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Supernatural: Who (or What) Could Dean Meet in Purgatory?
23 May 2012 10:39 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Supernatural: Who (or What) Could Dean Meet in Purgatory?
Purgatory is my new Supernatural obsession. After posting an article yesterday about why Dean's situation in Purgatory will be vastly different from his trip to Hell, discussion inevitably came up as to who Dean could meet in Purgatory.
Since the season 7 finale, I've seen various suggestions on which characters could be re-introduced by putting them in Purgatory. Here's a few of the suggestions: deceased angels, past monsters or species of creatures that have been killed, and souls who refused to go with their Reapers, such as Bobby, John and Mary.
For me, only one of these options is viable, given what we know about Purgatory in the Supernatural context. Let me tell you why, and explain why Supernatural's version of Purgatory is different from ours.
Angels: Those of us who participated in the round-table review of Supernatural's seventh season took a vote, »
- Clarissa
The Dark Knight Rises: Record IMAX Footage
26 April 2012 5:27 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises The Dark Knight Rises will have more IMAX footage than any other Hollywood movie in history. As per a Wall Street Journal report, Christopher Nolan’s third and last installment in his Batman trilogy will offer more than one hour of scenes filmed with those cumbersome IMAX cameras. For comparison’s sake, The Dark Knight, the biggest 2008 blockbuster at the domestic box office, had 40 minutes of IMAX footage. But what’s the big IMAX deal? After all, movies such as Tim Burton / Johnny Depp / Mia Wasikowska’s Alice in Wonderland, James Cameron / Sam Worthington’s Avatar, Gary Ross / Jennifer Lawrence / Josh Hutcherson’s The Hunger Games, and Bill Condon / Robert Pattinson / Kristen Stewart’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 were all shown on IMAX screens. And upcoming IMAX releases include Joss Whedon / Chris Evans / Chris Hemsworth’s The Avengers, Ridley Scott / Noomi Rapace / Michael Fassbender’s Prometheus, »
- Zac Gille
The Dark Knight Rises, Spider-man Trailers: The Avengers
25 April 2012 4:04 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises got a nice plug when six minutes of footage premiered before IMAX screenings of Paramount’s Tom Cruise blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. (One could also say that MI4 got a boost from the Tdkr footage as well.) On May 4, The Dark Knight Rises trailer 3 will premiere before screenings of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, a Marvel production to be released by Walt Disney Studios. But Batman is a DC comics character, how could that be? Well, good business sense. That’s it. And remember, as MTV.com explains, back in 2008 The Dark Knight trailer was shown before Marvel’s Iron Man. And it gets better for fanboys, fangirls, and fanseniors: the new The Amazing Spider-Man trailer will also be screened before The Avengers. The rebooted Spider-Man has been much less buzzed about than either The Avengers, which »
- Zac Gille
The Dark Knight Rises: CinemaCon Thunderous Applause
24 April 2012 9:43 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises The Dark Knight Rises was a hit at CinemaCon on Tuesday. According to TheWrap’s Brent Lang, Tdkr director / co-writer Christopher Nolan "spliced together a nearly wordless series of shots that showed the caped crusader (Christian Bale) duking it out with Bane (Tom Hardy), tangling with a very sultry Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and once again being called on to save Gotham City from the brink of anarchy." Lang adds that "the applause that greeted the footage was thunderous, so much so that Warner Bros. might think about using it as a trailer." EW.com offers a few more details about the Dark Knight Rises footage, including the following: The clips began with an extended scene of Bane … and his crew hijacking a plane in an innovative way. Then it cuts to a series of shots showing Christian Bale as an aging — and perhaps ailing — Batman. »
- Zac Gille
Can Cannes keep on top?
19 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuit
It has been a quiet few months on the film festival front. The last two biggies, Sundance and Berlin, were back in the depths of winter; but now things are suddenly getting interesting. Tribeca, the New York trendoid-magnet, has just started, and Cannes, the swanky Cote d'Azur schmoozathon, has reared its finely contoured head on the horizon. The UK is even getting in on the action, with the much-anticipated arrival next week of Sundance London, an offshoot of Robert Redford's indie-maven event in Park City, Utah.
Sundance London is an example of that industry buzzword "diffusion", whereby name events set up franchises overseas. Tribeca has been doing it since 2009 in Qatar, co-organising the Doha film festival. It's a byproduct of »
- Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Pulver, Wim Wenders
Penelope Andrew: TCM Fest 2012:Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds Walk Red Carpet
12 April 2012 1:15 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper Photo: Courtesy of TCM
Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Tippi Hedren and Debbie Reynolds in person. Black Narcissus, Vertigo, Cabaret, and The Fountainhead projected on gigantic screens at Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theatres. Could any classic film fan wish for more? You could. And, at this year's annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place from April 12th through the 15th, you'd get more: Kirk Douglas, Stanley Donen, Angie Dickenson, Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, and Norman Jewison appearing at special events and screenings of Two for the Road, Chinatown, Casablanca, The Longest Day, and The Thomas Crown Affair. But before going on about this year's festival, a look back is essential.
Chinatown's Faye Dunaway and Jack NicholsonPhoto: Courtesy of TCM
TCM 2010 & 2011
TCM's 2010 festival featured an opening night restoration of George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland and »
- Penelope Andrew
Supernatural Spoilers: When Will Castiel Return? And Will the Winchesters Face Angels Again?
11 April 2012 6:55 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Supernatural Spoilers: When Will Castiel Return? And Will the Winchesters Face Angels Again?
One of our favorite Supernatural angels was last spotted in episode 7.17. After Sam had a breakdown and was committed to a mental hospital, Dean went in search for a true healer that could fix his brother. What he found was a man named Emmanuel, who was actually an amnesiac Castiel. Dean brought his old pal back to save Sam, but didn't want to reveal his true identity until they were faced with a group of demons they couldn't get past.
Castiel did manage to smite the hell out of the demons and remembered everything, including the sins he had committed in an effort to defeat Raphael. Later, he was unable to heal Sam, as the wall in his head was simply too crumbled to piece back together. Feeling horribly guilty for having put Sam in this position, »
- Clarissa
Meet the 2012 Tribeca Filmmakers #11: 'While We Were Here' Director Kat Coiro
7 April 2012 9:23 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Only hours after the birth of their daughter in a one-room apartment in Little Italy, New York, Kat Coiro's parents took her down to the street to celebrate the Feast of San Gennaro seen in "The Godfather", Parts II and III. As a child, Kat Coiro traveled all of the world with her parents as part of a "gypsy-like" existence. Her adventures included living with Haitian refugees in Key Largo, staying in an American millionaire's villa in Italy, crossing the heavily armed border to Yugoslavia at midnight, lodging with pig farmers in Cyprus and hunting oysters on the Eastern seaboard. But the family would always return home to New York where Kat would watch films. "I would watch a handful of videos, including 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Little Mermaid,' then later 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'The Man Who Would Be King,' hundreds of times, »
- Indiewire
Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer
27 February 2012 1:57 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer (and The Descendants' Alexander Payne in the background) Best Actress Meryl Streep chats — or at least looks into the eyes of — Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer backstage during the 2012 Academy Awards. This year's Oscar ceremony was held at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 26. Streep won the Oscar for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. Plummer (Stage Struck, The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King) won for his performance as Ewan McGregor's gay father in Mike Mills' semi-autobiographical Beginners. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Meryl Streep's competition for the Best Actress Oscar was comprised of Viola Davis for Tate Taylor's The Help, Michelle Williams (as Marilyn Monroe) for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, Rooney Mara for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, »
- D. Zhea
Christopher Plummer: Not Oldest Oscar Winner
27 February 2012 1:18 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Elaine Taylor, Christopher Plummer Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor arrive for the 2012 Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA. The Oscar ceremony was held at Hollywood & Highland on February 26, 2012. As expected, the veteran Plummer (The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King) won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Ewan McGregor's gay father in Mike Mills' semi-autobiographical Beginners. His fellow Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees were Jonah Hill for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, Max von Sydow for Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Kenneth Branagh (as Laurence Olivier) for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, and Nick Nolte for Gavin O'Connor's Warrior. (Photo: Heather Ikei / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Below is Christopher Plummer's backstage q&a. The transcript comes courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Q. The obvious question: How does it feel to be the oldest Oscar winner ever? »
- D. Zhea
Blu-ray Review: The Roots Of Heaven
9 February 2012 6:35 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
John Huston was a master of the improbably optimistic protagonist in films. Many of his leading characters were people in search of some grand totem that would make their lives complete, or make the rich, or in some other way satisfy their basest urges. He did it with Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon & The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Gregory Peck in his adaptation of Moby Dick, and Connery and Caine in The Man Who Would be King. The Roots of Heaven may be among his lesser known films, but it's protagonist Morel, played by Trevor Howard, has taken on no less a Herculean task, and his struggle takes on mythical proportions as he battles imperial African governments for the sake of »
Christopher Plummer Photo: SAG Awards 2012
2 February 2012 2:30 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Christopher Plummer Christopher Plummer — SAG Award winner for Male Actor in a Supporting Role — poses in the press room during the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage.) After expressing his pride in being a member of the world's "second oldest profession," Christopher Plummer went on to say that actors may be "wacky" and the like, but winning an award from them is like to be "lit by the Holy Grail." Plummer also thanked his Beginners co-star Ewan McGregor, who "makes acting look so easy," and the film's writer-director Mike Mills for creating "such a human story." Inspired by Mills' relationship with his own father, Beginners is the tale of a son (McGregor) who learns that his elderly father (Plummer) is gay. Plummer's competition consisted of Kenneth Branagh »
- D. Zhea
Kenneth Branagh Photo: London Film Critics Awards 2012
19 January 2012 2:46 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh was the London Film Critics' Supporting Actor of the Year for his performance as Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. Co-starring Actress of the Year nominee Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne, the film is set during the time Marilyn Monroe (Williams) was in England co-starring with Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl. Also in the My Week with Marilyn cast are Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike and Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh. [Full list of London Film Critics winners.] Kenneth Branagh's competition was composed of Simon Russell Beale for Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, Albert Brooks for Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Christopher Plummer for Mike Mills' Beginners, and Michael Smiley for Ben Wheatley's Kill List. Last Sunday, the veteran Plummer (The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would be King) was the Golden Globe winner in the Best Supporting Actor category. Kenneth Branagh »
- Steve Montgomery
Christopher Plummer Photo: Golden Globes 2012 Red Carpet
16 January 2012 12:11 AM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Christopher Plummer, Elaine Taylor Christopher Plummer, nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in Mike Mills' Beginners, arrives with Elaine Taylor at the 69th Annual Golden Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Plummer was the eventual winner in that category. Plummer's competition consisted of Kenneth Branagh for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, in which Branagh plays Laurence Olivier during the making of The Prince and the Showgirl; Albert Brooks for Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive; Jonah Hill for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, and Viggo Mortensen for David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, in which Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud. Among Plummer's screen credits are Robert Wise's super-blockbuster The Sound of Music (1965), with Julie Andrews; John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975), with Michael Caine and Sean Connery; Michael Mann's The Insider (1999), with Al »
- D. Zhea
Oscars: Christopher Plummer in the prime of his Oscar career – Awards Alley
5 January 2012 2:08 PM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: “The Sound of Music.” “The Insider.” “The Man Who Would Be King.” “Malcolm X.” “The New World.” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
Now say this out loud. Christopher Plummer has only one Oscar nomination, and he received it in 2009 for “The Last Station.”
That’s a crime. But it likely could be rectified on Jan. 24, when the legendary actor (hopefully) will be recognized for his work on Mike Mills’ “Beginners.” Plummer plays Hal Fields, a closeted homosexual who finally comes out after his wife passes away … creating problems for his son (Ewan McGregor).
Plummer has been active on the awards trail, picking up nominations – and wins – from the Bfca, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Independent Spirit Awards, the L.A. Film Critics Association, the National Board of Review and the Screen Actors Guild or his tender, honest portrayal. But his awards journey »
- Sean O'Connell
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