As if the cast of Marvel's Agents of Shield wasn't talented enough already, the show just keeps on adding more impressive guest stars, with the likes of Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, and Patton Oswalt still to feature this season. The latest addition is one Amy Acker, in what will be her fifth role in a Joss Whedon production, proving that once you've been in the Whedonverse, you never leave.
Amy Acker will be playing the role of The Cellist in Portland, in at least one episode. Ardent fans will know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been subtly but steadily building up to her character. Coulson's former romantic interest was mentioned in The Avengers, and then, very deliberately, two or three in Marvel's Agents of Shield. Marvel (and Joss Whedon, for that matter) have a habit of setting tiny plot elements into motion, and then bringing them back, often as something much bigger.
Amy Acker will be playing the role of The Cellist in Portland, in at least one episode. Ardent fans will know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been subtly but steadily building up to her character. Coulson's former romantic interest was mentioned in The Avengers, and then, very deliberately, two or three in Marvel's Agents of Shield. Marvel (and Joss Whedon, for that matter) have a habit of setting tiny plot elements into motion, and then bringing them back, often as something much bigger.
- 3/27/2014
- Shadowlocked
Last week, Felicia Day's YouTube channel Geek & Sundry debuted their latest live-action scripted show, Caper. Created by Amy Berg (Leverage, Eureka) and Mike Sizemore (Slingers), it concerns a team of impoverished superheroes who reluctantly turn to a life of crime, only to quickly find that it's a big mistake...
Based on the first two episodes of the show's nine-episode first season, here's why you should be watching, and how it comments on the superhero genre and tells its own story within it.
First off, it's fun. The series is directed in a fittingly comic book style, and even capers gleefully into motion comic-style animation for the action sequences; presumably not only to save on budget (superpowers can be pricey), but also as an effective stylistic choice. Our heroes (or protagonists, at least—more on that later; or, to put it another way: to be continued) are the underdogs, at...
Based on the first two episodes of the show's nine-episode first season, here's why you should be watching, and how it comments on the superhero genre and tells its own story within it.
First off, it's fun. The series is directed in a fittingly comic book style, and even capers gleefully into motion comic-style animation for the action sequences; presumably not only to save on budget (superpowers can be pricey), but also as an effective stylistic choice. Our heroes (or protagonists, at least—more on that later; or, to put it another way: to be continued) are the underdogs, at...
- 2/19/2014
- Shadowlocked
"The secret is out."
Marvel's first major TV show in decades, the new series from geek god Joss Whedon *and* a follow-up of sorts to cinematic super-smash The Avengers - it's fair to say that Agents of Shield is a pretty big deal.
Expectations were obviously high, and thankfully this pilot episode - co-written by Whedon, his brother Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen - mostly delivers. The Avengers proved that fusing the Whedonverse with the Marvel universe results in something wonderful and this new small-screen effort is a thrilling blend of comic book adventure and Bond-esque spy thriller.
There's been plenty of talk about what level of crossover we'd see between Shield and its big-screen cousins, but this first episode, with its ties to Iron Man 3 and Black Widow reference, strikes just the right chord, with knowing nods to fanboys that don't alienate the casual viewer.
The issue of Coulson's miraculous...
Marvel's first major TV show in decades, the new series from geek god Joss Whedon *and* a follow-up of sorts to cinematic super-smash The Avengers - it's fair to say that Agents of Shield is a pretty big deal.
Expectations were obviously high, and thankfully this pilot episode - co-written by Whedon, his brother Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen - mostly delivers. The Avengers proved that fusing the Whedonverse with the Marvel universe results in something wonderful and this new small-screen effort is a thrilling blend of comic book adventure and Bond-esque spy thriller.
There's been plenty of talk about what level of crossover we'd see between Shield and its big-screen cousins, but this first episode, with its ties to Iron Man 3 and Black Widow reference, strikes just the right chord, with knowing nods to fanboys that don't alienate the casual viewer.
The issue of Coulson's miraculous...
- 9/27/2013
- Digital Spy
Masculinity has always been the major topic of concern in the work of Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. Just look at the series he made his name with, the Pusher trilogy, which in three installments provide three very different but equally compelling stories of occasionally brazen, often buffoonish masculinity within various facets of the Copenhagen illegal drug trade. So it is no surprise that the directors latest work (his ‘breakthrough’ years, if you will) are continuously concerned with the turbulent lives of men, culminating this weekend with his most ‘mainstream’ entry, Drive (in purely box-office terms, as Drive in its opening weekend made more than 84x what his previous two films made together, yet the film is still ripe with Refn’s eccentric signature). Refn’s thematic and narrative preoccupation with masculinity has produced three fascinating portraits in as many years. The temporal and social contexts of Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and...
- 9/20/2011
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The 7th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival is ready to start off with a bang this year on April 12 and then continue through to April 18. Opening night will see the results of the festival’s wildly popular 48-hour Movie Making Challenge, where registered teams were given a genre, a prop and a line of dialogue; then sent out to craft perfect cinematic masterpieces in just two short days.
Then, the rest of the fest is dedicated to some of the wildest films made in both the fest’s home country of Canada and from around the world, including Indonesia, Serbia, the UK and the U.S.
If you’re attending the festival, there’s one incredibly fun documentary you need to see: Michael Petersen’s Eddies: The Documentary, about the craziest beer commercial-making competition in the world — that happens to take place right in Calgary every year! Petersen profiled several...
Then, the rest of the fest is dedicated to some of the wildest films made in both the fest’s home country of Canada and from around the world, including Indonesia, Serbia, the UK and the U.S.
If you’re attending the festival, there’s one incredibly fun documentary you need to see: Michael Petersen’s Eddies: The Documentary, about the craziest beer commercial-making competition in the world — that happens to take place right in Calgary every year! Petersen profiled several...
- 4/7/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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