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New Poster and trailer for Pa zombie flick Autumn

13 November 2008 10:59 AM, PST | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

We've been covering this flick for a while, going all the way back to February and while it's a bit low budget, the footage looks great and it also stars David Carradine, how can you go wrong with that? It's based on the acclaimed cult novel by David Moody and was recently picked up by sales agent Splotlight Pictures so let's hope we can get a screener soon. Here's a full synopsis:

"As the last autumn leaves slowly peel away from the trees, a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet, and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy, and whole towns’ expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors.

A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive.

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List: Fan Faction - Five Documentaries About Nerd Culture

12 November 2008 5:05 PM, PST | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

In honor of the new documentary "We Are Wizards," about people who take Harry Potter way beyond simply reading the books or watching the movies, we take a look this week at obsessive fan culture and the documentaries that chronicle their fandom. Fanaticism in these films takes on many different forms. Some fans only want to take what their idols give them; others want to give back by creating derivative works of their own, like fan fiction or fan songs. Some become unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Some -- like a dentist who turned his office into a "Star Trek" tchotchke paradise called "Starfleet Dental" -- willfully reject the distinction altogether. Some love to become lost in escapism; others obsess about it until they are trapped by it. On this list, we'll look at what makes these fans tick and find the exact point when

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Carradine Rewards Honest Fan With Show Tickets

10 November 2008 5:30 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Keith Carradine is rewarding the man who returned belongings the star left in a New York subway station with show tickets.

Carradine felt sure he'd never see his backpack, full of personal information, cash and valuables, again after he foolishly got on a train without it.

He tells WENN, "I was sitting waiting for the right train to come. It was taking so long and I was worried about being late for work and, in classic New York fashion, I got distracted. I was in the middle of learning this play Mindgame, and it's a huge part.

"I was very much in it. I had my nose in my script every waking moment. That's what I was doing and, when the train came, I just jumped on it. I turned around and there was my bag sitting on the bench and the doors closed.

"Through the closed doors I saw my bag sitting there and thought that was the last time I'd see that. Miles, the guy who found my bag recognised my name and said, 'You're Kung Fu's (David Carradine) brother!' He and his mom will be coming to the show."

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X's and O's (and V's and Y's): 20 one-letter entertainment items before W.

12 October 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

1. Q While George W. Bush remains the first American president to reduce his name to a single letter, he's hardly the first person to try that bit of addition by subtraction. Similarly, Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W. is part of a long tradition of movies that keep it simple. Witness Larry Cohen's Q, which arrived with this tagline: "Its name is Quetzalcoatl. Just call it Q, that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!" Easy enough, especially since most people couldn't pronounce "Quetzalcoatl" anyway, whether or not they were being torn apart. The 1982 horror movie stars David Carradine and Richard Roundtree trying to catch a hideous winged beastie, the living embodiment of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, who's gotten into the bad habit of snatching victims off the top of New York buildings. Trouble is, only Michael Moriarty knows where Q has made its...

Scott Tobias, Noel Murray, Nathan Rabin, Leonard Pierce, Keith Phipps, Josh Modell, Claire Zulkey

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David Carradine Crank 2 Cameo

25 September 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

<p>Jason Statham let slip to <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crank_high_voltage/news/1758755/exclusive_statham_lets_slip_david_carradine_cameo_in_crank_2">RottenTomatoes</a> that David Carradine will have a cameo in his upcoming flick Crank 2 as some sort of Asian Crime Boss named Puong Dong. I have to ask myself... why does David continually play ASIAN characters??? Am&nbsp;I missing something? Is he Asian and I just can't see it? Crank was a fun movie but considering how it ends I have a hard time seeing how you do a sequel of it. </p> <p align="center"><img height="720" alt="" hspace="0" src="http://www.moviesonline.ca/AdvHTML_Upload/Crank2_01_300dpi.jpg" width="480" align="baseline" border="0" /></p>

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An opinion on the Tarantino produced 'Hell Ride'

25 September 2008 8:32 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

The Tarantino produced HELL RIDE has had what looks like on of its first mini-review online, and the results, well aren't good. A fan sent in the short opinion to Movies Online. Here's a snippet.

Ever wish you.d trusted your instincts?  I didn.t think I would like this film but I watched it anyway and hated every minute.  I spent more time looking at my watch than at the screen.  It.s pathetically short at 75 minutes but that was more of a blessing than anything else.

Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, and David Carradine all star in the film. You can read more over at MO here.

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Random Roles: David Carradine

8 September 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

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...

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Opening This Week: Tori Spelling does H.P. Lovecraft, Steve Coogan's sexy Jesus

18 August 2008 6:39 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week finds Shakespeare meeting Sexy Jesus, a crash course in Czech history alongside a totalitarian demolition derby, apocalyptic sea monsters and Fred Durst trying to get in touch with his fuzzy side.

"Cthulhu"

Director Dan Gildark certainly isn't lacking for confidence. Whereas most first-time filmmakers would turn to the well-worn territory of twentysomethings and their quirky quarterlife crises for subject matter, Gildark has opted to tackle H.P Lovecraft's sprawling, heady, quasi-religious mythos from the short story "Shadow over Innsmouth" instead. Jason Cottle stars as Russ, a history professor who returns home to Oregon to execute his late mother's will and discovers his father is the leader of the coastal town's apocalyptic cult that centers on the fabled Cthulhu, an extraterrestrial deity that exists in a state of torpor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. When Russ learns a mass sacrifice may be in the offing,

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Carradine Finds Eternal Youth With Younger Women

17 August 2008 7:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Kill Bill star David Carradine has found the secret to eternal youth - younger women.

The 71-year-old movie star insists he's in the shape of his life and it has everything to do with the fact his fifth wife is 24 years younger than him.

He explains, "Women are at the top of the list with what keeps me alive and young, and I don't hang around with old people.

"Everybody that I know is at least 10 or 20 years younger than I am. My wife Annie is 24 years younger than I am.

"My oldest daughter once said, 'Dad, how come you don't hang around with women your own age?' and I said, 'Listen, women my age are usually a lot older than me!'

"Part of the secret to staying young is don't hang around with people your own age because you'll get old with them. Hang out with the young people and you'll stay young.

"I discovered that life begins at 60. The reason is, by the time you get to be 60, you just don't care what happens. You've done it all and you suddenly feel free about everything."

And Carradine insists kung fu and organic food also have a lot to do with his good health: "I think kung fu has something to with it and I do all the holistic medicines and herbs. I eat organically and take a lot of vitamins."

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Carradine Wed In Kill Bill Co-star's Back Yard

15 August 2008 10:22 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor David Carradine wed in his Kill Bill co-star Michael Madsen's back yard in a bid to avoid media mayhem.

The star decided to marry for the fifth time in December 2004 and wanted the ceremony to be as private as possible, so he took over his pal's house.

Carradine reveals he dreamed of a beach wedding but quickly discovered that any public seaside ceremony would become an easy target for the paparazzi.

He says, "We decided we didn't want publicity. We wanted to get married just between ourselves and our children and the judge, who is an old friend of the family.

"I realised that I hear about these secret celebrity marriages the day after they happen and I don't think anybody is really trying to have a truly secret marriage. But most of the fans and most of the media don't even know that I'm married.

"It can be a total secret. There's no reason why the helicopters have to show up. We were originally gonna do it on a public beach some place until we found out you have to register to do that and get a permit, so immediately they'd call up the media and the paparazzi would be showing up.

"That's why we ended up doing it in Michael's private backyard. He lives at the beach and we were barefoot in the water. It was a gorgeous day."

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New Clip Shows 'Death Race' May Be Stuck in Neutral

13 August 2008 1:01 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

IGN has a brand new unrated clip from Death Race, and my, they've gotta be proud. This two-minute chunk of the Paul W.S. Anderson remake of Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 kind of confirms what we've all been fearing, namely that this might absolutely blow.

Unlike most movie critics, I actually do think there is some entertainment value in some of what "The Other Paul Anderson" does (Ok, you got me: Just the first Resident Evil movie), because when you make video game movies, it benefits you to be campy. It would figure that, when remaking a Roger Corman movie that featured David Carradine in a junkyard Darth Vader outfit, you'd want that to be campy, too. However, Anderson has gone really gritty for his remake, as if this sort of race would one day sanctioned and televised for real. I realize it's just one clip, but this just

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David Carradine in Kung Fu Killer

8 August 2008 1:21 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Shot entirely in China, this two-part miniseries will premier on Spike Sunday, August 17 and Monday, August 18 at 10Pm Et/Pt. "Set in late 1920s in China, before Communist rule, Kung Fu Killer tells the story of White Crane (Carradine), an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk to become a spiritual leader and master in martial arts, and his ultimate journey for revenge and justice. Beginning in the Shanghai underworld, Crane encounters Jane Marshall (Hannah) a lounge singer from Brooklyn, who is on a mission of her own to find her lost brother." Oh and Daryl Hanah is also in it. Check the trailer after the break!

Kung Fu Killer Teaser

via Slice of Scifi

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Review: Hell Ride

8 August 2008 12:00 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

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

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Movie Review - 'Hell Ride'

8 August 2008 12:00 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

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

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Interview: Larry Bishop on "Hell Ride"

7 August 2008 6:52 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

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,

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Aaron Hillis

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This Week At The Alamo: The Alamo Guide for August 8!

7 August 2008 1:08 PM, PDT | From OriginalAlamo.com | See recent AlamoDrafthouseCinema news

::Featured Events At The Alamo Ritz::

- Tropic Thunder -

: Alamo Ritz : Opens Tues, Aug 11 :

In this colossal clash of A-list titans, Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. (in black face!) are three actors making the "most expensive war movie of all time." But after a military consultant played by a particularly sinister Nick Nolte suggests they put these primadonnas in the shit, they wind up amidst real jungle warfare...except they think it's all just movie magic.

- Master Pancake Theater presents Jurassic Park -

: Alamo Ritz : Sat : Aug 2 :

Ok, let's be honest: we know we're supposed to be mocking Bad movies and Jurassic Park is mostly pretty Good, but we've discovered that when people are really scared it makes them laugh harder at our jokes. Also, we really wanted to play the drinking game with a group of 150 folks shouting "Hello,

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Henri Mazza

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David Carradine is a Kung Fu Killer

6 August 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

David Carradine and Darryl Hannah are starring in Spike TV’s two-part original miniseries, Kung Fu Killer.  The miniseries premieres Sunday, August 17 and Monday, August 18 (10:00 Pm – Midnight Et/Pt) on Spike in HD. Set in late 1920s in China, before Communist rule, Kung Fu Killer tells the story of White Crane (Carradine), an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk to become a spiritual leader and master in martial arts, and his ultimate journey for revenge and justice.  Beginning in the Shanghai underworld, Crane encounters Jane Mars...

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Badass Hell Ride Trailer!

10 July 2008 12:26 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

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

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Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat DVD Details!

1 July 2008 2:43 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

The special features and DVD art for Anthony Hickox's cult classic flick Sundown: A Vampire In Retreat have been revealed by Lionsgate! Co-written and directed by Hickox (Waxwork), Sundown: A Vampire In Retreat stars Bruce Campbell, David Carradine and Deborah Foreman and "tells of vampires in a remote town existing on synthetic blood. When a human family blows in, temptation arises and a quarrel kicks up between the vamps who want to maintain the peace and those who would love to sink their teeth into a neck or two." The features are as follows:

- Memories of Moab featurette (an all-new interview with Bruce Campbell)

- A Vampire Reformed featurette (all-new interview with David Carradine)

- The Making of Sundown featurette

- Audio commentary with director Anthony Hickox and director of photography Levie Isaacks

- Photo Gallery

Shock Till You Drop has got an exculsive look at the DVD art.

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Sundown Art & Final Specs Revealed

30 June 2008 6:51 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A lot of horror movies from the 1990s we'd like to push out of our memories, especially those that came directly after the Scream-effect. However, even during the gloomy part of the early '90s, there was a certain film about vampires fighting their desires in a remote town that sadly faded from the memories of many horror fans.

That film was Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat! It starred Bruce Campbell, David Carradine and Deborah Foreman. Out in the middle of nowhere, a family is caught between two feuding factions of blood-suckers. One side desires a peaceful coexistence with humans, while the others just want to drain the day-lovers of their precious life giving fluid.

Styd got the first look at the cover for Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat and the final specs that will be on the September 23rd release. The Anthony Hickox vampire tale will be loaded down

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