When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez teamed up for the hybrid horror crime film "From Dusk Till Dawn," audiences knew to expect a sleazy drive-in movie that was going to be filled to the brim with sight gags, bloodstained carnage, and whip-smart dialogue. The vampire action comedy featured television star George Clooney in his first major role after breaking hearts as Dr. Ross on NBC's smash-hit hospital drama "ER." Seeing Clooney playing against type as a maniacal bad boy must have appealed to the mainstream, and the cinematic clout earned from the new indie classics "Pulp Fiction" and "Desperado" translated into an unlikely hit when "Dawn" staked its way into theaters in January of 1996.
With that success under their belts, Tarantino and Rodriguez had every right to think that the regular moviegoing public knew what a grindhouse theater was, and that they were familiar with 1970s exploitation films. "From Dusk Till Dawn...
With that success under their belts, Tarantino and Rodriguez had every right to think that the regular moviegoing public knew what a grindhouse theater was, and that they were familiar with 1970s exploitation films. "From Dusk Till Dawn...
- 1/3/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
By Lee Pfeiffer
Kino Lorber continues its alliance with niche market video label Scorpion Releasing with a Blu-ray edition of the largely forgotten 1969 action/adventure flick "The Devil's 8". The film typifies the kind of movie that simply doesn't exist any more: a low-budget production designed for fast playoff and modest profits. Back in the day, studios depended on movies such as these to be important to their bottom line. It's in stark contrast to today's film industry where seemingly every release is intended to be a blockbuster with production costs so high that some flicks have to gross close to a billion dollars to be considered financially successful. "The Devil's 8" is pretty much what you might expect simply by examining the sleeve. Typical of these types of movies, it presents a cast of reputable character actors who get meatier roles than they usually did in more prestigious productions. The script...
Kino Lorber continues its alliance with niche market video label Scorpion Releasing with a Blu-ray edition of the largely forgotten 1969 action/adventure flick "The Devil's 8". The film typifies the kind of movie that simply doesn't exist any more: a low-budget production designed for fast playoff and modest profits. Back in the day, studios depended on movies such as these to be important to their bottom line. It's in stark contrast to today's film industry where seemingly every release is intended to be a blockbuster with production costs so high that some flicks have to gross close to a billion dollars to be considered financially successful. "The Devil's 8" is pretty much what you might expect simply by examining the sleeve. Typical of these types of movies, it presents a cast of reputable character actors who get meatier roles than they usually did in more prestigious productions. The script...
- 2/17/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By Todd Garbarini
The 1960s and 1970s had their share of genre films that were popular with audiences. One of the most prolific was the biker film which, along with the horror film, were showcased to many audiences through the beloved and nearly extinct drive-in theatres. The genre reached a level of respectability in 1969 with the release of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider which played at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to gross an estimated 160 times its production budget of $375,000. Little wonder why producers and filmmakers alike jumped on the biker film bandwagon. Easy Rider helped put Jack Nicholson on the map following his appearances in Richard Rush’s Hell’s Angels on Wheels (1967) and the then-forthcoming The Rebel Rousers (1970) by Martin B. Cohen.
Lee Madden’s 1970 outing Angel Unchained came on the heels, or tires if you will, of Easy Rider and tells a familiar story that dates back many years,...
The 1960s and 1970s had their share of genre films that were popular with audiences. One of the most prolific was the biker film which, along with the horror film, were showcased to many audiences through the beloved and nearly extinct drive-in theatres. The genre reached a level of respectability in 1969 with the release of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider which played at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to gross an estimated 160 times its production budget of $375,000. Little wonder why producers and filmmakers alike jumped on the biker film bandwagon. Easy Rider helped put Jack Nicholson on the map following his appearances in Richard Rush’s Hell’s Angels on Wheels (1967) and the then-forthcoming The Rebel Rousers (1970) by Martin B. Cohen.
Lee Madden’s 1970 outing Angel Unchained came on the heels, or tires if you will, of Easy Rider and tells a familiar story that dates back many years,...
- 12/2/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
(Spoiler warning: Don’t read this if you don’t want to know anything about “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.)
If you’ve seen a Quentin Tarantino movie, you know he has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema from Golden Age to grindhouse. He always sprinkles little tributes to the movies that inspired him throughout his stories, and in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” you can see a trailer for one of the classic grindhouse films of that era.
Midway through the film, Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, decides on a whim to see herself on the big screen in the Bruin Theatre in Westwood. Playing at the cinema is “The Wrecking Crew,” the comedy she starred in alongside Dean Martin. In it, she plays Freya Carlson, the seemingly klutzy partner of Dean Martin’s secret agent character Matt Helm. As we see in a flashback in “Once Upon a Time…...
If you’ve seen a Quentin Tarantino movie, you know he has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema from Golden Age to grindhouse. He always sprinkles little tributes to the movies that inspired him throughout his stories, and in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” you can see a trailer for one of the classic grindhouse films of that era.
Midway through the film, Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, decides on a whim to see herself on the big screen in the Bruin Theatre in Westwood. Playing at the cinema is “The Wrecking Crew,” the comedy she starred in alongside Dean Martin. In it, she plays Freya Carlson, the seemingly klutzy partner of Dean Martin’s secret agent character Matt Helm. As we see in a flashback in “Once Upon a Time…...
- 7/27/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Back in 1966, exactly 50 years ago, Rob Reiner, then a student at UCLA, formed a comedy troupe, The Session, with his pals Richard Dreyfuss and Larry Bishop (Joey Bishop's kid) and officially entered show business. But it wasn't a leap. As the son of Carl Reiner, he already had Hollywood in his genes. Now a partner in Castle Rock Entertainment, which has produced hits from When Harry Met Sally … to Seinfeld, the politically engaged Reiner, 69, will unveil Lbj, his 19th feature as a director, in Toronto. You've been tweeting a lot about Donald Trump lately. I've never
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- 9/8/2016
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones and Diane Varsi star in American-International's most successful 'youth rebellion' epic -- a political sci-fi satire about a rock star whose opportunistic political movement overthrows the government and puts everyone over 35 into concentration camps... to be force-fed LSD. Wild in the Streets Blu-ray Olive Films 1968 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date August 16, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Richard Pryor, Bert Freed, Kevin Coughlin, Larry Bishop, Michael Margotta, Ed Begley, May Ishihara. Cinematography Richard Moore Film Editor Fred Feitshans Jr., Eve Newman Original Music Les Baxter Written by Robert Thom from his short story "The Day it All Happened, Baby" Produced by Burt Topper Directed by Barry Shear
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Back around 1965 - 1966 we endured this stupid buzzword concept called The Generation Gap, a notion that there was a natural divide between old people and their kids.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Back around 1965 - 1966 we endured this stupid buzzword concept called The Generation Gap, a notion that there was a natural divide between old people and their kids.
- 8/22/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Actor Christopher Jones has died at age 72. Once touted as the heir to James Dean, Jones boasted a handsome face and the same type of brooding intensity that had made legends of Dean and Brando. Jones got his first big break in the 1960s Western TV series The Legend of Jesse James but the show lasted only one season. After appearances on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Judd for the Defense, Jones graduated to feature films. He starred in the little-seen 1967 drama Chubasco (click here for review), the hit 1968 Roger Corman production of Wild in the Streets (in which he played a rock star who becomes President of the United States), Three in the Attic and the spy thriller The Looking Glass War. His most high profile role was as a British army officer who falls in a forbidden love affair with an Irish girl in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter.
- 2/11/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
‘Ryan’s Daughter’ actor Christopher Jones dead at 72: Quit acting following nervous breakdown after Sharon Tate murder, in later years turned down Quentin Tarantino movie offer Christopher Jones, who had a key role in David Lean’s 1970 romantic epic Ryan’s Daughter, died of complications from gallbladder cancer last Friday, January 31, 2014, at Los Alamitos Medical Center, approximately 35 km southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Christopher Jones (born William Franklin Jones on August 18, 1941, in Jackson, Tennessee) was 72. After growing up in a children’s home, joining the army at 16 and then going Awol, being handpicked by Tennessee Williams for a small role in the playwright’s The Night of the Iguana in 1961, and starring in the television series The Legend of Jesse James (1965-1966), Christopher Jones began getting film roles. His first was the title role in Allen H. Miner’s 1967 clash-of-generations drama Chubasco, in which Jones plays a misunderstood youth...
- 2/6/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chicago – “The Man with the Iron Fists” is the most tedious picture in many a moon. How, you may ask, can wall-to-wall action possibly by tedious? Two reasons: 1.) The action is nonstop, and 2.) The characters are impossible to care about. The single take of Uma Thurman’s devastated outburst upon awakening from her coma is the emotional hook that keeps the audience engaged as she wreaks her path of vengeance through both volumes of “Kill Bill.”
RZA’s unfortunate directorial debut lacks that crucial moment designed to spur an audience’s emotional involvement. Instead, it hurls the viewer headfirst through an assortment of blood-spattered plot threads so needlessly complicated and breathlessly detailed that they are rendered quickly incoherent. The plot doesn’t matter anyway, since it serves solely as a clothesline for gratuitous action sequences recycled from older, vastly superior kung fu blockbusters—the kind that RZA and his pal...
RZA’s unfortunate directorial debut lacks that crucial moment designed to spur an audience’s emotional involvement. Instead, it hurls the viewer headfirst through an assortment of blood-spattered plot threads so needlessly complicated and breathlessly detailed that they are rendered quickly incoherent. The plot doesn’t matter anyway, since it serves solely as a clothesline for gratuitous action sequences recycled from older, vastly superior kung fu blockbusters—the kind that RZA and his pal...
- 2/22/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
After starring in McG's sappy rom-com This Means War last month, it appears that Tom Hardy is looking to get back to something a little more manly. Details are still relatively scarce, but according to Variety, Hardy has signed on to star in an outlaw biker film that takes place in the '60s. The currently untitled script is being written by Mark L. Smith, who also wrote both Vacancy and Joe Dante's The Hole (which, sadly at this point, seems like it may never be released). The movie is being set up by veteran producer Art Linson and his brother John; the latter served as executive producer on the FX series Sons of Anarchy for some 47 episodes. The plot synopsis is as follows: "Story... centers on a wounded Vietnam veteran who returns home to San Francisco at the height of unrest of 1969. Amid clashing cultures of the Haight-Ashbury district,...
- 3/9/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Shanks (1974) Direction: William Castle Cast: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa Screenplay: Ranald Graham Oscar Movies Schlock-master William Castle's Shanks, a little-known curiosity piece, is the story (written by Ranald Graham) of Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer who leaves his abusive family to go to work for the creator of a device that brings the dead back to life. Shortly after sharing his secrets with the puppeteer, the scientist dies. Since pantomimist Marcel Marceau stars as both the deaf-mute and the scientist, Shanks offers precious little dialogue. In fact, long stretches of the film have no speech at all. And with title cards to connect the scenes, Shanks plays almost like a silent movie. It's really too bad it wasn't filmed in black and white. In this dream-like fantasy, Shanks continues the resuscitation process on the scientist himself. But instead of a complete resurrection,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Black Lightning" (2009)
Directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and Aleksandr Voytinskiy
Released by Universal Studios
"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov produced this Russian action flick about a man and his flying car, using the same effects team that worked on all of his previous films including "Night Watch." A Russian trailer is here since where we're going, we don't need to understand words.
"7th Hunt" (2010)
Directed by Jon Cohen
Released by Vanguard Cinema
A motley group of young adults are abducted and forced to fend for their survival at an abandoned military training center in the middle of nowhere in Jon Cohen's thriller.
"Alien Vs. Ninja" (2010)
Directed by Seiji Chiba
Released by Funimation
A selection of last year's New York Asian Film Festival, Seiji Chiba's crazy genre mashup may just be "the best and wittiest movie ever to air at 2am on the SyFy Channel" in the future,...
"Black Lightning" (2009)
Directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and Aleksandr Voytinskiy
Released by Universal Studios
"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov produced this Russian action flick about a man and his flying car, using the same effects team that worked on all of his previous films including "Night Watch." A Russian trailer is here since where we're going, we don't need to understand words.
"7th Hunt" (2010)
Directed by Jon Cohen
Released by Vanguard Cinema
A motley group of young adults are abducted and forced to fend for their survival at an abandoned military training center in the middle of nowhere in Jon Cohen's thriller.
"Alien Vs. Ninja" (2010)
Directed by Seiji Chiba
Released by Funimation
A selection of last year's New York Asian Film Festival, Seiji Chiba's crazy genre mashup may just be "the best and wittiest movie ever to air at 2am on the SyFy Channel" in the future,...
- 2/21/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Let Me In" (2010)
Directed by Matt Reeves
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
"Never Let Me Go" (2010)
Directed by Mark Romanek
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Two of 2010's most underrated films that approach their respective genres from radically different perspectives than most, "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves' "Let Me In" and Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" will finally have the opportunity to stand out on home video. In "Let Me In," Reeves applies some of his own biographical touchstones for this remake of Tomas Alfredson's horror film about the unlikely friendship between a vampire (Chloe Moretz) and a lonely young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Romanek's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-beloved sci-fi novel about a group of children raised apart from the rest of society for purposes that are unknown to them. (Alison Willmore's reviews for "Let Me In" and...
"Let Me In" (2010)
Directed by Matt Reeves
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
"Never Let Me Go" (2010)
Directed by Mark Romanek
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Two of 2010's most underrated films that approach their respective genres from radically different perspectives than most, "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves' "Let Me In" and Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" will finally have the opportunity to stand out on home video. In "Let Me In," Reeves applies some of his own biographical touchstones for this remake of Tomas Alfredson's horror film about the unlikely friendship between a vampire (Chloe Moretz) and a lonely young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Romanek's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-beloved sci-fi novel about a group of children raised apart from the rest of society for purposes that are unknown to them. (Alison Willmore's reviews for "Let Me In" and...
- 1/30/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Chicago – The 2010 Wizard World Chicago Comic Con was a great place to see up-and-coming stars and old favorites for pictures and autographs. Attending the show in August were actresses Kristanna Loken (”Terminator 3”), Julia Jones (The Twilight Saga) and Angie Everhart (”The Real Gilligan’s Island”).
HollywoodChicago.com made a trip to the event, and talked to the three actresses about their careers, lives and upcoming projects. Joe Arce was there as well to capture the photographs.
Kristanna Loken of “Terminator 3,” “The L Word”
The model/actress Kristanna Loken nabbed a huge film role in 2003 when she played the T-x Terminatrix in Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines. Since then, she has done a ten episode stint on the Showtime series “The L Word” and has had steady work in both film and television.
Kristanna Loken at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, August, 2010
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
HollywoodChicago.com made a trip to the event, and talked to the three actresses about their careers, lives and upcoming projects. Joe Arce was there as well to capture the photographs.
Kristanna Loken of “Terminator 3,” “The L Word”
The model/actress Kristanna Loken nabbed a huge film role in 2003 when she played the T-x Terminatrix in Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines. Since then, she has done a ten episode stint on the Showtime series “The L Word” and has had steady work in both film and television.
Kristanna Loken at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, August, 2010
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
- 12/28/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
As twilight descends on Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to nineties American cinema, fewer filmmakers are writing scripts with a copy of Pulp Fiction’s in hand for reference. A new filmmaker might reason that Tarantino is so successfully parodying himself these days that they’d be making a copy of a copy and it’s hardly worth it. But for those still in thrall to the magpie’s ouveur and determined to make knock off versions of the movies that electrified 90’s audiences, there’s still one man in Hollywood who’s willing to back them – er, Quentin Tarantino.
Hell Ride is such a movie – a low rent affair produced by Tarantino and the Weinsteins and featuring Dennis Hopper, the late David Carradine and Michael Madsen in parts so slight that you can imagine their participation was gained for a modest outlay of girls, grams and glug, probably at a...
Hell Ride is such a movie – a low rent affair produced by Tarantino and the Weinsteins and featuring Dennis Hopper, the late David Carradine and Michael Madsen in parts so slight that you can imagine their participation was gained for a modest outlay of girls, grams and glug, probably at a...
- 10/25/2009
- by Ed Whitfield
- FilmShaft.com
In his downtime from directing Brad Pitt to scalp nazis in Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has been exec producing Writer, Director, Producer and star Larry Bishop’s Hell Ride (coming to DVD and Blu-ray on 12th October 2009.) Hell Ride – Bikes, Beers & Booty! From Executive Producer Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof) and Writer, [...]
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- 10/5/2009
- by dave
- GeekTown
Continuing with out DVD-themed day here at FilmShaft, it’s my pleasure to present to you….Hell Ride, a feature length, rough, tough (and not at all sexist) adventure that packs one hell of a punch and makes no apologies!
From Executive Producer Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof) and Writer, Director, Producer and star Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time) comes this lean, mean mayhem machine, fully loaded with the three B’s: bikers, beer and booty! Action packed and fueled by pure testosterone, Hell Ride revs it up to DVD and Blu-ray on 12th October 2009 from Warner Home Video.
Larry Bishop takes up the role of Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a badass biker gang who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang who relish living up to their hellish moniker. Alongside his cohorts, the...
From Executive Producer Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof) and Writer, Director, Producer and star Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time) comes this lean, mean mayhem machine, fully loaded with the three B’s: bikers, beer and booty! Action packed and fueled by pure testosterone, Hell Ride revs it up to DVD and Blu-ray on 12th October 2009 from Warner Home Video.
Larry Bishop takes up the role of Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a badass biker gang who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang who relish living up to their hellish moniker. Alongside his cohorts, the...
- 9/17/2009
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
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In 1970, the charismatic actor Christopher Jones (then starring in David Lean’s epic Ryan’s Daughter) turned his back on movie stardom to lead a life of almost total anonymity. Today, Jones is a working artist who specializes in paintings with a classical antiquity theme and in portraits of Hollywood legends such as James Dean – to whom Jones once bore a striking resemblance.
Having studied at the Actors Studio and perfected his craft on episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Naked City, the extraordinarily handsome, Tennessee-born actor moved steadily up the Hollywood ladder through the late sixties. He starred in The Legend of Jesse James – a TV western that lasted through the 1965-66 season – and three B-pictures: the love story Chubasco (in which he appeared with then-wife Susan Strasberg); the sex romp Three in...
In 1970, the charismatic actor Christopher Jones (then starring in David Lean’s epic Ryan’s Daughter) turned his back on movie stardom to lead a life of almost total anonymity. Today, Jones is a working artist who specializes in paintings with a classical antiquity theme and in portraits of Hollywood legends such as James Dean – to whom Jones once bore a striking resemblance.
Having studied at the Actors Studio and perfected his craft on episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Naked City, the extraordinarily handsome, Tennessee-born actor moved steadily up the Hollywood ladder through the late sixties. He starred in The Legend of Jesse James – a TV western that lasted through the 1965-66 season – and three B-pictures: the love story Chubasco (in which he appeared with then-wife Susan Strasberg); the sex romp Three in...
- 7/25/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Gathered here in one convenient place are my recent reviews that awarded films Zero Stars, One-half Star, One Star, and One-and-a-half Stars. These are, generally speaking to be avoided. Sometimes I hear from readers who confess they are in the mood to watch a really bad movie on some form of video. If you are sincere, be sure to know what you're getting: A really bad movie.
Be aware, movies that fall into the category of "so bad they're good" should generally get Two Stars. And when Pauline Kael wrote, "The movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we shouldn't go at all"--well, great trash should ideally get 2.5 stars or even higher.
Many of these reviews were written in the carefree spirit of those in my books Your Movie Sucks and I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie. Cheap shots and snark are permitted.
Be aware, movies that fall into the category of "so bad they're good" should generally get Two Stars. And when Pauline Kael wrote, "The movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we shouldn't go at all"--well, great trash should ideally get 2.5 stars or even higher.
Many of these reviews were written in the carefree spirit of those in my books Your Movie Sucks and I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie. Cheap shots and snark are permitted.
- 6/27/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Italian Institute of Stupidity Science and Philosophy [1] [2]Horror fans are a mysterious, cultish bunch. Or at least, they like to think they are, imagining themselves the vanguard of the underground; Morlocks feeding off pampered, mainstream Eloi dandies with D&G sunglasses and designer perfume. But go to any horror film screening, and see if you’re not surrounded by Blackberry-toting shitheads who got armband [...] Tags: [Al Kratina [3], Cult of the Week [4], Dario Argento [5], Horror Movie [6], Italian Horror [7], Italy [8]] The Star Trek Mystic Awareness School [9] [10]It’s common geek knowledge that Star Trek is a smarter version of Star Wars. However, this should not be the badge of honour that so many Trekkies wear with pride, since Star Wars is essentially what idiot kids dream about when they’ve eaten cotton candy instead of their Ritalin. Here’s the thing: musing on philosophy, ethics, and [...] Tags: [Al Kratina [3], Cult of the Week [4], Science Fiction [13], Star Trek [14]] Hostel,...
- 5/27/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Women Film Critics Circle have handed out their 2008 awards (with top honors -- Best Movie About Women -- going to Clint Eastwood's Changeling), and one of the more fascinating categories on their list is Most Offensive Male Characters. And ... who do the women film critics of 2008 find to be the most offensive male characters of the year? Aaron Eckhart (Towelhead), Sam Rockwell (Choke), Larry Bishop (Hell Ride), Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott (Role Models) and Jason Mewes (Zack and Miri Make a Porno). I'm actually surprised that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) didn't make this list, what with his fairly obnoxious (but comedic) womanizing ways, and I'm sure there are several other offensive male characters spread across the films of 2008 that coulda shoulda been mentioned, but weren't.
This, however, brings up an interesting topic: Who were the most offensive movie characters of 2008? Could be male,...
This, however, brings up an interesting topic: Who were the most offensive movie characters of 2008? Could be male,...
- 12/16/2008
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
by Peter Knegt (December 7, 2008) Editor's Note: This is part of a daily December series that will feature new or previously published interviews and profiles of some of the year's best filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses.
It's been a busy year for Dennis Hopper. He's had supporting roles in six different films, from Isabel Coixet "Elegy" to Wim Wenders's "Palmero Shooting to Larry Bishop's "Hell Ride." He's currently starring in Starz! original series "Crash," based on the Paul Haggis film. And until January 19th of next year, is being saluted with his own virtual reality retrospective at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. indieWIRE spoke to Hopper last week about this recent work, and what he really wants to do with the future.
It's been a busy year for Dennis Hopper. He's had supporting roles in six different films, from Isabel Coixet "Elegy" to Wim Wenders's "Palmero Shooting to Larry Bishop's "Hell Ride." He's currently starring in Starz! original series "Crash," based on the Paul Haggis film. And until January 19th of next year, is being saluted with his own virtual reality retrospective at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. indieWIRE spoke to Hopper last week about this recent work, and what he really wants to do with the future.
- 12/7/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home Entertainment
Kit Kittredge -- An American Girl
It's the feature film for all the little girls out there who have American Girl dolls, and those who have long since grown up. Abigail Breslin stars as a young, budding reporter who tries to help her family during the Great Depression. She's surrounded by the financial woes of the time, plus prejudice and a situation that asks for a little Nancy Drewing. It's a must-see for the kids, and anyone who can enjoy a youthful dip into the past. Buy It.
Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti had come to the small Maine town to do some casting for Bugcrush, but she found something better -- Billy. Spending a week with the 15-year-old, Venditti captured a young man's highs and lows, his triumphs and vulnerabilities. The film is wildly funny, but also a...
Kit Kittredge -- An American Girl
It's the feature film for all the little girls out there who have American Girl dolls, and those who have long since grown up. Abigail Breslin stars as a young, budding reporter who tries to help her family during the Great Depression. She's surrounded by the financial woes of the time, plus prejudice and a situation that asks for a little Nancy Drewing. It's a must-see for the kids, and anyone who can enjoy a youthful dip into the past. Buy It.
Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti had come to the small Maine town to do some casting for Bugcrush, but she found something better -- Billy. Spending a week with the 15-year-old, Venditti captured a young man's highs and lows, his triumphs and vulnerabilities. The film is wildly funny, but also a...
- 10/28/2008
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Why are some weeks better than others when it comes to DVD releases (or as my friend Brady would say, DVD-wise)? It's a really good question, I think, and I'm sure if you ever had the ear of someone in the home video racket they'd tell you that this weekend, for example, a lot of adults will be out at Halloween parties or something.
Whatever the official reason, we have a lot of new DVDs but not many you're going to run right out and snap up, I fear. Here's the rundown:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Even though the movie held a pretty strong audience this summer, I'm not sure how well a live-action 3-D film will really translate to home video. I mean, they're selling the 2-D version, which completely undermines at least 40% of the purpose of the film, and you can also buy a 3-D...
Whatever the official reason, we have a lot of new DVDs but not many you're going to run right out and snap up, I fear. Here's the rundown:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Even though the movie held a pretty strong audience this summer, I'm not sure how well a live-action 3-D film will really translate to home video. I mean, they're selling the 2-D version, which completely undermines at least 40% of the purpose of the film, and you can also buy a 3-D...
- 10/28/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Not exactly the greatest of weeks for DVD and Blu-ray releases, but I have added a bunch of new titles and release dates (links at the bottom) and I am sure Disney is loving the empty week to debut their direct-to-dvd Tinker Bell feature. Tinker Bell I received this late last week and haven't had a chance to give it a watch yet. I was hoping to get it watched before I ran this week's releases so I could have a full review for you, but no such luck. You can watch the trailer below, but other video I have seen of the flick doesn't really give much of an idea of what the film is about outside of telling the story of Tinker Bell's origins and how fairies help the seasons change. Not sure what the plot twist in the story is,...
- 10/28/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Synopsis: Bad-ass biker Pistolero (Larry Bishop) hits the road to avenge the killing of his lover Cherokee Kisum (Julia Jones) by a rival motorcycle gang the 666ers, along with his brother The Gent (Michael Madsen) and the mysterious Comanche (Eric Balfour). Review: In order to enjoy this movie you must satisfy one of the following prerequisites: you must be a Quentin Tarantino fan, or a Robert Rodriguez fan, or a fan of 70s style biker movies, or at least a fan of the three B’s . . . beer, bikes, and booty. Remember the Man Show on cable TV? For [...]...
- 10/28/2008
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
Obviously we missed the very short theatrical run of Larry Bishop's Hell Ride last month, which is too bad because I bet it looks great on the big screen...
We didn’t get a chance to see it but that’s all right because Dimension Extreme’s already got the DVD planned out. DVD Active got a look at the cover for the disc, but no word on when it will be out or what will be on it has been spoken yet. You'll know more when we do!
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We didn’t get a chance to see it but that’s all right because Dimension Extreme’s already got the DVD planned out. DVD Active got a look at the cover for the disc, but no word on when it will be out or what will be on it has been spoken yet. You'll know more when we do!
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- 9/12/2008
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
The actor: David Carradine, a member of a famous acting family and a veteran of TV and films both prestigious and pulpy. Currently, he can be seen in two movies on the pulpier side: the throwback biker picture Hell Ride, and the Spike TV movie Kung Fu Killer. Hell Ride (2008)—Uncredited DC: This was directed by Larry Bishop, who was wonderful in Kill Bill, where I got kind of friendly with him. He'd been trying to put this movie together for about two years, and I always said, "I'm there for you. If you find some moment for me, I'd love to be in your movie." And of course he did find a moment, and it was a pretty hot moment. All it cost me was one day of my life to do a four-minute monologue, and I managed to almost dominate the picture with one...
- 9/9/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Vinnie Jones has revealed that he insisted on being set alight when filming his latest movie Hell Ride. The film, which was written and directed by Larry Bishop, sees the actor's character Billy Wings burn in one scene, and Jones was determined to make the moment look as realistic as possible. "They were talking about who they were going to set on fire - we never had stunt men or anything like that - they were basically talking about one of the executive producers doing it," Vinnie explained. "So I went 'look, I'll do it' and they went 'what?' I said 'Larry I'll do this for you' (more)...
- 8/24/2008
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
Check out the latest red band movie trailer from “Hell Ride” presented by Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse) by director Larry Bishop and starring and starring Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and Vinnie Jones. Synopsis: Hell Ride is a raucous throwback to the days of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western, with a heaping helping of testosterone-fueled chopper action thrown into the mix. Writer/director Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a group of bad ass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent (deviously portrayed by Michael [...]...
- 8/8/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Is the biker movie genre making a revival? As a whole, probably not, but there are those who love to dig out outdated genres and give it a new breath of life. Hell Ride obviously wants to be a badass biker movie that rebels at every turn, mixing a take-no-nonsense attitude with sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, and the brotherhood of the two-wheeled riders. It has all of those, but none executed with any dignity. The result is disastrous rather than innovative or cool. If I was a biker, I’d be embarrassed as hell by this movie. Larry Bishop wrote, directed and starred in Hell Ride as uber-badass biker Pistolero, who cuts through the highway with his chopper looking for revenge when a member of his gang, Victors, is murdered by longtime rival The Six-Six-Sixers, headed by mastermind Deuce (David Carradine) and psychopath Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). When most...
- 8/8/2008
- JustPressPlay.net
Hell Ride
Starring Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, and Eric Balfour
Directed by Larry Bishop
Rated R
Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. They can be low-budget (and with good reason), or they can be $180 million disasters. They can have big stars and they can have nobodies. Some trainwrecks are so bad you can't look away and some are simply bad enough to keep you away in the first place.
Hell Ride is a bad movie. Very bad. But it's not magnificently bad, the kind of awful that requires that you see the carnage for yourself. It's unclear to me whether writer-director-star Larry Bishop (son of Rat Packer Joey Bishop) wanted to make a glorious, exploitive piece of garbage, if he wanted to make something good and failed horribly, or if he just got lucky - kind of - and his piece of garbage was actually elevated by some...
Starring Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, and Eric Balfour
Directed by Larry Bishop
Rated R
Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. They can be low-budget (and with good reason), or they can be $180 million disasters. They can have big stars and they can have nobodies. Some trainwrecks are so bad you can't look away and some are simply bad enough to keep you away in the first place.
Hell Ride is a bad movie. Very bad. But it's not magnificently bad, the kind of awful that requires that you see the carnage for yourself. It's unclear to me whether writer-director-star Larry Bishop (son of Rat Packer Joey Bishop) wanted to make a glorious, exploitive piece of garbage, if he wanted to make something good and failed horribly, or if he just got lucky - kind of - and his piece of garbage was actually elevated by some...
- 8/8/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
If you enjoy foulmouth dialogue mixed with sex, violence, bikes, badass bikers, boobs, babes, booze, brawling, broken noses and broken promises - then the Quentin Tarantino-produced "Hell Ride" should make you one happy guy.
I say "guy" because unless you are one (preferably about 26), chances are good that "Hell Ride" won't be on your date-movie list. Unless, that is, you happen to be a psycho killer - or are dating one.
It is, as the promotional material says, a "throwback to the Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns," but here...
I say "guy" because unless you are one (preferably about 26), chances are good that "Hell Ride" won't be on your date-movie list. Unless, that is, you happen to be a psycho killer - or are dating one.
It is, as the promotional material says, a "throwback to the Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns," but here...
- 8/8/2008
- by By LINDA STASI
- NYPost.com
By Aaron Hillis
Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Larry Bishop (son of Rat Pack comic Joey Bishop) began his acting career after high school, working in comedy with friends like Rob Reiner and Richard Dreyfuss. Though he's guest-starred on TV sitcoms like "Laverne & Shirley," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Barney Miller," Bishop is far better known for being a drive-in theater badass, appearing as an American International Pictures contract player in wild-and-wooly biker flicks like 1968's "The Savage Seven" and 1971's "Chrome and Hot Leather." On an acting hiatus after 1983 (more on that later), Bishop returned to the screen in the mid-'90s with new credits to his name, writing the script for "Underworld" and making his directorial debut, "Mad Dog Time."
Enter exploitation film guru Quentin Tarantino. Understandably a fan of Bishop's Aip years, Tarantino cast him in a bit part for the second volume of "Kill Bill,...
Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Larry Bishop (son of Rat Pack comic Joey Bishop) began his acting career after high school, working in comedy with friends like Rob Reiner and Richard Dreyfuss. Though he's guest-starred on TV sitcoms like "Laverne & Shirley," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Barney Miller," Bishop is far better known for being a drive-in theater badass, appearing as an American International Pictures contract player in wild-and-wooly biker flicks like 1968's "The Savage Seven" and 1971's "Chrome and Hot Leather." On an acting hiatus after 1983 (more on that later), Bishop returned to the screen in the mid-'90s with new credits to his name, writing the script for "Underworld" and making his directorial debut, "Mad Dog Time."
Enter exploitation film guru Quentin Tarantino. Understandably a fan of Bishop's Aip years, Tarantino cast him in a bit part for the second volume of "Kill Bill,...
- 8/8/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
British actor Vinnie Jones agreed to carry out his own stunts in new movie Hell Ride - but only if the director kept it secret from the star's wife.
Jones volunteered to perform a stunt in which his character Billy Wings, the leader of a motorcycle gang, is set on fire.
But Jones was so scared he would suffer an injury, he begged director Larry Bishop and producer Quentin Tarantino not to tell his agent or his wife, Tanya.
He says, "(Bishop) said: 'Do we pull Vinnie out of (the car)?'
"So I said: 'Why don't I do it? Just don't tell anyone. Don't tell my agent, my insurance company or my wife.'"...
Jones volunteered to perform a stunt in which his character Billy Wings, the leader of a motorcycle gang, is set on fire.
But Jones was so scared he would suffer an injury, he begged director Larry Bishop and producer Quentin Tarantino not to tell his agent or his wife, Tanya.
He says, "(Bishop) said: 'Do we pull Vinnie out of (the car)?'
"So I said: 'Why don't I do it? Just don't tell anyone. Don't tell my agent, my insurance company or my wife.'"...
- 8/7/2008
- WENN
By Neil Pedley
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
- 8/4/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Amazon.com posted today an October 28th release for Larry Bishop's Hell Ride, which was produced by Quentin Tarantino. Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a group of badass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent (deviously portrayed by Michael Madsen) and the mysterious Comanche (Eric Balfour), Pistolero aims to take down the Deuce and Billy Wings, menacing leaders of the 666ers, but a mutiny looms on the horizon when his commitment to profit is questioned by a few of his fellow Victors. An even larger story unravels when previously unknown information about Comanche resurrects ghosts from Pistoleros past.
- 7/17/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Watch the latest movie trailer from the upcoming film “Hell Ride” presented by Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse) by director Larry Bishop and starring and starring Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and Vinnie Jones. Synopsis: Hell Ride is a raucous throwback to the days of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western, with a heaping helping of testosterone-fueled chopper action thrown into the mix. Writer/director Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a group of bad ass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent (deviously portrayed by Michael [...]...
- 7/10/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
We knew when Larry Bishop’s Hell Ride was first announced that it’d be a healthy slice of badassedness for those of us who are into things like bikes, beer and booty. If you count yourself among those numbers, you need to see this...
Coming Soon’s got an exclusive look at the red band trailer for Hell Ride, which stars Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Larry Bishop, Vinnie Jones, Eric Balfour and a host of incredibly hot women who get naked periodically throughout the trailer, and one can only assume the movie as well.
Hell Ride follows the trail of revenge cut by three bikers (Bishop, Balfour and Madsen) as they set out to find the 666ers, a rival gang who killed one of their own. Though it looks like it’ll be the most basic kind of revenge film, early reports are saying that Bishop’s...
Coming Soon’s got an exclusive look at the red band trailer for Hell Ride, which stars Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Larry Bishop, Vinnie Jones, Eric Balfour and a host of incredibly hot women who get naked periodically throughout the trailer, and one can only assume the movie as well.
Hell Ride follows the trail of revenge cut by three bikers (Bishop, Balfour and Madsen) as they set out to find the 666ers, a rival gang who killed one of their own. Though it looks like it’ll be the most basic kind of revenge film, early reports are saying that Bishop’s...
- 7/10/2008
- by Johnny Butane
- DreadCentral.com
Today B-d reader 'Emulator' sent us in a link to watch the Red Band trailer for Third Rail Releasing's Hell Ride, which arrives in limited theaters (undeservingly) on August 8th. You can check it out inside and watch this spot for a very special drinking game we'll be brining you around the time of release. Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a group of badass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent and the mysterious Comanche, Pistolero aims to take down the Deuce and Billy Wings, menacing leaders of the 666ers, but a mutiny looms on the horizon when his commitment to profit is questioned by a few of his fellow Victors.
- 7/10/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
The word out of the film festivals was that Larry Bishop's Hell Ride wasn't all that great and after watching the red band trailer I can't say I am all that interested. Sure, the cast is that impressive kind of cool kid sort of ensemble, but it looks like they are just going through the motions in a film that feels like another film trying to be a film that the director once loved. Plus, on the heels of Grindhouse it has that sort of been there only a year ago kind of feel to it. Check it out and you be the judge. The flick hits theaters on August 8 and Tarantino's name is slathered all over it.
- 7/9/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Though we may have differences about Tarantino's upcoming Inglorious Bastards - whether it should be two movies, whether it's actually going to get made this year - I think we can agree that as a producer or a "presenter," Tarantino has always had a pretty keen eye for the most part.
All I need for proof is Hero, one of the absolute best films from 2004. I'm still not sure exactly what Qt did there, but he put his name on it. He had nothing to do with making the film, though. But there is an art to presenting; witness Vanna White, for instance. Ok, bad example.
This year, Tarantino is "presenting" another film that you would associate him with even if his name wasn't in bold print on the poster, Larry Bishop's Hell Ride. QT is also an executive producer on the film, a position he's held on films...
All I need for proof is Hero, one of the absolute best films from 2004. I'm still not sure exactly what Qt did there, but he put his name on it. He had nothing to do with making the film, though. But there is an art to presenting; witness Vanna White, for instance. Ok, bad example.
This year, Tarantino is "presenting" another film that you would associate him with even if his name wasn't in bold print on the poster, Larry Bishop's Hell Ride. QT is also an executive producer on the film, a position he's held on films...
- 7/9/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Dimension Films announced this afternoon that they'll release Larry Bishop's Hell Ride (review) in limited theaters August 8 through their genre arm Third Rail Releasing. Presented by Quentin Tarantino, writer/director Larry Bishop takes on a third role as Pistolero, head honcho of the Victors, a group of badass bikers who are out to avenge the murder of one of their members at the hands of the 666ers, a rival gang whose actions live up to their hellish moniker. Along with his cohorts, the Gent (deviously portrayed by Michael Madsen) and the mysterious Comanche (Eric Balfour), Pistolero aims to take down the Deuce and Billy Wings, menacing leaders of the 666ers, but a mutiny looms on the horizon when his commitment to profit is questioned by a few of his fellow Victors. An even larger story unravels when previously unknown information about Comanche resurrects ghosts from Pistoleros past.
- 3/6/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- The moribund corpse of grindhouse cinema gets jolted back to life courtesy of the Weinstein brothers and Quentin Tarantino, but the biker movie Hell Ride doesn't appear any more theatrically viable than when Planet Terror and Death Proof were jointly released last year.
Executive producer Tarantino tapped former biker-flick bad boy Larry Bishop to write, direct, produce and star in this genre homage, scheduled to roar to life from Dimension Films sometime this year before undoubtedly sputtering out once its fanboy base is quickly exhausted.
The jumbled story line centers on Pistolero (Bishop), leader of the self-styled Victors biker gang that is bent on retaliation for the murder of a fellow member by the rival 666's, fronted by the notorious Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). With his trusted lieutenant, the Gent (Michael Madsen), riding alongside and the addition of new recruit Comanche (Eric Balfour), the Victors rumble out to exact their revenge.
Along the way, much tough talk is exchanged, naked and nearly nude women are groped and ravished and generous amounts of violence are unleashed. Frequent flashbacks sketchily outline Pistolero's personal history, in which Comanche seems to take an undue interest. All the scheming supposedly is leading to a big payoff that might be vaguely compelling if the stakes were remotely clear.
Bishop, a veteran star of several '60s and '70s biker movies -- including The Savage Seven, Angel Unchained and Chrome and Hot Leather -- summons the requisite bombast to pull off this genre exercise straight-faced.
Perfunctorily exaggerated performances (including a couple of amusing appearances by Dennis Hopper and David Carradine), period-specific zooms, swish pans and other visual tropes as well as a born-to-ride soundtrack help the film evince a degree of vitality.
But even on its own terms, Hell Ride lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
HELL RIDE
Dimension Films
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Larry Bishop
Producers: Michael Steinberg, Shana Stein, Larry Bishop
Executive producers: Quentin Tarantino, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Director of photography: Scott Kevan
Production designer: Tim Grimes
Music: Daniele Luppi
Editors: Blake West, William Yeh
Cast:
Pistolero: Larry Bishop
The Gent: Michael Madsen
Comanche: Eric Balfour
Billy Wings: Vinnie Jones
Dennis Hopper: Eddie Zero
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- The moribund corpse of grindhouse cinema gets jolted back to life courtesy of the Weinstein brothers and Quentin Tarantino, but the biker movie Hell Ride doesn't appear any more theatrically viable than when Planet Terror and Death Proof were jointly released last year.
Executive producer Tarantino tapped former biker-flick bad boy Larry Bishop to write, direct, produce and star in this genre homage, scheduled to roar to life from Dimension Films sometime this year before undoubtedly sputtering out once its fanboy base is quickly exhausted.
The jumbled story line centers on Pistolero (Bishop), leader of the self-styled Victors biker gang that is bent on retaliation for the murder of a fellow member by the rival 666's, fronted by the notorious Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). With his trusted lieutenant, the Gent (Michael Madsen), riding alongside and the addition of new recruit Comanche (Eric Balfour), the Victors rumble out to exact their revenge.
Along the way, much tough talk is exchanged, naked and nearly nude women are groped and ravished and generous amounts of violence are unleashed. Frequent flashbacks sketchily outline Pistolero's personal history, in which Comanche seems to take an undue interest. All the scheming supposedly is leading to a big payoff that might be vaguely compelling if the stakes were remotely clear.
Bishop, a veteran star of several '60s and '70s biker movies -- including The Savage Seven, Angel Unchained and Chrome and Hot Leather -- summons the requisite bombast to pull off this genre exercise straight-faced.
Perfunctorily exaggerated performances (including a couple of amusing appearances by Dennis Hopper and David Carradine), period-specific zooms, swish pans and other visual tropes as well as a born-to-ride soundtrack help the film evince a degree of vitality.
But even on its own terms, Hell Ride lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
HELL RIDE
Dimension Films
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Larry Bishop
Producers: Michael Steinberg, Shana Stein, Larry Bishop
Executive producers: Quentin Tarantino, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Director of photography: Scott Kevan
Production designer: Tim Grimes
Music: Daniele Luppi
Editors: Blake West, William Yeh
Cast:
Pistolero: Larry Bishop
The Gent: Michael Madsen
Comanche: Eric Balfour
Billy Wings: Vinnie Jones
Dennis Hopper: Eddie Zero
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/26/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the gala Premieres, which used to take place in the chilly nighttime, will begin as early as 3 p.m. And there will be more Premieres than ever.
As the Sundance Institute announced the lineup of films screening out of competition at its 2008 edition, organizers said that the Premieres section has significantly expanded. This year, 24 films will play as galas, occupying the 3, 6 and 9:30 p.m. slots at the Eccles Theater in Park City, the festival's largest venue. By contrast, there were 17 Premieres at this year's Sundance.
Although he admitted he was tempted, festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said the size of Sundance has not expanded. The festival will again screen 121 feature films, which includes 81 world premieres. What organizers have done, director of programming John Cooper said, is to reposition films in the Spectrum category, which previously played in the 3 p.m. slot, into the Premiere section.
"These are films that deserve that (Premiere) position inside the Eccles," Cooper said.
The announcement rounds out the rest of the 2008 program, which includes Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight sections. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
The Premieres section showcases highly anticipated films from the American indie world and from international filmmakers. Perhaps the two most highly anticipated films are music related.
Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington's 3-D film of U2's Vertigo world tour -- snippets of which were shown in May at the Festival de Cannes -- will be presented in its entirety. The only question is: What 3-D glasses will be used?
Gilmore said the festival must decide between two different kinds of glasses or goggles. "Either way, there will be a single projector putting a split film image on the screen that are read by the (3-D) goggles," he said.
This year's closing-night film will be the world premiere of Bernard Shakey's CSNY Deja Vu, which looks at the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion tour and the musicians' connection to its audience in political and musical terms. Young is credited as a co-writer on the project.
Pellington performs a twofer this year as his Henry Poole Is Here also is in the Premieres section. After discovering he has a mere six weeks to live, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats from his everyday life for the comfort of booze, junk food and solitude until a "miracle" and his oddball neighbors intervene.
Another person who will be doing Q&As more than once will be actress-director Amy Redford, daughter of Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford. As an actress, she stars in Sunshine Cleaning, an irreverent comedy that will play in Dramatic Competition. As a first-time director, she will present The Guitar, which like Henry Poole, centers on a person diagnosed with a terminal illness. Amos Poe's Guitar screenplay is about a woman (Saffron Burrows) without long to live who blows her savings to pursue her dreams.
Michel Gondry came to Sundance two years ago with his mind-blowing The Science of Sleep. He now returns with his Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black plays a man whose brain has become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in a friend's video store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour and Ghostbusters.
" 'Be Kind Rewind' will tax people's patience but has a wonderful payoff," Gilmore said.
As previously announced, the festival opens Jan. 17 in Park City with the world premiere of In Bruges, written and directed by first-time filmmaker and award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, revolves around two hitmen ordered to take a forced holiday in Bruges, Belgium.
Two films about filmmaking should amuse the in-crowd. In Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? Robert De Niro plays a desperate producer struggling with a desperate film shoot. In Steven Schachter's The Deal, William H. Macy co-writes and stars in a tale about another similarly desperate producer who cons a studio into financing a film that actually has no script.
The tongue-in-cheek latter film "brings back Meg Ryan to the kind of romantic roles she plays so well," Gilmore said.
Premieres also is the section containing several films seen at earlier festivals such as writer-director Tom McCarthy's The Visitor and Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private -- movies that deal with immigrants in America -- which debuted at Toronto, and Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, which rocked Cannes with its themes of dynastic decline, incest, madness and death.
Sundance 2008 will throw an even brighter spotlight on documentaries by creating a sidebar within the Spectrum category for seven docus.
"The professional career of documentarians has changed dramatically," Gilmore said. "Documentaries were once a small world. Now it's a much broader spectrum of professionals and of people who move back and forth between features and documentaries, making films on subjects they are passionate about."
The Spectrum section also is where returning Sundance alums are to be found. To wit, Made in America by Stacy Peralta, who enjoyed a hit at the 2001 festival with Dogtown and Z-Boys; Blind Date from Stanley Tucci, who has come to Sundance with such interesting films as Big Night (1996) and Joe Gould's Secret (2000); August from Austin Chick, who made 2002's "XX/XY"; Baghead by writer-directors Mark and Jay Duplass, who brought Scrapple in 2004; and Bottle Shock, a retelling of the famous 1976 blind wine tasting in Paris that rocketed California wines to fame and glory, from Randall Miller, whose Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School played in 2005.
Park City at Midnight usually is the repository of the strange and the bloody. This year, though, Gilmore insisted, "the genre films are very fresh with a strong quality of execution."
Quentin Tarantino, absent from Park City for a few years, returns to "present" Larry Bishop's modern-day take on 1960s biker flicks, Hell Ride. A German-Canadian Midnight entry, Otto (Up With Dead People), is described by Gilmore as "an incredibly odd but interesting mix of gay zombies and a European setting."
The British Donkey Punch, named after a risky sexual practice, is a thriller that takes place aboard a luxury yacht. And Michael Haneke will bring Funny Games, an almost shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 Austrian chiller, only this time in English and in a Long Island setting.
As the Sundance Institute announced the lineup of films screening out of competition at its 2008 edition, organizers said that the Premieres section has significantly expanded. This year, 24 films will play as galas, occupying the 3, 6 and 9:30 p.m. slots at the Eccles Theater in Park City, the festival's largest venue. By contrast, there were 17 Premieres at this year's Sundance.
Although he admitted he was tempted, festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said the size of Sundance has not expanded. The festival will again screen 121 feature films, which includes 81 world premieres. What organizers have done, director of programming John Cooper said, is to reposition films in the Spectrum category, which previously played in the 3 p.m. slot, into the Premiere section.
"These are films that deserve that (Premiere) position inside the Eccles," Cooper said.
The announcement rounds out the rest of the 2008 program, which includes Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight sections. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
The Premieres section showcases highly anticipated films from the American indie world and from international filmmakers. Perhaps the two most highly anticipated films are music related.
Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington's 3-D film of U2's Vertigo world tour -- snippets of which were shown in May at the Festival de Cannes -- will be presented in its entirety. The only question is: What 3-D glasses will be used?
Gilmore said the festival must decide between two different kinds of glasses or goggles. "Either way, there will be a single projector putting a split film image on the screen that are read by the (3-D) goggles," he said.
This year's closing-night film will be the world premiere of Bernard Shakey's CSNY Deja Vu, which looks at the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion tour and the musicians' connection to its audience in political and musical terms. Young is credited as a co-writer on the project.
Pellington performs a twofer this year as his Henry Poole Is Here also is in the Premieres section. After discovering he has a mere six weeks to live, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats from his everyday life for the comfort of booze, junk food and solitude until a "miracle" and his oddball neighbors intervene.
Another person who will be doing Q&As more than once will be actress-director Amy Redford, daughter of Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford. As an actress, she stars in Sunshine Cleaning, an irreverent comedy that will play in Dramatic Competition. As a first-time director, she will present The Guitar, which like Henry Poole, centers on a person diagnosed with a terminal illness. Amos Poe's Guitar screenplay is about a woman (Saffron Burrows) without long to live who blows her savings to pursue her dreams.
Michel Gondry came to Sundance two years ago with his mind-blowing The Science of Sleep. He now returns with his Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black plays a man whose brain has become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in a friend's video store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour and Ghostbusters.
" 'Be Kind Rewind' will tax people's patience but has a wonderful payoff," Gilmore said.
As previously announced, the festival opens Jan. 17 in Park City with the world premiere of In Bruges, written and directed by first-time filmmaker and award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, revolves around two hitmen ordered to take a forced holiday in Bruges, Belgium.
Two films about filmmaking should amuse the in-crowd. In Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? Robert De Niro plays a desperate producer struggling with a desperate film shoot. In Steven Schachter's The Deal, William H. Macy co-writes and stars in a tale about another similarly desperate producer who cons a studio into financing a film that actually has no script.
The tongue-in-cheek latter film "brings back Meg Ryan to the kind of romantic roles she plays so well," Gilmore said.
Premieres also is the section containing several films seen at earlier festivals such as writer-director Tom McCarthy's The Visitor and Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private -- movies that deal with immigrants in America -- which debuted at Toronto, and Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, which rocked Cannes with its themes of dynastic decline, incest, madness and death.
Sundance 2008 will throw an even brighter spotlight on documentaries by creating a sidebar within the Spectrum category for seven docus.
"The professional career of documentarians has changed dramatically," Gilmore said. "Documentaries were once a small world. Now it's a much broader spectrum of professionals and of people who move back and forth between features and documentaries, making films on subjects they are passionate about."
The Spectrum section also is where returning Sundance alums are to be found. To wit, Made in America by Stacy Peralta, who enjoyed a hit at the 2001 festival with Dogtown and Z-Boys; Blind Date from Stanley Tucci, who has come to Sundance with such interesting films as Big Night (1996) and Joe Gould's Secret (2000); August from Austin Chick, who made 2002's "XX/XY"; Baghead by writer-directors Mark and Jay Duplass, who brought Scrapple in 2004; and Bottle Shock, a retelling of the famous 1976 blind wine tasting in Paris that rocketed California wines to fame and glory, from Randall Miller, whose Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School played in 2005.
Park City at Midnight usually is the repository of the strange and the bloody. This year, though, Gilmore insisted, "the genre films are very fresh with a strong quality of execution."
Quentin Tarantino, absent from Park City for a few years, returns to "present" Larry Bishop's modern-day take on 1960s biker flicks, Hell Ride. A German-Canadian Midnight entry, Otto (Up With Dead People), is described by Gilmore as "an incredibly odd but interesting mix of gay zombies and a European setting."
The British Donkey Punch, named after a risky sexual practice, is a thriller that takes place aboard a luxury yacht. And Michael Haneke will bring Funny Games, an almost shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 Austrian chiller, only this time in English and in a Long Island setting.
- 11/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Though small, the horror-fantasy flick section packs a punch with notable standouts including Michael Haneke and George A. Romero preeming their latest and Quentin Tarantino making a comeback. I believe it has been a long time since he showed his face here... not since film called Reservoir Dogs. Though he didn't direct the project titled Hell Ride - this collaboration between him and Larry Bishop once again ventures into "homage territory". Serving as a launch pad for Magnolia Pictures, we find the new label Magnet Releasing showcasing of Spanish flick Timecrimes. Here are the rest of the films that will show late in the night...:The films screening in Park City at Midnight this year are: "Adventures of Power" / USA, Director and Screenwriter: Ari Gold In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day. Cast: Adrian Grenier,
- 11/29/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Following their successful collaboration in Kill Bill-Vol. 2, Quentin Tarantino is set to team again with Larry Bishop, the actor who played the foul-mouthed owner of a strip club in the hit movie. Tarantino and Bishop will produce Hell Ride, a motorcycle movie that Bishop is writing and will direct and star in. Sources say Tarantino might star in the movie as well. Michael Madsen, who also starred in Bill, is attached to star in what is being described as a spaghetti biker film. The story deals with the characters Pistolero (Bishop), the Gent (Madsen) and Comanche (Tarantino) and the deadly unfinished business between them. As befitting the genre, the budget would be low, and the movie would shoot in August or September. It is unclear whether Tarantino would produce under his A Band Apart productions shingle or his Rolling Thunder Pictures. Bishop starred in several biker movies in the late '60s and early '70s, including The Savage Seven, Chrome and Hot Leather and Angel Unchained. He also wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in 1996's Mad Dog Time, whose cast included Diane Lane, Gabriel Byrne and Burt Reynolds. He is repped by the Coppage Co. Tarantino is repped by WMA, while Madsen by Writers and Artists Group International.
- 5/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fans of the recent, disastrous MGM release "Mad Dog Time" - and the half-dozen or so of them know who they are - are The Only Ones who should appreciate this effort written by Larry Bishop (Joey's son).
Bishop attracts top-notch talent to his projects, but after this one-two punch he's going to have to resuscitate the Rat Pack if he expects to stay in the business.
"Underworld" is a gangster tale told in the in-vogue Quentin Tarantino style, but with a surreal, hallucinatory tinge. The plot is fairly incomprehensible, but it has something to do with the efforts of ex-con Johnny Alt, a k a Johnny Crown (Denis Leary), to avenge the attempted murder of his father. Among his possible intended victims is his former best friend Frank (Joe Mantegna), the owner of the nightclub that gives the film its name. In his seven years in prison, Johnny has become a psychotherapist, and he proudly refers to himself as the only psychopathic psychotherapist in the business.
While busily gunning down various mobsters, Johnny takes the time to reunite Frank with both his ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra), also a shrink, and his estranged father (Abe Vigoda, no doubt nostalgic for his role in "The Godfather"). In the meantime, another hoodlum, Ned Lynch (played by Bishop himself, with the same lack of effectiveness he demonstrated in "Mad Dog Time"), is on the rampage, dispatching various victims with brutal efficiency, including a perfectly pleasant stripper played by Traci Lords.
Leary and Mantegna deliver their lines with their usual degree of intensity, but their embarrassment is palpable. Director Roger Christian, who won an Oscar for his set decoration on "Star Wars", has given the film an overly stylized visual design that only accentuates its pretensions.
UNDERWORLD
Legacy Releasing
Keystone Pictures in association
with Trimark Pictures
Director Roger Christian
Executive producers Mark Amin,
Michael Strange, Abra Edelman
Producers Robert Vince, William Vince
Writer Larry Bishop
Director of photography Steven Bernstein
Editor Robin Russell
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Crown/Johnny Alt Denis Leary
Frank Gavilan/Richard Essex Joe Mantegna
Dr. Leah Annabella Sciorra
Ned Lynch Larry Bishop
Will Cassady Abe Vigoda
Stan Robert Costanzo
Anna Traci Lords
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Bishop attracts top-notch talent to his projects, but after this one-two punch he's going to have to resuscitate the Rat Pack if he expects to stay in the business.
"Underworld" is a gangster tale told in the in-vogue Quentin Tarantino style, but with a surreal, hallucinatory tinge. The plot is fairly incomprehensible, but it has something to do with the efforts of ex-con Johnny Alt, a k a Johnny Crown (Denis Leary), to avenge the attempted murder of his father. Among his possible intended victims is his former best friend Frank (Joe Mantegna), the owner of the nightclub that gives the film its name. In his seven years in prison, Johnny has become a psychotherapist, and he proudly refers to himself as the only psychopathic psychotherapist in the business.
While busily gunning down various mobsters, Johnny takes the time to reunite Frank with both his ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra), also a shrink, and his estranged father (Abe Vigoda, no doubt nostalgic for his role in "The Godfather"). In the meantime, another hoodlum, Ned Lynch (played by Bishop himself, with the same lack of effectiveness he demonstrated in "Mad Dog Time"), is on the rampage, dispatching various victims with brutal efficiency, including a perfectly pleasant stripper played by Traci Lords.
Leary and Mantegna deliver their lines with their usual degree of intensity, but their embarrassment is palpable. Director Roger Christian, who won an Oscar for his set decoration on "Star Wars", has given the film an overly stylized visual design that only accentuates its pretensions.
UNDERWORLD
Legacy Releasing
Keystone Pictures in association
with Trimark Pictures
Director Roger Christian
Executive producers Mark Amin,
Michael Strange, Abra Edelman
Producers Robert Vince, William Vince
Writer Larry Bishop
Director of photography Steven Bernstein
Editor Robin Russell
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny Crown/Johnny Alt Denis Leary
Frank Gavilan/Richard Essex Joe Mantegna
Dr. Leah Annabella Sciorra
Ned Lynch Larry Bishop
Will Cassady Abe Vigoda
Stan Robert Costanzo
Anna Traci Lords
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Situated in a parallel nocturnal universe where trigger-happy gangsters cavort in cocktail lounges while scheming to off each other, writer-director-actor Larry Bishop's "Mad Dog Time" is quite the hybrid.
It's part Rat Pack paean to "Robin and the Seven Hoods" (Bishop's father is Rat Packer Joey), part "Wild in the Streets" commemorative cast party ("Mad Dog"'s Christopher Jones, Bishop and Richard Pryor also appeared in that late '60s seminal satire) and part Beverly Hills High reunion (Bishop, Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner were schoolmates).
Unfortunately, the parts don't add up to very much. Despite some amusing quirky moments and performances, the self-consciously eccentric film quickly wears out its welcome, looking and mainly sounding like another inferior product of the spawn of Tarantino.
Expect the picture to get buried in the pre-Thanksgiving shuffle, although its cast of thousands could attract some mild curiosity when it shows up on video.
The normally somber Gabriel Byrne gets to kick up his heels as "Brass Balls" Ben London, a motor-mouthed Mob enforcer who has been minding the shop until the Big Boss, Vic (Dreyfuss), gets out of the loony bin. With word of Vic's imminent release, Ben attempts to tidy things up by eliminating some riffraff and leaning on the cool Mickey Holliday (Jeff Goldblum), who has been keeping company with the boss' girlfriend (Diane Lane) while two-timing her sister (Ellen Barkin).
When Vic finally emerges, he has a few scores of his own to settle, and when all the smoke clears only a handful of Bishop's sprawling cast remains standing.
Aside from Byrne, who gets to do a bit of a flip on his "Miller's Crossing" role, Goldblum also stands out as suave, smooth operator; while Dreyfuss has some fun as the crazy-like-a-fox boss man.
Bishop's script is fine on character but never goes beyond its and-then-there-were-none premise. He does score some big style points, however. Assisted by production designer Dina Lipton ("Mr. Holland's Opus") and cinematographer Frank Byers ("Twin Peaks"), he's concocted a permanently smoke-filled, cocktail-soaked time warp where sharp-dressed inhabitants lounge to the swinging sounds of -- who else -- Frank, Dean and Sammy.
MAD DOG TIME
MGM/UA
United Artists
A Dreyfuss/James production
in association with Skylight Films
Director-screenwriter Larry Bishop
Producer Judith Rutherford James
Executive producers Stephan Manpearl,
Len Shapiro
Director of photography Frank Byers
Production designer Dina Lipton
Editor Norman Hollyn
Music Earl Rose
Costume designer Ileane Meltzer
Casting Amy Lieberman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ellen Barkin
Ben London Gabriel Byrne
Vic Richard Dreyfuss
Mickey Holliday Jeff Goldblum
Grace Diane Lane
Jules Flamingo Gregory Hines
Jake Parker Kyle MacLachlan
Jackson Burt Reynolds
Gabriella Angie Everhart
Lee Turner Billy Idol
Albert the Chauffeur Rob Reiner
Jimmy the Gravedigger Richard Pryor
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
It's part Rat Pack paean to "Robin and the Seven Hoods" (Bishop's father is Rat Packer Joey), part "Wild in the Streets" commemorative cast party ("Mad Dog"'s Christopher Jones, Bishop and Richard Pryor also appeared in that late '60s seminal satire) and part Beverly Hills High reunion (Bishop, Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner were schoolmates).
Unfortunately, the parts don't add up to very much. Despite some amusing quirky moments and performances, the self-consciously eccentric film quickly wears out its welcome, looking and mainly sounding like another inferior product of the spawn of Tarantino.
Expect the picture to get buried in the pre-Thanksgiving shuffle, although its cast of thousands could attract some mild curiosity when it shows up on video.
The normally somber Gabriel Byrne gets to kick up his heels as "Brass Balls" Ben London, a motor-mouthed Mob enforcer who has been minding the shop until the Big Boss, Vic (Dreyfuss), gets out of the loony bin. With word of Vic's imminent release, Ben attempts to tidy things up by eliminating some riffraff and leaning on the cool Mickey Holliday (Jeff Goldblum), who has been keeping company with the boss' girlfriend (Diane Lane) while two-timing her sister (Ellen Barkin).
When Vic finally emerges, he has a few scores of his own to settle, and when all the smoke clears only a handful of Bishop's sprawling cast remains standing.
Aside from Byrne, who gets to do a bit of a flip on his "Miller's Crossing" role, Goldblum also stands out as suave, smooth operator; while Dreyfuss has some fun as the crazy-like-a-fox boss man.
Bishop's script is fine on character but never goes beyond its and-then-there-were-none premise. He does score some big style points, however. Assisted by production designer Dina Lipton ("Mr. Holland's Opus") and cinematographer Frank Byers ("Twin Peaks"), he's concocted a permanently smoke-filled, cocktail-soaked time warp where sharp-dressed inhabitants lounge to the swinging sounds of -- who else -- Frank, Dean and Sammy.
MAD DOG TIME
MGM/UA
United Artists
A Dreyfuss/James production
in association with Skylight Films
Director-screenwriter Larry Bishop
Producer Judith Rutherford James
Executive producers Stephan Manpearl,
Len Shapiro
Director of photography Frank Byers
Production designer Dina Lipton
Editor Norman Hollyn
Music Earl Rose
Costume designer Ileane Meltzer
Casting Amy Lieberman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ellen Barkin
Ben London Gabriel Byrne
Vic Richard Dreyfuss
Mickey Holliday Jeff Goldblum
Grace Diane Lane
Jules Flamingo Gregory Hines
Jake Parker Kyle MacLachlan
Jackson Burt Reynolds
Gabriella Angie Everhart
Lee Turner Billy Idol
Albert the Chauffeur Rob Reiner
Jimmy the Gravedigger Richard Pryor
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/8/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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