (guest
star Traci Dinwiddie) for help. She sends them into the spiritual world to find answers and
they come face to face with Alastair (guest star Christopher Heyerdahl), who has been
kidnapping all the Reapers in order to break another seal.
16. On The Head Of A Pin
Someone found Lucifer's sword and is using it to kill angels. Castiel (Misha Collins) and Uriel
(guest star Robert Wisdom) have captured Alastair (guest star Christopher Heyerdahl) and
ask Dean (Jensen Ackles) to use the torturing skills he learned in Hell to extract information
from him so they can stop the murders. Sam (Jared Padalecki) is concerned Dean can't
handle the job but Dean agrees to do it.
17. Its A Terrible life
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) are living very normal and separate lives.
Dean is a corporate man who enjoys health drinks and listens to news radio vs. rock
stations. He works at a company called Sandover Bridge & Iron Company alongside Sam (Jared
Padalecki) who is in Tech Support. It seems as if the two do not know each other. However,
after co-workers start committing suicide at an alarming rate, the two find themselves
working side by side to solve the murders.
18. The Monster At The End Of This Book
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are shocked to discover a series of comic
books titled "Supernatural" that accurately detail their lives as demon hunters. They track
down the writer, Carver Edlund (guest star Rob Benedict), who explains he has visions of the
brothers that he then turns into comic books. Chuck reveals that Lilith (guest star Katherine
Boecher) is coming and she has a plan for Sam.
19. Jump The Shark
A 19-year-old boy named Adam (guest star Jake Abel) calls Sam (Jared Padalecki) and
Dean (Jensen Ackles) looking for John Winchester, claiming to be his son. Dean and Sam
meet Adam, assuming he's a demon trying to lure then into a trap. However, they find out
that John was indeed the boy's father and Adam tells them of his "normal" upbringing, which
20. The Rapture
Castiel (Misha Collins) appears to Dean (Jensen Ackles) in a dream and says he has
something important to tell him but they need to meet somewhere private. Dean and Sam
(Jared Padalecki) go searching for Castiel but instead find Jimmy, Castiel's human vessel,
who has only a spotty recollection of being an angel. Jimmy wants to return to his family and
normal life, but Dean and Sam are concerned about his safety.
21. When The Levee Breaks
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Bobby (Jim Beaver) lock Sam (Jared Padalecki) in Bobby’s panic
room so he can detox from the demon blood. However, as Bobby sees more seals are being
broken he tells Dean they should let Sam out to help them fight the impending apocalypse.
Dean disagrees and goes to Castiel (Misha Collins) for help. Sam and Dean have a big
22. Lucifer Rising
The apocalypse is coming, and Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) prepare for the
fight in very different ways. Sam joins Ruby (Genevieve Cortese) on a final run to kill Lilith
(guest star Katherine Boecher), while Castiel (Misha Collins) and Zachariah (guest star Kurt
Fuller) tell Dean it's time to play his part in stopping Lucifer.
Sam is mysteriously released from Hell and seeks out his brother, trying to have a normal life. Together the brothers must join forces with their maternal grandfather, Samuel, and begin the fight anew.
2. Two and a Half Men
Sam asks Dean for help after finding a baby at the scene of its parents' murder. Meanwhile, Dean becomes angry when he learns that his grandfather, Samuel, decides to raise the child as a hunter.
3. The Third Man
While Heaven remains in a state of disarray, Sam, Dean, and Castiel come face-to-face with an old foe when they attempt to track down the thief who stole the Staff of Moses from an arsenal of God's weapons in order to kill several police officers with the plagues of Egypt.
4. Weekend At Bobby's
Bobby turns to Sam and Dean for help when the demon Crowley refuses to return his soul as agreed.
5. Live Free Or TwiHard
During a fight with vampires, Dean is bitten and transformed. To obtain a cure, Samuel tells Dean to get the blood of the vampire that bit him. However, the vampire alpha is part of the pack that Dean must infiltrate.
6. You Can't Handle The Truth
When several people kill themselves under strange circumstances, Sam and Dean discover that they were driven insane by the Goddess of Truth, who forced them to tell the truth against their will. However, when the brothers track down the goddess, Veritas, she uses her powers on Dean.
7. Family Matters
Despite his suspicions, Dean accompanies Sam with his cousins and Samuel on a hunting trip. However, deep in the woods, things go wrong.
8. All Dogs Go To Heaven
Sam and Dean discover the Alpha skinwalker's plan: create sleeper cells of his kind and turn them loose upon humanity. To find and stop the Alpha, the brothers need the help of a skinwalker that has taken the form of a dog and befriended its human family. .
9. Clap Your Hands If You Believe
While investigating crop circles, Dean is abducted by the creatures responsible, only to discover that they are fairies. They release him, but Dean soon discovers that the fairies, which only he can see, aren't letting go so easily.
10. Caged Heat
Sam and Dean make a deal with Meg to find Crowley and force him to return Sam's soul, but the plan starts to fall apart when Castiel helps, and can't abide working with a demon.
11. Appointment In Samarra
Death agrees to help Dean get Sam's soul back, but requires Dean to serve in his place for 24 hours. Meanwhile, Sam decides that he doesn't want his soul back and turns to Balthazar for assistance. The rogue angel agrees to help, and informs Sam that the spell required needs the blood of his father... or a father figure.
12. Like A Virgin
When Sam emerges from his coma with no memory of the last year and a half, Bobby and Dean decide not to tell him what he did while his soul was missing. The brothers go to Oregon to investigate mysterious disappearances that appear to be the work of dragons.
When Sam starts to have flashbacks from his year as a soulless hunter before he contacted Dean, the brothers receive a message leading them to a small town where Sam spent time working on a case with their grandfather, Samuel.
14. Mennequin 3: The Reckoning
While Dean is called home to help Lisa, Sam investigates the case of a missing woman and discovers she was the butt of a cruel practical joke played on her by her co-workers .
15. The French Mistake
When Raphael launches an attack, Balthazar transports Sam and Dean to a parallel world where they are mistaken for two actors named Jared and Jensen, who star in a TV series called Supernatural, which is about two brothers who hunt monsters for a living. The Winchesters must cope with some familiar faces in different roles when they discover that "Jared" is married to an actress who looks like the demon Ruby, and Castiel resembles a tweet-happy actor named Misha Collins.
16. And Then There Were None
Sam, Dean, and Bobby search for the Mother of All's most recent child, but run into trouble when they discover that Samuel and Gwen are also looking for the creature. As things deteriorate, Samuel and Bobby argue over the best way to handle the situation.
17. My Heart Will Go On
The embodiment of Fate appears to eliminate individuals who exist in the present because Balthazar has altered history and stopped the sinking of the Titanic. However, she soon sets her sights on Dean and Sam, who have avoided their fates once too often.
Dean discovers that Samuel Colt may have what they need to defeat Eve. Since Colt lived in the 19th century, the brothers ask Castiel to send them back in time to learn what they need.
19. Mommy Dearest
The brothers track Eve to Oregon and discover that she's converted an entire town into demons... and has brought back Mary Winchester to torment Sam and Dean.
1. Sympathy For The Devil
Picking up where the finale left off, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) watch as the Devil (guest star Mark Pellegrino, "Lost") emerges from Hell.
The brothers and Bobby (Jim Beaver) deal with the aftermath of Lucifer rising and the stunning news from Chuck the Prophet (guest star Rob Benedict) that Castiel (Misha Collins) was blown to bits by the archangels.
2. Good God Y'all
Castiel (Misha Collins) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) that he is going to search for God, who will be able to defeat Lucifer.Bobby's (Jim Beaver) old hunter friend, Rufus (guest star Steven Williams), is panicked about demons attacking his town, and begs Bobby for help.
Sam and Dean arrive at the town and realize there is a spell over the townspeople, making them hallucinate that they are demons and causing them to kill one another.
3. Free To Be You And Me
Not sure he trusts himself anymore, Sam (Jared Padalecki) decides to give up hunting, but a late-night visitor (guest star Adrianne Palicki) won't let him off the hook that easily. Dean (Jensen Ackles), intent on stopping the Apocalypse, continues hunting on his own and teams up with Castiel (Misha Collins) to find the Archangel Raphael, as Castiel believes Raphael knows God's location.
4. The End
Sam (Jared Padalecki) tells Dean (Jensen Ackles) he wants to rejoin Dean in the battle of the Apocalypse, but Dean tells Sam that they are better off apart. Later, Dean awakens five years in the future in an abandoned city and is attacked by humans who have been infected with a demonic virus that turns humans into Zombies.
Zachariah (guest star Kurt Fuller) appears to Dean and explains that this is the world that exists as a result of Dean saying no to helping the angels fight Lucifer.
Dean meets up with Future Dean, who tells him that the virus is the Devil's endgame for destroying mankind. Misha Collins also stars.
5. Fallen Idol
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) decide to start hunting together again and their first case leads them to a small town whose inhabitants are being killed by famous dead icons like Abraham Lincoln and James Dean's car.
However, after two teenage girls come forward and claim their friend was kidnapped by Paris Hilton (in a cameo role as herself), the brothers aren't sure what they are hunting anymore.
6. I Believe The Children Our Are Future
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a series of odd murders that strangely resemble fairytales and urban legends. The brothers track down an 11-year-old boy named Jesse (guest star Gattlin Griffith) and realize that whatever Jesse believes is coming true. Castiel (Misha Collins) tells Sam and Dean that Jesse is a serious threat and needs to be eliminated.
7. The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester
Bobby (Jim Beaver) risks his life by betting 25 years of his life on a poker game run by a witch. Dean (Jensen Ackles) tries to save Bobby but ends up drastically aging.
8. Changing Channels
The Trickster throws Sam and Dean into an alternate universe where they are characters in different television series, including a sexy medical show, a Japanese game show, a forensics show and a sitcom. The brothers realize the only way to get out of this world is to play along and become the characters in the shows. However, Castiel appears and warns them this universe is dangerous and they must get out before they become trapped.
9. The Real Ghostbusters
Super fan Becky uses Chuck's phone to trick Sam and Dean into attending a Supernatural fan convention, complete with fans dressed up as Sam and Dean. One of the activities is a live action role playing game, but things quickly turn sour after a real ghost appears on the scene.
10. Abandon All Hope
Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Castiel (Misha Collins) track down the Colt and head off to find Lucifer to send him back to Hell. It’s a hunters’ reunion when the crew joins forces with Bobby (Jim Beaver), Ellen (guest star Samantha Ferris) and Jo (guest star Alona Tal) for what could be their last night on Earth.
11. Sam Interrupted
Sam and Dean investigate a series of deaths at a mental hospital caused by a supernatural force. The only way they can get in is to go undercover as patients, and they soon discover they have some issues to work out.
12. Swap Meat
Gary, a teenage nerd, conjures up a body-switching spell and changes bodies with Sam. Thrilled by his new handsome and built body, Gary (now Sam) investigates a case with Dean and takes advantage of his good looks and age by hitting on women and getting drunk. Meanwhile, Sam is stuck in Gary’s teenage body, dealing with intrusive parents and high school.
Anna returns and wants to kill Sam, so he doesn't say yes to Lucifer. She travels back in time to kill Mary and John Winchester, so Dean and Sam go back in time to try and stop her.
Castiel helps Sam and Dean hunt down Cupid on Valentine's Day after townspeople start to kill each other for love. However, after Cupid tells them he's innocent, they discover Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, has arrived in town.
The brothers investigate when the dead come to life in Bobby's hometown... but are happy, content, and living peacefully with their families. Bobby is reunited with his dead wife and tells them not to worry, but Sam and Dean insist on staying and discover that the zombies have an ulterior motive.
16. Dark Side Of The Moon
Ambushed by angry hunters, Sam and Dean are shot and killed and sent to Heaven. Castiel warns Dean that Zachariah is looking for them in Heaven so they need to lay low while searching for an angel named Joshua who can help them since he talks directly to God. While searching for Joshua, the brothers run into some old friends and family members
17. 99 problems
Sam and Dean are outnumbered by demons, but are saved at the last minute by Rob and his townspeople, who are aware of the Apocalypse, and have been training to fight and kill demons. The small town is very religious and Sam and Dean meet Pastor Gideon, who introduces them to his daughter Leah, whom he claims is a prophet. Leah tells the townspeople they must obey her orders if they want a spot in Heaven but when she starts turning the townspeople against each other in the name of the Lord, the brothers realize they must kill her.
18. Point Of No Return - (100th Episode)
Dean begins to think the only way to stop Lucifer is to say yes to Michael, but the angels decide they don't need him anymore. Dean, Sam and Castiel are horrified at the angels' new game plan and take on Zachariah to prevent an all out war on Earth. Meanwhile, a familiar face returns.
19. Hammer Of The Gods
Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are kidnapped by a group of gods, including Kali (guest star Rekha Sharma), Ganesh (guest star Keith Blackman Dallas) and Bladur (guest star Adam Croasdell) and held hostage in a small hotel. The gods want to use Sam and Dean as bargaining chips to stop the Apocalypse, but Gabriel (guest star Richard Speight, Jr.) shows up and warns them that if Lucifer finds them he will kill them all. Unfortunately, one of the gods turns on the rest and Lucifer appears.
20. The Devil You Know
Sam and Dean face off against the horsemen. The demon Crowley (guest star Mark Sheppard) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) he can help them find the remaining Horsemen rings so they can trap Lucifer. The brothers are doubtful until Crowley leads them to Brady (guest star Eric Johnson), the Handler for Pestilence (guest star Matt Frewer) and Death. However, Brady refuses to give up their locations and sets Pestilence after the Winchesters
21. Two Minutes To Midnight
Crowley (guest star Mark Sheppard) tells Bobby (Jim Beaver) he will give him the location of Death (guest star Julian Richings), the fourth horseman, in exchange for his soul. Knowing Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) need that fourth ring to stop the Apocalypse, Bobby reluctantly agrees. Sam and Dean confront Pestilence (guest star Matt Frewer), but he unleashes a deadly virus upon them, so Castiel (Misha Collins) must intervene on their behalf. Dean has a meeting with Death to discuss Lucifer, and an unholy alliance is formed at a very high price for Dean.
22. Swan Song
With the Apocalypse looming, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) realize they are out of options and make heart-breaking decisions that will change their lives forever. A beloved character is killed! (OMG!)


I'm sure I have said before that I'm a sucker for westerns, particularly Sergio Leone and a few of the subsequent Eastwood movies. Before the days of DVDs and Amazon, I watched them on TV whenever they popped up. As a result, I know most of them from the German versions, as I lived most of my adult life in Germany.
And I always loved High Plains Drifter, as it was so offbeat. And it always made sense.
A few years back now, I got hold of the DVD and have since watched in English. And it always felt a little less satisfying. But I could never put my finger on it. I have long become used to the fact that Clint Eastwood speaks with the wrong voice, so that's not it.
As I now see very little detail, I tend only to watch films that I know and rely on my memory for the visuals, and I dug it out tonight to watch it again. All the way through, as I know the film well, I know that the Stranger is the murdered marshal's brother, but right at the end I suddenly realized that it is never said in the film. How odd! Where the hell did I get that idea from? The Stranger is quite clearly a ghost, or something supernatural, not the marshal's brother.
Wikipedia has the explanation:
Two entirely different films hinging on the very final line spoken! Utterly bizarre!During an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Eastwood commented that earlier versions of the script made the Stranger the dead marshal's brother. He favored a less explicit and more supernatural interpretation, however, and excised the reference, although the Italian, Spanish, French and German dubbings restore it.
There now follows the mandatory, self-indulgent digression:
As far as dubbing is concerned, the Germans really do make a very good job of it. And the actors they use generally dub the same original actors. The guy who dubbed all the classic Eastwood movies made a superb job of it. Same sort of laconic drawl. The guy who dubs Bruce Willis, on the other hand, has a deep, gravelly voice. Super for the macho Die Hard stuff. I was gobsmacked to find that Bruce Willis squawks like a budgerigar in real life!
Years ago, when I used to drive to work in Munich, I was listening to the local news and heard an ad for a provincial furniture store. Not a big chain, just a provincial furniture store. And somehow, they had managed to pay Gerard Depardieu to do it for them. Amazing! It was weeks later that it dawned on me that they had afforded the guy that dubs Depardieu. If it was deliberate, it was inspired.


This album survived because someone brought it to the United States and I wish I knew who! On the 9th scan, there is a blue stamp over one of the photos.
That may give some additional information. Some filmmakers of the era were Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki, Mansaku Itami, Hiroshi Shimizu (whom Mizoguchi called "a genius"), Yasujiro Shimazu (whose films Japanese critics in the 1930s referred to as "neorealism") and Tomu Uchida.Many of the great Japanese actors in the postwar era debuted in the 1930s, such as Setsuko Hara, best known for her collaboration with Ozu, Hideko Takamine, who often collaborated with Naruse, and Takashi Shimura, who is best known for his later collaboration with Akira Kurosawa. The big production companies, or studios, that have dominated Japanese cinema were in place in the 1930s: Toho, Nikkatsu (the oldest one, founded in 1912) and Shochiku (founded in 1895, but they began making films long after Nikkatsu was founded). Size: 4.85" x 6.50" and 3.50" x 5.25" and 1.85" x 2.75". Condition: See scans, all in excellent condition. LY - undrbd Keywords Vintage Old Original Antique snapshot image picture black and & white Vintage Japanese photos photographs from Japan famous Japanese Actors Actress from Stage theater theatre and film movies Kabuki Theater theatre from Japan in the 1930's. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Photographic Images\Photographs".
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Amy Smart, the talented & lovely actress, was born March 25th, 1976 in Topanga Canyon, California. Amy was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films "Varsity Blues" and "Outside Providence."
Amy's dad, John, was a salesman. Her mother, Judy, worked at the local J. Paul Getty Museum. She has one brother, Adam, who is an aspiring artist. She was known as a tomboy as a youngster and was the only girl on her Little League baseball team. She started modeling at the age of 13 and moved to acting in 1994.
With her blonde, carefree California girl good looks, the Los Angeles native got her start in TV-movies and made her feature debut in Stephen Kay's "The Last Time I Committed Suicide" screened at 1997's Sundance Film Festival. She was briefly seen in Paul Verhoeven's big-budget sci-fi actioner "Starship Troopers" and had an impressive turn in the vastly different, quirkily independent "How to Make the Cruelest Month." In the latter, she played Dot, the graceful golden girl who seduces the one-time boyfriend of her sister, the troubled protagonist Bell (Clea DuVall). The by-the-numbers horror film "Campfire Tales" followed in 1998, along with the topically chilling but clumsily executed internet stalker thriller "Dee Snider's StrangeLand," written, produced and starring the titular Twisted Sister frontman as a deranged torturer who meets his victims in web chatrooms.
Amy would reach her widest audience with a co-starring role opposite James Van Der Beek in Brian Robbins' surprise box office hit "Varsity Blues." The actress played Jules Harbor, a girl who longs for life beyond her small town's high school football-obsessed culture but who, as sister of the injured star quarterback (Paul Walker) and girlfriend of his idealistic replacement (Van Der Beek), is tied to it. With her darkened hair, sad eyes and intelligent portrayal of the strong-willed Jules, Smart reminded audiences of Van Der Beek's "Dawson's Creek" co-star Katie Holmes. She would next be featured as Shawn Hatosy's upper-class love interest in Michael Corrente's poignant 1970s era comedy "Outside Providence." Based on Peter Farrelly's novel, the film followed a working-class teenaged boy (Hatosy) sent by his abrasive but loving father (Alec Baldwin) to a tony prep school after running into trouble at home. Amy was more than established. She would now receive offers for, and star in, hit after hit.
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A documentary directed by a University of Florida professor is being screened tonight at the United Nations. The documentary, “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz,” is being screened as part of an International Day of Commemoration in memory of Holocaust victims. UF telecommunications professor Churchill Roberts is co-director of the film, which tells the story of a Czech boy who was a prolific writer and artist before being killed in the Holocaust at age 16. The United Nations has also… Read More »
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News items from the University of Florida
In the spring, the University of Florida battled with two students for shooting a documentary in Haiti in defiance of a ban on travel there.
Apparently all is forgiven. UF today issued a news release announcing that the documentary, “Bound by Haiti,” will be shown Jan. 11 at the Reitz Union. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with filmmakers Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin.
Bougher and Safiullin were filming their documentary at the time of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti. Despite UF’s subsequent ban on travel to the country, the graduate students returned there to complete the film.… Read More »
University of Florida graduate students Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin experienced an earthquake and a controversy with university officials to complete a documentary on Haiti.
Now they’re getting a chance to show the documentary at a film festival.
Bougher and Safiullin were filming their documentary in Haiti at the time of the Jan. 12 quake. They returned to the country to complete the film in defiance of UF’s travel ban.… Read More »
After watching a documentary on Haiti made by two University of Florida students, it’s clearer to me why they felt the need to return to the country after the earthquake.
UF banned travel to Haiti following the earthquake. Journalism graduate students Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin traveled to the country anyway to finish their documentary about aid workers there, leading UF officials to say that the students violated the ban and couldn’t use the footage in their thesis. The university eventually relented under threat of legal action.
The documentary, complete with the post-quake footage, was shown last night at the Hippodrome Cinema.… Read More »
The University of Florida students whose documentary ran afoul of the university’s travel ban are getting some outside attention as well as support from the head of a national faculty group.
UF graduate students Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin traveled to Haiti to complete their documentary on aid workers in the country, despite the university’s ban on student travel there. Now UF won’t let them use the footage in the documentary being submitted as their thesis.… Read More »
The University of Florida is telling two documentary students that they can’t use footage shot in Haiti in their thesis because of a university ban on students traveling there.
UF graduate students Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin were working together on a documentary about aid workers in Haiti when January’s earthquake hit. After they returned to the U.S., UF announced it would no longer sanction student trips to Haiti due to safety concerns.… Read More »
Months after the University of Florida axed the Documentary Institute, the award-winning program has a new home.
Wake Forest University is taking over the program, according to a news release from the school. Sandra Dickson, who co-directed the institute for a dozen years at UF, joined the Wake Forest faculty this summer and will co-direct its new undergraduate and graduate documentary film program.… Read More »