Feature Louisa Mellor 24 Feb 2014 - 07:00
From Amy Acker to James Frain, we celebrate Grimm’s habit of filling its supporting cast with geek favourites…
Read our look-back at the careers of Grimm co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, here.
When Grimm’s makers were looking for their Nick Burkhardt, the job was to cast someone with all the requirements of a leading man, but none of the distracting ‘wasn’t he in that other thing?’ baggage. In David Giuntoli, whose TV appearances had until then largely been confined to one-off roles in comedies and dramas including Grey’s Anatomy and Ghost Whisperer (the latter produced, not at all coincidentally, by Grimm co-creator Jim Kouf), they found their guy.
With Giuntoli in place, and a solid cast of regulars around him including Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Russell Hornsby, Reggie Lee and Claire Coffee, it was time to fill in the guest roles.
From Amy Acker to James Frain, we celebrate Grimm’s habit of filling its supporting cast with geek favourites…
Read our look-back at the careers of Grimm co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, here.
When Grimm’s makers were looking for their Nick Burkhardt, the job was to cast someone with all the requirements of a leading man, but none of the distracting ‘wasn’t he in that other thing?’ baggage. In David Giuntoli, whose TV appearances had until then largely been confined to one-off roles in comedies and dramas including Grey’s Anatomy and Ghost Whisperer (the latter produced, not at all coincidentally, by Grimm co-creator Jim Kouf), they found their guy.
With Giuntoli in place, and a solid cast of regulars around him including Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Russell Hornsby, Reggie Lee and Claire Coffee, it was time to fill in the guest roles.
- 2/20/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper, Gina Montana | Written and Directed by Benh Zeitlin
There are films that people just sometimes don’t understand, they take them on face value and almost lazily don’t try to understand the characters. This isn’t through stupidity, it’s just that the film does not catch their interest and when that happens, it’s a case that they just don’t get it. I’ve seen this reaction from some when it comes to Beasts of the Southern Wild .
Beasts of the Southern Wild is the story of Hushpuppy and her father Wink. They live in a little community known as the Bathtub. Wink is dying and to prepare his daughter for the world outside he uses a mixture of tough love and life experience to protect her. As his health declines...
Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper, Gina Montana | Written and Directed by Benh Zeitlin
There are films that people just sometimes don’t understand, they take them on face value and almost lazily don’t try to understand the characters. This isn’t through stupidity, it’s just that the film does not catch their interest and when that happens, it’s a case that they just don’t get it. I’ve seen this reaction from some when it comes to Beasts of the Southern Wild .
Beasts of the Southern Wild is the story of Hushpuppy and her father Wink. They live in a little community known as the Bathtub. Wink is dying and to prepare his daughter for the world outside he uses a mixture of tough love and life experience to protect her. As his health declines...
- 2/11/2013
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by: Benh Zeitlin
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Gina Montana
Running Time: 1 hr 31 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: July 13, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: A young girl named Hushpuppy (Wallis) learns to survive in her Louisiana island (called The Bathtub) with her father (Henry) after a large hurricane hits.
Who’S It For? If you like unique indie movie experiences, this one is for you. Fans of movies that tackle man vs. nature would especially be interested in this one.
Overall
There’s certainly a bleakness to the self-sufficient, raw-pig-meat-eating, shack home environment that a filmmaker looking to explore (or expose) such a very non-Hollywood environment as The Bathtub could embrace. Beasts of the Southern Wild has the setting that stereotypically could be made for something that looks at events from an outsider’s perspective – or in this case, those who think residents of such...
Directed by: Benh Zeitlin
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Gina Montana
Running Time: 1 hr 31 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: July 13, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: A young girl named Hushpuppy (Wallis) learns to survive in her Louisiana island (called The Bathtub) with her father (Henry) after a large hurricane hits.
Who’S It For? If you like unique indie movie experiences, this one is for you. Fans of movies that tackle man vs. nature would especially be interested in this one.
Overall
There’s certainly a bleakness to the self-sufficient, raw-pig-meat-eating, shack home environment that a filmmaker looking to explore (or expose) such a very non-Hollywood environment as The Bathtub could embrace. Beasts of the Southern Wild has the setting that stereotypically could be made for something that looks at events from an outsider’s perspective – or in this case, those who think residents of such...
- 7/13/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – If director Benh Zeitlin had written a list of the most outlandishly formidable challenges that a film crew could ever possibly face, he could’ve easily come up with an outline for “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Loosely based on Lucy Alibar’s play, “Juicy and Delicious,” the film pays tribute to the indomitable spirit of New Orleans citizens as they continue to defy the odds.
It’s that same spirit that appears to have fueled this tremendously ambitious picture, the first feature made by the self-dubbed, “Independent Filmmaking Army” known as “Court 13.” Set in a tight-knit southern village known as the Bathtub, the tale is viewed through the eyes of a strong-willed six-year-old, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). As her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), grows weak with illness, environmental catastrophes flood the village while unleashing an assortment of fearsome prehistoric creatures. Thus, Hushpuppy embarks on a journey of survival that...
It’s that same spirit that appears to have fueled this tremendously ambitious picture, the first feature made by the self-dubbed, “Independent Filmmaking Army” known as “Court 13.” Set in a tight-knit southern village known as the Bathtub, the tale is viewed through the eyes of a strong-willed six-year-old, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). As her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), grows weak with illness, environmental catastrophes flood the village while unleashing an assortment of fearsome prehistoric creatures. Thus, Hushpuppy embarks on a journey of survival that...
- 7/4/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Wink (Dwight Henry) and Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané “Nazie” Wallis) don’t have a typical father-daughter relationship in Benh Zeitlin’s visionary fantasy, “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” With his body ailing and his hometown underwater, Wink resorts to tough-love parenting skills in order to teach his daughter self-sufficiency. That includes catching her own food while chanting phrases like, “I’m the man!”
The bond between Wink and Hushpuppy forms the heart of Zeitlin’s film, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize, and went on to snag the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Neither Henry nor Wallis had acted in a film prior to “Beasts,” and have been on a whirlwind festival tour ever since, acquiring widespread acclaim for their work. Zeitlin’s tale of an environmental crisis that unleashes prehistoric creatures known as “aurochs,” while threatening to tear Wink and Hushpuppy from their homeland,...
The bond between Wink and Hushpuppy forms the heart of Zeitlin’s film, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize, and went on to snag the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Neither Henry nor Wallis had acted in a film prior to “Beasts,” and have been on a whirlwind festival tour ever since, acquiring widespread acclaim for their work. Zeitlin’s tale of an environmental crisis that unleashes prehistoric creatures known as “aurochs,” while threatening to tear Wink and Hushpuppy from their homeland,...
- 7/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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