by Marc Hustvedt on December 10th, 2009
Everybody has at least one web series junkie on their holiday shopping list. And they are a special lot. They like to watch video—and make video—anywhere, any time and on any device. So we put together Tubefilter’s Web TV Junkie’s Holiday Gift Guide. No sponsored entries here, just a list of what we want most this holiday season (though in full disclosure, Kodak is a Streamy Awards sponsor). And since the Boxee Box doesn’t hit shelves till January, it didn’t make the list for this Holiday season. With tomorrow the first day of Hanukkah, it’s time to start shopping!
Roku HD-XR Player
Now that Roku rolled out its Channel Store, the floodgates of web series goodness have opened up on this set-top box —Blip.tv, Revision3 and more look even better on the HD flat screens. With no TiVo-style subscription fees to worry about, once you have a Roku box you can tap thousands of original web TV shows right into your big screens, in HD, for free. And even though they make a $79 standard def box, if you’re going to get one of these go for the king daddy of the group. The HD-XR comes with Wireless-N dual-band, designed for next generation high-speed networks, which is twice as fast as regular Wi-Fi. The company’s even offering a 30-day money back guarantee on the off chance you can’t handle this much streaming goodness.
$129.99
by Marc Hustvedt on June 1st, 2009
It’s safe to say that Crackle’s action-packed Angel of Death makes the short list of this year’s hit web series. Ed Brubaker’s gritty stunt-filled masterpiece, starring stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoe Bell as a ruthless assassin looking to right the wrongs of her mercenary past, has already racked up over 5 Million views since its launch on March 2nd.
Today comes news out of Sony that the 10-part web series has been picked up by cable network Spike TV to air as a 90-minute feature film on July 25th. Three days the DVD will be released, will plenty of Bell, Lucy Lawless, Doug Jones and friends.
by Jonathan Hludzinski on February 25th, 2009
Let me tell you what’s Bad Ass: This show, Zoe Bell, and how I feel when I watch it.
Angel of Death, the ten episode web series from creator Ed Brubaker and Sony’s Crackle is coming to a computer near you on March 2nd. This gem, about a cold-blooded killer growing a conscience, along with a few other shows I’m starting to see out there, is a whole new level of web series—from storytelling, to production value, to performance. I’m telling you folks, the times they are a changin’.
At the moment, the jury is out on Franklin, Eve’s assassin trainee, he just seems a little too ‘naïve’ to be a future assassin, there’s just no darkness to him and I can’t tell if it’s the writing, directing or Justin Huen’s acting, but something here is amiss. And finally there’s Jake Abel as beleaguered mob-boss-to-be, Cameron Downes. This kid must be twenty years old and just as a choice in the writing, is a fantastic character that’ll be one to watch as he slowly implodes, because you just know it’s going to happen. As far as name-dropping, Lucy Lawless is supposed to soon appear on the show, but as of episode four she hasn’t, but that’s sure to add some more light to an already mostly bright cast.
by Marc Hustvedt on December 27th, 2008
Zoe Bell is about to take front and center of a few million LCD screens this February. And it’s about time. We have to admit we’ve been looking forward to this trailer (above) since we took a visit to the set of Crackle’s new action thriller web series Angel of Death, which stars the New Zealand stuntwoman-actress (Bell) as Eve, a vengeful assassin out to “right the wrongs” of all those vicious cold-hearted hits. That’s all after a near-death wound to the head delivers visions of her past victims. Really? Well, thankfully comic mastermind Ed Brubaker, known for his gritty crime fiction (and a couple of Eisner Awards), wrote the series and will most likely keep it out of the ridiculous bin.
Bell, of course is the longtime stuntwoman for former Xena star Lucy Lawless, who co-stars as Bell’s weary neighbor Vera. Rounding out the cast are Doug Jones, Ted Raimi (brother of Spider-Man director Sam Raimi) and Jake Abel. Crackle went with director Paul Etheredge for the series, having helmed the Buried Alive web series for them late last year.
by Marc Hustvedt on October 21st, 2008
With Angel of Death, Zoe Bell is making her transition from stuntwoman to full-fledged badass female action star. “Eve is guiltless, heartless — emotionally sterile before she suffers the trauma that changes her,” Bell tells us. “She has to learn to co-exist with emotion” she adds, letting on that she has worked her character backstory well beyond what writer Ed Brubaker had written out.
by Bobby Bender on September 5th, 2008
New Zealand stuntwoman-turned-actress, Zoë Bell, best known as the hood-straddling heroine in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, has been cast as the lead in Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker’s new web series, Angel of Death. Brubaker and White Rock Lake Productions will release the series on Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s online television network.
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