#joe halloran

[sharry-arry-odd]

But what marred that beautiful scene was–well–what looked like the corner of an old, brown leather book, sticking out of the center of his chest. Joe sighed. "Well, that's not something you see every day."

Revenant, by Phaedra Weldon

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Marvel Voices: Wakanda Forever is an excellent set of stories

Marvel Voices: Wakanda Forever is an excellent set of stories #comics #comics #comicbooks #blackpanther #wakandaforever

When Black Panther: Wakanda Forever debuted last year, we all waited with baited breath to see how they would address Chadwick Boseman’s passing. As the story addressed it, to showing how those left behind, stayed affected. As it created divisions amongst the nation, where none laid before. I was probably the most realistic depiction of grief , that had not ever been seen. The film also talked…

[brokehorrorfan]

Turbulence will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on June 18 via Kino Lorber. The 1997 action thriller spawned two direct-to-video sequels in 1999 and 2001.

Robert Butler (who helped the pilots for Star Trek and Batman) directs from a script by Jonathan Brett. Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, and Hector Elizondo star.

Turbulence has been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision/HDR. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by director Robert Butler, moderated by filmmaker Joe Begos (new)

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by director Robert Butler, moderated by filmmaker Joe Begos (new)

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

A handful of last-minute Christmas Eve passengers are boarding a flight from New York to Los Angeles that will change their lives forever…if they survive. For flight attendant Teri Halloran (Lauren Holly), it’s just another plane ride from coast to coast—with only one difference. This time they’ll be carrying two very special passengers—an armed robber named Stubbs (Brendan Gleeson) and a seductive serial killer called Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta)—both handcuffed, shackled and escorted by top security agents. But when Stubbs slaughters one of his escorts and manages to break free, the balance of power suddenly changes hands. Now the cool and intelligent psychopath Ryan Weaver controls the plane, and the lives of every passenger and flight attendant on it. With the massive 747 heading into a severe storm, the danger from outside is almost as deadly as the danger within. The storm could kill you—but Weaver will make you suffer first.

Pre-order Turbulence.

[ecle-c-tic]

Strolling in the Forest, a playlist for @lady-ofmischief

I got so carried away with this one... It was easier for me to bulk this one up bc these are all songs I frequently use on my walks! I will say though, my route is a circle and has a big!!! hill in the middle so there are a few more-upbeat ones just bc I gotta keep going up a big hill! I'll put a little star beside some of the really powerful ones just in case you want to take them out :)

Otherwise, the vibes are intended to be peaceful, airy, reflective, tender, and chill. I hope you can enjoy some time with the ol' mother nature listening to this playlist 💛

I am sorry there's so much Cat Stevens/Yusuf but his 1970s albums are nature distilled <3

I split it into two parts (part I: vocals and part II: instrumental)

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Part I

The Wind [Cat Stevens/Yusuf]

Miles from Nowhere [Cat Stevens/ Yusuf] 

Bron-Y-Aur Stomp [Led Zeppelin] 

Rubylove [Cat Stevens/Yusuf]

Tuesday’s Dead [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Moonshadow [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Peace Train [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Morning has Broken [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Funny How Love Is [Queen]

I Want Some Sun [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Somebody to Love [Queen}

Silent Sunlight [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

I Can’t Keep It In [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Doing Alright [Queen]

The Night Comes Down [Queen]

‘39 [Queen]

Bitterblue [Cat Stevens/Yusuf] 

Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Live from Live Aid) - [Elton John, George Michael]

Nevermore [Queen]

White Queen (As It Began) [Queen]

Skyline Pigeon - Piano Version [Elton John] 

La Japonaise [Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballe] 

Guide Me Home [Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballe] 

Seven Seas of Rhye [Queen]*

Heal the Pain [George Michael]

Dreams [Fleetwood Mac] 

Peaceful Easy Feeling [The Eagles]

Mr. Blue Sky [ELO]*

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) [Edison Lighthouse] 

Rotten Peaches [Elton John] 

Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are Stone [John Denver]

VENT’ANNI [Maneskin]

Amoreena [Elton John]*

The Game of Cards [Maddy Prior, June Tabor] 

Country Life [The Watersons] 

Part II

Don’t Stop Me Now (Instrumental) [Queen, Simon Mulligan] 

The Merry Go Round of Life [Joe Hisaishi/London Symphony Orchestra]

Emma Suite [Isobel Waller-Bridge] 

The Adventure Begins [Howard Shore] 

Dawn [Jean-Yves Thibaudet] 

My Neighbour Totoro [Joe Hisaishi/London Symphony Orchestra] 

Kiki’s Delivery Service [ Joe Hisaishi/London Symphony Orchestra] 

The Shire [Howard Shore] 

Very Old Friends [Howard Shore] 

A Very Respectable Hobbit [Howard Shore]

Many Meetings [Howard Shore] 

Silver Leaves [James Newton Howard] 

Galadriel [Bear McCreary]

Elendil and Ilsildur [Bear McCreary] 

Elrond Half-Elven [Bear McCreary]

Lighting the Beacons [Howard Shore]****

Merida’s Home [Patrick Doyle] 

In Her Heart [Patrick Doyle] 

Samwise the Brave [Howard Shore]

The Fellowship [Howard Shore/The London Symphony Orchestra] 

Concerning Hobbits [Howard Shore] 

May Nights [Tchaikovsky] 

Halloran’s Jig [Scythian]

Piano Concerto no. 2 - andante  [Shostakovich]

Spotify Link to the entire playlist here 💛

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return of the king ecle-c-tic celebration 🎉

hehe you’re being tagged bc of this post:

@lady-ofmischief @whatmarisays @thislookinyoureyes @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @trinikins

MARI!!! Your playlist is on it's way but I think you'd enjoy this one as well :)

[lollymiah]

Stephen King doesn't just reference his own work in Doctor Sleep. He references his son Joe Hill's as well. In the novel, Dick Halloran tells Danny Torrance that his grandfather was friends with Charlie Manx, the vampiric villain of Hill's book NOS4A2. 

In turn, Manx refers to Doctor Sleep's villains, The True Knot, in his book. He says they have similar habits (hunting down children with powers) and have agreed to stay out of each others' way.

[denimbex1986]

'The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 15, 2024 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.

The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan (who also wrote “Foster”, adapted into the Academy Award nominated Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)).

Small Things Like These reunites director Mielants (WIL, De Patrick, The Responder) with Murphy, who previously worked together on series three of Peaky Blinders. Walsh, a longtime collaborator of Murphy’s, wrote the script. Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own.

The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.”

The film was produced by Murphy and Alan Moloney through their company Big Things Films along with Catherine Magee. Matt Damon and Drew Vinton also produce alongside executive producers Ben Affleck, Kevin Halloran, and Michael Joe for Artists Equity with FilmNation Entertainment handling international sales. The film was financed by Artists Equity and Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann and was co-produced in Belgium by Wilder Content.

“With Small Things Like These, Tim Mielants tells the story of a man of few words, with wide open eyes, as clear as the skies of Ireland. In The Quiet Girl we already had sense of Claire Keegan’s skill in portraying small, apparently simple characters and making them unforgettable; here her delicate, rich and yet down-to-earth writing finds a great interpreter in Cillian Murphy. We are confident that this story that allies the kindness to be directed to the more fragile, and the willpower to stand up against injustice, will resonate with everyone. We are looking forward to launching this ‘quiet’ yet quite exceptional film at the start of Zeitgeist Irland 24, a year-long celebration of Irish culture in Germany,” says the Berlinale’s Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian.'

[ulkaralakbarova]

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: J. B. Bernstein: Jon Hamm Tom House: Bill Paxton Brenda Paauwe: Lake Bell Rinku: Suraj Sharma Ash Vasudevan: Aasif Mandvi Dinesh: Madhur Mittal Amit: Pitobash Ray Arkin: Alan Arkin Lisette: Bar Paly Pete: Al Sapienza Chang: Tzi Ma Theresa: Allyn Rachel Indian Reporter: Ravi Naidu Hot Girl: Gabriela Lopez Basketball Player (uncredited): Tanner Anderson Scout: Tom Verducci Mark: Brett Zimmerman Film Crew: Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel Music: A. R. Rahman Casting Director: Sheila Jaffe Supervising Sound Editor: Mark P. Stoeckinger First Assistant Director: Mike Topoozian Screenplay: Tom McCarthy Production Design: Barry Robison Producer: Joe Roth Director of Photography: Gyula Pados Director: Craig Gillespie Costume Designer: Kirston Leigh Mann Set Decoration: Jeanette Scott Producer: Mark Ciardi Producer: Gordon Gray Co-Producer: Tabrez Noorani Unit Production Manager: Kevin Halloran Co-Producer: Neil Mandt Executive Producer: Palak Patel Executive Producer: Connor Schell Art Direction: Jeremy Woolsey Executive Producer: Bill Simmons Casting Director: Seher Aly Latif Sound Designer: Alan Rankin Music Supervisor: Jon Mooney Hair Department Head: Theraesa Rivers Key Hair Stylist: Arturo Rojas Key Makeup Artist: Ron Pipes Second Assistant Director: Michael McCue Co-Producer: Michael Mandt Makeup Department Head: Lana Horochowski Visual Effects Supervisor: Sean Thigpen Movie Reviews: r96sk: I can’t say there is anything overly noteworthy about ‘Million Dollar Arm’. but it’s well paced and features a great (true) story – it makes for a very enjoyable 124 minutes. Jon Hamm is a good choice to play lead character JB, he does carry the film with his performance. There are other pleasant performances though, Pitobash Tripathy (Amit) stands out most from those behind Hamm. Bill Paxton (Tom), Lake Bell (Brenda), Suraj Sharma (Rinku) and Madhur Mittal (Dinesh) merit props too. It’s a feel-good premise, one that is rather nice to see play out. The score is solid, as is the cinematography. It’s a positive that they spend a decent chunk of the film actually in India, I had a inkling they might’ve skipped it but thankfully they do not – they tell the story well. It’s probably Disneyfied in ways, but who cares. It isn’t anything necessarily special, but I certainly thoroughly enjoyed this. Recommended.

[casspurrjoybell-17]

Hart and Hunter - Chapter 11 - Part 1

*Warning Adult Content*

Julian Hart

Holding my cell-phone in front of me, I descend into the dark.

Rian Halloran's light has already vanished and my own barely penetrates a few meters into the tunnel's gloom.

"Halloran?" I call.

A dull and quickly fading echo is the only reply.

At the bottom of the steps, I hesitate.

An icy draft, like a ghastly exhalation, flows from the tunnel's mouth, carrying with it the scent of damp stone and decay.

Though now shielded, my senses remain slightly raw from the reading and I pause for a breath as I consider my next move.

Do I a) follow a mysterious man I just met into a dark tunnel that leads who-the-fuck-knows-where or b) call my werewolf boyfriend and wait for help?

Hissing a few choice expletives under my breath, I decide that, before I do something incredibly stupid, I should at least send Dane a text telling him where, exactly, I've gone but when I open my messages again, I discover there's no signal.

I'm not a complete idiot, so I turn back towards the stairs, intending to return to the surface and send a text from there.

I've only taken two steps when Halloran's voice, garbled by echoes, reaches my ears.

All I can discern is my name and the urgency in his tone.

Swearing under my breath, I waver.

Then Halloran calls again and this time I catch the word 'help' among the mangled sounds.

"Fucking wonderful," I whisper to myself as I turn back towards the tunnel.

"If you get murdered down here, it's your own damn fault, Julian. No wonder Dane doesn't let you do things."

Heart in my throat, I step into the gloom.

Closely set bricks of rough black stone form the tunnel's sides, which curve inward to meet in an arch overhead.

Crumbled mortar litters the floor and the space is so narrow that a large man would brush his shoulders on either wall and Dane would have to duck his head.

Several meters in, the tunnel connects to another passageway at right angles and I pause to consider this new choice.

A slight noise on my right, like the rustle of dry leaves or the whisper of breath, draws me in that direction but I've hardly taken a step when another echo carrying traces of my name calls to me from the left.

With a shudder, I turn and follow it.

Soon I discover that every dozen paces the tunnel turns either right or left and before long I've lost all sense of direction.

With each step, the hazards of underground places rise unbidden to my mind, pockets of deadly gas, the risk of collapse, getting lost or trapped without a light, to say nothing of less natural dangers.

I've just about psyched myself out to where my own shadow will scare me shitless if I look at it wrong, when I round a corner and come face-to-face with Halloran, coming back the other way.

We both startle and I fall back and hit the damp brick wall with a half-stifled shriek.

"Julian. Lord Almighty, are you all right?" he asks, reaching to steady me.

Hand pressed to my chest, I manage to gasp a reply.

"Yes. Are you?"

"Yes, yes. I found something I need your help with, is all. Wasn't sure you'd heard me in this damned maze, so I was on my way back."

"What is it?"

He nods back down the tunnel and beckons.

"Come and see. It's not far."

He leads the way and my nerves settle a little as I follow him.

"What the hell is this place?" I ask as we turn another corner and the floor dips and rises once more.

"I'm no local historian but I'd guess it's original to the town," Halloran says.

"Probably built by the railway workers who founded the place in the late nineteenth century. Look..."

He points to the side, where another opening leads to a short passage ending in a flight of stairs.

"Just like the ones in Lagrange's shop. There are more like that, further on. I'd say the tunnel connects to all the buildings on this block."

"Why?"

"To get around unseen, most likely. It's perfect for smuggling contraband or attending clandestine meetings or just for your average Joe to visit the brothel without it making the morning gossip rounds."

He keeps his voice low and I do the same.

I also notice that he's drawn his gun and carries in what Dane calls a 'low ready' position, angled at the ground.

"What's the gun for?" I whisper.

He glances at me over his shoulder.

"Shooting things. I thought all you Americans knew that much."

"Is it safe to shoot down here? What if the bullet ricochets or ignites a cloud of gas or something?"

He snorts.

"You've been watching too many films. It's just a precaution. I heard some noises earlier. Probably just rats but best be safe than sorry."

We proceed in silence for several minutes and I count two more short, branching passageways ending in stairs.

I also note a few places where the walls have been patched and the arched ceiling reinforced with curved strips of steel.

"Someone's kept the place up," I remark quietly.

"Aye and put it to good use as well, I wager."

"The thief?"

Halloran lifts a shoulder in a slight shrug.

"Maybe. It would explain how he's been able to break into so many places without so much as tripping an alarm. Ah, here we are."

He stops and gestures at a section of wall.

The bricks are a slightly different shade and set in a more regular pattern.

Tracing the outline of an upright rectangle roughly the size of a small door, he says...

"There's no mortar here... just the bricks stacked in rows."

"And how the fuck did you notice that?" I ask, my suspicion returning in full.

Either failing to notice or choosing to ignore my tone, he keeps his attention on the wall.

"There's a slight breeze... a change in the air. Don't you feel it?"

Now that he points it out, I detect a thread of colder air among the prevailing dank draft, carrying a strange mineral scent and another, unpleasantly sweet odor.

"Another tunnel?" I ask.

"Maybe... something that's been blocked off at the very least. That's why I need the help. I can't move the bricks while holding my light and gun and I wasn't quite willing to give up either on my own."

"Can we just knock it down?" I ask, giving the wall an experimental shove.

It doesn't budge and Halloran shakes his head.

"We don't know what's on the other side and even without mortar, gravity and friction are holding it in place well enough. Here... start at the top."

I do as he says and quickly find a brick I can move.

Setting it aside, I shine my light through the hole and discover a black void on the other side.

My flash illuminates a low, sloping ceiling of rough stone but not much else.

Halloran has a look as well and then we work quickly to pull out more bricks.

Within ten minutes, we have a neat pile stacked to one side.

Grit covers my skin, dust hangs in the air and I sneeze more than once before we finish.

[weirdsciencecomics]

Fantastic Four Road Trip #1 Review

Fantastic Four Road Trip #1 Review

Written by: Christopher Cantwell

Art by: Filipe Andrade

Colors by: Chris O’Halloran

Letters by: VC’s Joe Caramagna

Release Date: 12/2/2020

Price: $4.99

I’m not sure if Christopher Cantwell got the memo, but Halloween is two months too late. This random over priced one-shot, disguised as a could be mini series, that should have been a “What IF” story is one big waste of time.…

[postguiltypleasures]

I Started Reading

Doctor Sleep and I got to the part where Dan is settling in New Hampshire but keeps coming across things that remind him of The Overlook. One of them, is being close to a mountain, which I find very funny because The Overlook is in Colorado and when I went to school in New England people from Colorado and other states the Rockies cross would always be derisive about the east coast mountains.

Also Dick Halloran remembers his abusive grandfather threatening to send him to Charlie Manx, the villain of Stephen King’s son, Joe Hill’s book NOS4A2. I’d say this was sweet, but the details keep telling me that’s the wrong word.

[sharry-arry-odd]

"I mean about Joe. Just stop that already. Joe is a friend. He's dating Rhonda. End of argument." "No," Steve said. "Joe is in love with you. Dags is in love with you. Rhonda is in love with Dags. You're in love with a crazy person. You are an idiot."

Revenant, by Phaedra Weldon

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Exclusive Preview: Future Foundation #2

Future Foundation #2 exclusive preview. The Future Foundation and Yondu planned the perfect prison break, but nobody counted on having to stage two! #comics #comicbooks #FF @jrome58 @robsonink @greg_menzie @ChrisOHalloran @JoeCaramagna @marvel

Future Foundation #2

Writer: Jeremy Whitley Art: Will Robson & Paco Diaz Ink: Will Robson, Paco Diaz, & Daniele Orlandini Color: Greg Menzie with Chris O’Halloran Letters: Joe Caramagna Cover Art: Carlos Pacheco Rated T In Shops: Sep 04, 2019 SRP: $3.99

BREAK OUT: THE FUTURE FOUNDATION RESCUES…THE MAKER?!

The Future Foundation and Yondu planned the perfect prison break, but nobody counted on…

[thecomicon]

Amazing Spider-Man #34 Creates A Wall-Crawling International Incident

Amazing Spider-Man #34 Creates A Wall-Crawling International Incident

Miguel O’Hara, the Spider-Man from the year 2099 is in our present searching for Peter Parker, the Spider-Man of 2019. The fate of the future is at stake, so what does this have to do with Dr. Doom? The Latverian tyrant has just been shot at the United Nations so what better place for these plot threads to come together?

Amazing Spider-Man #34 continues to expand the 2099event that sort of…

[cultfaction]

Preview: Rain #1 (of 5)

Preview: Rain #1 (of 5)

On a seemingly normal August day in Boulder, Colorado, the skies are clear, and Honeysuckle Speck couldn’t be happier. She’s finally moving in with her girlfriend Yolanda. But their world is literally torn apart when dark clouds roll in and release a downpour of nails-splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. RAIN makes vivid this escalating apocalyptic…

[brokenfrontier]

Time Before Time #1 - Time is Out of Joint in Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville and Joe Palmer’s New Series from Image Comics

Time Before Time #1 – Time is Out of Joint in Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville and Joe Palmer’s New Series from Image Comics

From H.G. Wells’s classic novella to Avengers: Endgame––love them or loathe them––tales of time travel are a staple in science-fiction. The difficulty lies in creating a narrative that does something different with this trope. Only a handful have truly succeeded; the Back to the Future movie trilogy and Aftershock’s Revisionist spring to mind. Others (Image’s Chrononauts and Dark Horse’s Past…

[denimbex1986]

'On Thursday, the Berlin Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who also produces, and marking the first time an Irish movie opens the Berlinale. In the exclusive first-look at the 1985-set drama, Murphy’s family man Bill Furlong comes face-to-face with Emily Watson’s formidable Sister Mary whose convent is concealing dark and disturbing secrets.

Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin, the story plays out in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985. Bill, a devoted husband, father and coal merchant living in the traditional Irish town of New Ross in County Wexford, is facing his busiest season. During his delivery rounds, he discovers that the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ His reaction to this discovery forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent, his hometown — and his own life.

Small Things Like These is directed by Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders) and adapted by Enda Walsh (Hunger, Disco Pigs) from Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Booker Prize shortlisted novel. Keegan’s short story Foster was previously adapted for the screen as The Quiet Girl which debuted in Berlin in 2022 and went on to become the first Irish-language film nominated for an International Feature Oscar.

Of Small Things Like These, Murphy says he “fell in love with the book” and “very much wanted to play the part. And so, I thought, well the best thing to do then is to see if Claire will give us the rights and to see if we can put a team together.”

That team includes Artists Equity which financed the film after Murphy met Matt Damon while working on Oppenheimer. Producers are Murphy and his longtime collaborator and partner at Big Things Films, Alan Moloney, along with Artists Equity’s Damon and Drew Vinton; and Catherine Magee. Exec producers are Artists Equity’s Ben Affleck, Kevin Halloran and Michael Joe.

FilmNation Entertainment is repping sales on Small Things Like These which is an Artists Equity, Big Things Films, Screen Ireland, Wilder Films production.'