dead air ( 2007 film )
dead air 2007, the 2007 hong kong horror film directed by xavier lee pak tat .
dead air, the 2009 u. s. horror film directed by corbin bernson .
dead air
, one of the levels in the original left 4 dead video game .
homestar runner: in one of strong bad' s emails, he summed up college radio in five words :
dead air,' um', dead air
.
dead air is a horror film directed by corbin bernsen (psych) and written by kenny yakkel. it was released on dvd in 2009. the film stars bill mosely (rob zombie' s halloween 2007), and patricia tallman (babylon five) .
film of the same name, the third in the living dead series. the film was directed by steve miner and written by jeffrey reddick .
not to be confused with the zombie flick, the radio station, radio dead air, or the left 4 dead campaign of the same name .
made for total film magazines short movie contest dead air (2007) is the 7th film from wes casey productions. following the lives of radio dj and avid listener as on april fools day their lives intertwine in a unusual way that seals their fate. scripted, filmed and edited in 3 months flat !
stardust is a 2007 film adaptation of neil gaiman' s book of the same name. while certain liberties were taken, it remains a relatively faithful adaptation .
according to reddick, this film does not have any connection to zack snyder 2004 remake dawn of the dead. reddick told urltoken
the term
dead air
is used primarily in broadcasting, be it radio or television, and it defines any amount of time where nothing goes out over the air unintentionally, like silence on radio or a black screen on television. dead air is considered a broadcaster' s worst nightmare, as it eats up precious advertising time .
a secret video showing us air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two iraqis working for reuters news agency, was revealed by wikileaks today .
a film critic loses himself into an immoral wasteland and does bad things to people .
wrek - fm in atlanta ga (georgia tech student station) had a show wednesday nights in the early 80s called
dead air .
it was a 90 - minute show featuring the music of frank zappa, jimi hendrix and the grateful dead .
a norinco type 56 (ak - 47) next to a dead drug dealer .
' i know in my heart she wanted me dead,' shipman told people .
random assault: averted, as the podcast is edited, so un - needed dead air will be cut. however, it is left in if the hosts acknowledge it .
a mac - 10 can be seen next to the dead drug dealer on the left .
not to be confused with the truth in television phenomenon of the same name, the 2007 hong kong horror film directed by xavier lee pak tat, or the novel of the same name by iain banks. or, for that matter, the zombie - riffic third campaign of left 4 dead or the song by the same name by rufus rex .
dead air: tv news broadcasts of the burgeoning technically living zombie apocalypse shock the protagonist dj and his sidekick into momentary silence, leading to a panicked reaction from their producer, lucy .
shipman was in her car in the parking lot of the orlando international airport in orlando, florida, in february of 2007, when a woman asked her for help .
dead air is a short starring benjamin aguillon, brian armstrong, and shannon brown. trapped in a world gone mad, one father must choose between the evil outside and the monsters within .
: the dead princes can' t pass on until a new king of stormhold is chosen .
a type 56 - 1 (aks - 47 / akms) next to a dead drug dealer .
bbc radio 3, being a non - commercial classical music station, does not fear dead air and is quite happy to broadcast long periods of silence, for instance at the beginning and end of a piece .
in the punnily titled zombie flick dead air, tv news broadcasts of the burgeoning technically living zombie apocalypse shock the protagonist dj and his sidekick into momentary silence, leading to a panicked reaction from their producer, lucy .
in almost famous there' s a radio interview scene where the overnight dj, higher than a very high thing, falls asleep and the band being interviewed realizes the air is dead. not for long, though .
: with the government out to shut them down, radio rock promises that there will be no dead air if they can help it. the first time the official on their tail thinks he' s finally finished them ,
dead air, the terror of radio show producers the world over. since radio is an auditory medium, extended periods of silence is one of the worst things you can have as part of your programming, as it will often cause impatient listeners to switch over to competing stations. for this reason, many radio stations would even prefer airing commercials over dead air, as an advertisement at least has a chance of keeping the audience' s interest .
retired air force captain colleen shipman has revisited the bizarre attack by a female astronaut, which changed her world forever .
llewelyn moss pointing the heckler & koch sp89 at the last man standing - now dead sitting against a tree .
synthetic plague: the hate plague in dead air is revealed by the terrorist who unleashed it to have been created by the u. s. government, originally for use as a depopulation bomb against enemy cities in the middle east .
while reading a story he had written. the announcer, 10 years old, immediately tells him that' s all the time they have for his story and moves on to the next segment to prevent a second of dead air .
a mac - 10 is seen in the hands of a dead drug dealer. the other is on the ground .
episode
good morning, peoria
, the air goes dead when an intimate conversation between the radio station owner and sam (who has leapt into a dj) extends past the end of the record. he picks it up well, though :
after john galt hacks the radio transmissions and delivers his speech in atlas shrugged, the other characters do anything to fill up the dead air afterward, but this is treated more as a follow the leader response of the radio producers that came before them .
happens on the episode of dharma and greg when dharma creates a pirate radio station. she gets into an argument with greg for several seconds before realizing she' s left dead air and panics, bringing out all the instruments she has on the table .
chigurh with the captive bolt pistol; his is clearly an air - powered version given the hose and tank he also carries with .
into a fountain, he floats up into the air and drowns. she later pulls it back out and animates his body with it
but shipman, who was given lesser tasks in the air force following the attack, said she felt like she was being punished .
in a one - off joke, dj johnny fever went out to the receptionist area to chat up jennifer, who rather than shooting him down just turned on the radio monitor, letting him know the air was dead. he gallops back to the control room .
false soulmate: tristan wholeheartedly believes he and victoria are meant for each other. he learns better over the course of the film .
the film has an all star cast that includes charlie cox, claire danes, robert de niro, michelle pfeiffer, and mark strong .
this film follows several characters as they prepare themselves for the inevitable fate that awaits them when an incoming asteroid threatens to destroy their lives .
portions of this film were shot in colorado. a short description of this movie is coming soon. please check back at a later date .
one on one is a 1977 drama film starring robby benson and annette o’toole. it was written by benson and jerry segal (robby’s father), and shot on location in 1976 at colorado state university. the film features songs from seals and crofts and was directed by lamont johnson .
llewelyn (josh brolin) takes a nickel plated colt government model off a dead drug dealer, a. 45, according to the book .
hooked up afterwards: tristan' s parents only met during a one - night stand, but formally get together at the end of the film .
the now sawed down winchester model 1897 in llewelyn' s bag, as he sets the tent poles up to retrieve the money from the air duct .
with this in mind, with a name like tri stan, the protagonist being a member of the royal family should have been a dead giveaway .
in the king' s speech, there are a few instances of dead air, most notably in the first speech shown where he stood there for over two minutes trying to talk into the microphone without being able to get anything out and even after that there was a lot of stuttering and long pauses .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
sctv once had an episode about an up - and - coming boxer who was slated to fight the champ on their station. the entire episode is spent hyping up the underdog, even making a short film about him. at the end, when the fight begins, the underdog is knocked out by a single punch, leaving sctv with nothing but dead air for the remainder of the program as they desperately looked for something, anything they could fill it with .
when a small colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive .
a lot of people probably don’t know what snow buddies is. they probably don’t know that it’s a straight - to - dvd disney movie about a group of talking puppies who set out to win an alaskan dog sled race, let alone that it’s the seventh film in the air bud universe. those who are acquainted with the movie, who know that the titular buddies are the offspring of the golden retriever who broke the animal barrier and set state records for high school basketball and football in air bud and air bud: golden receiver, probably think fondly of snow buddies. it’s a valid entry in the air bud saga, a cute sequel to the first air buddies, and a reminder of the franchise’s better times, before things truly went off the rails with 2011’s spooky buddies. but the behind the scenes story of the making of snow buddies is much darker than that, a tale of negligence and malfeasance in the thirst to expand profit margins and corner the dog movie market .
the living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation .
when the mtv studio caught fire back in the 80s, the old - school live vjs stayed on the air and kept introducing videos while the blaze was put out .
the zombies featured in this film are unlike any others. though they act like the
fast zombies
featured in dawn of the dead and the infected in 28 days later, they are vastly different. the infection is the result of a man - made airborne virus, designed as a military weapon, but unintentionally released .
the newly released video of the baghdad attacks was recorded on one of two apache helicopters hunting for insurgents on 12 july 2007. among the dead were a 22 - year - old reuters photographer, namir noor - eldeen, and his driver, saeed chmagh, 40. the pentagon blocked an attempt by reuters to obtain the video through a freedom of information request. wikileaks director julian assange said his organisation had to break through encryption by the military to view it .
dead air can be caused by the failure of equipment, either through mechanical breakdowns or loss of power, which will send studio technicians scrambling to find a solution as quickly as possible. in other cases it can come about due to a radio equivalent of stage fright, or a heroic bsod on the part of the dj. if the dj in question has been under pressure from their higher ups to become lighter and softer as part of studio policy, a brief period of dead air can herald the moment where the dj throws caution to the wind, and decides to tell his bosses (and everyone else listening, of course) exactly how he feels about it .
a group of friends enjoying a weekend in the woods play a game of
dead mary
and summon an evil witch who begins possessing them one by one .
greek chorus: the dead princes, barred from the afterlife, have nothing better to do than follow their brothers around and comment on the action to each other .
this trope can also be used to show the lengths radio crews will go to avoid dead air. a trusty sidekick may ramble on in place of their suddenly mute comrades, or a dedicated dj may risk his or her own life to keep broadcasting while disaster strikes the studio. in worst cases it can lead to nothing is scarier .
full house: used for a brief joke when some of the family is visiting jesse and joey at their job at the radio station. at one point, they all realize that nothing is being broadcast, and rather than allow the dead air, they all begin chattering, singing, etc. into the mic at the same time .
dueling movies: with pontypool, another 2009 film about a dumbass dj trapped in his broadcast booth with his colleagues in the middle of a (not) zombie apocalypse .
the moon is always full: the film takes place over the course of a week, and yet the moon is full in every nighttime scene from beginning to end .
both literally and metaphorically the subject of iain banks' novel dead air. the protagonist is a radio presenter who purposefully avoids moments of silence of radio, but his lifestyle is shown to be a sequence of meaningless, empty events, of no consequence to humanity despite his celebrity status. a british response to bret easton ellis, if you will .
oefelein and shipman are married and live together in alaska with their four - year - old son, william, jr. shipman has taken up writing since retiring from the air force
: director corbin bernson appears briefly as dj
doc f
in the beginning of the film to deliver a single line while logan is walking in late to the studio .
the footage of the july 2007 attack was made public in a move that will further anger the pentagon, which has drawn up a report identifying the whistleblower website as a threat to national security. the us defence department was embarrassed when that confidential report appeared on the wikileaks site last month alongside a slew of military documents .
sightings: look for mention of this urban legend early in the 1999 film magnolia. also, the 1998 mordecai richler novel barney’s version and the 1989 peter mayle novel a year in provence make use of the legend. an episode of cbs’s csi: crime scene investigation (“scuba doobie - doo, ” original air date 25 october 2001) was based on this legend .
the biopic man on the moon has a scene depicting the filming of this sketch. the snl producers face - palm over kaufman' s apparent stage fright and the resulting dead air, because kaufman never told them that the awkward silence (and the awkward doing - nothing - while - waiting - for - his - cue) was the entire joke of the sketch .
in gremlins, the unseen dj rockin' rickie gets attacked by gremlins during a broadcast, but is back in the studio and boasting that he' s still on the air soon afterward .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london... 21 years after the first film hit screens
initially the us military said that all the dead were insurgents. then it claimed the helicopters reacted to an active firefight. assange said that the video demonstrated that neither claim was true .
in barrow hill, the radio dj you' ve just phoned gets chased from her beat - up winnebago by the stalking menace. if you hang up the phone, go back inside, and check the radio, all you hear is dead air. this can be fixed if you visit the now - abandoned winnebago and reset the equipment to broadcast a station - identification message .
an instance of truth in television, much to the chagrin of radio broadcasters everywhere. some stations will even pre - record interviews and re - edit them just to avoid it, or have songs on standby to use at a moment' s notice if needed. additionally, many stations around the world (particularly public broadcasters) are programmed to switch to an emergency broadcast system, often if there is dead air for any more than 30 seconds, making this something of a justified trope. there is also a practice where broadcasters pre - record dialogue and play them in lieu of live conversations to fill time, known as relief tapes. since dead air can occur for almost any reason in real life, only notable instances should be listed in the examples section .
the star model p is lying next to the dead mexican. note the trigger guard is rounded and 1911 style trigger. the bottom of the front strap appears raised like the star series pistols .
to be fair, the announcer' s inner monologue shows that said guest did this every time; he' d come in and rant himself into a frenzy over something, mainly as an overreaction to some perceived danger, before reaching a point where' d he just sit there seething until someone else spoke. the announcer recognized the signs and reacted quickly to prevent the dead air from lasting any longer .
having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she' s killed in a motorcycle accident .
connoisseurs of sarah kennedy knew something interesting was going on when dead air announced she had been pulled from her morning show on bbc radio as too, err, ill to continue. this happened more than once, and by the third time, her producers knew to withdraw her from service during music, so that the stand - in replacement could seamlessly take over without too much of an upheaval or necessary silence .
in this classic film by woody allen, featuring both allen and diane keaton, a health food store owner is frozen and brought into the future in order to help a group of radicals overthrow the government .
when sandy, a call girl at
the naked eye
, ends up dead, her friend and only ally in the world, jake, goes on a manhunt to find out who killed her .
this coming of age story is about two teenage girls who travel across america in 1962 with the hope of meeting eleanor roosevelt during the cuban missile crisis. the film was produced by leonardo dicaprio’s appian way productions .
a united states navy destroyer escort in 1943 disappears from the philadelphia harbor only to find himself launched into the future in 1984. this film is based off of an event that took place during world war ii .
john carpenter directs this film about jenny hayden, a young widow whose life takes an interesting turn when she encounters an alien, named starman, who takes the form of her deceased husband and then kidnaps her .
indeed, the bbc has automatic systems ensuring that if dead air goes on too long, it is usually replaced by automatic music or a recording of birdsong. this is because if the gap goes on for too long - some authorities say five minutes, some six - the silence will be replaced by the national emergency tapes to be broadcast to the british nation in the event of nuclear war, natural disaster or the armageddon .
i watched this film mistakenly thinking that it was that other radio station zombie flick. the shonky production values and low - rent cast soon gave away that this was another one of the those cheap sci - fi channel style knock offs. the central performance from bill moseley is initially quite engaging as the dubious radio shock jock but as the film goes on becomes less and less convincing as he is actually required to act. the rest of the cast have little to do other than look concerned and have no depth whatsoever. the cinematography is dull, flat and completely uninspired, like so many of these kind of films. it doesn' t even manage a decent bit of convincing gore, the zombie make up is literally pathetic apart from one notable exception towards the end of the film. the film tries to inject originality and a message into it' s concoction of half baked and ripped off ideas by somehow equating this outbreak with intolerance towards islam and the war on terror. this is woefully handled with all the intellectual clout of a 6 year old. as the characters and seemingly the writers are unable to distinguish the difference between race and religion - describing all people of a certain skin colour as
muslims .
most notably one character is revealed to be muslim by skin colour alone. at the same time the
muslim
terrorists who cause the outbreak are the usual psychopathic stereotype. presumably the far far superior pontypool had a similar budget as dead air yet shines everywhere where this film fails miserably .
and takes them both. the hapless goatherd gets dragged along by the villains for most of the rest of the film. it does turn out well for him in the end, though, as he' s seen
stephen king wrote both the novel and the teleplay for this creepy film where a writer / professor who is also a recovering alcoholic agrees to become the caretaker of a colorado hotel in the dead of winter. though he is joined by his wife and son, the family soon finds itself becoming more and more isolated, and the professor seems to be dealing with some evil forces that he is helpless to protect himself or his family against .
not only is he actually tristan' s uncle, but the only time he actually meets the two main characters is in the film' s climax, just in time to help fight the big bads and get killed .
this film marks the final appearance of actor paul walker as he stars together with vin diesel, dwayne johnson, and jason statham in the sequel to the fast and furious 6. though filming was delayed midway through, walker’s brothers were used as stand = ins and the film was successfully completed. after defeating competitors abroad in tokyo drift, walker and diesel return to the united states to face more challenges, dangers, and high voltage chase scenes .
a highly dramatic example came during hurricane harvey, when khou, the houston cbs affiliate, needed to evacuate their flooding studios. after the evacuation a single reporter was left on air and continued to broadcast for around 20 minutes (and helped save the life of a man trapped in a truck during the broadcast) until the signal cut out. then khou' s sister station in dallas provided coverage on social media until khou could return to the air using a temporary studio .
a remote broadcast ran into trouble and went dead. station manager andy wanted to run some psas since that' d at least be something, but les decided to go live with one of his irrelevant anti - communist speeches instead .
the virus took hold of the set rather quickly. it was february in british columbia, the perfect time and place to film exterior winter shots, but an environment that only helped the illness spread faster. production tried to prevent impending disaster, quarantining those infected, giving them iv drips in between scenes. but it was too late. the virus had already sunk its teeth into so many. and that’s how five puppies ended up dead during the filming of snow buddies .
after ground forces arrive and the children are discovered, the american air crew blame the iraqis .
well it' s their fault for bringing kids in to a battle ,
says one .
that' s right ,
says another .
the lead helicopter, using the moniker crazyhorse, opens fire .
hahaha. i hit' em ,
shouts one of the american crew. another responds a little later :
oh yeah, look at those dead bastards .
in the motel a drug dealer is seen using a cobray m11 / 9. as with numerous other guns depicted, the m11 / 9 is an anachronism for the film' s date of 1980, as it was first manufactured in 1983 .
several norinco type 56 copies of the ak - 47 assault rifle (both the fixed stock type 56 and folding stock type 56 - 1) can be seen on the ground next to dead drug dealers at the site of the failed exchange .
the film is a typical zombie film, virus infects town, people start biting each other, virus spreads by the bites, and a handful of survivors try to make it out of town alive. in this one the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine on the small town of leadville, co because of the mysterious virus. once they realize the virus eventually makes people start ravenously attacking each other, it' s too late... except for a few. [ 1 ]
this film follows the ups and downs of the prescott family, followed through four generations from the erie canal to their settled home in the west. along the way they encounter several challenges, including pirates, drowning, and losing a fortune in california .
before snow buddies began filming in early 2007, keystone productions purchased 25 golden retriever puppies from alex and suzana schock, who ran a commercial breeder out of white lake, n. y. , a hudson valley town about two hours outside of new york city. the dogs were put on a plane at jfk airport and shipped across the country to sea - tac in seattle, wash. , where a snow buddies employee picked them up and brought them to set .
true. this causes him to notice that the runes land with the symbols facing down if the answer is
no
. septimus then has the soothsayer throw the runes as high as he can. while they' re still in the air, he asks ,
phileas fogg believes that his new steamships and railways can make a trip around the world in eighty days. traveling by train, then by air balloon, he rescues an indian princess and is also followed by a detective who thinks phileas is responsible for a large theft .
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these words sounded verbatim to me from no country for old men, the novel by cormac mccarthy, but i find they are not quite. and their impact has been improved upon in the delivery. when i get the dvd of this film, i will listen to that stretch of narration several times; jones delivers it with a vocal precision and contained emotion that is extraordinary, and it sets up the entire film, which regards a completely evil man with wonderment, as if astonished that that such a merciless creature could exist .
in this classic film, butch (played by paul newman) and sundance (played by robert redford) are a pair of western robbers as well as best friends. the two are followed through the west by a special posse who seem to lurk around every corner .
set in the world of x - treme snowboarding
white air
tells the story of alex crow, (' riley smith'), a once - promising snowboarder who has lost his edge. to make ends meet he is working in... see full summary »
the story of mardin tamay who is searching for his archeologist father presumed dead for 30 years. on his journey, not only will he explore his true self but he' ll discover that he is one of the mystical figures known as'' kanaga'' .
named by the adaptation: the witches were collectively known as the lilim in the book, with the eldest of them (lamia' s counterpart) going by the alias morwanneg at one point. in the film their roles are expanded to become lamia, mormo and empusa .
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i have a son. i shall call him mini - roo .
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now, that should be the way you end a film. with the star .
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someone call my agent !
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that' s all, blokes !
john mcclane (bruce willis) finds himself in another horrifying situation in which a group of terrorists are holding an entire airport hostage. the terrorists take control of the airplanes, as well, so that no runway lights are working, therefore forcing airplanes with limited fuel to remain in the air .
there was a bomb scare at the station so djs johnny & venus were sent to the broadcast tower to do their show. it turned out that the bomb was at the transmitter rather than at the station, so they suddenly went off the air. they had to field calls from confused listeners .
anton chigurh (javier bardem) uses a suppressed intratec tec - 9 pistol when he is chasing llewelyn moss in eagle pass. although tec - 9s are mentioned by name in the book, they are anachronistic because the tec - 9 was not manufactured until 1985 and the film takes place in 1980 .
captain shakespeare of the caspertine; in the book, the ship tristran and yvaine travel on is the perdita, and its captain is named alberic. they were renamed to acknowledge that the captain in the film is effectively a new character, with a different personality and backstory and a larger role in the plot .
a disney blockbuster film starring johnny depp and armie hammer, “the lone ranger” is the story of john reid and tonto, who join forces to find the infamous butch cavendish and bring him to justice. the story is told through the eyes of tonto, who describes the adventures to a young boy throughout the story .
anton chigurh (javier bardem) uses a sound - suppressed remington model 11 - 87 semi - auto shotgun with a short barrel in four shooting scenes in the movie. as with many other firearms, this gun is also anachronistic because the remington 11 - 87 was not designed until 1987 and the film takes place in 1980 .
a heckler & koch sp89 is picked up by llewelyn moss at the scene of a drug exchange gone wrong. as this film takes place in 1980, the sp89 is anachronistic, since the gun was not manufactured until 1989. this is a substitute for the mp5k, which is the weapon that llewelyn picks up in the book .
llewelyn moss (josh brolin) uses a 12 gauge winchester model 1897 pump shotgun for a large part of the film, and uses it to wound anton. he originally buys a long barreled' field' shotgun, and subsequently saws off the stock and saws down the gun barrel to roughly the length of a' riot' version .
many of the scenes in
no country for old men
are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. another movie that made me feel that way was
fargo .
to make one such film is a miracle. here is another .
once septimus, the last of them, dies. they were supposed to acquire a ruby from their father, which would make the winner the new king and release the ghosts, but with all seven dead thankfully, tristan, being una' s son, turns out to be eligible and they' re able to pass on .
when anton chigurh first goes to the trucks with the
mind riding bitch
guy, he executes both him and his partner with what appears to be a glock 19 pistol. although identified as a glock in the book, a glock would be an anachronism as they were not produced until 1983 (the film takes place in 1980) .
in this film about friendship and loyalty, louise (susan sarandon) and thelma (geena davis) decide to take a road trip in order to escape from their dull and challenging lives. but when a man threatens to rape thelma, louise kills him, and before they know it, the pair find themselves being hunted by the police .
match cut: after the scene where septimus kills his soothsayer for being a traitor, he asks his men ,
so, do we continue west ?
he then throws his runes into the air. one of them flies at the camera and as it flips, is used to transition to lamia standing on the top of a cliff using her runes .
charlie chaplin plays a lonely gold digger in search of his fortune in the alaskan wilderness. along his adventures he comes across some tough looking characters, as well as a woman who attracts all of his love and attention. written, directed and starred in by charles chaplin, some say this was the film he most wanted to be remembered for .
••• an international team of climbers ascends mt. everest in the spring of 1996. the film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to base camp. it also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard .
pretend prejudice: logan is forced to badmouth muslims on the air by one of the terrorists, who are seeking to ignite a war between the western and arab cultures through the attacks. his initial attempts at resistance and the revelation that his wife is, in fact, muslim offer proof that he doesn' t really mean what he' s being forced to say .
the film is being produced by danny dimbort, one of the producers of the wicker man and the black dahlia. mena suvari stars. ving rhames has been cast as captain rhodes, originally played by joseph pilato. according to imdb, christa campbell, matt rippy, vanessa johansson, linda maralowe, ian mcneice, taylor hoover and hugh skinner are attached .
the 8th feature film by tarantino follows the story of several bounty hunters who are trying to survive during a terrible blizzard in 1870’s post civil war wyoming. the cast of “the hateful eight” includes tarantino go to favorites samuel jackson (“pulp fiction”) michael madsen (reservoir dogs) as well as kurt russell, channing tatum, tim roth and jennifer jason leigh .
mind’s eye is a psychological thriller, a mind - bending film about mattie carver, a young high school musician who finds that space and time are collapsing around her, triggered by the resonant sound of her violin. mattie is further confounded by the mysterious appearance of two shadowy men in black, who attempt to instruct her on the shifting nature of her perceptions .
jerk with a heart of gold: logan and his on - air sidekick gil enjoy teasing and even insulting their more colorful callers, however both seek to do everything they can to help the citizens when the crisis starts, with logan manning the airwaves to give advice to the survivors who are listening and gil volunteering to venture out on his motorcycle to save logan' s wife .
throughout his eleven years as a radio personality, frasier never managed to master timing and pacing his comments to fit into the allotted time, often ending early only for roz to desperately motion for him to keep talking. there are also times when he becomes so distracted by something going on in the studio that he forgets to start talking when the
on - air
light comes on .
billy crystal plays a middle aged salesman who is facing a mid life crisis along with his friends ed and phil. the group decides to take a trip to the west to drive cattle from new mexico to colorado, and along the way they meet curly (jack palance, who earned an academy award for his role in the film) who teaches them many important life lessons .
in this cult hit from the early 70’s, a car delivery man named kowalski gets involved in a bet that he can take a 1970 dodge challenger from colorado to san francisco in less than 15 hours. along the way he encounters a blind dj and the two are chased by the highway patrol. the film’s adventurous and odd characters make it an interesting, must - see classic .
winchester no longer makes this model, and those still in circulation are considered collector' s items. the actual firearm used in the film was a clone of the winchester 1897 made by norinco. in the dvd special features, the armorer mentions that the fact that in the book it says that moss cocks the hammer on the shotgun, clued him into the fact that it was a winchester model 1897 .
gabe (sylvester stallone) is plagued by the memory of his friend’s death, who literally slips out of his hands and to falls to the ground while they are crossing a ledge. but a year later, gabe finds himself being asked to rescue a group of lost people in the mountains and must face his fears and his memories. john lithgow plays the villain in this adrenaline filled, suspenseful film .
another episode has, due to a long and tangled series of events, roz call the show pretending to be a genuine caller. the conversation then becomes increasingly difficult as roz unexpectedly finds herself revealing her insecurity over a recently failed relationship. frasier ends up pulling her into a hug to console her... but the heartwarming moment is ruined when their station manager runs into the studio frantically gesturing at the' on air' sign .
the entry for the boat that rocked in film above was based on at least two real life examples of a buccaneer broadcaster continuing to broadcast even as they were preparing to abandon ship. although in this memorable example they were more concerned with frantically calling for rescue than going down with the ship titanic band - style. (all hands made it to the lifeboats and were rescued with only minor injuries, by the way. )
below is a partial list of the more popular movies that have been filmed in colorado in chronological order. note that there are hundreds of other low budget movies, documentaries and short films that have been made in colorado, that we were not able to include on this list. to see all of the film & video productions that have used colorado as one of their locations, please visit imdb’s list of colorado made movies .
even evil has standards: una disappeared for years and is presumed dead, and septimus is known to have killed several of his older brothers, but he is still deeply offended that everyone assumes he must have killed una as well. as he points out, he would have no reason to kill her, given that stormhold is an heir club for men —as a daughter she wasn' t a competitor in the line of succession anyway .
the firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. the buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. you guessed it. one minute our diver was making like flipper in the pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300m in the air. apparently, he extinguished exactly 1. 78m (5’10”) of the fire .
rock (derek tsang), the director of a poor rating tv program, bumps into a female ghost, tincy (tong ling), and helps deliver her baby from her dead body. in return, the ghost helps him create a new reality show
life or death
, where participants try different ways to commit suicide. the show becomes a spectacular hit, but little does he know there' s more to tincy than meets the eye ...
from the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. they were undone, destroyed, after all of man' s weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that god in his wisdom put upon this earth. by the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet' s infinite organisms. and that right is ours against all challenges. for neither do men live nor die in vain .
enemy mine: sort of. at the end of the film we have a hero / villain team - up (between tristan and septimus) to take down a more dangerous villain (lamia), but the two characters weren' t enemies beforehand—in fact, they' d never met (though septimus did beat up tristan' s mentor, captain shakespeare). septimus lampshades it nonetheless — he points out while neither of them can trust the other, neither do they have much choice but to work together .
no country for old men
is as good a film as the coen brothers, joel and ethan, have ever made, and they made
fargo .
it involves elements of the thriller and the chase but is essentially a character study, an examination of how its people meet and deal with a man so bad, cruel and unfeeling that there is simply no comprehending him. chigurh is so evil, he is almost funny sometimes .
he has his principles ,
says the bounty hunter, who has knowledge of him .
when a representative for the american humane association —the group that asserts that “no animals were harmed in the making of this film”—arrived on set on feb. 19, the first day of filming, trouble was already brewing. of the 30 dogs acquired by production (five more had been bought from a canadian breeder), 15 were on set. the other 15 had been showing signs of illness for about two weeks, and were being treated by local veterinarians. they were eventually diagnosed with giardia and coccidia, a parasitic disease common among young dogs .
the man is named anton chigurh. no, i don' t know how his last name is pronounced. like many of the words mccarthy uses, particularly in his masterpiece suttree, i think it is employed like an architectural detail: the point is not how it sounds or what it means, but the brushstroke it adds to the sentence. chigurh (javier bardem) is a tall, slouching man with lank, black hair and a terrifying smile, who travels through texas carrying a tank of compressed air and killing people with a cattle stungun. it propels a cylinder into their heads and whips it back again .
chigurh seems to prefer to use a captive bolt pistol on his victims when he can. he also uses it to blow out door locks. the captive bolt pistol is a pneumatic gun that fires a bolt into the brains of cattle to stun them before slaughter. like the name suggests the bolt never entirely leaves the gun, it is shot out by air (or a blank) and then retracts back into the gun by return springs. though not a
firearm
it is a gun and does play a big role in several scenes. anton most likely chose this weapon because it requires no ammunition, is almost completely silent, and leaves no physical evidence (bullets and / or empty casings) .
chigurh is one strand in the twisted plot. ed tom bell, the sheriff played by jones, is another. the third major player is llewelyn moss (josh brolin), a poor man who lives with his wife in a house trailer, and one day, while hunting, comes across a drug deal gone wrong in the desert. vehicles range in a circle like an old wagon train. almost everyone on the scene is dead. they even shot the dog. in the back of one pickup are neatly stacked bags of drugs. llewelyn realizes one thing is missing: the money. he finds it in a briefcase next to a man who made it as far as a shade tree before dying.
dead air ( chinese : 鬼计 ; pinyin : gui ji ) is a 2007 hong kong horror film produced by teddy chen ( bodyguards and assassins ) , hong kong supernatural thriller dead air marks the feature directorial debut of xavier lee ( documentary jackie chan : my stunts ) and the first lead role for av actor derek tsang . the chiller lines up a b-list but nonetheless interesting cast that also includes leila tong ( a very short life ) , terence yin ( fear factors ) , raymond wong ho-yin ( scare 2 die ) , jo kuk ( visible secret ) , wayne lai ( nightmare zone ) , and susan tse ( the haunted school ) . 
dead air (chinese: 鬼计; pinyin: gui ji) is a 2007 hong kong horror film produced by teddy chen (bodyguards and assassins), hong kong supernatural thriller dead air marks the feature directorial debut of xavier lee (documentary jackie chan: my stunts) and the first lead role for av actor derek tsang. the chiller lines up a b-list but nonetheless interesting cast that also includes leila tong (a very short life), terence yin (fear factors), raymond wong ho-yin (scare 2 die), jo kuk (visible secret), wayne lai (nightmare zone), and susan tse (the haunted school).
dead air (chinese: 鬼计; pinyin: gui ji) is a 2007 hong kong horror film produced by teddy chen (bodyguards and assassins), hong kong supernatural thriller dead air marks the feature directorial debut of xavier lee (documentary jackie chan: my stunts) and the first lead role for av actor derek tsang. the chiller lines up a b-list but nonetheless interesting cast that also includes leila tong (a very short life), terence yin (fear factors), raymond wong ho-yin (scare 2 die), jo kuk (visible secret), wayne lai (nightmare zone), and susan tse (the haunted school).