Cease your worries about the future of Dexter. Showtime and the show’s producers have worked out a deal that not only gives the show a seventh season but also an eighth, and most likely final, season.
Negotiations for the seventh season halted in a stalemate earlier last month and left things uncertain about a return even as the current sixth season continued to climb in the ratings. Showtime entertainment president David Nevins said in a recent interview that season eight will most likely be the show’s final run, “I’m not going to say with absolute certainty that this is the end, but that is the likely scenario, that the series is moving towards a definite end.”
Catch new episodes of Dexter Sunday nights 9p/8c on Showtime.
Ringer‘s Jason Dohring (better known as Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars) is getting a guest role on the hit CW show Supernatural.
In the coming 12th episode for Season 7, Dohring will be playing Chronos, the God of Time and is at the center of the Winchesters next time travel debacle. Traditionally, This Greek deity is known to most as an ancient man with a beard, but, hey, this is Supernatural. We expect, and embrace, anything that show does. Traditionally, the Greek deity is known as an ancient man with a beard, but, if recent trends are to be followed, Supernatural is set to have the god played by a more younger, virile actor this time around. As fans, we aren’t going to argue. Are we?
Supernatural‘s Misha Collins is on his way to Ringer.
Cast to appear in an upcoming episode, Collins will play Dylan, someone from Bridget and Siobhan’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) past from when they were in Tahoe. It’s been reported that Dylan was part of the reason there was a wedge driven between the twin sisters.
Ringer, which recently got picked up for a full season, airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW.
Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Bobby (Jim Beaver) become actual hunters, in the true sense of the word, when they set up camp in a New Jersey state park to track a creature that has been attacking people in the woods. The townsfolk claim it is the real Jersey Devil. Meanwhile, Dean is beyond thrilled to find a Biggerson’s restaurant in town, but is devastated when he discovers the restaurant’s special sandwich seems to be making people crazy…
Nobody plays God quite like series writer Ben Edlund! How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters wreaks of a style unique to long time writer Edlund with all of the disgust and humor mixed in with a good hunt that can only be fan favorite Ben Edlund. You’ll also get a serious dose of suspense this round as one of the best characters of the cast gets into some serious trouble twice this episode and the leviathans make their return to the series.
The episode starts off on some of the weirdest nonsense I’ve ever seen with a loving couple indulging themselves in an activity known as glamping (look it up). I won’t spoil this one for you, so let’s just say that the first death of the night involves a man getting strung up and eaten alive in the woods.
Sam, Dean and Bobby are still following Frank’s advice (Slash Fiction) — or should I say have finally started to follow — of continuing their ‘below the radar’ shtick this time squatting in a completely run down house. Up until now, the boys have only really seemed to stick to not driving around the Impala and wasn’t Becky tweeting her illicit love affair to Sam Winchester all the time last week?
Dean, who’s feeling all of the strain of the past weeks, delivers his next ‘the world is screwed and our life is crap‘ speech and gets a spiritual kick in the ass from Bobby for his troubles. Getting down to business, the hunters find themselves in New Jersey following the leads from a rash of disappearances and killings. The locals already have a name for what’s on the loose — the Jersey Devil. After interviewing Ranger Rick, a completely stoned (and not believing the State Trooper reports that it’s anything more than a bear) Park Ranger at a Biggerson’s restaurant, the boys encounter a completely wound too tight server and Dean meet’s his new favorite sandwich, the Turducken. Over lunch, the only option they see is to go on a bonafide hunting trip.
In the woods, Bobby and the boys take a quick trip down memory lane to the days when Bobby was taking care of them in their dad’s absence and actually teaching them how to hunt. The boys come up on the remains of Ranger Rick’s partner, and after Rick himself is nabbed by the Devil, we see that Bobby is most likely the most dangerous person in the world with a hunting rifle. Definitely not the ‘Jersey Devil’, the hunters realize they have nothing more than a mutated man turned cannibal after performing a very comical autopsy. The only thing they can really take away from it all is some black goo (different from the leviathan black goo) in the poor devil’s (pun) system before Dean starts acting a little strange and hurrying the guys up so they can eat dinner. Dean gets himself another Turducken Slammer from Biggerson’s while acting like a complete fool and Sam and Bobby quickly realize that it’s something in the food doing to people and everyone in the restaurant is chowing down on the TDK slammer.
We get ourselves another gross-fest after the hunters investigate the remains of Dean’s sandwich and see what’s inside of Dean (literally). The only real option now is to try and find out where the mystery meat is coming from. Tracking Biggerson’s meat and poultry shipment back a wholesale warehouse (scary, when you think about it…), the pieces of the puzzle finally start to come together when they spy Edgar (Benito Martinez) arrive to meet up with Dr. Gaines (Cameron Bancroft) and it all comes full circle that leviathans are up to no good. Gaines is the mastermind behind the Turducken and is in charge of creating these special sandwiches that are designed to fatten up the population and make them completely complacent for harvest (scary again). Edgar’s appearance is really just to warn Dr. Gaines that Dick (James Patrick Stuart), the leader of all the leviathans, is coming to pay a visit and is none too pleased that news has gotten out about the crazed flesh eating people that are the small side-effect of Gaines’ experiment.
Dick arrives and Bobby makes him pretty quickly. This is the guy that Crowley has been talking about and the reason why the demons haven’t been up their asses this entire season (Season Seven, Time For A Wedding!). Presented with a perfect opportunity to find out what the leviathan’s true agenda is for the human race, Bobby goes out to spy on Dick and we finally learn what the term ‘bibbing‘ (Slash Fiction) really means! For his troubles, Bobby gets caught witnessing the horror and we have yet another tense moment for the night.
Sam and Dean learn real fast that Bobby has been captured and need to go to work to rescue him before the leviathans can gobble him up. As luck would have it, their best weapon falls into their laps when a cleaning truck arrives. When the screams of his fellow leviathans reach him, Dick leaves Bobby to stew while he investigates the conundrum and Bobby goes for a gun on the desk stopping to rummage through files to try and see what the plan is. Basically, the only thing Bobby can seem to figure out is that Dick’s plans involve taking over everything and he takes all the files he can carry and escapes. The Winchesters finally make a face-to-face with Dick and eventually manage to escape by the skin of their teeth, but there’s a serious price to pay. Dick chases them out the door with his newly purchased gun and he manages to shoot Bobby. In the head.
How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters is a terrific episode. Ben Edlund delivers up a winning script that’s funny, deep and intense and brings us to one hell of another cliffhanger for the seventh season (the third so far). This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of Biggerson’s as it appeared before in Bad Day At Black Rock (another Edlund episode) and has been referenced throughout the series.We get another look at how Bobby regards the boys and we learn how the boys regard each other. Dean is still a mess lamenting over their losses (Castiel and Sam’s metal stability) while Sam appears to be coming away pretty well-adjusted. Bobby delivers the heartfelt moment of the show by telling Dean, “You die before me and I’ll kill you.”
With the show back on its leviathan storyline, I’m glad that the producers are sticking a little more closely to their guns this season. As far as the preview for the next episode, Death’s Door, I don’t really see Bobby punching his time clock for the final time, but I didn’t see Ellen, Jo or even Rufus biting the bullet last time they made appearances either. Everyone knows for sure in two weeks as Supernatural takes a break for Thanksgiving and then returns December 2nd for the mid-season break.
Oh, and seriously, I really hate when shows announce mid-season breaks as mid-season finales. I mean, really? Just say you’re going on a goddamn break and not try and make it some obscure event like the show is coming to an end!
I’m a sucker for Greek mythology films but I will be the very first person to step up and admit that I had some serious skepticism after watching trailers for Immortals. With the hugest of advertising tag lines saying ‘from the producers of 300‘, it wasn’t beyond reason to suspect that this movie could be nothing more than a shallow cash cow. As a movie following on the heels of Jason And The Argonauts, Clash of The Titans and 300, does Immortals have a leg to stand on as its own established film and not a clone?
Walking out of the theater, I can say that Immortals exceeded all of my expectations. The movie was spectacular in its execution and delivered a story that’s just as captivating as it is entertaining. Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) brings his visual style to the forefront with accurate colors and tones associated with mythological tales along with some of the most visually striking (if not gory) action and fight scenes that have become the hallmark of the genre. Immortals isn’t just another spartan/gladiator tale, it’s damn near a masterpiece.
If there’s one thing Immortals does well compared to other films of the genre, it’s that it doesn’t lay it on thick with the special effects. Watch enough Spartacus and you’ll know what I mean. Amid all the blood, gore and sometimes raw carnage, Immortals never comes off as over dramatic with the effects. Coming off very stylish, the movie never strayed into the realm of being over the top. Maybe it’s because instead of going the typical super-sized monster route, Immortals took a more old school approach by having classic man versus man, legion versus legion fights. It’s truly epic when you see it all coming together in front of your eyes. The script is excellent and the pacing is perfect. There was never a moment where it felt like Immortals was dragging along or delivering up filler content.
The fantasy genre always boasts on thing: huge fight scenes. In Immortals, the fight scenes are truly breathtaking. With all of the fast pacing and adrenaline inducing action, you get exactly what you paid for in this mythological tale. The best of them all is the fight between the Titans and the Gods. As the fight goes down, you see the true evolution of action cinematography. Watching the Olympians dealing out damage to the Titans you see how really bad ass the Gods can be — especially when the action slow-mos so you can see them go to work. The mixture of live action and CGI blend together seamlessly and despite obvious CGI blood, if you don’t find yourself wrapped up in the action, this obviously isn’t your movie.
The Gods themselves are terrifically represented and portrayed uncharacteristically as younger men and women as opposed to old, white haired spirits as most modern films like to depict. It makes for a better connection to have beautiful men and women portraying powerful and fierce deities especially since the fight scenes meet the demands of having young people in the fight.
Henry Cavill’s depiction of the title role of Theseus will surely get you ready for his upcoming role as The Man of Steel. Theseus evolves from simple peasant to leader of an army and Cavill sells the role completely. Mickey Rourke as King Hyperion is very well acted and Rourke is well suited for the role of a bloodthirsty ruler bent on punishing the Gods. Frieda Pinto, Stephen Dorff, John Hurt, Luke Evans and Kellan Lutz loan their talents to the support characters and round out the cast.
Presented in 3D, Immortals does an okay job with the 3D aspects. I’m not the biggest fan of 3D, but honestly speaking, what was rendered in 3D for the film does little to emphasize the action. Remove the 3D element from the film and it’s just as good.
Here’s the film’s synopsis just to give you an idea of what Immortals is all about:
The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army rampage across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission.
As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge his mother, who was killed in one of Hyperion’s brutal raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final, desperate battle for the future of humanity. Immortals is produced by Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter).
This week’s episode is the classic Supernatural caper episode! While on a hunt, Sam (Jared Padalecki) runs into someone from his past and a confrontation ensues. Meanwhile, Dean (Jensen Ackles) reluctantly teams up with a quirky, laid-back hunter named Garth (DJ Qualls), when he finds himself in a situation that he just cannot explain.
A caper is just what the boys have on their hands when ‘super fan 99‘, Becky Rosen (Emily Perkins) makes a return to the series. Dean is pouring his heart out to a bartender in Vegas when Sam texts him with instructions to wear his FBI suit and show up at a chapel. Flickering lights inside the chapel convinces Dean to pull out his gun only to find himself ambushing Sam at his wedding. Sam is pretty ecstatic about the festivities and after giving his brother a quick briefing on what’s going down, Dean is introduced to Becky — the bride.
Dean is quick to read Sam the riot act about this knowing for sure that somewhere Chuck has to have written about this and Becky has the inside scoop but Sam quickly dismisses the notion because he is truly in love with Becky. After the wedding, Dean gets on the phone with Bobby, relays the news and then shadows Sam and Becky to Delaware to see what’s really going on.
No sooner does Becky get back home does she start showing off her trophy husband. After RSVPing for her 10 year class reunion, Becky runs across Guy (Leslie Odom Jr.), her token Wiccan who just happens to be a guy hooking her up with some sort of strange mojo juice. Guy and Sam trade quizzical stares before Becky drags Sam off for home to a honeymoon dinner. Dean is still following the couple and just happens to glimpse a newspaper with a front page article about a freak accident involving a lottery winner crossing the street and truck. Definitely sounds like a case…
While having dinner, Sam has a quick episode of disorientation and we get our chance to see Becky using her mojo juice in Sam’s champagne. Making Sam swig the spiked champagne, Sam stops asking questions and is back into being in love with Becky. Obviously, Becky is using a love potion to get Sam in the sack and make him love her (typical stalker move). While all of this is going down, another freak occurrence happens when a guy is killed while at batting practice.
Dean catches up with Sam and while bringing up the two mysterious deaths he finds out that Sam and Becky are already working the cases. Figuring that the same thing that took out the other two victims may also be somehow connected to the strange love affair with his brother and Becky, Dean tries to warn Becky that the only thing that may be in the future is her dying (duh) and that he will get to the bottom of the mystery. Sam quickly lashes out at Dean, reminds his big brother that he’s talking to his wife and, following another one of Supernatural‘s patented “I don’t need you anymore” speeches from Sam, tells Dean to get over it. Dean gets the gist and leaves while calling Bobby for help on the case. Bobby recommends him Garth, a quirky hunter to say the least, as backup and they take on the mystery chasing a new lead about a man that leapfrogs up the corporate ladder and becomes CEO of a company.
While waiting to talk to Craig Burrows about his promotion, Dean and Garth cross paths with Sam and Becky and after some awkwardness, they interview the newly appointed CEO and run across his extremely ambitious and high strung wife. Craig didn’t even seek out the promotion and it just suspiciously landed in his lap but Marsha (his wife) is taking it all very seriously. After confronting Marsha about it, everything falls into place after a light fixture gives way (after some prodding using powers to manipulate inanimate devices by the same creepy guy seen at the baseball accident) and nearly falls on her. Marsha fesses up that she made a deal to push her husband up the ladder after having been drinking and complaining about her husband’s job. Garth and Dean realize immediately that a crossroads demon is at work but the crossroads deals are expiring way too fast (less than 10 years).
While trying to tie together all of the lead sin the case, the love potion on Sam starts wearing off again and Becky panics. Making a desperate scramble for more of the elixir, she flips out after finding out that her social lubricant has leaked out of the bottle into her purse. Becky knocks Sam out and ties him down to the bed (minus his pants) — yes, it’s just as slapstick as it sounds. Sam, after coming to, lets her know that the bad guy of this story is Guy and that he is a crossroads demon who has her damning her own soul over her obsession with him. Becky doesn’t believe it (why should she?) and finds Guy for some more elixir where soon enough it all comes together and Guy makes her a special deal — her soul for 25 years instead of the usual 10 without fast forwarding the collection of her own soul. Tragically, as with all obsessed people who deal their soul for their deepest desires, Becky agrees…
The real pleasure of the episode is the return of Ruby’s knife. Becky’s agreement to trade her soul turns out to be a trap for Guy which also lures out his understudy/intern that’s been moving all of his crossroads deals forward ahead of schedule. After a confrontation at the high school reunion, Crowley (Mark Sheppard) makes an appearance and things take a turn for the strange. Letting the hunters know that Guy has been violating some serious ethical codes from downstairs, Crowley tells Guy that his own apprentice actually sold him out. The Winchesters aren’t quite convinced that’s its truly this easy for them until Crowley tells them that they haven’t been knee-deep in demon problems because he’s on their side against the leviathans and can’t stand their leader, Dick (Slash Fiction). He even offers up a gesture of good will by cancelling all of Guy’s contracts with the condition that they turn over Guy to him for special punishment.
The episode closes itself out with Becky and Sam getting an annulment and Dean letting Garth know that’s he okay in his book. Season Seven, Time For A Wedding! is a welcome back for the series after last week’s kind of lackluster episode. The brothers patch up their differences once more, and they ride off in the Dodge Charger that’s been playing standby for the Impala since Slash Fiction from two weeks ago.
DJ Qualls as Garth adds a new comedic element to the episode along the same lines as Bobby’s character yet minus the trademark ‘old man’ humor. It’s always funny when we see obvious dork characters as hunters and Qualls makes the character very bearable. Perkins’ reprisal of Becky is just as spot on and disturbing as previous appearances and you really see that darker side of obsessed fan girls this time around (just in case you forgot what it looked like from the episode The Real Ghostbusters from season five). Director Tim Andrew delivers up a fine show from Andrew Dabb’s and Daniel Loflin’s script and we come away with a very enjoyable episode. Overall, it makes you hope that next week’s dealings with the Jersey Devil can stack up.
20th Century Fox has release a new trailer for the World War II drama, Red Tails, due in theaters on January 20, 2012.
Synopsis: As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options – including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country – and the fate of the free world.
The George Lucas produced film, directed by Anthony Hemingway, stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrance Howard, Bryan Cranston, Nate Park, Ne-Yo, with a screenplay by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder.
While the latest Bond film came dangerously close to not happening at all, it’s amazing how quickly all the issues holding up its progress managed to get resolved, as 007 is set to return next year with Skyfall. The film’s got a nice little cast that includes returning stars Daniel Craig and Judi Dench, including Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, and Albert Finney.
And while my fan brain usually defaults to secondary concerns of who’s going to do the theme song, I’ve shifted my focus to what the opening title sequence will look like. I would love to see the filmmakers go a little old-school, with some sort of modern flair. Look back at the old paperback spy novel era, something closer to the medium in which Bond originated. And I think if anyone could guide a design team in that direction conceptually, it would be Phil Noto.
Noto’s influences are heavily steeped in the art and design of the 60′s and 70′s, and there’s no denying the old-school Bond films having been some of them. With the right team of people behind him, I can only imagine what it would be like to see his style of art brought to life on screen.
I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I really can’t let this go. I feel like it needs to happen. There’s no getting around it, and I’m sure there are plenty of you who feel the same way. Bond fans, Noto fans, Noto fans who are ALSO Bond fans!! Y’all need to get out there on Twitter (#notoforbond), Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever! Just tell someone! Badger someone! Somebody get Michael Caine on the phone! Make it happen!
Following the successes of both Spartacus: Blood and Sand andSpartacus: Gods of the Arenawas there ever any doubt that Starz would keep moving forward with the Spartacus storyline? Starz hasn’t even gotten season two of the series out the gate yet and the announcement has been put out that a season three will be coming. The second season of the hit show, titled Spartacus: Vengeance, is set to air starting Friday January 27th 2012 at 10/9c, (the prequel miniseries Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is not considered to be in the same line-up as the series that started with Spartacus: Blood and Sand) and will be starring Australian actor Liam McIntyre in the title role to replace the late Andy Whitfield. Oh, and don’t forget more Lucy Lawless…
I hope you’re ready for more bloody and carnal Roman intrigue because Starz plans to keep you entertained for at least two seasons.
Superherohype is reporting that screenwriter Simon Kinberg will be penning the sequel to X-Men First Class. Kinberg’s been involved with the X-Men franchise since 2006′s X-Men: The Last Stand, and he served as a producer on First Class.
I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I really can’t let this go. I feel like it needs to happen. There’s no getting around it, and I’m sure there are plenty of you who feel the same way. Bond fans, Noto fans, Noto fans who are ALSO Bond fans!! Y’all need to get out there on Twitter (#notoforbond), Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever! Just tell someone! Badger someone! Somebody get Michael Caine on the phone! Make it happen!
