#Danny Bilson

[theblackestofsuns]

"To Be Continued!"

The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #2 (July 1989)

Dave Stevens, Paul Demeo, Danny Bilson, Michael Wm. Kaluta and Henry Mayo

Comico

#The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #Dave Stevens #Paul Demeo #Danny Bilson #Michael Wm. Kaluta #Henry Mayo #Comico #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #To Be Continued!

[vintagewarhol]

#the rocketeer #movies #joe johnston #dave stevens #danny bilson #paul de meo #billy campbell #jennifer connelly #alan arkin #illustration #vintage art #alternative movie posters

[mariocki]

Zone Troopers (1985)

"We will not help you kill your own kind."

"The Nazis ain't our kind, pal."

#zone troopers #american cinema #sci fi film #danny bilson #paul de meo #tim thomerson #timothy van patten #art lafleur #biff manard #william paulson #peter boom #max turilli #anita zagaria #peter hintz #bruce mcguire #john leamer #eugene brell #alviero martin #joshua mcdonald #richard band #unexpectedly good! i mean don't get me wrong‚ this is cheap sci fi trash‚ but what else would you expect from indie #horror maestro Charles Band? this was relatively early in his filmmaking career (pre Full Moon‚ and with Empire Pictures just a few years #old; this reunites a lot of the cast and crew of one of Empire's first hits‚ the immortally wonderful Trancers) but it shows the knack he #had for finding young wannabe writers and directors‚ giving them a shot (and a miniscule budget) and getting genuinely good work in return #less sci fi action oriented than that poster would have you believe‚ this is as much concerned with ww2 conflict and character building #but that's a canny move; this is the age of star wars after all‚ and trying to go up against that behemoth on a spectacle and fx front was #pure madness. instead this film tells a smaller story in a satisfactory way‚ with very much the feel of an old Twilight Zone or Outer #Limits script expanded to feature length. Trancers icon Thomerson gets to play a very slightly less grizzled version of his usual #terse and moody anti hero‚ Manard and Lafleur are great supports‚ and Hitler gets punched in the face. what more can you ask? #a silly but ultimately pretty fun time

[fitsofgloom]

War Zone

#zone troopers #danny bilson #john carl buechler #empire movies #1985

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

#Teen Titans #Young Justice #Impulse #Flash (Wally West) #Max Mercury #Flash (Barry Allen) #Iris West #Danny Bilson #Paul DeMeo #Ken Lashley

[geekcavepodcast]

The Rocketeer Gets New One-Shot

IDW Publishing has announced a new one-shot celebrating The Rocketeer. The one-shot is an anthology of three tales edited by Scott Dunbier.

Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, the screenwriters of 1991′s The Rocketeer film, had written an unpublished Rocketeer comic book story many years ago. The story guest starred Amelia Earhart. Filmmaker Kelvin Mao and The Rocketeer producer Robert Windom approached artist Adam Hughes to illustrate the story, which led to the one shot.

In addition to the 8-page story by Bilson, De Meo, and Hughes, The Rocketeer one-shot includes a 12-page story from writer Kelvin Mao, artist Craig Cermak and colorist Laura Martin that tells of Cliff Secord’s date night with Betty, and a 4-page story from writer Robert Windom, artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung in which the Rocketeer fights a Japanese Zero in the South Pacific. The comic will also include pinups by Phil Noto and Maria Laura Sanapo.

The Rocketeer one-shot hits comic shops in May 2023 and will include several variant covers, including Cover A by Adam Hughes, Cover B by Gabriel Rodríguez, and two special retailer incentive “Full Art” variants of Hughes and Rodríguez’ art, respectively.

(Image via IDW Publishing - Adam Hughes’ Cover A for The Rocketeer One-Shot) 

#the rocketeer #rocketeer #scott dunbier #danny bilson #paul de meo #adam hughes #kelvin mao #craig cermak #laura martin #robert windom #jae lee #june chung #phil noto #maria laura sanapo #gabriel rodriguez #idw publishing #TGCLiz

[adamwatchesmovies]

Company of Heroes (2013)

To anyone who ever thought the idea of a Call of Duty or Counter Strike movie might be cool, I present the 2013 adaptation of Company of Heroes. The plot is the definition of generic - basically a checklist of war movie clichés. You don’t care about the characters, you don’t care about the action. Even if the film had ambitions to do more, the budget wouldn't allow it. This is the kind of movie you forget minutes after having finished it.

Near the end of World War II, a squad of American soldiers stumble upon a dying messenger who informs them of a critical mission. The Germans are finalizing the design of an atomic bomb. With their sergeant and most of the company dead, Nate Burrows (Chad Michael Collins) and Dean Ransom (Tom Sizemore) make their way towards the Nazi base.

There is only one interesting scene in all of Company of Heroes. A woman named Kestrel (Melia Kreiling) is about to step into the bathtub and turns to face Nate. The door is open. He’s surprised to see her. She gives him a look. What’s going to happen next? Will she invite him in? If she does, will he accept her invitation? He says he has two sweethearts at home… does he want to make it three? Then the scene ends. That’s it. Is it the nudity that makes this scene exciting? Not really (unless you’re 13). It’s the unknown. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, which is a breath of fresh air. The rest of this film is so predictable, so generic it’s practically a wartime lullaby.

This movie is a bore. The story is realistic - it’s not like Overlord, for example - so you know the Germans will not develop that super weapon. What you’d normally be worried about instead are the characters. Will Ransom make it alive and live up to the memory of his dead father who died in the first Great War? Will Burrows forgive himself for all the lives lost under his command? Even if these tales could hold your interest, the casting makes it impossible. Every soldier looks the same and the camera shakes so much it’s often hard to tell who’s shooting at who. The establishing shots are dreadful and the characterization almost non-existent. You’ll see a soldier fall over dead and think someone important just keeled over but no, it was some random nobody you didn’t even know was there too.

I don’t even think people who consider World War II to be “their favourite” war would enjoy this film… unless they were Americans blinded by patriotism. Most of the people we meet are stereotypes, from the burly Russian (Dimitri Diatchenko) to the gritty Brit (Vinnie Jones) to the slimy-looking Nazi commander with the metal brace on his leg (Richard Sammel). Over and over, the film exaggerates America’s role in the war to the point where - shocker - we learn the Nazis are planning on dropping their atomic bomb… on New York! Why a city overseas instead of a much-closer target like say… London? Because this movie thinks you’re a moron that won’t care about anything outside of the U.S.A.

The special effects are unconvincing but this flaw might’ve been forgivable had the rest of the picture been strong. Thing is, no writer would ever commit their good war story to a video game when just about any generic plot would do the trick. That’s why this film was basically doomed from the start. Company of Heroes has no opinion about the war, it has nothing to add to the conversation, it doesn’t have any new perspectives or a new story to tell. It has no reason to exist except to cash-in on a name. It’s a sure-fire way to make you fall asleep and little else. (May 1, 2020)

#Company of heroes #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #don michael paul #danny bilson #paul de meo #david reed #tom sizemore #chad michael collins #vinnie jones #dimitri diatchenko #neal mcdonough #sam spruell #jurgen prochnow #2013 movies #2013 films

[coverpanelarchive]

The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #6 (2007)

#DC comics #the flash the fastest man alive #danny bilson #paul demeo #ken lashley #andy smith #Art Thibert #pat brosseau #richard horie #tanya horie #griffin grey #the griffin

[graphicpolicy]

Dave Stevens' Rocketeer takes flight again in a new one-shot

Dave Stevens' Rocketeer takes flight again in a new one-shot #comics #comicbooks #rocketeer

Dave Stevens’ two-fisted triumph soars again at IDW Publishing with the May release of The Rocketeer one-shot, an anthology of three tales by an astonishing assemblage of comic-industry heavyweights! The development of this new Rocketeer comic project began during the making of the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, when filmmaker Kelvin Mao discovered that Danny Bilson and the…

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#adam hughes #comic books #Comics #craig cermak #danny bilson #gabriel rodriguez #idw publishing #jae lee #june chung #kelvin mao #laura martin #maria laura sanapo #paul de meo #phil noto #robert windom #scott dunbier #the rocketeer

[flashfuckingflesh]

Back to the Past to Hunt Down EVIL! "Trancers" reviewed! (Full Moon / 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray)

Back to the Past to Hunt Down EVIL! “Trancers” reviewed! (Full Moon / 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray)

Become a Slave to “Trancers” on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray! In the post-apocalyptic ravaged 23rd century, Jack Deth, a brusque and hardened trooper, hunts down Trancers, a group of easily influenced and entranced people turned zombified slaves by a power-hungry hypnotizer named Whistler.  With Whistler killed, Deth lives out his raged-filled days vindictively bounty hunting Trancers still beckoning…

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#1984 #4K Ultra Hd #Air America #Anne Seymour #Art LeFleur #As Good as it Gets #Biff Manard #Big Top Pee-Wee #Blankman #blu-ray #Charles Band #Da 5 Bloods #Danny Bilson #Debra Dion #Dollman #Empire Pictures #Full Moon #Full Moon Features #Future Cop #Get Out #Helen Hunt #Iron Eagle #Left in Darkness #Los Angeles #Michael Stefani #MVD #MVDVisual #Paul De Meo #Phil Davies #Puppet Master

[theblackestofsuns]

"Ladies And Gentlemen..."

The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #2 (July 1989)

Dave Stevens, Paul Demeo, Danny Bilson, Michael Wm. Kaluta and Henry Mayo

Comico

#The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #Dave Stevens #Paul Demeo #Danny Bilson #Michael Wm. Kaluta #Henry Mayo #Comico #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #Ladies And Gentlemen...

[cultfaction]

Preview- Zone Troopers (Bluray)

Preview- Zone Troopers (Bluray)

Zone Troopers has been described as a silly, low budget science fiction feature that somehow combines Nazisploitaion with spaceships and horror to create a cartoonish romp through a history that never was. When a World War II American military patrol gets lost behind enemy lines in Italy and stumbles upon a crashed alien spacecraft, they quickly come to realise they must join forces with the…

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#Danny Bilson #Tim Thomerson #Timothy Van Patten #Zone Troopers

[sentinelmania]

Last night at the TS chat we pondered how the show would have moved on.

There was an interview with the producers:

-" but we were fortunate enough to have a number of long conversations with Danny Bilson about his thoughts about the characters, their strengths and weaknesses, their destinies, fan perceptions etc. and his most insistent comment about Blair was that he was such a popular character with viewers because he was an "academic" sort of hero. He considered this to be the primary attribute of the character.

As such, Blair wasn't going to the Academy to become a Cop. There were four episodes planned with an Academy theme, and then Blair was basically gonna flunk out upon some kind of moral/ethical dilemma. At the same time, he was gonna continue working on his dissertation, but he was just going to be writing it for Jim, because that was how he chronicled Jim's Sentinel abilities."-

Link: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Blair_as_a_Cop

There was a lot of discussion after the interview dropped, fans split between Blair as cop fans and Blair as academic fans.

I always liked both ideas...

#the sentinel #the sentinel tv show #jim/blair #jimblair #the sentinel fanfiction

[theactioneer]

Zone Troopers (Danny Bilson, 1985)

#tim thomerson #80s action movies #military #charles band

[balu8]

The Rocketeer #1: Amelia

by Danny Bilson/Paul De Meo; Adam Hughes and Karen L. Bates

IDW

#idw #the rocketeer #adam hughes

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

#Justice Society of America #Flash (Jay Garrick) #Danny Bilson #Paul DeMeo #Ken Lashley