#alan dale

[browsethestacks]

Miss Melody Lane Of Broadway (1950)

Art by Bob Oksner

#Comics #DC Comics #Miss Melody Lane Of Broadway #Melody Lane #Bob Oksner #Vintage #Art #CGC #DC #Broadway #Theater #Film #Television #TV #Eddie Cantor #Fred Astaire #Ed Sullivan #Alan Dale #Jo Stafford #Kathryn Grayson #Seals #1950 #1950s #50s

[evilhorse]

What happened?

#adventure comics #the enchantress #june moone #alan dale #sea monster #whoa #freaky #reprint #bob haney #jay scott pike #dc comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics

[jackbatchelor3]

Owen mate, what's that little blue tank engine called? 🤭🚂

#Wreck #Wreck BBC #BBC Wreck #Owen Deveraux #Alan Dale

[spockvarietyhour]

Janitor, my second favourite android Enoch, and Penny's dad from Lost

#Oh I miss Enoch #Poor android left behind again and again #indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull #Neil Flynn #Joel Stoffer #Alan Dale #indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull rewatch

[stripesysheaven]

#charles widmore #alan dale #lost #lost abc #abc lost #lost fmk polls #my posts #my polls

[superherobriefings]

The Puppeteer

Creator(s): Alec Hope

Alias(es): Alan Dale / Alan Hale

1st Issue w/Uniform: All Good Comics

Year/Month of Publication: 1944/12

pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Puppeteer

#superheroes #comics #Captain V #Puppeteer #Alan Dale #Alan Hale #classic #golden age #red and white stripe trunks #red and white stripe underwear

[annoyingvoidzombie]

Goodbye Dynasty by the CW, you came (back) into my life when I really needed a show to pull me up after the 2017 cancellation/ending era of so many other good shows, you brought me laughter, happiness, sadness and what a great reboot it was, thank you to this AMAZING cast and crew ♥️♥️

#dynasty cw #dynasty #liz gillies #fallon carrington #liam ridley #fallon x liam #adam huber #blake carrington #grant show #rafael de la fuente #sammy jo #alan dale #Joseph anders #rip dynasty

[promosbrasil]

Dynasty 5x22 Promo “Catch 22” (SERIES FINALE)

Dinastia 5 Temporada Episódio 22 Promo

#dynasty cw #dynasty #elizabeth gillies #fallon carrington #rafael de la fuente #sam jones #michael culhane #robert christopher riley #jeff colby #sam adegoke #alan dale #joseph anders #grant show #blake carrington #kirby anders #maddison brown #adam hunter #liam ridley #sam underwood #adam carrington #monica colby #wakeema hollis #dinastia #dynasty promo #dynasty season 5 #dinastia 5 temporada #dynasty 5x22 #dynasty 5x22 series finale #5x22 #dinastia 5x22

[televisionpromos]

Dynasty 5x22 "Catch 22" Promo (Series Finale) - TO THE FUTURE – A new majordomo begins working at the Manor and piques the interest of the Carringtons. Blake and Cristal disagree on how to handle recent events at PPA, causing more strain between the two. The unlikely duo of Blake and Alexis go on a search and rescue mission. Fallon and Liam run through a practice labor and delivery. Jeff is put in a precarious position, one that could potentially change his future radically. Fallon is challenged by the FSN board and Dominique offers to help. Sam does not accept Culhane’s business choices and tries to sabotage Culhane’s plan. Amanda is presented an amazing opportunity which leaves Kirby questioning the future. Adam can’t seem to scheme his way out of his new mess. The episode was written by Josh Reims & Garrett Oakley and directed by Pascal Verschooris. Original airdate 9/16/2022.

#dynasty #dynasty cw #elizabeth gillies #fallon carrington #alexis carrington #james mackay #steven carrington #michael culhane #alan dale #grant show #blake carrington #youtube

[jerrylewis-thekid]

Comedy is a man in trouble : slapstick in American movies It is possible to borrow it for free for one hour at a time.

#jerry lewis #slapstick #in american movie #borrow for free #alan dale #reading #book

[adamwatchesmovies]

Grace: The Possession (2014)

If you look hard, you’ll find that Grace: The Possession (titled simple Grace in some markets) isn’t completely without merit. It’s trying something new - which is always praiseworthy - and there are a couple of moments during its big scene that are clever. Before you get excited, know that it’s hardly worth sitting through the film to see them. This is a predictable, poorly-written horror film.

Grace (Alexia Fast) has finally mustered the courage to leave her grandmother’s home and go to college. Unfortunately, the 18-year-old devout Catholic is ill-suited for the culture shock that awaits her. Things get worse when she begins experiencing nightmares and terrifying hallucinations. Is it mental illness, or the same dark force grandma (Lin Shaye) claims caused Grace’s mom’s death?

Grace: The Possession is almost entirely shot from a first-person point of view, which is a neat idea. This cinematic technique allows us to simulate the terrifying loss of control you would feel while something else takes over your body. As the possession gets worse, Grace hallucinates some skin-crawling or perplexing stuff that might be scary to see from the usual point of view but is even more unsettling from her's. This does mean that those who couldn’t handle the shakiness of “found footage” horror will have a difficult time watching the film, but director Jeff Chan (who co-wrote the story with Chris Pare) must've been aware. Instead of compromising, he made a bold choice and chose to stick with it all the way through.

It’s a shame the film has nothing going on outside of its vantage point. Grace has no personality. Her grandmother is a domineering bully and nothing more. Every single college student reaches for a bottle of alcohol the second they get up, party all night with the help of drugs and cares more about sex than their classes. Seriously, it’s the first day of school and Grace’s roommate, Jessica (Alexis Knapp), is partying like graduation is happening tomorrow. It’s a cartoon.

In theory, three questions will keep you engaged. “What’s happening to Grace?”, “What happened to Grace’s mother?" and "Who is Grace's father?” with the title and premise giving the first question away, you hope the second and third questions will be harder to decipher. They aren’t. The second Grace comes home and meets Father John (Alan Dale) and Deacon Luke (Joel David Moore), you know EXACTLY what’s going on. The film constantly features little things that cinematically rub you the wrong way. Clues about Grace's father are conveniently left out in the open (why hadn’t she found them earlier?). At school, Grace only hangs out with people you know she would never be friends with. For that matter, if she’s so religious and her grandmother is too, why didn’t she apply to a Christian college? it makes no sense.

The film’s conclusion contains several head-scratchers between the unintentionally funny moments. To no one’s surprise, Father John is Grace’s father. It was pretty clear from his introduction that he was up to no good. When the exorcism he attempts fails, Grace goes full demonic and then murders him, saying he’s got to pay for raping Grace’s mom (we see it happen in a scene so ill-conceived I'm stunned someone at the studio didn’t speak up and get it thrown in the trash). The murder just doesn’t seem right. If Grace had given herself to Satan or made a pack with a demon, I'd understand, but why would an evil entity kill someone evil, even if they were a priest? Shouldn’t the possessor try to make humanity suffer more by keeping him alive? Or did the sinister force know Deacon Luke would then invite it into his body to save Grace? It leads to a "scary" twist, where we see the possessed Deacon hosting mass. It's supposed to unsettle but only raises more questions. How does he perform the ceremony when touching holy water makes his skin sizzle? See what I mean about this being poorly thought-out? Things happen not because they make sense; they happen so the movie can have “scares”.

The one new thing Grace: The Possession has to offer isn’t nearly enough to offset the writing. You’ve seen everything this movie has to offer - except for the camerawork - before, done better elsewhere. It’s an awful horror film that borders on the offensive. (July 25, 2021)

#Grace: The Possession #Grace #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Lyn Shaye #2014 movies #2014 films #Jeff Chan #Chris Pare #Peter Huang #Alexia Fast #Alan Dale #Alexis Knapp

[ljones41]

"INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL" (2008) Review

"INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL" (2008) Review As much as I enjoyed the last installment of the INDIANA JONES saga - 2008's "KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL", I had found myself perplexed by it. There was something about its tone that did not strike a similar chord, in compare to the other three movies. It took a second viewing of the movie for me to understand not only the movie’s story, but its entire atmosphere. And it had a lot to do with its setting.

"INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL" is set in 1957. In the movie, Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) leads a convoy of Soviet troops, dressed as American soldiers on a mission to infiltrate a military base in the Nevada desert called "Hangar 51". Spalko and her men force Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) to lead them to a crate holding the remains of an extraterrestrial creature that crashed ten years before in Roswell, New Mexico. When Jones attempts to escape, he is foiled by his old partner, George "Mac" McHale (Ray Winstone), who reveals that he is working with the Soviets. Jones then escapes on a rocket sled into the desert, where he stumbles upon a nuclear test town and survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. While being debriefed, Jones discovers he is under FBI investigation because his friend Mac is a Soviet agent. Jones returns to Marshall College, where he is offered a leave of absence to avoid being fired because of the investigation. As he is leaving, Jones is stopped by Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) and told that his old colleague, Harold Oxley (John Hurt), disappeared after discovering a crystal skull in Peru. Like 2007's ”LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD”, I had harbored some serious doubts on whether George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could relive the old magic of their previous three Indiana Jones adventures of the 1980s. Needless to say, my fears proved to be groundless. Like the Bruce Willis movie, this fourth installment ended up being very entertaining. And although it had some of the old magic of ”RAIDERS”, ”TEMPLE OF DOOM” and ”LAST CRUSADE”, it had a tone that made it different than the other three. It took a movie review by someone named Lazypadawan and a second viewing of the movie to not only notice the difference, but to eventually appreciate it. The main problem I originally had with ”CRYSTAL SKULL” was the presence of a spaceship at the end of the story. The City of Gold that Indy, Spalko, Oxley and others wanted to find, ended up with something to do with . . . inter-dimensional beings. One might as well call them aliens by the look of them. Or it. This is something that has never been seen in an Indiana Jones film before. And of course it has not. The other three movies had been set in the 1930s. It would be only natural that they had a feel of a 30s B-serial adventure. But I had made the mistake of expecting a 1930s serial adventure in a story set in the late 1950s. What I should have realized – and what Lazypadawan had pointed out in her review – was that ”KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL” was not supposed to be a 30s serial adventure set in the 1950s. It was supposed to be a send up of the 1950s “B” movies. And what are the elements of a “B” movie from the 1950s? Here are just a few: *atomic power *the presence of Soviet troops or spies *science fiction *horror *hybrid of science fiction and horror *conflicts between biker hoods and high school/college jocks *the “Red” scare *Soviet (and American) interests in psychic paranormal activities and UFOs ”KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL” had most, if not all elements in the film. I had just read a review in which someone had complained that the movie seemed like a rip-off of a cheesy B-movie. I had made that same mistake when I saw the spaceship sequence near the end of the movie. But now I know better. Lucas and Spielberg had every intention of the movie being a "rip-off" of 1950s B-movies. Like I had said before, it would only make sense. Someone else had mentioned that Harrison Ford had not seemed this animated in years. I am not surprised. Indiana Jones had always been among his favorite characters. And it really showed in his performance. It is also nice to see that after 27 years, his chemistry with Karen Allen (Marion Ravenwood) seemed as strong as ever. By the way, she was great - charismatic and spunky as ever. More importantly, she seemed to have some of the better lines in the film. And I was very impressed by Shia LaBeouf as Marion and Indy’s love child – Mutt Williams aka Henry Jones III. As much as I liked his performance in ”TRANSFORMERS”, I have always thought it seemed a bit too frantic for my tastes. I much preferred role as Henry III (I’m sorry, but I cannot bring myself to say – let alone write – “Mutt”). Like Ford, I could tell that Cate Blanchett really enjoyed her role as the villainous Soviet Colonel-Doctor Spalko. She was as obsessive and ruthless as the past Indy villains. But Blanchett’s performance had a verve and theatricality I have not seen since Amrish Puri’s portrayal of Mola Ram in ”THE TEMPLE OF DOOM”. And John Hurt filled Denholm Elliot’s role as friend/mentor of the Jones family quite beautifully. But unlike Marcus Brody, Harold Oxley had a good reason for his loopy behavior. I also enjoyed Ray Winstone's performance as Indy's treacherous old friend and colleague, McHale. In a way, he reminded me of the Elsa Schneider character in "LAST CRUSADE". But as much as I like Alison Doody, I must say that Winstone's take on a very morally ambiguous character had been handled with more skill. Is there anything about ”KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL” that I disliked? Well, I was not impressed by John Williams’ score. There was nothing original or memorable about it, aside from moments of the old Indy theme being rehashed. Rather disappointing. Nor was I fond of the movie’s heavy-handed style of action and special effects. However, I could honestly complain about the same in regard to the other three films. But the one thing that really irritated me was the sequence featuring the villain’s defeat/destruction. In the end, it was not Indy who defeated the villain or set her destruction in motion. It was the inter-dimensional being. This is the one major fault I have noticed in two other Indiana Jones films. And it tends to give the films - at least in my eyes - an anticlimatic feeling that I find disappointing. In ”RAIDERS”, the opening of the Ark of the Covenant set in motion Belloq and the Nazis’ deaths. Both Indy and Marion were tied to a pole, unable to do anything except keep their eyes closed. In ”THE LAST CRUSADE”, Elsa Schneider turned out to be responsible for the main villain’s death and the destruction of his men through her handling of the Grail Cup. Perhaps Lucas and Spielberg were trying to convey some message about humans being too arrogant to take heed of things/beings that are more powerful or more evolved than mankind. But that same message had been conveyed in ”TEMPLE OF DOOM”. Only in that particular movie, it was Indy’s actions – invoking the power of Shiva with the Sanakara stone – that led to Mola Ram’s destruction. Perhaps this is why I have always found the 1984 movie’s ending a lot more impressive than those of the other three movies. But despite my initial confusion on what Lucas and Spielberg were doing with the movie’s 1950s theme, along with my disappointment of the score and the handling of the villain’s defeat, I found ”KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL” very enjoyable. It was great to see Indiana Jones back in action, again. And even more satisfying was his marriage to his lady love, Marion Ravenwood, in the end. After 30 odd years, those two finally got it right.

#Lucasfilm #George Lucas #steven spielberg #Harrison Ford #Indiana Jones #indiana jones franchise #indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull #kingdom of the crystal skull #shia labeouf #karen allen #ray winstone #john hurt #jim broadbent #alan dale #joel stoffer #cate blanchett #Cold War #red scare #spanish empire #atomic age #igor jijikine #neil flynn #chet hanks #illia volok #dimitri diatchenko #ernie reyes jr. #marion ravenwood

[sanamustdie]

how's casey?

#i wish we saw more of scratch casey!! #i MIGHT be obsessed with him #alex casey #alan wake 2 #mr scratch #alan wake fanart #sam lake #dark presence casey #(ゝ。∂)☆ #my art ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ) #if u saw my other post no u didn't #twin peaks #dale cooper

[jackbatchelor3]

Owen mate, what's that little blue tank engine called?

🤭🚂

#Wreck #Wreck BBC #BBC Wreck #Owen Deveraux #Alan Dale

[losthavenmine]

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

#tucker and dale vs evil #horror #horroredit #classichorrorblog #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #filmedit #userfilm #cinemapix #cinematv #alan tudyk #tyler labine #philip granger #blood tw #gore tw

[emilybeemartin]

Since I'm revisiting much-maligned 2000s war epics, I gotta say I rewatched Robin Hood 2010 recently and it did not deserve the lambasting it got. I feel like at the time people complained it was too gritty and bloated but like??? Compared to what we get now??? It's downright jolly, and man they used every cent of that big budget for gorgeous sets and costumes. Plus you get a guhREAT Cate Blanchett--she carried the whole movie for me, honestly, she's such a wizard--ultra-classic Mark Strong, whippersnapper Oscar Isaac (supporting role by Oscar Isaac's bare ass, A+, 10/10, a joy to have in class), baby Luke Evans as like Thug Number 6, Matthew Macfadyen so slimy you forget he's Matthew Macfadyen, Russell Crowe... pretty much the same as every Russell Crowe tbh (STAND DOWN Aubreyad fam), a half-dozen other greats that you know and love

AND!!!!!!!

My boy!!!! THE boy, even! Alan Doyle as Alan-a-Dale!!! Casting saw that chance and they TOOK it! This is the movie that Bully Boy comes from, which I DO listen to weekly and I WILL belt out given the slightest provocation. Am I singing it now? IT'S LIKELY!

#alan doyle #robin hood 2010 #russell crowe #oscar isaac #matthew macfadyen #cate blanchett #mark strong #alan a dale