Sweating Bullets – 10 Action Packed Movies on 2 Discs is available from Mill Creek Entertainment. Ordering information can be found Here
Prepare to set your adrenaline to overdrive! The high-octane Sweating Bullets collection is stacked with the stars you love for a maximum assault on your senses.
Here’s the line-up of incredible action films:
Across the Line – 2000 – Brad Johnson, Sigal Erez, Brian Bloom
A small town sheriff falls in love with a Latina illegal immigrant who witnessed a murder on the Texas border.
Fatal Combat – 1995 – Jeff Wincott, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Phillip Jarrett
Master martial artist John Stoneman is kidnapped by Houston Armstrong, a psychotic billionaire who runs a bizarre fighting ring, where combatants must either win or die.
Inner Action – 1997 – Douglas O’Keefe, Mark Lutz, Michelle Johnson
John Ryan ends his life of crime to become a detective and repay society for his past misdeeds. He is hired by a mysterious woman...
Prepare to set your adrenaline to overdrive! The high-octane Sweating Bullets collection is stacked with the stars you love for a maximum assault on your senses.
Here’s the line-up of incredible action films:
Across the Line – 2000 – Brad Johnson, Sigal Erez, Brian Bloom
A small town sheriff falls in love with a Latina illegal immigrant who witnessed a murder on the Texas border.
Fatal Combat – 1995 – Jeff Wincott, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Phillip Jarrett
Master martial artist John Stoneman is kidnapped by Houston Armstrong, a psychotic billionaire who runs a bizarre fighting ring, where combatants must either win or die.
Inner Action – 1997 – Douglas O’Keefe, Mark Lutz, Michelle Johnson
John Ryan ends his life of crime to become a detective and repay society for his past misdeeds. He is hired by a mysterious woman...
- 6/22/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Review by Roger Carpenter
Back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s I was (over)active on the bootleg video circuit. One of the directors I discovered in my dealings with other collectors was Jim Van Bebber. His Deadbeat at Dawn was a legend almost immediately after it was released, and his reputation was solidified by a handful of short films which traumatized heretofore steel-bellied horror movie viewers. Even in slightly blurry, multi-generational bootleg copies, his films carried a wallop not felt very often. They were energetic, raw, no-holds-barred and outrageously gory. They had to be seen to be believed.
Fast-forward to the present and Van Bebber is one of a handful of Diy film mavericks, along with Bill Lustig, Frank Henenlotter, Sam Raimi, Buddy Giovinazzo and their ilk, now revered for their hardcore 80’s output. But of this group, perhaps Van Bebber stands just a little taller for his extreme persistence.
Back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s I was (over)active on the bootleg video circuit. One of the directors I discovered in my dealings with other collectors was Jim Van Bebber. His Deadbeat at Dawn was a legend almost immediately after it was released, and his reputation was solidified by a handful of short films which traumatized heretofore steel-bellied horror movie viewers. Even in slightly blurry, multi-generational bootleg copies, his films carried a wallop not felt very often. They were energetic, raw, no-holds-barred and outrageously gory. They had to be seen to be believed.
Fast-forward to the present and Van Bebber is one of a handful of Diy film mavericks, along with Bill Lustig, Frank Henenlotter, Sam Raimi, Buddy Giovinazzo and their ilk, now revered for their hardcore 80’s output. But of this group, perhaps Van Bebber stands just a little taller for his extreme persistence.
- 12/17/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Deadbeat At Dawn will be available on Blu-ray October 23rd From Arrow Video
He Quit The Gangs. They Killed His Girl. He Became… Deadbeat At Dawn
Jim VanBebber’s notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn rises again on the advent of its 30th anniversary, newly restored for the first time on Blu-ray. Locked and loaded with a raft of new extras, see Deadbeat as you’ve never seen it before in all its head-busting, bone-crushing glory!
Written by, directed by and starring VanBebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who’ve now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact his brutal, deadly revenge.
The very definition of Diy, independent filmmaking (VanBebber quit film school after his first...
He Quit The Gangs. They Killed His Girl. He Became… Deadbeat At Dawn
Jim VanBebber’s notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn rises again on the advent of its 30th anniversary, newly restored for the first time on Blu-ray. Locked and loaded with a raft of new extras, see Deadbeat as you’ve never seen it before in all its head-busting, bone-crushing glory!
Written by, directed by and starring VanBebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who’ve now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact his brutal, deadly revenge.
The very definition of Diy, independent filmmaking (VanBebber quit film school after his first...
- 10/2/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pioneering woman director Lois Weber socially conscious drama 'Shoes' among Library of Congress' Packard Theater movies (photo: Mary MacLaren in 'Shoes') In February 2015, National Film Registry titles will be showcased at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater – aka the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation – in Culpeper, Virginia. These range from pioneering woman director Lois Weber's socially conscious 1916 drama Shoes to Robert Zemeckis' 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future. Another Packard Theater highlight next month is Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent Western The Wild Bunch (1969), starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. Also, Howard Hawks' "anti-High Noon" Western Rio Bravo (1959), toplining John Wayne and Dean Martin. And George Cukor's costly remake of A Star Is Born (1954), featuring Academy Award nominees Judy Garland and James Mason in the old Janet Gaynor and Fredric March roles. There's more: Jeff Bridges delivers a colorful performance in...
- 1/24/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
William Holden movies: ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ William Holden is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" featured actor today, August 21, 2013. Throughout the day, TCM has been showing several William Holden movies made at Columbia, though his work at Paramount (e.g., I Wanted Wings, Dear Ruth, Streets of Laredo, Dear Wife) remains mostly off-limits. Right now, TCM is presenting David Lean’s 1957 Best Picture Academy Award winner and all-around blockbuster The Bridge on the River Kwai, the Anglo-American production that turned Lean into filmdom’s brainier Cecil B. DeMille. Until then a director of mostly small-scale dramas, Lean (quite literally) widened the scope of his movies with the widescreen-formatted Southeast Asian-set World War II drama, which clocks in at 161 minutes. Even though William Holden was The Bridge on the River Kwai‘s big box-office draw, the film actually belongs to Alec Guinness’ Pow British commander and to...
- 8/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The 40th Anniversary of director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western The Wild Bunch, will be celebrated at the 'Jules Verne Légendaire Award Charity Event', November 12 @ Los Angeles' 2,000 seat, downtown 'Million Dollar Theater', bringing the ground-breaking feature back up on the big screen. The film's surviving lead actors Ernest 'Dutch Engstrom' Borgnine, Bo 'Crazy Lee' Hopkins, L.Q. 'T.C.' Jones, Alfonso 'Lt. Hererra' Arau and others will be accepting awards on stage. In addition, Melissa Peckinpah will accept a special award on behalf of her father, director 'Bloody Sam' Peckinpah and Camille Fielding will accept a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her late father, composer Jerry Fielding. Celebrities confirmed to attend the event include Ali "The Getaway" MacGraw, composer Lalo "Dirty Harry" Schifrin, director Walter "The Warriors" Hill and actor Malcolm "A Clockwork Orange" McDowell. "It will be the last great ride of the movie," organizers said. Premise of the film,...
- 11/4/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Warners continues to mine popular studio properties for possible origin stories including a rumoured prequel to director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 feature The Wild Bunch, featuring the early robbing, whoring gang years of western outlaws 'Pike Bishop', 'Deke Thornton' and 'Freddie Sykes', when they "did their fair share of killing and more..." in the Old West. Premise of the original film, set in 1913, during the height of the Mexican Revolution, placed the aging gang of "unchanged men in a changing land", in 'San Rafael', Texas for a planned bank robbery, led by 'Pike Bishop' (William Holden), with 'Dutch Engstrom' (Ernest Borgnine), 'Lyle Gorch' (Warren Oates), 'Tector Gorch' (Ben Johnson), 'Angel' (Jaime Sanchez), 'Buck' (Rayford Barnes) and 'Crazy Lee' (Luke Hopkins), dressed as Us Cavalry, while a gaggle of bounty hunters led by railroad detective 'Patrick Harrigan' (Albert Dekker), former Bishop gang member 'Deke Thornton' (Robert Ryan), 'Coffer' (Strother Martin), 'T.C.
- 8/15/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
"Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun," the newest Imax entertainment, purports to tell the history of theme rides, from the first roller coasters to the most modern computerized ride simulators.
Although awkwardly written and lacking in real information value, it does a good job of using the large-screen format to simulate the experience of various rides, minus the physical discomfort.
Now showing at the Sony Theatres Lincoln Square, it should do good business with urban dwellers unwilling to fork out for a car rental to get them to the nearest amusement park. (The film also opened Friday at Edwards Imax Theatres in Irvine and Ontario, Calif.)
Narrated by Harry Shearer, "Thrill Ride" attempts to cram in a lot during its brief 40 minutes, from roller coasters that hang its riders upside down to the Big Shot ride in Las Vegas at the top of one of the tallest buildings in the world. The camera is often used in such a way as to make the viewer feel he is actually on the ride; one can only imagine the effect if the 3-D Imax format had been used.
Much of the film's running time is consumed by the examination of the motion simulator ride, from its beginnings as a training vehicle for pilots and astronauts to its current use for such theme park attractions as Universal Studio's "Back to the Future -- The Ride". There are also samples from such current hot attractions as "Devil's Mine Ride" and "Secrets of the Lost Temple".
"Thrill Ride" is less than effective in terms of informative content, suffering from a jerky narrative and an abrupt, awkward ending. The film's most hackneyed aspect is its use of a truly irritating, demented hillbilly character (played by Paul Harper) as a host for the more scary goings-on.
THRILL RIDE: THE SCIENCE OF FUN
Sony Pictures Classics
Director Ben Stassen
Producer Charlotte Huggins
Writer Kurt Frey
Director of photography Sean Phillips
Production designer Ray Spencer
Composer Michael Stearns
Color/stereo
Running time -- 40 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
Although awkwardly written and lacking in real information value, it does a good job of using the large-screen format to simulate the experience of various rides, minus the physical discomfort.
Now showing at the Sony Theatres Lincoln Square, it should do good business with urban dwellers unwilling to fork out for a car rental to get them to the nearest amusement park. (The film also opened Friday at Edwards Imax Theatres in Irvine and Ontario, Calif.)
Narrated by Harry Shearer, "Thrill Ride" attempts to cram in a lot during its brief 40 minutes, from roller coasters that hang its riders upside down to the Big Shot ride in Las Vegas at the top of one of the tallest buildings in the world. The camera is often used in such a way as to make the viewer feel he is actually on the ride; one can only imagine the effect if the 3-D Imax format had been used.
Much of the film's running time is consumed by the examination of the motion simulator ride, from its beginnings as a training vehicle for pilots and astronauts to its current use for such theme park attractions as Universal Studio's "Back to the Future -- The Ride". There are also samples from such current hot attractions as "Devil's Mine Ride" and "Secrets of the Lost Temple".
"Thrill Ride" is less than effective in terms of informative content, suffering from a jerky narrative and an abrupt, awkward ending. The film's most hackneyed aspect is its use of a truly irritating, demented hillbilly character (played by Paul Harper) as a host for the more scary goings-on.
THRILL RIDE: THE SCIENCE OF FUN
Sony Pictures Classics
Director Ben Stassen
Producer Charlotte Huggins
Writer Kurt Frey
Director of photography Sean Phillips
Production designer Ray Spencer
Composer Michael Stearns
Color/stereo
Running time -- 40 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 7/15/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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