#Chad Lambert

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #132 - "Vantage Point"

Originally posted on April 16th, 2008

Story - Chad Lambert Art - Joe Gravel Colours - Mike Langdale Letters - Jim Keplinger

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wada sez: Checking in with Skyfire after the events of The Transformers: The Movie—while Starscream’s ghost watches on.

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Dark Horse will release a collection of short stories by Eisner-winning creator Chad Lambert. Kill Me and Other Curiosities features artwork by Kevin Czapiewski (Yesterday’s Muse), Apri Kusbriantoro (Dead Air), Christine Larsen (Kill Me), and Tom Williams (Now and Then), and it arrives in stores in July.

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Pique your curiosity with Chad Lambert's short stories in Kill Me and Other Curiosities

Pique your curiosity with Chad Lambert's short stories in Kill Me and Other Curiosities #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Chad Lambert, the 2015 Harvey Award-winning author of Best Short Story Breaking Out and Promising New Talent for Kill Me, is reteaming with Dark Horse Comics to present an anthology of his works from Dark Horse Presents in one thought-provoking volume, Kill Me and Other Curiosities. Including art from Kevin Czapiewski, Apri Kusbriantoro, Christine Larsen, and Tom Williams, as well as lettering by…

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W A T C H I N G

[megamindfandombookclub]

New episodes airing on Thursday, June 20th!!

Part 2 of Season 1 will air on Peacock in two days!

Here is a list of sites curated by Megamind Fans to help others watch:

"Megamind Rules!" Show Availability:

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd UNITED KINGDOM (Unknown) Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

"Megamind vs The Doom Syndicate" Movie Availability

USA: Streaming platform: Peacock https://www.peacocktv.com/ **Date: ** March 1st AUSTRALIA (Note: Unconfirmed, but assumed. See <#983559635455856651>) Streaming platform: Stan https://www.stan.com.au/ Date: March 2nd (?) UNITED KINGDOM Streaming platform: Sky Cinema https://www.sky.com/tv/cinema Date: April 7th

(Below info is pulled from FlixPatrol https://flixpatrol.com/title/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate/streaming/)

BRAZIL Streaming platform: Amazon Prime https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GQ8FGUVP06TWTZLX0J4XOJNKM/ ALGERIA, BAHRAIN, CHAD, EGYPT, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, LIBYA, MAURITANIA, MOROCCO, OMAN, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH SUDAN, TUNISIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, YEMEN Streaming platform: OSN https://osnplus.com/ DENMARK (Megamind mod Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.dk/film/megamind-mod-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 FINLAND (Megamind vs. Tuomiosyndikaatti) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.fi/leffat/megamind-vs.-tuomiosyndikaatti-2023 ICELAND Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.is/movies/megamind-vs-the-doom-syndicate-2023 NORWAY (Megamind og Dommedagssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.no/filmer/megamind-og-dommedagssyndikatet-2023 SWEDEN (Megamind och Undergångssyndikatet) Streaming platform: Via Play https://viaplay.se/film/megamind-och-undergangssyndikatet-2023 Other Countries: Currently unknown. You may need to consider getting a VPN to use Peacock from your location. (The UK and AU have trademarks set, so it's likely you'll be getting it as well.)

If you do not see your country in the list above, this list below should be able to help.

The creative team is constantly subjected to bullying by trolls online. Please do them a good turn and leave them a positive review on IMDB or on their social media pages.

This show means a LOT to a ton of people. Please practice kindness wherever you can.

If it helps, Adam Lambert sang the theme song and he also plays a MAJOR character! If you can't do it for us, do it for him??? (does he use he/him pronouns? internet search wasn't clear.)

[henrycavilledits]

EXCLUSIVE: In the world of Highlander reboots, there can still only be one…and it’s a good one at that.

For the first time, Lionsgate will be launching sales at the AFM on their long-gestating fantasy reboot which has Henry Cavill aboard to star as the eponymous Scottish swordsman and John Wick filmmaker Chad Stahelski set to direct.

We hear this will be a big-budget proposition, north of $100M. Stahelski himself has previously talked about it as akin to John Wick with swords. The team is eyeing a 2024 start.

This will be welcome news for AFM buyers whose pool of pre-sale projects has been diminished by the ongoing strike.

The new movie will be based on the 1986 original, which starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings, hunting down one another and collecting more power. The time-jumping film — with its “There can be only one” tagline — spawned four sequels and three TV series including the popular USA series starring Adrian Paul. Queen memorably provided the soundtrack for the original movie.

[ellebakers]

✭・. MASTERLIST.

SCREAM

• Ethan Landry (Series)

Desire | Part one

Desire | Part two

Jealous boy | Part one

Jealous boy | Part two

Too bad | Part one

Too bad | Part two

(Request)

Monster (request)

Baba yaga (request)

Dangerous (request)

(One shot)

Liar

Then she start dancing

• Chad Meeks Martin

Let me be your man

Still love you

• Jill Roberts / She's back

TOP GUN

• Jake Seresin

Do not tempt me

I love you even more

Remember the wedding night

• Javy Machado

Joke on me

Joke on me | part II.

• Mickey Garcia

With my best girl

HARRY POTTER

• Draco Malfoy

Dumb | Part one

Dumb | Part two

FANTASTIC BEASTS.

• Theseus Scamander

If only you were mine

HOUSE OF THE DRAGONS

• Criston Cole

I know who you pretend I am | Part one

I know who you pretend l am | Part two

• Daemon Targaryen

I am not an object | Part one

I am not an oject | Part two

Fucking Targaryens | Part one

Fucking Targaryens | Part two

• Harwin Strong

I am not an object | Part one

I am not an object | Part two

Together

• Cregan Stark | Beastly

• Aemond Targaryen

My love

RANDOM

• Maurice Theriault | PRAY FOR ME

• Dalton Lambert | MAKE ME YOUR APHRODITE ( crossover with scream)

[grandvhs]

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[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Henry Cavill will take on the iconic role of the Highlander himself Connor MacLeod – portrayed in the original by Christopher Lambert.

Lionsgate Moving Forward With Henry Cavill & Chad Stahelski ‘Highlander’ Reboot As Action-Fantasy Pic Heads To AFM To Enliven A Strike-Hit Market

By Andreas Wiseman

October 27, 2023 8:17am

EXCLUSIVE: In the world of Highlander reboots, there can still only be one…and it’s a good one at that.

For the first time, Lionsgate will be launching sales at the AFM on their long-gestating fantasy reboot which has Henry Cavill aboard to star as the eponymous Scottish swordsman and John Wick filmmaker Chad Stahelski set to direct.

We hear this will be a big-budget proposition, north of $100M. Stahelski himself has previously talked about it as akin to John Wick with swords. The team is eyeing a 2024 start.

This will be welcome news for AFM buyers whose pool of pre-sale projects has been diminished by the ongoing strike.

The new movie will be based on the 1986 original, which starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings, hunting down one another and collecting more power. The time-jumping film — with its “There can be only one” tagline — spawned four sequels and three TV series including the popular USA series starring Adrian Paul. Queen memorably provided the soundtrack for the original movie.

Producing the reboot are Joshua Davis, Fast And The Furious producer Neal H. Moritz, Stahelski (thru his 87Eleven Entertainment production company) and Louise Rosner.

The current draft of the screenplay is by Mike Finch. The late Peter S. Davis, the producer of the original Highlander, initiated the development of the new film. Summit first acquired remake rights to the original in 2008.

Former Superman and The Witcher actor Cavill remains in high demand. Among movies in post are Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle and two Guy Ritchie projects, including WWII pic The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Stahelski has directed all four John Wick films, which have been a goldmine for Lionsgate, taking more than $1BN. He previously talked about the new Highlander as the first in a trilogy but we’ve not had word whether that’s still the case.

Cavill and Stahelski were attached and reported before the strike.

The arrival of the Highlander reboot is a shot in the arm for the AFM, whose business has been hampered by the SAG-AFTRA strike. This and Kevin Costner’s Horizon movies, which we told you this week would also be on sale, are the two biggest-budget prospects revealed for the market so far. A number of packages haven’t come together or aren’t being officially announced due to strike restrictions or anxiety over optics. Frankly, given the limitations posed by the strike, I’ve been surprised at the number of new or reworked projects that are on sale (many are shooting in Europe). There are still a handful of pre-sales packages for buyers to get their teeth into, even if more action may be done this market on completed and near-completed movies.

I'm all for Henry in a kilt! 😊

[tourturedfolkloredepartment]

Albums im excited for releasing this summer and there track list

The death of slim shady (coup de grāce)

Renaissance

Habits

Trouble

Brand New Dance

Evil

All You Got (skit)

Lucifer

Antichrist

Fuel

Road Rage

Houdini

Breaking News (skit)

Guilty Conscience 2

Head Honcho

Temporary

Bad One

Tobey (featuring Big Sean and BabyTron)

Guess Who’s Back (skit)

Somebody Save Me

The new twister album (that currently only has one skip for me can’t wait to hear the rest)

1. Luke Combs – Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma

2. Miranda Lambert – Ain’t In Kansas Anymore

3. Conner Smith – Steal My Thunder (feat. Tucker Wetmore)

4. Thomas Rhett – Feelin’ Country

5. Warren Zeiders – The Cards I’ve Been Dealt

6. Megan Moroney – Never Left Me

7. Lainey Wilson – Out of Oklahoma

8. Bailey Zimmerman – Hell Or High Water

9. Jelly Roll – Dead End Road

10. Kane Brown – Country Classic

11. Sam Barber – Tear Us Apart

12. Tyler Childers – Song While You’re Away (my current skip, it might grow on me idk)

13. Tucker Wetmore – Already Had It

14. Leon Bridges – Chrome Cowgirl

15. Benson Boone – Death Wish Love

16. Shania Twain & BRELAND – Boots Don’t

17. Dylan Gossett – Stronger Than A Storm

18. Lanie Gardner – Chasing The Wind

19. Jelly Roll – Leave The Light On (feat. Alexandra Kay)

20. Wyatt Flores & Jake Kohn – Before I Do

21. The Red Clay Strays – Caddo County

22. Tanner Usrey – Blackberry Wine

23. Tanner Adell – Too Easy

24. Mason Ramsey – Shake Shake (All Night Long)

25. Tyler Halverson – New Loop

26. Flatland Cavalry – Touchdown

27. Nolan Taylor – Driving You Home

28. Wilderado, Ken Pomeroy, & James McAlister – Wall of Death

29. Charley Crockett – (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

HARDY new album

QUIT!!

ROCKSTAR (wish nickelback was featured on this one)

GOOD GIRL PHASE (ft. Chad Smith)

I DON'T MISS

PSYCHO (my current favorite song)

HAPPY HOUR (ft. Knox)

JIM BOB

WHYBMWL

TIME TO BE DEAD

SOUL4SALE (ft. Fred Durst)

LIVE FOREVER

ORPHAN

SIX FEET UNDER (Caleigh's Song

And yes obviously Sabrina new album im so excited!

[multifanxtvshows]

hi all I’m may 🤍

I will be writing imagines about

dalton lambert/ Ty simpkins ( mostly )

nessa barrett

scream ( stu macher, billy loomis, Sam carpenter, Tara carpenter, Ethan Landry, Wes hicks, amber freeman, Mindy Meeks, chad meeks, Randy Meeks etc )

Cobra kai ( miguel Diaz, hawk, robby Keene etc)

sturniolo triplets

house of the dragon ( aegon, aemond, etc)

Ewan Mitchell/ Tom Glynn carney

and many more

pls leave requests for any of these

I will only be writing about things I’ve watched 😊

[ourpickwickclub]

Wow B you have all the dirt. You’ve been holding out on us. ML’s mother (Bev) actually punched people herself?!? Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, huh? Everybody knows the Chad Kroeger story because Blake himself confirmed it. But I also remember a story where ML punched another female at a bar in OK. The girl filed charges/tried to sue her. ML had her friend lie in testimony that she witnessed the whole thing and Miranda was the “victim”. Blake ended up paying the girl off to make the whole thing go away. God only knows the shit he endured over the years. If he felt guilty about falling for ML, he more than paid the price staying with that psycho.

I think I’ve just accumulated memories of all the dirt because I’ve been here since 2015. And since I wasn’t that aware of Blake before that, I read a whole bunch of articles on him to learn who Gwen was dating, and also on him and ML. I clearly remember having no grudge against her at first and then the more and more I read the more and more I realized who tf he was married to. What a monster.

As for Bev Lambert punching somebody at a state fair, saddletramp used to post screenshots of all the receipts, and tell the stories. There are lots more crazy stories. I believe she was the one who posted that story but then everyone went to the account and saw the post themselves. The post read something like, can someone tell me why Miranda Lambert’s mother just punched me in the face at the state fair?

I only have a vague recollection of hearing the Chad Kroger story. I remember one of the other members of the band retelling the story saying it was a two hit fight. Blake hit the guy and the guy hit the ground.. no idea if that part is true. But I also remember them saying that Blake really did not want to get into a fight and that ML was basically shaming him for not defending her the way she thought she should be defended. I believe that all started because she threw a drink in the face of someone.

Please verify all the stuff yourselves because there are so many things I’ve read and heard over the years. I’m afraid I’m getting stuff wrong.

- B

[docrotten]

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970) – Episode 207 – Decades Of Horror 1970

“Smells like cheese, looks like ham… [takes a bite of sandwich] Oh, no problem. It’s chicken.” Rest assured, Grue Believers. Nothing about this movie resembles chicken. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they dive into that strange vat of boiling acid known as Scream and Scream Again (1970)!

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 207 – Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine

Decades of Horror 1970s is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of the podcast and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

A serial killer who drains his victims’ blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

  Directed by: Gordon Hessler

Writing Credits: Christopher Wicking (screenplay); Peter Saxon (novel)

Selected Cast:

Vincent Price as Dr. Browning

Christopher Lee as Fremont

Peter Cushing as Major Heinrich Benedek

Alfred Marks as Detective Supt. Bellaver

Michael Gothard as Keith

Christopher Matthews as Dr. David Sorel

Judy Huxtable as Sylvia

Anthony Newlands as Ludwig

Kenneth Benda as Prof. Kingsmill

Marshall Jones as Konratz

Uta Levka as Jane

Yutte Stensgaard as Erika

Julian Holloway as Detective Constable Griffin

Judy Bloom as Helen Bradford (as Judi Bloom)

Peter Sallis as Schweitz

Clifford Earl as Detective Sgt. Jimmy Joyce

Nigel Lambert as Ken Sparten

David Lodge as Detective Inspector Phil Strickland

First, take a killer film title and an equally killer poster. Then grab a bizarre tale that includes long (yet exciting) car chases, vampires (sort of), Frankenstein (sort of), Nazis (sort of), super Vulcan nerve pinches (sort of), and a bubbling vat of acid. Then cast it with three iconic horror actors and what do you get? Scream and Scream Again from Amicus, directed by Gordon Hessler, and featuring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Even if all three are never in the same scene, the results are oddly compelling, yet … goofy and frustrating. Despite the negatives, this film has grown a cult following. What might the Grue Crew make of it?

At the time of this writing, Scream and Scream Again is available to stream from Tubi and Freevee, as well as various PPV options. The film is available on physical media as a Special Edition Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Effects (1979), inspired by George Romero’s Martin (1977) and featuring Tom Savini, as both an effects artist and an actor.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

[lyn1catz]

the mischaracterization c ai can do is crazy I got king lambert from the fire emblem telling me im a beta cuck and dimitri will never love me because he's too busy being an alpha chad and getting with all of the black eagles girls

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On the Cruelty of Immortality

People always mention vampires as examples of creatures pushed into outsider or outcast status by their nature, but most of them are merely the products of their environment, upon closer scrutiny. As far as I'm concerned, and as a disabled man with Cerebral Palsy, there's a mostly-forgotten nineties' gem that offers a perfect translation of the concept.

Chances are you've heard of Henry Cavill's attempt at a Highlander reboot, more or less presented as "John Wick with Swords" - and directed by Chad Stahelski, no less. Chances are you also remember the original movies that starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown. What's less likely to attract attention is Aaron Paul's turn as a McLeod clan member, in the Franco-Canadian series of the same name. In it, Connor McLeod (Paul) crosses paths with Richie Ryan (Stan Kirsch), a thief who has the misfortune of dying while attempting to abscond with some of the Scottish immortal's possessions - only to reawaken as an immortal himself.

It's your classic Master-Padawan setup, with a modern hood more used to knives and handguns being forced to pick up swordfighting from a reluctant mentor, and learning of the vagaries and wonders of eternal life as he's shuttled between New York and Paris across several seasons. The catch is that Richie is quite young, in every sense of the term, and still tends to reason like someone who only has a few decades to live and who shouldn't take too many risks. He's also revealed to be very, very compassionate.

That eventually sets the pace for a cruel lesson. Richie happens upon the cognitivitely-challenged survivor of a train wreck (who, in retrospect, has all the traits of nonverbal autism depicted in a way that's sadly very nineties), and discovers that the poor guy is, in fact, an immortal like him - and a freshly-risen one, at that. He's had his first accidental Quickening (e.g. the absorption of another fallen immortal's life essence, fragmentary skillsets and memories) and is understandably confused.

Connor spends the episode trying to get Richie to realize that some people simply aren't born to shoulder immortality. It happens, he's seen it before, and he claims the most merciful thing that could be offered to Ryan's new companion is a swift and painless beheading. Eternal life, foisted on someone who couldn't even begin to comprehend it, is more than a curse - it's a literal death sentence, to be dealt by those who do know how to bring about a Quickening. That's without mentioning the risks related to detection, of being seen healing from things that should've killed an ordinary person.

Richie doesn't budge. He spends most of the episode's runtime convinced that there's a way to get an isolated, unsupervised and unstructured non-verbal immortal to pick up swordfighting, calisthenics, proper dieting, exit-spotting, tactical awareness - all of it without being a trained educator for autistic individuals. He's just a guy with a sword, himself a greenhorn at this, and is trying to impress the fact that fighting is now a necessity to someone who cannot understand him.

The episode ends with Richie narrowly saving the guy's life from a gaggle of opposing immortals seeing his friend as an easy meal ticket, and finally realizing that death really is the kindest option. Stan Kirsch does a fine job of showcasing Richie's mental anguish as the camera pans away from the disabled immortal, and he readies his killing blow.

We're also shown what happens when a Quickening is unwanted, as Richie didn't want to kill someone whom he saw himself as responsible for. The usual pyrotechnics display carries a charge of emotional anguish that's hard to miss - and we're left thinking that this was, in fact, the kindest outcome imaginable.

Pop Culture makes it a point to turn the able-bodied, the traditionally gorgeous, the resourceful or the wealthy into vampires. I'm of the mind that Fatality doesn't really pick favourites, and that some stories of life eternal would be far more poignant if a neverending existence were, in fact, structurally cruel.

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I need to pick songs for Chad and his partners that I would use for an amv in my head, rn Whataya want from me by Adam Lambert fits a lot of his partners