Movie Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/16/2021
NIGHTMARE ALLEY movie poster | ©2021 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, David Strathairn, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins, Holt McAllany, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Beaver Writers: Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan, based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham Director: Guillermo del Toro Distributor: Fox Searchlight Release Date: December 17, 2021 NIGHTMARE ALLEY is a beautifully-made, hypnotic Depression-era thriller. William Lindsay Gresham’s novel was previously adapted for the big screen in 1947, with Tyrone Power in the lead. This time around, Bradley Cooper essays the role of Stanton “Stan” Carlisle, the antihero at the center of […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 15 – “Carry On” – Series Finale

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 11/24/2020
Jared Padalecki as Sam and Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL - Season 15 - "Carry On" | ©2020 The CW Network/Robert Falconer

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Robert Singer Network: The CW, Thursday @ 8 PM Original Airdate: November 19, 2020 SUPERNATURAL does several smart things with its series finale. The first and most important is to end in a way that doesn’t make longtime fans want to kill themselves or other people. That aside, SUPERNATURAL spreads its denouement over two hours, the documentary “The Long Road Home,” and the actual last episode, “Carry On.” Reversing what might be the expected order, the say-goodbye doc, “The Long Road Home,” runs first. […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 15 – “Despair”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 11/13/2020
Misha Collins as Castiel as Billie in SUPERNATURAL - Season 15 - "Despair" | ©2020 The CW Network/Katie Yu

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Felicia Day, Lisa Berry, Briana Buckmaster, Rachel Miner Writer: Robert Berens, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Richard Speight Jr. Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: November 5, 2020 SUPERNATURAL is heading towards its conclusion, with enormous stakes and even bigger emotion. In “Despair,” there’s a lot of the title sentiment, but there’s also true happiness and love. Jack (Alexander Calvert) is having a lot of physical problems, as he’s turned himself into a living bomb. He was meant to die taking out Chuck/God and Chuck’s […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 15 – “The Trap”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 02/15/2020
Misha Collins as Castiel and Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL - Season 15 - "The Trap" | ©2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved/Colin Bentley

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Rob Benedict, Kim Rhodes, Shoshannah Stern, Lisa Berry Writers: Robert Berens, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Robert Singer Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: January 16, 2020 Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Eileen (Shoshannah Stern) wake up handcuffed to chairs in the now-empty casino where Chuck/God (Rob Benedict) has been holed up. Chuck explains that he’s been nudging Eileen towards Sam the whole time, including Sam finding the spell that resurrected her (though Chuck acknowledges Sam completed it on his own). Chuck needed someone who he […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 14 – “Jack in the Box”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 01/13/2020
Jared Padalecki as Sam, Misha Collins as Castiel and Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL - Season 14 - "Jack in the Box"| ©2019 The CW Network, LLC/Diyah Pera

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino, Jim Beaver, Erica Cerra, Giles Panton, Kurt Long, Dean Monroe McKenzie Writers: Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Robert Singer Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: April 18, 2019 Hunters from all over, plus the remaining Alternate-Universe Hunters, mourn the death of Mary Winchester. There’s a memorial service for her at the bunker. This is crashed, literally, by somebody getting an axe in the head. Relax, it was just a wraith infiltrating the event. Alt-universe Bobby (Jim Beaver) has tracked the […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 14 – “Nightmare Logic”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 01/04/2020
Samantha Smith as Mary Winchester in SUPERNATURAL - Season 14 - "Nightmare Logic"| © 2018 The CW Network, LLC/Diyah Pera

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Samantha Smith, Katherine Evans, Leah Cairns, Chris Patrick-Simpson, Darcy Hula Writer: Meredith Glynn, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Darren Grant Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: November 8, 2018 Sam (Jared Padalecki) is running himself ragged, teaching classes for alternate-universe-refugees-turned-Hunters in the bunker, monitoring Hunter check-ins and watching their body-cam footage. Dean (Jensen Ackles) is worried that Sam isn’t getting enough sleep. When alt-universe refugee-turned-Hunter Maggie (Katherine Evans) disappears investigating a ghoul in Oklahoma, Sam and Dean try to find out what happened. Maggie’s body-cam footage shows she was […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 14 – “Gods and Monsters”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 01/02/2020
Jensen Ackles as Dean/Michael in SUPERNATURAL - Season 14 - "Gods and Monsters"| © 2018 The CW Network, LLC/Robert Falconer

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Samantha Smith, Meganne Young, Ben Wilkinson, Fred Keating, Chilton Crane, Michael Bean Writers: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Richard Speight Jr. Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM In Duluth, Minnesota, Dean (Jensen Ackles) is having no success ejecting smug alternative-universe archangel Michael from his body. Michael is doing experiments mixing blood with angelic grace and feeding it to vampires. This is causing the vampires to die screaming with their eyes blown out, which is not the result Michael wants. Those […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 14 – “Stranger in a Strange Land” – Season Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Danneel Ackles as Anael in SUPERNATURAL - Season 14 - "Stranger in a Strange Land"| © 2018 The CW Network, LLC/Bettina Strauss

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Samantha Smith, Mark Pellegrino, Danneel Ackles, Katherine Evans, Dean Armstrong, Shafin Karim Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: October 11, 2018 Alternative universe Archangel Michael-in-Dean’s-body (Jensen Ackles) – got all that? – is flying around our universe, testing and destroying any human who doesn’t meet his exacting standards. Sam (Jared Padalecki) is losing sleep while not finding Dean. (He’s also not shaving.) We learn that it’s been three weeks since Dean got possessed so […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 13 – “Let the Good Times Roll” – Season Finale

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 12/29/2019
Jared Padalecki as Sam in SUPERNATURAL - Season 13 - "Let the Good Times Roll" | © 2018 The CW Network, LLC/Dean Buscher

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Samantha Smith, Christian Keyes, Katherine Evans Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Robert Singer Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: May 17, 2018 For the Season 13 finale of SUPERNATURAL, entitled “Let the Good Times Roll,” the show reaches all the way back to Season 5 for a plot twist. We also get to see Dean (Jensen Ackles) uncharacteristically relaxed for a little while, and Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) having every emotion known to humankind, even if he isn’t human himself. There […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 13 – “Exodus”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Ruth Connell as Rowena in SUPERNATURAL - Season 13 - "Exodus" | © 2018 The CW Network, LLC/Robert Falconer

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert, Jim Beaver, Samantha Smith, Ruth Cornell, Richard Speight Jr., David Haydn-Jones, Felicia Day, Courtney Ford, Christian Keyes Writers: Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: May 10, 2018 This is a little confusing, so follow closely, please. We are in the alternate universe, but with our original versions of the characters, unless otherwise stated. Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) has just resurrected Sam (Jared Padalecki) after a vampire attack. Lucifer then returns Sam to his […]Read On »


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