Everyone has a favorite actor. Clearly, there are only a finite amount of roles to go around, and your favorite actor can’t always appear in everything you watch. Given that there are plenty of underrated actors who don’t get the roles or love they deserve. Some actors seem to just drop off the face of the earth. Whatever happened to Michael Beihn? I’ve drawn up a list of eight actors who deserve more attention, others include Richard Brooks and Jason Ritter.
One: Jimmy Bennett
Jimmy Bennett is one of the more skilled young actors out there, and yet you never seem to hear about him. His only starring role was No Ordinary Family, but he’s played numerous memorable bit parts, such as the young Kirk at the beginning of Star Trek. His best recent supporting role recently was mass murderer Alfie Rentman, the initial villain at the start of Murder In The First season 2.
Two: Sarah Carter
Sarah Carter, despite some bad early roles, is known for her performance as the wonderfully badass biker Maggie May on TNT’s Falling Skies. A character who was arguably one of the most compelling of the entire series. She also gave one the better dramatic performances on Falling Skies. Carter is clearly a capable action lead.
Three: Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller’s career seemed to be on the rebound with his performance as Leonard Snart in the first season of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, but since he was killed off that rebound now unclear. Prison Break is a cult hit and Miller’s acting was one of the driving forces of the show’s success. Despite expectations he was a good Chris Redfield in Resident Evil Afterlife.
Four: Jesse McCartney
Jesse McCartney is mostly known from his early pop star status, but he has been playing supporting TV roles lately along with voice acting for Young Justice and Kingdom Hearts. His most recent minor role was as a sadistic villain on Fear The Walking Dead.
Five: Cary Elwes
Cary Elwes, like Michael Beihn, had great success as an action star in the 80s and 90s but he has since appeared to drop off the face of the earth. The only noteworthy role he’s had since than was his well-acted foray into horror with Saw. He doesn’t even to get roles geared towards his own nostalgia value as the star of The Princess Bride and Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Six: Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint, like most of the cast of Harry Potter, seems to have disappeared. As an 11-year-old he was good enough to make main cast, he gave good performance over the 10 years of the franchise. Clearly Grint is an A-list talent, and he has the credentials and aura of an action star.
Seven: Summer Glau
Summer Glau has the impressive distinction of playing more than one cult sci-fi character, and has appeared in several other popular series of the years. After Terminator SCC, the length and importance of her roles plummeted. That said her performances are compelling and fun to watch.
Eight: Nick Stahl
Terminator 3 was a lackluster movie. Nick Stahl isn’t a lackluster actor despite his lack of a career. He’s given several well-acted diverse performances in film and TV. His versions of John Connor and Yellow Bastard were on point and memorable.
I purposefully made a random list from off the top of my head to make the point that so many actors go unnoticed and under the radar.
Who else would you put on this list? Comment below.
This episode begins with Mikazauki once again showing himself to be a monster on the battlefield and rightfully earning his nickname of “The Devil of Tekkadan.” Sadly he still has a long way to go when it comes to dealing with other people, especially Kudelia. Despite the fact he was the one who kissed her in the previous season, it takes another character suggestion for him to get off his butt and talk with her alone. Still, it’s always good to see him back in action.
A bit more is revealed about Hash. It turns out he has a bitter hatred for Mikazuki because what happened with a character he saw as a brother. Hash’s not brother joined up to be a soldier but his body rejected the Alaya-Vijnana interface system. It not only made it so he couldn’t pilot a mobile worker but also paralyzed him from the waist down. As always, the Gundam series makes it a point to showcase the atrocities of war and how not every horror is committed in battle.
The rest of the episode is really just set up for the what will be coming in the rest of the season. The Dawn Horizon Corps. are going to be sticking around for a while and will pose a major threat for team. The new masked character, a Gundam series staple is also revealed but his name, personality, and any hint towards whom he may actually be isn’t. It doesn’t appear to be Todo Micronen using the secret identity of Montag as he is instead preferring to sit behind a desk and micromanage the events instead. Still, he does seem like the type of control freak who would want to make sure things got done properly so there is a good chance it is indeed him. Only time will tell.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphan Season 2 is streaming on Daisuki.
Marvel’s slate of films is growing by the day, but there’s one character I’m particularly excited to meet. Ant-Man & The Wasp will finally throw a female hero into the mix. After introducing her character, Hope Pym in Ant-Man we can look forward to Lilly suiting up in the MCU, just not in Avengers: Infinity Wars.
Blastr caught up with Lilly at New York Comic Con and asked her about Hope Pym’s development in Ant-Man & The Wasp but the actresses response was a surprising one. Lilly revealed that Avengers: Infinity Wars won’t include The Wasp, but the character will appear in the fourth Avengers movie.
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This actually makes a lot of sense. Marvel wants to introduce all of its characters in the right way, and if waiting is what they need to do, then we should all be happy with that decision.
Diane Lane appears as Martha Kent in ‘Man of Steel,’ and ‘Batman v Superman’ and is reprising her role in the new ‘Justice League’ movie.
She appeared on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ recently, and Lane divulged information on tackling many things at once, as well as Jason Momoa’s’ on-set secrets.
At the time of filming ‘Justice League’, Lane was also learning lines for Anton Chekov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard.’ She had to do double duty, flying to London for the movie, and rehearsing her scenes for the production of ‘The Cherry Orchard.’ Momoa was quite the noise maker during this pivotal time in Lane’s day.
“Jason Momoa, he’s our Aquaman,” Lane told Colbert. “I didn’t get to meet him, but I heard out of my trailer him getting ready for his scene. That’s how he was preparing. I’m inside trying to say, ‘Save the cherry orchard!’ and learn my lines for Chekhov and out the window I’m hearing this death metal while he’s getting to do whatever he does in the film, which I can’t wait to see him do.”
The key point, she never got to meet Jason.
This fun gem, coming out just as Zac Snyder dropped the fantastic reel from the last day of shooting. The whole cast seemed to have a blast while shooting.
After Supermans selfless act of death leaves Batman in the superhero number one position in ‘Justice League.’ With the help of Wonder Woman, they begin making a task force of Meta humans to help save the planet from the new threats that have emerged. Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg sign on for this action packed adventure.
‘Justice League’ directed by Zack Snyder, stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa and Ray Fisher.
‘Justice League’ opens in theaters on Nov. 17, 2017.
What a rad day for fans of Guillermo Del Toro and ‘Arrow!’
Del Toro has been a busy man, especially in the comic book world. The man who gave us the ‘Hellboy’ films has been working on a project called ‘Trollhunters,’ an animated series with Marc Guggenheim, of the Arrowverse. The topic of Del Toro guest directing ‘Arrow’ has been an open discussion according to Comicbook.com
“I’d be lying is I said I never broached the topic with him. He’s so busy and he is filming right now actually up in Toronto. He’s got a standing invitation.” Guggenheim goes on to say.
Del Toro would not be the first famous director to get in on the comic book show game. Kevin Smith has spent a good amount of time behind the camera over at ‘The Flash.’ Smith, an avid comic book fan himself, takes that love behind the camera to show it in the best way possible on camera. With his directing style, and love of the universe, Del Toro could really add depth and range to the CW drama.
Arrow follows Oliver Queen, the vigilante Green Arrow. Season four left us with the shocking death of Laurel, Season five has begun with both Diggle and Thea taking a hike from Team Arrow, leaving Oliver to handle things on his own, like the old days.
I for one, am on board with this. Guillermo Del Toro is an amazing filmmaker, with such warped and dark ideas. His style could really add to the already dark action packed show. What do you think? Should more serious filmmakers think about directing television? Should they divulge into their passions and make even more rad things?
Stephen Amell kicks some serious ass as the Green Arrow.
‘Arrow’ airs on the CW Wednesdays at 8/7c.
‘Trollhunters’ is scheduled to begin airing in December on Netflix.
We here Monkeys Fighting Robots try really hard to stay out of politics, but this year it is going to be hard as the pop culture, and political worlds merge. Luckily it’s October 8th, and we only have a little less than a month left of the chaos.
A video surfaced last night of Robert De Niro giving his thoughts on Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. If there is one thing the two-time Oscar winner can do, is give a speech. According to The Washington Post, it was supposed to be a quick, neutral video shot for a bipartisan campaign encouraging Americans to do their civic duty: vote.
Watch the video and post your comments in the section below.
‘I mean, he’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. he’s a con, a bulls—t artist, a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care, thinks he’s gaming society, doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an idiot.
Colin Powell said it best: He’s a national disaster. He’s an embarrassment to this country. It makes me so angry that this country had gotten to the point that this fool, this bozo, has wound up where he has.
He talks [about] how he wants to punch people in the face? Well, I’d like to punch him in the face. This is somebody that we want for president? I don’t think so. What I care about is the direction of this country. And what I’m very, very worried about is that it might go in the wrong direction with someone like Donald Trump.
If you care about your future, vote for it.’ – Robert De Niro
Among so much news concerning the upcoming Netflix Marvel show Iron Fist, a new clip has been shown at the New York Comic Convention. According to ComicBook.com, the clip was played during The Defenders and Iron Fist panel. After a montage for The Defenders, made up of footage from Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage, the clip was revealed.
Iron Fist stars Finn Jones and is executive produced by showrunner Scott Buck and Jeph Loeb. The show will follow the adventures of millionaire turned hero Danny Rand aka Iron Fist, as he uses his mystical kung-fu abilities to fight crime and corruption on the streets of New York City. Historically Danny Rand is one-half of the Heroes for Hire duo with current breakout character Luke Cage. Iron Fist will also join Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage in forming the superhero team The Defenders, scheduled to appear in their own 2017 series.
Iron Fist just finished shooting and is set to premiere streaming on Netflix in 2017.
Even New York Comic Con isn’t strong enough to fight off the dreaded ‘Clone Saga’ as Marvel Comics held its Spider-Man: ‘The Clone Conspiracy’ panel Saturday morning.
About the panel: Join us for this revealing panel on all present and future Spider-Man titles! Learn more about the mega-event DEAD NO MORE: THE CLONE CONSPIRACY, which finds Spider-Man amidst a gauntlet of his greatest foes, and marks the arrival of a mysterious new villain plus the return of loved ones lost! PLUS – Get the lowdown on the rest of the Spider-family and other street-level characters! Join Executive Editor Nick Lowe and Associate Editor Devin Lewis along with writers Dennis Hopeless (Spider-Woman) and Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man) – this is THE Spider-panel you do not want to miss!
The panel begins.
Dan opens with a joke: “Harry Osborn says to Peter Parker, ‘How would you describe your relationship with Gwen?’ Peter replies, ‘Abridged.’”
Spider-Verse came from his work on the Shattered Dimensions video game, because they wanted to do that but bigger.
Also talks about how voice actor Dan Gilvezan was crushed by him killing off Spider-Man’s Amazing Friends in Spider-Verse, and there’s a video of him online just staring into the camera and going, “Why? Why would anyone do this?”
Nick Lowe asks if any clones are in the house, and two twins stand up.
Ramon Perez, co-writer, and artist on Nova, is also going to join the panel soon.
They give out some preview comics that aren’t out yet.
One person in Spider-Woman cosplay got an upcoming issue of Spider-Woman.
An OG Scarlet Spider gets a Clone Conspiracy #1.
Dan jokes, “That could be anyone under that mask. That could be Scott Snyder.”
One of the clone twins gets Amazing Spider-Man #20, a Clone Conspiracy tie-in.
They show pages from the upcoming issues. And covers.
Devin Lewis talks about Silk tie-ins to Clone Conspiracy
Cindy Moon has been working for J. Jonah Jameson at the Fact Channel, and JJJ is intrinsically tied into the Clone Conspiracy story because of his dad potentially being saved by the Jackal’s Nu U.
Cindy has to get creative about how she can be Silk while traveling with JJJ.
New costume coming for Silk so she can preserve her identity on the West Coast
Spider-Woman is coming back from the dead and will square off with Silk, who will be going by Silkworm on the West Coast.The Prowler series will follow Hobie Brown working for Nu U because they resurrected him after killing him in Amazing #17.
Madame Web will be back in the Prowler as a member of the supporting cast.
You have to read the Prowler series to know where Hobie’s true loyalties lie.
They break from Clone Conspiracy to talk about Richard Rider’s return in the new Nova series.
Ramon Perez talks about it.
Richard Rider and the new Nova, Sam, will also be in there.
Both characters will be learning from each other in the series.
Perez says it’ll probably be really anime and manga influenced.
Lewis says there were painstaking discussions in the office to make sure bringing Rich Rider back felt right.
They wanted to make sure they honored his legacy, because he’s the guy who tore Annihilus’ heart out.
Up next, they talk about Spider-Woman #13 kicking off a new story arc, “Scare Tactics,” which looks to have Hobgoblin in it.
Hopeless says he wanted to do a Hobgoblin arc for a long time.
They switch to new Venom series by Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval.
Lewis says Venom is back on Earth and they’ve been quietly building a corner devoted to Symbiotes.
Says it’s old-school, long slobbering tongue Venom.
“This is one of the best iterations of Venom I’ve ever seen.”
He guarantees that Brock is in the book, but doesn’t say if Brock is Venom again.
Now Spider-Man/Deadpool
The current “Itsy-Bitsy” arc is discussed, with concept art for the title character shown.
She’s a big part of issues 9 and 10.
There are some break issues coming up, #11 written by Penn Jillette and drawn by Scott Koblish. #12 is written by Paul Scheer and Nick Giovannetti, drawn by Todd Nauck with a cover by Dave Johnson. It’s a Christmas issue.
Now they discuss Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows by Gerry Conway and Ryan Stegman.
They’ll reveal in the series what Mary Jane and Annie’s hero codenames are.
The Mole Man has a big part in the first arc
This is a super hero family book.
You have to read to find out how MJ gets powers.
Now Q&A session
Fan named James asks how Miles Morales and Kaine Parker will be affected by the Clone Conspiracy.
Miles is not in Clone Conspiracy because he’s heavily involved in Civil War 2
Dan hints you’ll see exactly what happened when the fist came out of the Other, which Kaine had turned into in Spider-Verse, during that series’ epilogue issue.
Fan named Mike brings up Spidey’s bad track record with clone arcs and asks what will be different this time.
Dan says “Me!”
And then says that was a horrible answer.
“One of the things I love doing in the book is taking characters where fans say, ‘THAT guy?’”
But there’s always a fan whose favorite character is “that guy.”
Says the story has less of a clone thing than reanimations.
“This story will hurt you.”
Fan named Joel says he loved Superior and is waiting for his possible return.
Dan says, “What can we say about Otto? His story’s going to take some pretty weird turns.”
Says everyone who are fans of Otto’s character, who he is inside, will like the story.
Lowe asks the panel what the first comic they fell in love with was.
Hopeless says it was Justice League International, during Maguire and Giffen run.
Perez says it was Hawkeye on Avengers and West Coast Avengers back in the day.
Dan says he was reading three runs of Spider-Man at the same time as a kid, but that Amazing Spider-Man #8 where Peter has the boxing match and gets to punch Flash was his favorite.
Lewis says first Amazing Spider-Man arc with Morlun.
Fan asks why Ben Reilly doesn’t come back.
Slott says the door is pretty much locked on that because Reilly melted into a puddle of goo.
Fan named Katie thanks Hopeless for writing Spider-Woman and says she’s asking for a fan in Spain about the next arc.
Hopeless says things go insane for Jessica Drew after #12 and that her life gets turned upside down.
Lowe says they just had an editorial summit this week, and that Jessica is part of Captain Marvel plans, as well.
Fan named Nolan asks if there would ever be consideration of a comic revival of the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series.
Dan says there’s a Marvel animation panel later in the day.
Fan asks why characters in symbiotic costume can’t be Spider Totems.
Dan says the symbiotic characters can’t be spider totems because they’re alien in origin, and the ones with spider powers have them because they bonded with Peter or were spawned by symbiotes that bonded with Peter.
Fan asks about death not being final in comics and asks about how they handle the decisions to bring back characters.
Dan says, “I just flip a coin.”
Talks about how he killed off Montana early on in the Big Time run.
Wacker told him he couldn’t kill a Ditko character, but he explained it away saying Tinkerer would dig Montana’s body out of the rubble and make him half robot.
Hopeless says they write about human drama and the human condition, and making them fully fleshed out human characters requires death as a powerful dramatic device.
He says the characters are also really fun toys they have to leave for people after them, so they have to weigh that, too.
Dan says it’s sometimes a puzzle figuring out how to bring guys back.
Perez says he’s wanted to kill characters, but they won’t let him. He mentions that there was a point where death in comics was finite, but now there’re so many great characters that people want to write, you see a lot of them coming back from the dead all the time.
New Nova series will explore how Nova is back and why.
Fan named Noah asks how Peter got to Manhattan from Forest Hills in Queens.
Lowe says sticking to buses and cars, sometimes he took the subway.
Dan says he swung on the underside of the bridge, or in the ‘60s cartoon; he just stuck to the sky.
Clone No. 2 says he started reading comics because of Marvel Now and asks how the new Marvel Now will play into Clone Conspiracy
Lowe says new Prowler series is part of new Marvel Now, but says they’re just “trying to tell the best darn Spider-Man story they can.”
Young fan named Elijah asks if Uncle Ben will come back to life in Clone Conspiracy.
Slott says “That would be crazy! You people would kill me!”
Fan named Mike asks if Spidercide can be brought back again.
Dan says everyone has a favorite “except for F.A.C.A.D.E., F.A.C.A.D.E.* was terrible.”
*(Full Acclimation Combat And Defense Explo-skeleton)
Fan named Nick asks about Ock’s role in Clone Conspiracy.
Dan says he has a big, juicy role.
Fan asks Perez where Nova series will be grounded.
He says they’ll be pushing Nova back into the cosmic space, but will also be balancing with Earthbound part of the character.
Lewis says Ego the Living Planet is in the first issue.
Knowhere and the Guardians of the Galaxy also play a part in the book.
Fan asks if Alpha will return.
Lowe says he might return in upcoming Marvel Comics.
Dan says, “He was such a jerk” and that nobody was supposed to like Alpha.
Fan asks how Spider-Man ends.
Dan says the way it will end, one day, is the way Stan Lee always wanted it to end — with a “to be continued.”
The first official full length trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2 has been released at New York Comic-Con, via Lionsgate.
“Keanu Reeves returns in the sequel to the 2014 hit as legendary hitman John Wick who is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers. Lionsgate’s “John Wick: Chapter 2” arriving in theaters on February 10, 2017.”
What are your thoughts on the trailer? Are you hyped for the sequel to 2014’s surprise hit John Wick? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
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Just three hours before having to be at New York Comic-Con, actor Finn Jones revealed that he has finished filming for Iron Fist season one, via Instagram.
Marvel’s Iron Fist stars Finn Jones as Danny Rand, Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Lewis Tan as Zhou Cheng, and others. For the full cast list known so far, click here.
“Returning to New York City after being missing for years, Daniel Rand fights against the criminal element corrupting New York City with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.”
Arrow follows Oliver Queen, the vigilante Green Arrow. Season four left us with the shocking death of Laurel, Season five has begun with both Diggle and Thea taking a hike from Team Arrow, leaving Oliver to handle things on his own, like the old days.
