Ink Master: Angels is a new series from Spike that puts some of the best female competitors from Ink Master Season 8 and puts them up against local tattoo artists across the country. Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose will travel across America taking on all-commers in a variety of competitions. In the series premiere they are Las Vegas bound where the challenge subject matter is addiction. Each week the competitors will be given different challenges that will push their tattoo skills and their creativity to the limit. If a competitor manages to beat one of the Angels, then...read more...
- 10/3/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Gia Rose is one of the four new stars of Spike’s newest series — Ink Master: Angels. Along with the other three, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Ryan Ashley Malarkey, she was a contestant on Ink Master Season 8 last year. Gia has worked from the east coast to the west coast, but her 14-year path as a tattoo artist has been far from easy. In our interview below she tells us how after her apprenticeship and subsequent work in a New Orleans tattoo shop, Gia discovered she had an aggressive form of cervical cancer. Don’t Miss: Exclusive interview with...read more...
- 9/30/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Spike megahit Ink Master constantly delivers the goods with larger-than-life personalities and amazing tattoos, all created during stressful but spectacular challenges. On Season 8 of the show last year, the women — Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose — all bonded along the way. Without realizing it, these fab four gave producers a launchpad for the big upcoming Ink Master spinoff: Ink Master: Angels. The result of Season 8? The series’ first female winner was crowned. Ryan Ashley Malarkey, a small-town Pennsylvania girl whose inner artistic bent and admirable work ethic — undoubtedly helped by her arrestingly...read more...
- 9/27/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Watch out, boys. Today, Spike announced they've ordered a new spinoff of the TV series Ink Master called Ink Master: Angels.The competition show "features four of "Ink Master" Season 8's top female competitors - Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose - as they travel the country and go head to head with some of America's most talented tattoo artists."Read More…...
- 6/6/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Spike has given the greenlight to a new entry in its Ink Master tattoo franchise: Ink Master: Angels, a 10-episode series focusing on four of the original show’s top female contestants, will air this fall. Angels will follow four previous Ink Master competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose – as they travel the country in contests with other tattoo artists. Winners of the various challenges vie for a spot on Season 10 of Ink Master (premiering in…...
- 6/5/2017
- Deadline TV
Ahead of its Season 9 summer premiere, Spike TV has renewed its hit tattoo-competition series Ink Master for a 10th season and given the green light to a female-focused special, Ink Master Angels. Ink Master has received a 16-episode order and will go into production later this year for premiere on the rebranded Paramount Network in 2018. The hourlong special Ink Master Angels will feature four of Season 8's top female competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson…...
- 3/23/2017
- Deadline TV
Ryan Ashley Malarkey became the first ever woman to claim the Ink Master crown when she won the Spike reality TV tattooing show. But who is she, and what is her background? Incredibly, Ryan, fro Kingston, Pennsylvania, had only been tattooing for four years before she appeared on Ink Master, starting when she was 24 years old. As well as being a tattoo artist, she is the owner of The Strange & Unusual Oddities Parlor which has branches in both Kingston and Philadelphia, Pa, and which she set up with her fiance Josh Balz. It sells a bizarre collection of,...read more...
- 12/8/2016
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
Ink Master had its final elimination before next week’s season live finale last night — and now we know who the last three will be. The episode started off with four artists still in the running: Ryan Ashley Malarkey, Kelly Doty, Nate Beavers, and Gian Karle Cruz. The elimination took place over three rounds in a 15-hour tattoo marathon: With Kelly, Chris Nunez’s last remaining artist, getting herself into the final straight away with a stellar effort. In the second round, Ryan came out top earning herself a place in next week’s all-or-nothing episode. This was also a series first, as it meant...read more...
- 11/30/2016
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
On Ink Master tonight, tattoo legend Chris Garver drops in as a guest judge as the contestants face turning their canvases into cyborgs! Garver has been tattooing since 1988 and previously featured on TLC’s reality series Miami Ink. And this week on Spike he lends his decades of expertise to deciding who’ll be eliminated from the Ink Master Season 8 line-up. There are only five artists remaining — Ryan Ashley Malarkey, Nate Beavers and Gian Karle Cruz from Team Peck and Nikki Simpson and Kelly Doty from Team Núñez. But when Dave Navarro breaks the news that they’ll be making their...read more...
- 11/22/2016
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
On Ink Master tonight, the artists put their canvases through excruciating pain as they tattoo the palms of their hands. The tattoos are part of this week’s Flash Challenge on the Spike show, meant to test the contestants’ technical application skills. Tattooing on the palm is one of the most painful areas as the hands are packed with nerve endings. It also requires special technique due to the type of skin and the shape of the palms. Artist Ryan Ashley says: “Getting your palm tattooed is one of the most complicated, serious areas. It’s extremely painful, and it’s not like normal tattooing.”...read more...
- 11/1/2016
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
PARK CITY -- Teeth is the most alarming cautionary tale for men with wandering libidos since Fatal Attraction. It may also be the first horror movie that women drag men to see rather than the reverse. Mitchell Lichtenstein's female revenge tale can't quite decide whether it wants to be a comedy, horror flick or social satire so it does all these things. There's also an artlessness about it, some of which appears intentional, that will probably marginalize the film as a midnight cult film rather than a movie that opens number-one its first weekend. But these Teeth have enough bite that the film is certain to gain domestic distribution once it quits the festival circuit.
The heroine, played with sly blandness and innocence by the very talented Jess Weixler, discovers she is a real-life example of the vagina dentata myth. Yes, your high-school Latin is working just fine -- that does mean toothed vagina. Now do you see where this movie is going?
For young Dawn (Weixler), her body is a scary mystery. Not understanding her budding desires and having suppressed a childhood incident that left her stepbrother with a damaged finger, she prolongs the inevitable by joining a chastity group. Meanwhile, her grown stepbrother (John Hensley), perhaps in response to that long-ago love at first bite, has turned into a tattooed, body-pierced punk who seeks erotic pleasure in pain.
Dawn experiences first love with fellow chastity pledge Tobey (Hale Appleman). Their courtship reaches its climax in a swimming grotto where passion overpowers Tobey's vows. The next thing he knows he is staring at his severed penis on the cave floor. (Yes, the film is that graphic.)
Tobey disappears and Dawn, in complete shock, tells no one. To clarify her anatomical aberration, she visits a gynecologist (Josh Pais) but what happens there isn't pretty either. The Web reveals that central to the vagina dentate myths in most cultures is the hero who must conquer the toothed vagina. Perhaps Ryan Ashley Springer) is the answer.
Lichtenstein, an actor making his feature writing-directing debut, never quite gets the tone right. The gore, bloody as it is, is built for laughs. Yet serious issues get in the way of the comedy, such as the mortal illness of Dawn's stepmother (Vivienne Benesch).
Helping matters though is Weixler, who marvelously conveys youthful confusion over blooming sexuality, not to mention her newly discovered powers. She develops an intimate relationship with the camera, where she lets you in on her innermost thoughts and feelings, which the other characters never discern.
Also helping matters is Paul Avery's production design. While the story takes place in an unnamed contemporary small town, Avery's interiors and exteriors reflect the depressing bad taste of '50s design. This triggers memories of old sci-fi movies, right down to the nuclear plant cooling towers that loom over the town and offer a possible explanation for the heroine's genetic mutation.
Teeth is a solid first effort that makes you extremely curious about the filmmaker's next project.
Teeth
Teeth LLC
Credits: Writer/director: Mitchell Lichtenstein; Producers: Joyce
Pierpoline, Mitchell Lichtenstein; Director of photography: Wolfgang Held;
Production designer: Paul Avery; Music: Robert Miller; Costume designer:
Rita Ryack; Editor: Joe Landauer.
Cast: Dawn: Jesse Weixler; Brad: John Hensley; Dr. Godfrey: Josh Pais;
Tobey: Hale Appleman; Ryan: Ashley Springer: Kim: Vivienne Benesch; Bill:
Lenny Von Dohlen.
No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes.
The heroine, played with sly blandness and innocence by the very talented Jess Weixler, discovers she is a real-life example of the vagina dentata myth. Yes, your high-school Latin is working just fine -- that does mean toothed vagina. Now do you see where this movie is going?
For young Dawn (Weixler), her body is a scary mystery. Not understanding her budding desires and having suppressed a childhood incident that left her stepbrother with a damaged finger, she prolongs the inevitable by joining a chastity group. Meanwhile, her grown stepbrother (John Hensley), perhaps in response to that long-ago love at first bite, has turned into a tattooed, body-pierced punk who seeks erotic pleasure in pain.
Dawn experiences first love with fellow chastity pledge Tobey (Hale Appleman). Their courtship reaches its climax in a swimming grotto where passion overpowers Tobey's vows. The next thing he knows he is staring at his severed penis on the cave floor. (Yes, the film is that graphic.)
Tobey disappears and Dawn, in complete shock, tells no one. To clarify her anatomical aberration, she visits a gynecologist (Josh Pais) but what happens there isn't pretty either. The Web reveals that central to the vagina dentate myths in most cultures is the hero who must conquer the toothed vagina. Perhaps Ryan Ashley Springer) is the answer.
Lichtenstein, an actor making his feature writing-directing debut, never quite gets the tone right. The gore, bloody as it is, is built for laughs. Yet serious issues get in the way of the comedy, such as the mortal illness of Dawn's stepmother (Vivienne Benesch).
Helping matters though is Weixler, who marvelously conveys youthful confusion over blooming sexuality, not to mention her newly discovered powers. She develops an intimate relationship with the camera, where she lets you in on her innermost thoughts and feelings, which the other characters never discern.
Also helping matters is Paul Avery's production design. While the story takes place in an unnamed contemporary small town, Avery's interiors and exteriors reflect the depressing bad taste of '50s design. This triggers memories of old sci-fi movies, right down to the nuclear plant cooling towers that loom over the town and offer a possible explanation for the heroine's genetic mutation.
Teeth is a solid first effort that makes you extremely curious about the filmmaker's next project.
Teeth
Teeth LLC
Credits: Writer/director: Mitchell Lichtenstein; Producers: Joyce
Pierpoline, Mitchell Lichtenstein; Director of photography: Wolfgang Held;
Production designer: Paul Avery; Music: Robert Miller; Costume designer:
Rita Ryack; Editor: Joe Landauer.
Cast: Dawn: Jesse Weixler; Brad: John Hensley; Dr. Godfrey: Josh Pais;
Tobey: Hale Appleman; Ryan: Ashley Springer: Kim: Vivienne Benesch; Bill:
Lenny Von Dohlen.
No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes.
- 1/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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