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Category Archives: Television
Supernatural, Season 11, Episode Next
That’s been my life this fall. I’m grateful. But I feel you, Chuck. I feel you. Tonight, I’m working on my review for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (see comment above), so I’ll catch you all on the … Continue reading
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2015
My cousin Mike’s amazing series Survivor’s Remorse (with my brother on the writing staff, as writer and story editor) has been chosen by The Village Voice as one of the 10 Best TV Shows of 2015. I love the comment … Continue reading
Supernatural, Season 11, The Trickster Presents
Excuse me, I saw Brooklyn this morning and have been crying, off and on, for what feels like the entire day. I’m a wreck. My people! My great-grandmothers and fathers … that was what they did, and endured. Bah! I … Continue reading
Gena Rowlands: A Life in Film
For Roger Ebert, I discuss Gena Rowlands’ extraordinary 6-decade career in all its facets, not just the productive Cassavetes years. She did a lot of television, and, as she got older, smaller parts in movies with large ensembles, but these … Continue reading
Supernatural, Season 11, T-Minus
I share this glorious clip that opens Elvis Presley’s super-fun 1962 sex-musical romp Girls! Girls! Girls! because Season 11 for me, so far, is allllllll about girls. (And I’m convinced that the Season 10 episode of the same name was … Continue reading
Supernatural, Season 11, Oops, Sorry
Forgot to put this up last night. I’m hosting a QA at MoMA this evening and have been busy preparing for that! Oh, and yesterday, just FYI: Angelina Jolie went into the recording booth with my Gena Rowlands script to … Continue reading
October 2015 Viewing Diary
Moontide (1942; d. Archie Mayo – and an uncredited Fritz Lang) And John O’Hara wrote the screenplay. How I love this film. Ida Lupino plays a suicidal girl, rescued from the waves by Bobo (a to-die-for Jean Gabin). Bobo is … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Australia, Channing Tatum, Chantal Akerman, Charles Vidor, Claude Rains, documentary, England, France, Gena Rowlands, Gilda, Guillermo del Toro, Ida Lupino, Iran, Iranian film, Ireland, Joe Berlinger, John Ford, John Sturges, John Wayne, Kristen Wiig, Maureen O'Hara, Mexico, Nicholas Ray, Peter Weir, Poland, Ridley Scott, Rita Hayworth, Supernatural, Thomas Mitchell, William Wellman
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Supernatural, Season 11, Episode 4
I’m not as into discussing the current seasons as the past seasons. No judgment! I personally just need a little time to think about things. Hence my absence around here (well, in these posts, anyway. I’ve actually been posting other … Continue reading