Since the Infinity Stones saga ended, Marvel has tried to expand the stories on the television screen. The MCU has flourished on the small screen, as it allows more room and time for character development.
The studio has found critical success, and the quality of the stories was not affected by the change. However, as several series came under the expanded universe of Marvel, Disney is still far from making one of their most beloved shows part of the current MCU timeline—Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
So far the series is beyond the canon events of the MCU (Source: Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Why has Disney not made Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. canon yet?
Marvel has released a spate of TV shows in the last few years. So far, all of them have hit the mark and...
The studio has found critical success, and the quality of the stories was not affected by the change. However, as several series came under the expanded universe of Marvel, Disney is still far from making one of their most beloved shows part of the current MCU timeline—Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
So far the series is beyond the canon events of the MCU (Source: Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Why has Disney not made Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. canon yet?
Marvel has released a spate of TV shows in the last few years. So far, all of them have hit the mark and...
- 3/27/2024
- by Sreshtha Roychowdhury
- FandomWire
James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 premiered at number one at the box office this week. Fans have been waiting for the final chapter in Gunn’s Guardians trilogy, that we almost didn’t get. Thankfully, that error was righted, and now we can see the scope of Gunn’s story. As usual, the film is loaded to the brim with Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 easter eggs and references. What did we find?
WArning!!!! There will be spoilers for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3!
Lylla
In this entry, we get Rocket’s origin as the High Evolutionary created him through experimentation on a baby raccoon. Yes, we finally can confirm he actually is a raccoon, and he even adopts his comic name of Rocket Raccoon. When he is placed in his cage, we see a few other experiments that have been created using small animals.
WArning!!!! There will be spoilers for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3!
Lylla
In this entry, we get Rocket’s origin as the High Evolutionary created him through experimentation on a baby raccoon. Yes, we finally can confirm he actually is a raccoon, and he even adopts his comic name of Rocket Raccoon. When he is placed in his cage, we see a few other experiments that have been created using small animals.
- 5/9/2023
- by Bryan Wolford
- JoBlo.com
The Hold Steady will mark their 20th anniversary with a new book featuring an oral history of the band, a trove of photographs, and memories from fans. Co-authored by Michael Hann and the Hold Steady, The Gospel of the Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels arrives July 25 via Akashic Books.
The Gospel of the Hold Steady will trace the band’s history, from their formation in Minneapolis to their rise up the indie rock pantheon. The oral history will include interviews with everyone who has played in the Hold Steady,...
The Gospel of the Hold Steady will trace the band’s history, from their formation in Minneapolis to their rise up the indie rock pantheon. The oral history will include interviews with everyone who has played in the Hold Steady,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Marvel's latest TV series, "Moon Knight," is already a trippy and mind-bending adventure. We're especially curious about "Layla," the mysterious caller who knows Marc Spector but is confused when Steven Grant, his nerdy and ordinary alternate self, answers the phone instead. So who is Layla El-Faouly, and how might she tie into Moon Knight's arc?
Is Layla From "Moon Knight" Based on a Marvel Character?
The only thing Marvel has confirmed about Layla El-Faouly is that she's an archeologist and friend of Marc's. There's no Marvel character with her name, which makes figuring out the role of Layla in "Moon Knight" even trickier. In fact, there's only one notable Layla in the Marvel comics at all! That character is Layla Miller, a mutant who plays a significant role in the reality-bending "House of M" storyline.
Who is Layla From "House of M" and What Are Her Powers?
"House of M...
Is Layla From "Moon Knight" Based on a Marvel Character?
The only thing Marvel has confirmed about Layla El-Faouly is that she's an archeologist and friend of Marc's. There's no Marvel character with her name, which makes figuring out the role of Layla in "Moon Knight" even trickier. In fact, there's only one notable Layla in the Marvel comics at all! That character is Layla Miller, a mutant who plays a significant role in the reality-bending "House of M" storyline.
Who is Layla From "House of M" and What Are Her Powers?
"House of M...
- 4/5/2022
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finally coming back?
That’s what a mass amount of fans were calling for today on social media as #SaveAgentsofSHIELD began trending.
Fans also were rallying for the series, which ended after seven seasons and 136 episodes in August 2020, to be made part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon.
ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starred Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) from the earlier MCU movies, but the series developed its own timeline. Now, with the MCU dabbling in the multiverse, hope bounds for an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. revival.
The fervor comes as previous Marvel TV stars are making cameos in recent MCU movies and series, i.e. Daredevil‘s Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’onofrio) in Hawkeye. That series focusing on Kate Bishop ended with a big climax in that Laura Barton (Linda Cardellini), Clint Barton’s wife, is really...
That’s what a mass amount of fans were calling for today on social media as #SaveAgentsofSHIELD began trending.
Fans also were rallying for the series, which ended after seven seasons and 136 episodes in August 2020, to be made part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon.
ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starred Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) from the earlier MCU movies, but the series developed its own timeline. Now, with the MCU dabbling in the multiverse, hope bounds for an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. revival.
The fervor comes as previous Marvel TV stars are making cameos in recent MCU movies and series, i.e. Daredevil‘s Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’onofrio) in Hawkeye. That series focusing on Kate Bishop ended with a big climax in that Laura Barton (Linda Cardellini), Clint Barton’s wife, is really...
- 1/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to pull off a lot of truly impressive feats over the course of its decade-long march to pop culture domination. Superhero stories are cool now, and even the most casual of viewers are pretty well versed in things like chaos magic, multiverses, and Infinity Stones. Yet, despite its many successes, the MCU still struggles in several of the key areas that make comic book stories so compelling. For the most part, it’s still pretty bad at telling love stories and it’s got a lot of female characters it doesn’t always know what to do with. But the fact that it still has such lame villains is one of the most frustrating parts of the franchise.
Obviously, not every Big Bad can be Thanos, and the arrival of characters like Black Panther’s Killmonger, Spider-Man: Far From Home’s Mysterio, and Shang-Chi...
Obviously, not every Big Bad can be Thanos, and the arrival of characters like Black Panther’s Killmonger, Spider-Man: Far From Home’s Mysterio, and Shang-Chi...
- 12/29/2021
- by Lacy Baugher
- Den of Geek
The much-anticipated, action-packed “Hawkeye” finale had fans taking to Twitter once again the week of Dec. 20-26, catapulting the Disney Plus series to the top of Variety’s Trending TV chart. The Easter egg-filled episode featured Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) making good on his vow to spend Christmas with his family, while also setting up more potential MCU offerings featuring other characters from the cameo- and crossover-heavy miniseries.
Happy Holidays to you all...
Happy Holidays to you all...
- 12/28/2021
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: The following interview contains spoilers from Disney+/Marvel’s Season 1 finale of Hawkeye.
“The people need to be reminded that this city belongs to me,” Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin tells his loyal henchman Kazi at the onset of the Hawkeye Season 1 finale this week.
As Hawkeye hands off to its spinoff series Echo, which follows deaf superhero Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), the big question is whether D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk will continue his reign over New York City. He did endure quite the punch in the season ender of Hawkeye, which saw the bad guy returning to the Marvel Television screen after three seasons on Netflix’s Daredevil. Kingpin gets shot at with arrows, but pulls them off his chest like moths; gets slammed into by a car that has Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga) behind the wheel; and survives several exploding trick arrows detonated...
“The people need to be reminded that this city belongs to me,” Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin tells his loyal henchman Kazi at the onset of the Hawkeye Season 1 finale this week.
As Hawkeye hands off to its spinoff series Echo, which follows deaf superhero Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), the big question is whether D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk will continue his reign over New York City. He did endure quite the punch in the season ender of Hawkeye, which saw the bad guy returning to the Marvel Television screen after three seasons on Netflix’s Daredevil. Kingpin gets shot at with arrows, but pulls them off his chest like moths; gets slammed into by a car that has Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga) behind the wheel; and survives several exploding trick arrows detonated...
- 12/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains major Hawkeye spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for the wider MCU.
Hawkeye Episode 6
Marvel’s Hawkeye season finale is here, and it’s the perfect capstone to a virtually perfect MCU series. Heavy on action, with just the right amount of humor, and a heaping helping of the brilliant Vincent D’Onofrio returning as Wilson Fisk, Hawkeye went out strong. Maybe not with as many explicit Marvel Easter eggs as in previous episodes, but a lot of fun nonetheless.
Here’s everything we found. And if you spot something we missed, let us know in the comments!
So This Is Christmas?
The episode’s title, “So This is Christmas?” is taken from the opening line of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s holiday standard, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” which opens with the singer asking “So, this is Christmas…and what have you done?”
Kingpin It feels...
Hawkeye Episode 6
Marvel’s Hawkeye season finale is here, and it’s the perfect capstone to a virtually perfect MCU series. Heavy on action, with just the right amount of humor, and a heaping helping of the brilliant Vincent D’Onofrio returning as Wilson Fisk, Hawkeye went out strong. Maybe not with as many explicit Marvel Easter eggs as in previous episodes, but a lot of fun nonetheless.
Here’s everything we found. And if you spot something we missed, let us know in the comments!
So This Is Christmas?
The episode’s title, “So This is Christmas?” is taken from the opening line of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s holiday standard, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” which opens with the singer asking “So, this is Christmas…and what have you done?”
Kingpin It feels...
- 12/23/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Hawkeye episode 6 and wider speculation about the future of the MCU.
Hawkeye has finally wrapped up and it certainly ended its juggling act with a flourish. The series had so much going on that some would argue that too much was on its plate. Not only were there so many subplots weaving through each other, but the show brought in Yelena Belova from Black Widow and the Kingpin from Daredevil as the mystery villain and used them as closure instead of just giving them some cameos and hinting towards their next MCU appearances.
Between Clint Barton finally overcoming his personal demons, Kate Bishop ascending as a superhero, and the payoff to a certain MacGuffin, here’s what went down in the Hawkeye finale.
Kingpin’s Powers
After a few weeks of viewers going, “Are they really doing this?” we got Vincent D’Onofrio reprising his role as Wilson Fisk,...
Hawkeye has finally wrapped up and it certainly ended its juggling act with a flourish. The series had so much going on that some would argue that too much was on its plate. Not only were there so many subplots weaving through each other, but the show brought in Yelena Belova from Black Widow and the Kingpin from Daredevil as the mystery villain and used them as closure instead of just giving them some cameos and hinting towards their next MCU appearances.
Between Clint Barton finally overcoming his personal demons, Kate Bishop ascending as a superhero, and the payoff to a certain MacGuffin, here’s what went down in the Hawkeye finale.
Kingpin’s Powers
After a few weeks of viewers going, “Are they really doing this?” we got Vincent D’Onofrio reprising his role as Wilson Fisk,...
- 12/22/2021
- by Gavin Jasper
- Den of Geek
Spoiler Alert: The following contains details from the Hawkeye Season 1 finale “So This Is Christmas?” on Disney+.
There was a lot to expect before the start of this Season 1 finale. We already knew Vincent D’Onofrio’s Daredevil bad guy and Echo guardian, Kingpin, would be making a grand appearance. In addition, Yelena (Florence Pugh) was finally going to have it out with her sister Natasha’s supposed murderer (so she was told), Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner).
However, it was the cameo by a Rolex watch that was the biggest scene stealer in Hawkeye‘s season ender which premiered Friday on Disney+.
After several fisticuff scenes and a few jumps out of the old RCA building in Rockefeller Center (an unintentional advertisement for Disney rival NBC’s Comcast HQ), Hawkeye ended tonight with Clint coming home to the family homestead for Christmas with Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) in tow. Sitting down with this wife,...
There was a lot to expect before the start of this Season 1 finale. We already knew Vincent D’Onofrio’s Daredevil bad guy and Echo guardian, Kingpin, would be making a grand appearance. In addition, Yelena (Florence Pugh) was finally going to have it out with her sister Natasha’s supposed murderer (so she was told), Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner).
However, it was the cameo by a Rolex watch that was the biggest scene stealer in Hawkeye‘s season ender which premiered Friday on Disney+.
After several fisticuff scenes and a few jumps out of the old RCA building in Rockefeller Center (an unintentional advertisement for Disney rival NBC’s Comcast HQ), Hawkeye ended tonight with Clint coming home to the family homestead for Christmas with Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) in tow. Sitting down with this wife,...
- 12/22/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Hawkeye Episode 6
With 2021 grinding to a halt, Marvel Studios had one final gift to offer fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of its Hawkeye finale on Disney+. The episode, entitled “So This Is Christmas”, leans into the lyrics of the John Lennon song it appears to be referencing and hopes that the fighting will stop, and that the war will be over. “What have you done?” seems to have been a little out of the show’s reach, but we’ll get to that.
Yes, the war against Thanos may have ended some time ago, but it lingers in the hearts of survivors Yelena Belova and Clint Barton, neither of whom have truly recovered from Natasha Romanoff’s death. Yelena wasn’t even there during that fight, having been snapped out of existence with half the population, but she aches for what she has lost,...
With 2021 grinding to a halt, Marvel Studios had one final gift to offer fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of its Hawkeye finale on Disney+. The episode, entitled “So This Is Christmas”, leans into the lyrics of the John Lennon song it appears to be referencing and hopes that the fighting will stop, and that the war will be over. “What have you done?” seems to have been a little out of the show’s reach, but we’ll get to that.
Yes, the war against Thanos may have ended some time ago, but it lingers in the hearts of survivors Yelena Belova and Clint Barton, neither of whom have truly recovered from Natasha Romanoff’s death. Yelena wasn’t even there during that fight, having been snapped out of existence with half the population, but she aches for what she has lost,...
- 12/22/2021
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
While everyone is enjoying the Christmas-time Marvel show Hawkeye, let’s take a look back on the holiday-themed DC flick Batman Returns.
“Batman Returns (1992) is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre movies ever made. You wouldn’t expect anything less from a Tim Burton movie, but even then, it’s a hard movie to pin down. It’s a Batman movie, a comic book movie, and somewhere between an action and sci-fi movie—that much is clear. But is the superhero showdown also a Christmas movie?
Read more at Mental Floss
Could Hawkeye be taking another step further into making Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer MCU canon?
“Fans are now theorizing that the watch belongs to Laura, and that Laura Barton is in fact S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Mockingbird. It would make sense, since the talented Cardellini has largely been wasted in the MCU.
“Batman Returns (1992) is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre movies ever made. You wouldn’t expect anything less from a Tim Burton movie, but even then, it’s a hard movie to pin down. It’s a Batman movie, a comic book movie, and somewhere between an action and sci-fi movie—that much is clear. But is the superhero showdown also a Christmas movie?
Read more at Mental Floss
Could Hawkeye be taking another step further into making Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer MCU canon?
“Fans are now theorizing that the watch belongs to Laura, and that Laura Barton is in fact S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Mockingbird. It would make sense, since the talented Cardellini has largely been wasted in the MCU.
- 12/16/2021
- by Lee Parham
- Den of Geek
Our first look at Quantic Dream’s Star Wars game Eclipse showcases some beautiful imagery of the high republic era.
“We already knew this was coming, but a reveal at The Game Awards tonight makes it official: Quantic Dream, the controversial developers of games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, are working on a brand new game set in the Star Wars universe, on what looks like a brand new world of their creation.”
Read more at Kotaku
Could these teases in Hawkeye be setting up Laura Barton, played by the incomparable Linda Cardellini, to be something more than just a superhero’s spouse?
“There are only two episodes left in Marvel’s Hawkeye, and the wildly entertaining Disney+ series clearly has more tricks up its sleeve. Episode 4 delivered more clues about the mysterious Rolex found in the wreckage of the Avengers compound. But whose Rolex is it, and...
“We already knew this was coming, but a reveal at The Game Awards tonight makes it official: Quantic Dream, the controversial developers of games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, are working on a brand new game set in the Star Wars universe, on what looks like a brand new world of their creation.”
Read more at Kotaku
Could these teases in Hawkeye be setting up Laura Barton, played by the incomparable Linda Cardellini, to be something more than just a superhero’s spouse?
“There are only two episodes left in Marvel’s Hawkeye, and the wildly entertaining Disney+ series clearly has more tricks up its sleeve. Episode 4 delivered more clues about the mysterious Rolex found in the wreckage of the Avengers compound. But whose Rolex is it, and...
- 12/13/2021
- by Lee Parham
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Hawkeye episode 4, as well as potential spoilers for future episodes and the wider MCU.
With two episodes left, Hawkeye has a lot of ground left to cover. The two archers not only have to get Clint home to his family by Christmas, but they also have to contend with the Tracksuit Mafia, Echo, probably the Kingpin, a murder mystery, Black Widow, and whatever surprises are going on with Kate’s mother and Jack. There’s a lot on the show’s plate, but one mystery that’s been there since the beginning is that of the watch.
For much of the show, it’s been shoved into the background, but here’s the gist of it: after Thanos blew up Avengers HQ in Avengers: Endgame, some black market folks rummaged through the wreckage to find some stuff worth auctioning. While the narrative has...
With two episodes left, Hawkeye has a lot of ground left to cover. The two archers not only have to get Clint home to his family by Christmas, but they also have to contend with the Tracksuit Mafia, Echo, probably the Kingpin, a murder mystery, Black Widow, and whatever surprises are going on with Kate’s mother and Jack. There’s a lot on the show’s plate, but one mystery that’s been there since the beginning is that of the watch.
For much of the show, it’s been shoved into the background, but here’s the gist of it: after Thanos blew up Avengers HQ in Avengers: Endgame, some black market folks rummaged through the wreckage to find some stuff worth auctioning. While the narrative has...
- 12/8/2021
- by Gavin Jasper
- Den of Geek
Clint Barton’s other half is getting some long-overdue face time in the newest Hawkeye trailer.
The new promo for Marvel’s latest Disney+ standalone series, which is set to premiere on Wednesday, Nov. 24 with the first two of its six episodes, offers a fleeting glimpse of Linda Cardellini’s Laura Barton. The character — who has popped up on the big screen in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Avengers: Endgame, had been conspicuously missing in the trailer that dropped last month.
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The new promo for Marvel’s latest Disney+ standalone series, which is set to premiere on Wednesday, Nov. 24 with the first two of its six episodes, offers a fleeting glimpse of Linda Cardellini’s Laura Barton. The character — who has popped up on the big screen in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Avengers: Endgame, had been conspicuously missing in the trailer that dropped last month.
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- 10/14/2021
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
You’ll know Linda Cardellini from any of her hit projects over the past three decades, from 90s classic Freaks and Geeks to the Scooby-Doo movies to Netflix’s Dead Like Me. It’s easy to forget that she’s also part of the McU, however. The actress first turned up as Laura Barton, wife of Hawkeye, in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She then returned for the opening and final scenes of Avengers: Endgame. And if Cardellini had her way, she’d return a third time. But on a much bigger scale.
First of all, while speaking with Collider, the star touched on what it’s like to be a part of the ever-expanding Marvel universe, saying:
“I mean, you know, it was one of those things where I was sort of brought into the universe and it truly is its own universe,” she said. “It’s its own entity...
First of all, while speaking with Collider, the star touched on what it’s like to be a part of the ever-expanding Marvel universe, saying:
“I mean, you know, it was one of those things where I was sort of brought into the universe and it truly is its own universe,” she said. “It’s its own entity...
- 6/9/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Fiona Apple has always been a critics’ darling, but eight years is a long time away, so how are reviewers greeting “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” which was released on April 17 eight years after “The Idler Wheel” back in 2012? Well, absence clearly made their hearts grow fonder because they seem to think it’s just about perfect.
SEE2021 Grammy Predictions: Album of the Year
Like, literally perfect. As of this writing it has a perfect MetaCritic score of 100 out of 100 based on 17 reviews counted thus far — suffice it to say all of those reviews are positive. Nine of those reviews score it 100, and all but one of them are 90 or above. And she manages to keep improving her critical notices over time: “When the Pawn” (1999) scored 79 on the review aggregator, “Extraordinary Machine” (2005) scored 84 and the aforementioned “Idler Wheel” scored 89. Maybe if she releases another album she’ll break the scale for good.
SEE2021 Grammy Predictions: Album of the Year
Like, literally perfect. As of this writing it has a perfect MetaCritic score of 100 out of 100 based on 17 reviews counted thus far — suffice it to say all of those reviews are positive. Nine of those reviews score it 100, and all but one of them are 90 or above. And she manages to keep improving her critical notices over time: “When the Pawn” (1999) scored 79 on the review aggregator, “Extraordinary Machine” (2005) scored 84 and the aforementioned “Idler Wheel” scored 89. Maybe if she releases another album she’ll break the scale for good.
- 4/20/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Linda Cardellini has left ICM Partners for CAA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Linda Cardellini has left ICM Partners for CAA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
She currently produces and stars opposite Christina Applegate in Dead to Me, which Netflix has renewed for a second season.
Since her breakout role as Lindsay Weir in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's now-classic series Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini has gone on to star in several acclaimed films and TV shows, including Brokeback Mountain, NBC's ER, AMC's Mad Men (for which she received an Emmy nomination as Don Draper's married mistress Sylvia Rosen) and Netflix's Bloodline.
Her credits also include Green Book and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Laura Barton ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kirsten Howard Jun 4, 2019
If you're dying to know what happens to Jen and Judy next, you're in luck, because Dead to Me season 2 has been confirmed.
Dead To Me season 2 has been confirmed by Netflix! Here's everything you need to know.
Dead To Me Season 2 Cast
Dead To Me season 2 will see creator, Liz Feldman back to act as showrunner.
In the first season we met Jen (Christina Applegate) a grieving widow who turned the air around her blue given literally any opportunity. She was on a mission to find out who killed her husband in a hit-and-run when she ran into the upbeat Judy (Linda Cardellini) at a loss support group. Opposites attracted as the two somehow became good friends against the odds, but Judy was keeping a shocking secret from Jen, one that could derail her entire life once again.
read more: Dead to Me Season 1 Review
Both...
If you're dying to know what happens to Jen and Judy next, you're in luck, because Dead to Me season 2 has been confirmed.
Dead To Me season 2 has been confirmed by Netflix! Here's everything you need to know.
Dead To Me Season 2 Cast
Dead To Me season 2 will see creator, Liz Feldman back to act as showrunner.
In the first season we met Jen (Christina Applegate) a grieving widow who turned the air around her blue given literally any opportunity. She was on a mission to find out who killed her husband in a hit-and-run when she ran into the upbeat Judy (Linda Cardellini) at a loss support group. Opposites attracted as the two somehow became good friends against the odds, but Judy was keeping a shocking secret from Jen, one that could derail her entire life once again.
read more: Dead to Me Season 1 Review
Both...
- 6/4/2019
- Den of Geek
While the concluding genocide of last year’s Avengers: Infinity War ensured that Avengers: Endgame didn’t have to juggle quite so many characters in its early minutes, the new movie ultimately boasted the largest cast of any McU flick to date. And in a new Reddit post, user spanish-thumb has ambitiously tried listing every named character who shows up in the film’s 3-hour runtime. Needless to say, spoilers lie ahead.
The list starts off with all the heroes who traveled back in time to acquire the Infinity Stones:
Iron Man/Tony Stark Captain America/Steve Rogers Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff Hulk/Bruce Banner Thor Hawkeye/Ronin/Clint Barton Nebula Rocket War Machine/James Rhodes Ant-Man/Scott Lang
Next up is all the characters that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes encounter during their journey into the past:
Crossbones/Brock Rumlow Jasper Sitwell Alexander Pierce Jack Rollins Ancient One Loki Howard...
The list starts off with all the heroes who traveled back in time to acquire the Infinity Stones:
Iron Man/Tony Stark Captain America/Steve Rogers Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff Hulk/Bruce Banner Thor Hawkeye/Ronin/Clint Barton Nebula Rocket War Machine/James Rhodes Ant-Man/Scott Lang
Next up is all the characters that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes encounter during their journey into the past:
Crossbones/Brock Rumlow Jasper Sitwell Alexander Pierce Jack Rollins Ancient One Loki Howard...
- 4/28/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
Next week’s Avengers: Endgame will see the long-awaited return of Hawkeye. And with the famed archer set to make his first McU appearance since 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, there’s every possibility that his family will also get some screen time in the Phase 3 finale.
Linda Cardellini, for instance, made her franchise debut in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron as Clint’s wife Laura Barton. Though the Green Book actress has yet to get a second outing in the McU, it’s long been a popular theory that she and her three children were among the victims of Thanos’ snap, pushing Hawkeye to embrace his dark side in his new Ronin persona.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cardellini was asked if the upcoming film has such a tragedy in store, to which she offered the following coy response:
“I am not allowed to confirm nor deny,...
Linda Cardellini, for instance, made her franchise debut in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron as Clint’s wife Laura Barton. Though the Green Book actress has yet to get a second outing in the McU, it’s long been a popular theory that she and her three children were among the victims of Thanos’ snap, pushing Hawkeye to embrace his dark side in his new Ronin persona.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cardellini was asked if the upcoming film has such a tragedy in store, to which she offered the following coy response:
“I am not allowed to confirm nor deny,...
- 4/20/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
I was very happy to read Laura Barton’s lovely piece on the dual 40th anniversaries of The Last Waltz and Jim Szalapski’s Heartworn Highways (G2, 16 September). However, when I came to the paragraphs devoted to my old friend and producer Jonathan Taplin, I could feel my eyebrows furrowing: slightly, but furrowing nonetheless. I owe Jonathan a great deal: if it weren’t for him, I would never have been able to make either Mean Streets or The Last Waltz. Yet, it seems our recollections of the shoot on the latter film differ on one important point.
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- 9/30/2016
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
There's no chance Laura Barton could be pleased with Hawkeye cutting his retirement short, right? After visiting the set of Captain America: Civil War over the past few days, star Jeremy Renner, who played the scene-stealing film-stealing Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, officially suited up today to shoot his first scenes in the Marvel epic. To celebrate the occasion, Renner shared two behind-the-scenes snaps of him on set, one of which may have revealed an updated logo for the movie. Check out his tweets below: On set. Behind the scene. #civilwar #captainamerica #hawkeye this set is amazing! pic.twitter.com/vHQOMZXJiF — Jeremy Renner (@Renner4Real) May 21, 2015 Cap 3. Day 1. Time to suit up again #civilwar #captainamerica #hawkeye hope the seams hold up...
- 5/22/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
During the heyday of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," I was an active advocate for studios to pick up on the wonder that was Joss Whedon. Watching "Avengers: Age Of Ultron," it feels like that is exactly what we were asking for when we asked for him to be in charge of our pop culture. And I mean that in both positive and negative ways. Joss Whedon has a great ear for clever dialogue, and that can be a wee bit of a curse. There is something about the way he writes that can make it feel like he's afraid to fully engage in some of the bigger emotion. When you're doing 22 episodes of a television series, you can take one episode to shift the tone to something darker, more somber, and it feels appropriate. In a 140 minute film, you can only find moments to downshift, and when it's surrounded by non-stop wisecracks,...
- 5/19/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
In the wake of “Captain America: The Winter Solider,” HitFix speculated on future Marvel movies based on the information in the film. Some of those educated guesses have come to pass, some are still up in the air, and none of them have been proven (completely) false. Buoyed by this, I’m taking the plunge again with “Avengers: Age of Ultron” because by golly this movie was Packed with future story threads just waiting to be followed down the rabbit hole of comic book lore. Warning: Spoilers For “Age Of Ultron” And Possibly Future Marvel Movies Beyond This Point. I Am Not Joking. #1: Introducing Dr. Helen Cho could mean the Greek gods are on their way to the McU. Image Credit: Marvel Entertainment Back when I first speculated on who Claudia Kim was playing, Dr. Helen Cho didn’t even register as an option. And why would she?...
- 5/2/2015
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
Marvel Studios
Joss Whedon has issued a pre-emptive warning-cum-apology, stating to EW that there will be no ‘post-credits sting’ on The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Which is to say, if you sit watching the film’s eight minute scroll of names running up the screen you won’t be rewarded for your efforts. But you will have at least shown some respect to the people who worked hard to make the movie you just enjoyed.
There will, Kevin Feige clarified, be a scene in the middle of the credits, which he compared to an ‘epilogue.’ In the original Avengers, you will recall, this mid-credits scene was used for the big tease, and the post-credits scene was used for the big joke.
And so it was, until now.
Perhaps it’s a healthy move. Maybe Marvel will get out of the post-credits scene game altogether. The cleaning staff at cinemas will probably be happy about that,...
Joss Whedon has issued a pre-emptive warning-cum-apology, stating to EW that there will be no ‘post-credits sting’ on The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Which is to say, if you sit watching the film’s eight minute scroll of names running up the screen you won’t be rewarded for your efforts. But you will have at least shown some respect to the people who worked hard to make the movie you just enjoyed.
There will, Kevin Feige clarified, be a scene in the middle of the credits, which he compared to an ‘epilogue.’ In the original Avengers, you will recall, this mid-credits scene was used for the big tease, and the post-credits scene was used for the big joke.
And so it was, until now.
Perhaps it’s a healthy move. Maybe Marvel will get out of the post-credits scene game altogether. The cleaning staff at cinemas will probably be happy about that,...
- 4/8/2015
- by Brendon Connelly
- Obsessed with Film
Four years after they ate their way round the Lakes, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon sample the fare of the Amalfi coast. But the taste left by this movie version of the forthcoming TV series is less tart than anticipated – comfort food, not challenging fodder
• Laura Barton goes on set of The Trip to Italy
The Observer has been back on the phone. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's article on fine dining around the north of England was so successful the paper wants a sequel. In Italy this time, in a Mini, on a whistlestop tour of Pompeii, Rome and the Amalfi coast. They'll be plied with the best food, wine and scenery in the world. And – true to form – they will moan, bitch and bicker throughout.
Michael Winterbottom's second tour around the quasi-fictional ins and outs of Coogan and Brydon's friendship arrives at Sundance a touch sun-drunk.
• Laura Barton goes on set of The Trip to Italy
The Observer has been back on the phone. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's article on fine dining around the north of England was so successful the paper wants a sequel. In Italy this time, in a Mini, on a whistlestop tour of Pompeii, Rome and the Amalfi coast. They'll be plied with the best food, wine and scenery in the world. And – true to form – they will moan, bitch and bicker throughout.
Michael Winterbottom's second tour around the quasi-fictional ins and outs of Coogan and Brydon's friendship arrives at Sundance a touch sun-drunk.
- 1/21/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Bowlcuts, wide trousers, bad weather – it's Madchester all over again as Laura Barton spends a day in a field with the makers of Spike Island, a film about a legendary Stone Roses show
Once the birthplace of the British chemical industry and later a toxic wasteground, the area of reclaimed woodland and wetland known as Spike Island gained a certain notoriety in May 1990 as the venue for the Stone Roses' Sunset Sunday gig. With a crowd of 27,000, the show in this once-industrial area of Widnes in Cheshire has become the stuff of Madchester legend, rhapsodised, euologised, recounted ad infinitum. This summer, that gig and the band's later reunion are commemorated in two film releases: Made of Stone, a documentary made by Shane Meadows; and Spike Island, a drama directed by Matt Whitecross.
I visited the set of the latter during shooting on a bitter spring day last year, finding the quiet parkland cluttered with trailers,...
Once the birthplace of the British chemical industry and later a toxic wasteground, the area of reclaimed woodland and wetland known as Spike Island gained a certain notoriety in May 1990 as the venue for the Stone Roses' Sunset Sunday gig. With a crowd of 27,000, the show in this once-industrial area of Widnes in Cheshire has become the stuff of Madchester legend, rhapsodised, euologised, recounted ad infinitum. This summer, that gig and the band's later reunion are commemorated in two film releases: Made of Stone, a documentary made by Shane Meadows; and Spike Island, a drama directed by Matt Whitecross.
I visited the set of the latter during shooting on a bitter spring day last year, finding the quiet parkland cluttered with trailers,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
Ray Winstone plays an Alzheimer's patient on the run in his new film, Ashes – an unsettling drama inspired by the young director's father. Laura Barton visits the very, very rainy Isle of Man set
Under the glare of huge floodlights, the fir trees appear to be dead. They stand pale and brittle, ghostly spines pressed against the darkness. The night is still; then, through the quiet trees, crashes the stumbling form of Ray Winstone, followed at speed by a wild-eyed Jim Sturgess. Winstone lumbers on. Sturgess bounds after him, bellowing: "Dad! Dad! Dad!!!" And somewhere, in a clearing, stands Lesley Manville, her mascara blurred, rain trickling through her fine blond hair.
This is day nine of the Ashes shoot. It's the early hours of the morning, bitterly cold, and we are in a forest on the Isle of Man. The rain falls furiously, beating a steady tattoo against the crew's cagoules and camera covers,...
Under the glare of huge floodlights, the fir trees appear to be dead. They stand pale and brittle, ghostly spines pressed against the darkness. The night is still; then, through the quiet trees, crashes the stumbling form of Ray Winstone, followed at speed by a wild-eyed Jim Sturgess. Winstone lumbers on. Sturgess bounds after him, bellowing: "Dad! Dad! Dad!!!" And somewhere, in a clearing, stands Lesley Manville, her mascara blurred, rain trickling through her fine blond hair.
This is day nine of the Ashes shoot. It's the early hours of the morning, bitterly cold, and we are in a forest on the Isle of Man. The rain falls furiously, beating a steady tattoo against the crew's cagoules and camera covers,...
- 1/17/2013
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
Ray Winstone plays an Alzheimer's patient on the run in his new film, Ashes – an unsettling drama inspired by the young director's father. Laura Barton visits the very, very rainy Isle of Man set
Under the glare of huge floodlights, the fir trees appear to be dead. They stand pale and brittle, ghostly spines pressed against the darkness. The night is still; then, through the quiet trees, crashes the stumbling form of Ray Winstone, followed at speed by a wild-eyed Jim Sturgess. Winstone lumbers on. Sturgess bounds after him, bellowing: "Dad! Dad! Dad!!!" And somewhere, in a clearing, stands Lesley Manville, her mascara blurred, rain trickling through her fine blond hair.
This is day nine of the Ashes shoot. It's the early hours of the morning, bitterly cold, and we are in a forest on the Isle of Man. The rain falls furiously, beating a steady tattoo against the crew's cagoules and camera covers,...
Under the glare of huge floodlights, the fir trees appear to be dead. They stand pale and brittle, ghostly spines pressed against the darkness. The night is still; then, through the quiet trees, crashes the stumbling form of Ray Winstone, followed at speed by a wild-eyed Jim Sturgess. Winstone lumbers on. Sturgess bounds after him, bellowing: "Dad! Dad! Dad!!!" And somewhere, in a clearing, stands Lesley Manville, her mascara blurred, rain trickling through her fine blond hair.
This is day nine of the Ashes shoot. It's the early hours of the morning, bitterly cold, and we are in a forest on the Isle of Man. The rain falls furiously, beating a steady tattoo against the crew's cagoules and camera covers,...
- 1/15/2013
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "The Cat's Meow" by David Kamp (Vanity Fair): Exploring the enduring greatness — and possibly genuine niceness — of Martin Short. "Twelve Gigs on a Boat" by Laura Barton (Intelligent Life): For the last year, a boat balanced on top of a building has been one of London's premier concert venues, because who wouldn't want to perform on a boat balanced on top of a building? "Inside the Greatest Writers Room You've Never Heard Of" by Nell Scovell (Splitsider): Recalling shortest-lived late-night network show of all time: The Wilton North Report. "A Soap Opera on the High Seas" by Charles Homans (New York Times Magazine): On the reality TV empire of Thom Beers,...
- 12/16/2012
- by Andre Tartar,Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
Michael Winterbottom spent five years shooting these children for a film about a family with a father in jail. They tell Laura Barton about fake tears, prison visits – and working well past bedtime
It is late afternoon in a red-brick house in north Norfolk, and the four Kirk children are squished on to the sofa, still in their school uniforms, discussing the art of fake fighting. "I fake-punched: I stopped about that far away," explains Shaun, his eyes broad and blue, hands held apart to show the proximity of his punch. "We had to pretend to hit 'em, coz we weren't actually allowed to actual hit 'em, because if we did we'd get into more trouble."
Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk are the four stars of Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, in competition at the London film festival this week. Shot intermittently over five years, it features John Simm and...
It is late afternoon in a red-brick house in north Norfolk, and the four Kirk children are squished on to the sofa, still in their school uniforms, discussing the art of fake fighting. "I fake-punched: I stopped about that far away," explains Shaun, his eyes broad and blue, hands held apart to show the proximity of his punch. "We had to pretend to hit 'em, coz we weren't actually allowed to actual hit 'em, because if we did we'd get into more trouble."
Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk are the four stars of Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, in competition at the London film festival this week. Shot intermittently over five years, it features John Simm and...
- 10/15/2012
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
Nothing, it seems, can stand in the way of the Margaret Thatcher biopic: you literally couldn't avoid it
The big story
There was only one film in town this week: The Iron Lady. Guardian political grandee Michael White failed to square the screen Thatcher with the one he knew, Alex von Tunzelmann told us there was more to Margaret Thatcher than a fabulous blow dry, Meryl Streep raced to the front of the queue in the best actress Oscar betting, the Thatcher family apparently turned down an invitation to watch the film, and the premiere – on a blue carpet – triggered the usual shenanigans. Our man Peter Bradshaw, though, has the definitive word on the film.
In the news
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 should get an Oscar, say its makers
Warner Bros deny cleaning up the audio on The Dark Knight Rises, after complaints no one could understand...
The big story
There was only one film in town this week: The Iron Lady. Guardian political grandee Michael White failed to square the screen Thatcher with the one he knew, Alex von Tunzelmann told us there was more to Margaret Thatcher than a fabulous blow dry, Meryl Streep raced to the front of the queue in the best actress Oscar betting, the Thatcher family apparently turned down an invitation to watch the film, and the premiere – on a blue carpet – triggered the usual shenanigans. Our man Peter Bradshaw, though, has the definitive word on the film.
In the news
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 should get an Oscar, say its makers
Warner Bros deny cleaning up the audio on The Dark Knight Rises, after complaints no one could understand...
- 1/5/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
Ican't help but feel," wrote Laura Barton last week, in her Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll column, "that these end-of-year lists, however considered and thoughtful and heartfelt, tell us little about the way we have relished music over the past 12 months of our lives." Instead, she celebrated the euphoria of dancing one's socks off to a cover band in an unremarkable pub, an experience we feel "in our bones and our bodies, in our hearts and our hips".
It was, said jforbes, the "best thing I have read on here for ages, beautifully and eloquently put", and it gave Flatlineblur goosebumps. Laura's night in the pub reminded shimmy1 "of seeing my friend drunk, singing Jeremy by Pearl Jam in a Chinese karaoke bar. He was out of tune to a level that I still can't comprehend and he did the whole...
Ican't help but feel," wrote Laura Barton last week, in her Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll column, "that these end-of-year lists, however considered and thoughtful and heartfelt, tell us little about the way we have relished music over the past 12 months of our lives." Instead, she celebrated the euphoria of dancing one's socks off to a cover band in an unremarkable pub, an experience we feel "in our bones and our bodies, in our hearts and our hips".
It was, said jforbes, the "best thing I have read on here for ages, beautifully and eloquently put", and it gave Flatlineblur goosebumps. Laura's night in the pub reminded shimmy1 "of seeing my friend drunk, singing Jeremy by Pearl Jam in a Chinese karaoke bar. He was out of tune to a level that I still can't comprehend and he did the whole...
- 12/16/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Could Lars von Trier have finally destroyed his own career?
The big story
Every week is Lars von Trier week – especially if you're Lars von Trier. But the Danish director, normally so adept at winding up the press and film industry, may have finally put his foot irretrievably in it, have gone that bit too far, gone off the deep end once too often. When he made a crack at Cannes back in May about how he could "understand" Adolf Hitler, I bet he didn't think he'd be fielding questions from the Danish police five months later.
But that is what happened last Wednesday, according to a statement issued by von Trier himself. He said his local bobbies were acting on a "preliminary charge" issued by French prosecutors after his Cannes press conference. Even now, it's not clear if von Trier himself has the full story: the French authorities have...
The big story
Every week is Lars von Trier week – especially if you're Lars von Trier. But the Danish director, normally so adept at winding up the press and film industry, may have finally put his foot irretrievably in it, have gone that bit too far, gone off the deep end once too often. When he made a crack at Cannes back in May about how he could "understand" Adolf Hitler, I bet he didn't think he'd be fielding questions from the Danish police five months later.
But that is what happened last Wednesday, according to a statement issued by von Trier himself. He said his local bobbies were acting on a "preliminary charge" issued by French prosecutors after his Cannes press conference. Even now, it's not clear if von Trier himself has the full story: the French authorities have...
- 10/6/2011
- by Andrew Pulver, Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
If any proof were needed that Jeff Bridges has ascended to that place in the firmament reserved for the universally beloved, then the reaction to our feature last week is surely enough. Here's just a sample. NattyNooNoo: "I love him." DerekSmalls: "He is the dude." Kaivalagi: "Love his dudeness." Musigny: "Great, great actor." (The tide of adoration was a bit much for goldennuggets: "Isn't there at least one bad story about him – surely, he's beaten up a cat or something?") Much discussion also ensued as to Bridges's best work on screen: lots of votes (and quotes) for The Big Lebowski, naturally, but plenty of people namechecked earlier, less ubiquitous work, notably Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (BifferSpice: "Terrific performance in a terrific film") and Fearless (davewicked: "This was the film that really made me stand up and pay attention to his...
If any proof were needed that Jeff Bridges has ascended to that place in the firmament reserved for the universally beloved, then the reaction to our feature last week is surely enough. Here's just a sample. NattyNooNoo: "I love him." DerekSmalls: "He is the dude." Kaivalagi: "Love his dudeness." Musigny: "Great, great actor." (The tide of adoration was a bit much for goldennuggets: "Isn't there at least one bad story about him – surely, he's beaten up a cat or something?") Much discussion also ensued as to Bridges's best work on screen: lots of votes (and quotes) for The Big Lebowski, naturally, but plenty of people namechecked earlier, less ubiquitous work, notably Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (BifferSpice: "Terrific performance in a terrific film") and Fearless (davewicked: "This was the film that really made me stand up and pay attention to his...
- 6/2/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated through 3/7.
"It was Truffaut," noted Laura Barton in a profile for the Guardian last year, "who said she had to be unlocked; that there was in her 'something that was ready to give but also refused to unbutton.'" Give, though, she has — enough at least to prompt Stephen Holden to ask in the New York Times, "What would French film culture look like without its queen, Catherine Deneuve, steering the ship of state?" The question opens his overview of this year's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance. The series opens tonight with François Ozon's Potiche, which in turn, opens another series at BAMcinématek, entitled simply Deneuve and running through March 31, and screens midway through Lacma's series, Beautiful Dreamer: The Early Films of Catherine Deneuve (tomorrow through March 12).
"It was Truffaut," noted Laura Barton in a profile for the Guardian last year, "who said she had to be unlocked; that there was in her 'something that was ready to give but also refused to unbutton.'" Give, though, she has — enough at least to prompt Stephen Holden to ask in the New York Times, "What would French film culture look like without its queen, Catherine Deneuve, steering the ship of state?" The question opens his overview of this year's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance. The series opens tonight with François Ozon's Potiche, which in turn, opens another series at BAMcinématek, entitled simply Deneuve and running through March 31, and screens midway through Lacma's series, Beautiful Dreamer: The Early Films of Catherine Deneuve (tomorrow through March 12).
- 3/7/2011
- MUBI
Billy Liar, a story of smalltown frustration, captivated a generation, pre-empted the 60s – and even inspired Oasis. As the stage play returns, Laura Barton asks Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie why it endures
'I don't think about Billy Liar very often." Tom Courtenay's voice hovers on the line. We have been discussing his upcoming holiday to the north-east coast, splashing about in the warm shallows of the present-day; at this detour into the past, he pauses, and retreats a little. "If I read it now, it would make me laugh," he concludes lightly, distantly. "But I honestly don't know why it's lasted. Who can say why some things are successful?"
It is now 50 years since Keith Waterhouse's novel transferred to the stage, casting in its title role first Albert Finney and later, Courtenay. Published in 1959, Billy Liar has, over those five decades, enjoyed a rich and varied existence,...
'I don't think about Billy Liar very often." Tom Courtenay's voice hovers on the line. We have been discussing his upcoming holiday to the north-east coast, splashing about in the warm shallows of the present-day; at this detour into the past, he pauses, and retreats a little. "If I read it now, it would make me laugh," he concludes lightly, distantly. "But I honestly don't know why it's lasted. Who can say why some things are successful?"
It is now 50 years since Keith Waterhouse's novel transferred to the stage, casting in its title role first Albert Finney and later, Courtenay. Published in 1959, Billy Liar has, over those five decades, enjoyed a rich and varied existence,...
- 9/2/2010
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
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