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In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Pegasus", Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) is reunited with Admiral Erik Pressman (Terry O'Quinn), his former commanding officer on board a ship called the U.S.S. Pegasus. Pressman is visiting the Enterprise to reveal that Starfleet intelligence has located the missing Pegasus, presumably destroyed 15 years ago. It's their mission to either salvage the Pegasus or destroy it before nearby Romulans can cannibalize its technology.

In some meaningful asides, Riker and Pressman talk about the "final mission" of the Pegasus, and how there are some things they have been keeping secret for the last 15 years, hoping that Starfleet never finds out. Like most Admirals on "Star Trek," Pressman is up to something shady, and he had convinced a young Ensign Riker to go along with it. Because Pressman is played by Terry O'Quinn, audiences were likely suspicious immediately; O'Quinn was an expert...

In the 1980s, Hollywood didn’t quite know what to do with Rutger Hauer. The actor broke out in a pretty major way following his acclaimed turn in Paul Verhoeven’s Soldier of Orange, paving the way for his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone thriller Nighthawks, where he played the villain Wulfgar. His performance as Roy Batty in Blade Runner blew people away, and for a while, it looked like he might become the next big Hollywood heartthrob, especially when he signed on to star in the epic adventure film Ladyhawke opposite Michelle Pfeiffer for Richard Donner.

But major stardom didn’t happen? Why? Perhaps it was because the movies of Hauer’s that did best at the box office were the ones where he played the villain, such as The Hitcher. He was so unforgettable as a bad guy that when he played a hero, such as in...

Pierce Brosnan trades his renowned Irish accent for a genteel Southern elocution in the crime thriller Fast Charlie. Adapted from the novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler, Brosnan plays Charlie Swift, a hit man and longtime enforcer of aged Biloxi mob boss Stan Mullen (James Caan). Charlie joins forces with Marcie Kramer (Morena Baccarin), the ex-wife of a dead mark, after Stan is betrayed by a ruthless competitor (Gbenga Akinnagbe).

Venerated Australian director Phillip Noyce was interested in a story that had "three really interesting characters poised on the second half of their lives." He would only "sign on to the picture" if the producers hired screenwriter Richard Wenk and moved the setting from Florida to his "favorite city in the world" — New Orleans. Noyce credits Wenk as a "master storyteller" of "characters, humor, suspense, and action." Fast Charlie surprises as a dark comedy, something Noyce hadn't done since 1989's Blind Fury.

Warning! Spoilers for Star Wars: Dark Droids #1 ahead!The newly-launched Star Wars: Dark Droids crossover event has an opportunity to resurrect a vengeful droid god created by legendary comics writer Alan Moore. Although the story that introduced the robotic deity is part of the non-canon Star Wars Legends continuity, its presence would be a natural fit for the droid-centric event currently unleashing chaos across the galaxy.

The droid god known as Ronyards first appeared in the 1982 story “Rust Never Sleeps” by Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Jenny O’Connor and Matt Webb. This short comic story was included in The Empire Strikes Back Monthly #156, which was part of the Marvel Star Wars UK line of comics. In the story, C-3Po and R2-D2 find themselves on the planet Ronyards, where the remains of discarded droids have been dumped for centuries. There they meet a droid named Fivelines, who tells them that...

Brandon Call was a child star in the 1990s sitcom Step By Step, but he left show business after the series ended. Call's character, J.T., was a major part of the show's storylines and dealt with challenges like dyslexia. Call had a successful acting career before Step By Step, including appearances in other TV shows and movies, but he hasn't worked in show business since the series ended.

Brandon Call was a noted child star in the 1990s sitcom Step By Step, but he abandoned show business after the series went off the air. Debuting in 1991, Step By Step follows the tumultuous Lambert and Foster family as they are thrown together by the sudden marriage of a single father of three named Frank (Patrick Duffy) and a single mother of three named Carol (Suzanne Somers). The series was a popular 1990s staple that checked all the classic sitcom...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee James Caan (The Godfather) and Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) will star alongside Pierce Brosnan in hitman thriller Fast Charlie, to be directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt).

Filming is due to get underway in New Orleans next week.

Former James Bond Brosnan will play Charlie Swift who has worked for his ageing mob boss Stan (Caan) for twenty years, skillfully operating as a prolific fixer and efficient hitman. When a rival boss moves to eliminate Stan and his entire team, he fails in wiping the team clean. Now on his own, Charlie will stop at nothing to avenge his friend and has no plans to leave anyone alive. Morena Baccarin is set to play the female lead Marcie, the ex-wife of a mobster killed by Charlie, who forms an unexpected pairing with Charlie in his revenge against the rival mob.

The original screenplay is written by Richard Wenk (The...

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A blind masseur, Zatoichi would wander from village to village in Feudal Japan hoping for employment to maintain his meagre existence. Hidden within his cane was a sword which he would frequently be required to use against an assortment of yakuza, villains, assassins and ronin. Zatoichi was a legendary blind swordsman whose adventures were charted across an initial run of twenty-six feature films and a hundred television episodes all starring Shintaro Katsu between 1962 and 1979, with a return to the character one last time for the film Zatoichi in 1989. Katsu was something of a legend in Japan, and he came from a showbusiness family: his elder brother was Tomisaburō Wakayama, star of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. This in-depth new book from academic Jonathan Wroot takes...

In the late 1980s-1990s, Phillip Noyce delivered a slew of entertaining actioners, which include Blind Fury, an American interpretation of the highly popular Zatoichi series starring the late Rutger Hauer and his Jack Ryan diptych starring Harrison Ford: Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, the very best on-screen Tom Clancy adaptations. After the highly underrated Salt in 2010, Noyce’s career took a rapid nosedive with The Giver—one of the dullest Young Adult book-to-screen adaptations released in the last decade. With his latest film, Above Suspicion, based on the true story of the murder of informant Susan Smith by FBI Agent Mark Putnam, Noyce doesn’t seem to care anymore. The film is a stagnant, repulsive and highly caricatured chronicle of a tragic event, featuring appalling...

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Albert Hughes takes us on a wild journey through the movies that made him, then explains why he’s not a cinephile (Spoiler: He is). Heads up – you’re going to hear some words you’ve never heard on our show before, and only one of them is Metropolis.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Gremlins (1984)

A Christmas Story (1983)

The Candidate (1972)

Menace II Society (1993)

Die Hard (1988)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Scarface (1983)

Goodfellas (1990)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Raging Bull (1980)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Alpha (2018)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Metropolis (1927)

True Romance (1993)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

The Matrix (1999)

Man Bites Dog (1992)

Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)

A Serbian Film (2010)

Scarface (1932)

The Book of Eli (2010)

The Departed (2006)

Infernal Affairs (2002)

The Godfather (1972)

Casino (1995)

JFK (1991)

Dead Presidents (1996)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Psycho (1960)

The Cremator (1969)

The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

Halloween (2018)

From Hell (2001)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Hoffa (1992)

V For Vendetta (2005)

Spartacus (1960)

You Were Never Really Here...

I have never seen a film in the Fast & Furious franchise so approached the latest release, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, with fresh eyes. I’ve certainly managed to absorb via pop culture osmosis the gist of the series’ evolution and the saturated play of the trailer all spring, certainly got me curious. So, kudos to the trailer’s editor.

While the premise behind the series does little for me, I enjoy a good buddy film and my understanding is that stars Dwayne Johnson and Jason Stratham had such different approaches to acting that I was curious to see how well they played together.

This is what we used to call a popcorn film: just enough plot to tie the action sequences together, appealing cast, and lots of things going boom. On those terms, the film works wonderfully and it is rather entertaining.

Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby) is...

Chicago – Cult character actor Rutger Hauer passed away late last month, but the mark he made with his array of performances carried through two generation of admirers, even receiving the honor of Best Dutch Actor of the (20th) Century in 1999. He died on July 19th, 2019, in his native Netherlands. He was 75.

He was born in Breukelen, the Netherlands, to actor parents. After a couple stints in the military, he graduated from the Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam in 1967, and made his TV debut two years later when director Paul Verhoeven cast him in the Dutch medieval action drama “Floris.” His film debut came in 1973 with “Turkish Delight,” and he performed mostly in Dutch films during the 1970s, including work with Verhoeven again on “Solider of Orange” (1977) and “Spetters” (1980).

Although Hauer made one international English language film previously, his American debut came in 1981 with “Nighthawks.” His was unforgettable one...

We lost one of the greats last week in Rutger Hauer. And while Hobo With A Shotgun may be a more obvious movie for this column, I'd rather celebrate the glory that is… Blind Fury (1989) Director: Phillip Noyce Stars: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn A blind Vietnam vet-turned-samurai must rescue an old friend and his son from Reno, Nevada’s most ruthless…...

Following the news of Rutger Hauer’s death, celebrities took to social media to remember the Dutch actor.

Hauer died July 19 after a short illness at the age of 75. Celebrities shared quotes, photos and gifs showcasing the actor’s most famous role, such as the villainous John Ryder in the 1986 thriller “The Hitcher,”Captain Navarre in the 1985 film “LadyHawke” and perhaps his most famous performance as replicant Roy Batty in the sci-fi film “Blade Runner.”

Guillermo del Toro pointed to “Flesh and Blood,” “Eureka,” “The Hitcher,” “Blade Runner,” “Ladyhawke” and “Blind Fury” as some of his favorite Hauer roles. “Rip the great Rutger Hauer: an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films,” he wrote.

Rip the great Rutger Hauer: an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films. My personal favorites: Flesh + Blood, Eureka, The Hitcher,...

Joseph Baxter Jul 24, 2019

The inimitable Rutger Hauer has died at 75, leaving behind a prolific legacy in film and television.

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.”

Rutger Hauer passed away this past Friday, July 19, at the age of the age of 75, having succumbed to a short illness. The news was revealed today by the actor’s agent, Steve Kennis. However, unlike the unforgettable soliloquy – quoted above – that he delivered in 1982’s Blade Runner, his moments will not be lost in time.

Indeed, the ever-emotive and versatile Dutch actor, Hauer, whose funeral was held today, leaves behind a breadth of work in the realms of film and television, spanning back to his first onscreen role, in the 1969 medieval television series,...

The passing of famed “Blade Runner” actor Rutger Hauer has prompted an outpouring of tributes from filmmakers, actors, and fans on Twitter, honoring a career highlighted by one of the most famous monologues in sci-fi history.

Director Guillermo Del Toro praised Hauer as “an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films.” “Law and Order: Svu” star Ice-t reflected on the time he worked with Hauer on the action film “Surviving the Game,” while Kiss frontman Gene Simmons posted a picture of a VHS copy of “Wanted Dead or Alive,” in which the rock star played a terrorist being hunted down by a CIA agent played by Hauer.

Hauer’s “Blade Runner” co-star Daryl Hannah said in a statement to Fox News Wednesday, “I have a profound love and respect for Rutger Hauer. I am heartbroken to learn he has left us. He was unpredictable,...

Rutger Hauer, known best for his role in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Blade Runner, has died. Hauer was 75-years-old at the time of his passing. The news has been confirmed by his agents, as well as multiple outlets. The actor's funeral has already been held. While no specific cause of death was revealed, it's said Hauer passed after a short illness.

A beloved character actor who spent nearly five decades in the business, Rutger Hauer's career dates back to 1969, when he starred on the TV series Floris. However, it was his work as replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 movie Blade Runner that Hauer will be remembered best for. While Blade Runner was a bomb at the time of its release, it's since gone on to become a true classic, with many considering it to be one of the finest sci-fi movies ever made. Hauer's performance is no small part of that.

Prolific actor Rutger Hauer has died at the age of 75.

Hauer had a long and successful career, often playing the bad guys despite his handsome looks.

Hauer is best known for his role as Roy Batty in Ridley' Scott's 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner.

Hauer died in his Netherlands home on Friday, July 19 of undisclosed causes.

His family did not want the news to be revealed until the completion of his funeral, which was on Wednesday.

His agent, Steve Kanis, told The Hollywood Reporter, "He was a wonderful man and a terrific actor."

The Dutch actor got his start on television with a Dutch TV show called Floris in 1969 and returned to the role of the titular character in 1975.

In 1981, Hauer starred in the thriller Nighthawks with Sylvester Stallone.

After 1982's Blade Runner, Hauer had a lot of movie roles starring in films such as The Osterman Weekend (1983), The Hitcher (1986), and...

Rutger Hauer, the actor who played the villainous Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade Runner and so many other awesome roles in his acting career has passed away.

It’s being reported that he passed on July 19th in the Netherlands after a long illness, and he was 75 years old. According to Deadline, his funeral was held today.

Hauer was a great and super entertaining actor that has left behind a legacy of genre films that also include Ladyhawke, The Hitcher, Blind Fury, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Sin City, Batman Begins, Hobo With a Shotgun, The Rite, and a lot more.

One of my favorite films that he starred in was Blind Fury, where he played a badass and skilled blind Vietnam vet with a sword. If you haven’t seen that movie, you’ve got to put it on your list of movies to see!

Hauer...

Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for his turn as the replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner, died last Friday at his home in the Netherlands, the actor’s agent, Steve Kenis, confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 75.

While Kenis did not give a cause of death, Variety reported that Hauer died after a short illness. His funeral was held Wednesday.

While Hauer spent the early part of his career acting in a variety of films and television shows in the Netherlands and Britain, Blade Runner marked just his...

Rutger Hauer, the actor who played the villainous Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade Runner in a career in which he became a staple in genre films, died July 19 in his native the Netherlands after a long illness. He was 75.

A funeral was held today, Hauer’s agent Steve Kenis told Deadline.

Hauer was born January 23, 1944 in Breukelen in the Netherlands. He attended the Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam before being drafted into the Royal Netherlands Army. He was part of an experimental theater troupe before being cast by Paul Verhoeven in the 1969 Dutch TV action drama Floris.

His first role stateside was in 1981 in the film Nighthawks opposite Sylvester Stallone, but it was his role as Roy Batty in the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner that put him in the spotlight and made him a formidable name amongst the cult fan community of the Ridley Scott film.

We finally got a glimpse of “Shogun World” in the latest episode of “Westworld,” and the idea to mash up the two universes isn’t just a coincidence. There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from samurai cinema and the other way around, with Akira Kurosawa studying the work of John Ford, which in turn led to many of Kurosawa’s movies to be remade as Spaghetti Westerns. The cowboy and the samurai are each lone wanderers in a lawless world, so it makes sense that the themes would crossover. Here are 10 instances in which the West met the East.

“The Magnificent Seven” (1960) and “Seven Samurai” (1954)

Akira Kurosawa’s landmark film “Seven Samurai” was highly influential on modern action cinema, but its most direct descendant was John Sturges’s “The Magnificent Seven,” starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach. The film is a remake but represents...

Jeremy Jahns offers his thoughts on the additional 20 movies Marvel has on the docket. He also plays around of Blind Fury with Mark Ellis and talks to Jon Schnepp about the comic book series American Flagg!. Jahns Solo also goes head to head with Darth Harloff in a lightsaber battle. Jeremy Jahns discuses Kevin Feige’s comment that Marvel has 20 more movies on the docket. After that, Collider’s Mark Ellis joins Jeremy for a round of Blind Fury during which they must guess a movie based on Ashley’s blind drawings. Jeremy and Kristian Harloff of Collider …...

Jeremy Jahns gives his thoughts on the official title for the upcoming Han Solo movie. He also plays a little Blind Fury with Mark Ellis and Ashley Mova. He talks about the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer with Ken Napzok, learns about Constantine’s comic book origins with Jon Schnepp, and gives his thoughts on the very first trailer for The New Mutants. Jeremy Jahns discusses the recently announced official title for the Han Solo movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story. After that, Collider’s Mark Ellis joins Jeremy for a round of Blind Fury during which they …...

Ryan Lambie Published Date Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 06:33

If you or any of your friends are criminally-inclined, take them to see Don’t Breathe; we guarantee you it’ll put just about anyone off burglary for life. This is the second feature from Fede Alvarez, the Uruguayan director of the slickly violent Evil Dead remake - a movie that was far better made and fun than it had any right to be. Don’t Breathe leans heavier on suspense than outright gore, but it remains a convincing showcase for Alvarez as an adept genre filmmaker.

The premise is as simple as an archetypal cabin-in-the-woods horror: a trio of disadvantaged early 20-somethings break into an old blind man’s house, expecting to find a life-changing haul of cash but instead find themselves face-to-face with a deadly adversary - and his equally terrifying hound.

We’ve seen the burglars-in-peril scenario in horror before,...

Phillip Noyce is perhaps best known for the thrillers he directed in the '80s and '90s, like Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, and The Bone Collector. After taking a detour into Ya territory with The Giver in 2014, it sounds like Noyce is getting back to his bread and butter with Above Suspicion, a new thriller that has Jack Huston (Ben-Hur, Boardwalk Empire) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys) on board to star.

Based on the 1993 book by author Joe Sharkey, the movie will tell the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations...

From a crazy early Nic Cage role to a lesser-known film starring Robert De Niro, here's our pick of 25 underappreciated films from 1989...

Ah, 1989. The year the Berlin Wall came down and Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest. It was also a big year for film, with Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade topping the box office and Batman dominating the summer with its inescapable marketing blitz.

Outside the top 10 highest-grossing list, which included Back To The Future II, Dead Poets Society and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, 1989 also included a plethora of less commonly-appreciated films. Some were big in their native countries but only received a limited release in the Us and UK. Others were poorly received but have since been reassessed as cult items.

From comedies to thrillers, here's our pick of 25 underappreciated films from the end of the 80s...

25. An Innocent Man

Disney, through its Touchstone banner, had high hopes for this thriller,...

Three Ripening Cherries

(dir: Carlos Tobalina, 1979)

“Ripe for Action ready to be plucked…’”

Don’t you just love sisters? Well, thankfully Uncle Tobalina has a film just for you! What we have here are the three sisters. Sally, Lucy and Ann played by Dorothy Lemay (Taboo, Chopstix), Misty Regan (Champagne Orgy, Baby Cakes) and my favourite, Brooke West (Fantasy, The Blonde). After a hard day at school, the girls go home and ask their mum Rose, played by Kitty Shayne (Sexual Heights, Undulations) all about sex. She tells them about her experiences when she was their age. We find out her virginity was robbed by a family friend leading her to seek out compassion whenever and wherever she could. Her journey to find the Perfect orgasm comes to an end when she meets the man who would become her husband. How very aromatic indeed! Inspired by her stories, the girls...

Tropic of Desire

It’s approaching the end of World War 2. Georgina Spelvin (The Devil in Miss Jones) plays as Frances, a madam of a small tropical island whore house. She caters for the constant stream of American sailors. One day Rita, one of her girls played by Kitty Shane (Vista Valley PTA) finds out that the love of her life has died in battle. Dsitraught, she heads back to San Fransisco. Soon after leaving, a trio of marines returning after a tour on the ocean arrive to get some downtime. One of them is Gus played by Ken Scudder (Hotline, Getting Off), a sailor whose heart belongs to Rita. He takes the news of her departure terribly and drowns his sorrows at the bar. It’s not all doom and gloom though as the other two, Jack and Phil played by Jon Martin (The Jade Pussycat) and Blair Harris (Expectations,...

Odd List Simon Brew Ryan Lambie 19 Sep 2013 - 07:20

From dramas to action and everything in between, here's our pick of 20 underrated films from 1990...

Think back to the big films of 1990, and you'll probably immediately come up with things like Ghost, the year's top-grossing film, or maybe Home Alone, which made a star out of the young Macaulay Culkin.

If you're into sci-fi or action, you might pluck Total Recall, Back To The Future Part III or even Die Hard 2 out of your memory banks. But what about all those movies that didn't make it into the year's top 10 ranking films? As ever, there's a huge number of duds and forgettable flops, but there were plenty of films that were wrongly overlooked, too.

That's where this list comes in, which aims to shed a bit of light on 20 films that were either unfairly overlooked by audiences at the time, or...

Odd List Simon Brew Ryan Lambie

From dramas to action and everything in between, here's our pick of 20 underrated films from 1990...

Think back to the big films of 1990, and you'll probably immediately come up with things like Ghost, the year's top-grossing film, or maybe Home Alone, which made a star out of the young Macaulay Culkin.

If you're into sci-fi or action, you might pluck Total Recall, Back To The Future Part III or even Die Hard 2 out of your memory banks. But what about all those movies that didn't make it into the year's top 10 ranking films? As ever, there's a huge number of duds and forgettable flops, but there were plenty of films that were wrongly overlooked, too.

That's where this list comes in, which aims to shed a bit of light on 20 films that were either unfairly overlooked by audiences at the time, or have faded rapidly from general discussions about cinema.

The 1993 young adult book The Giver by Lois Lowry has been trying to get made into a movie for years, and it looks like it's actually going to move into production in the near future. The Weinstein Co. and Walden Media are currently in early talks with Salt director Phillip Noyce to adapt the movie for the big screen. Jeff Bridges was set to star in and produce it over a year ago.

The the book tells a wonderfully fascinating story that follows "a 12-year-old boy who lives in a futuristic utopian society where all memory of human history has been erased. His life is thrown into turmoil when he is designated to inherit the role of the Giver and bear his community's vast range of human emotions, which causes him to realize that living a pain-free life comes at a high cost." The book has sold more than 10 million...

Perhaps best known as John Locke in the hit series Lost, we salute the sterling work of actor Terry O’Quinn...

Before Lost, actor Terry O’Quinn was perhaps most famous for his central role in 1987’s The Stepfather. One of several ‘killer in the home’ thrillers from the late 80s and 90s - others include Black Widow, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Single White Female and Pacific Heights - The Stepfather may have been an entirely forgettable film were it not for O’Quinn’s mesmerising performance.

O’Quinn plays an apparently mild-mannered man whose only goal in life is to enjoy all the trappings of the perfect family - a big house with a picket fence, obedient children, and a loving wife who bakes cookies, perhaps. Unfortunately, O’Quinn’s character is a sociopath, and so intolerant of the realities of parenting that he has a habit of killing his family,...

From the 70s to the present, we look back through the sterling work of Rutger Hauer to bring you the actor’s 10 finest films that aren't Blade Runner...

For some, Dutch actor Rutger Hauer will forever be associated with a certain rooftop speech about tears in rain. But although his turn as doomed replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner was a classic one, Hauer’s output before and since has been stunningly prolific. This list, therefore, is designed to highlight 10 of Hauer’s finest non-Blade Runner movies, with a particular emphasis on those that are lesser known – which is why we've gone for some older pictures rather than the more recent and mainstream, such as Batman Begins. And since this is Den of Geek, expect to find lots of action movies, horror, and low-budget sci-fi in the entries below.

One thing they all have in common, though, irrespective of...

They may not be household names like their A-list colleagues, but the actors on this list have appeared in some of our all-time favourite geek movies...

Some actors dabble in sci-fi; others dip their toe into fantasy; some may even make an appearance in the odd horror film - all before returning to the safety of the genres in which they feel more comfortable - perhaps a nice, award-chasing period drama, or a well-paid romantic comedy.

A-listers may see the geeky films that we on this site enjoy and celebrate as fun little side-projects, but there are actors out there who commit full-time to these types of movies. It is high time, therefore, that we credited these individuals with the recognition they deserve.

Besides the stipulation that, in order to be included, an actor had to still be alive and working today, there were no strict criteria that had to...

Directed by: Menahem Golan

Written by: Dick Desmond, Mike Stone

Cast: Franco Nero, Susan George, Sho Kosugi, Alex Courtney, Christopher George

The Cannon Group struck gold with its first martial arts film, 1981's Enter the Ninja. Though Western audiences had seen ninjas before, most notably in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, this movie changed how these shadow warriors were portrayed on the screen.

Transplanting martial arts mayhem into a gunslinger plotline, the ninja gained near-superhuman abilities and a more heroic disposition. The resulting film was successful enough for Cannon to launch two franchises (Enter the Ninja and American Ninja) and embedded the art of Ninjutsu into American pop culture.

The film opens as Westerner Cole (Franco Nero) is completing his final test in Ninjutsu, thus earning the right to practice and teach the art. But Hasegawa (Sho Kosugi), a high-ranking ninja in the dojo, isn't happy with...

On Tuesday, October 11th at 8:00 P.M., hip hop headlines a night of TV when the .Bet Hip Hop Awards 2011. airs immediately before the series premiere of .Reed Between The Lines.. In its sixth year the .Bet Hip Hop Awards,. hosted by comedian Mike Epps, continues to deliver two hours of hip hop on television. This year.s show features performances by Dmx, Wale, Big Sean, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, Roscoe Dash, Swizz Beatz, Young Jeezy, T.I., Lupe Fiasco, Erykah Badu, Heavy D, along with seven sets including Chris Brown, Eminem, Rick Ross and his Maybach Music team, Joe Budden, Yelawolf, Estelle, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Ludacris, Ace Hood, Blind Fury, and many more.

'Hobo With A Shotgun' opens this Friday in UK cinemas - so what better way to prepare for the film's release than by reading an interview Rutger Hauer.Rutger Hauer is a legendary screen actor who has worked with just about any director you can name: bringing to life many of the screen's many iconic roles (from The Hitcher to Blade Runner to Blind Fury) he is one of cinema's bona fide cult stars. Q: The reaction to Hobo With A Shotgun has been nothing short of phenomenal . and rightly so.Rutger Hauer: I.m pleasantly shocked at how well the film.s been received, because I really didn.t see that coming. I knew that there was quite a following, but the...

Thirty years on from Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer returns to the limelight with a violent, cult classic-in-waiting

To paraphrase Blade Runner's Dr Eldon Tyrell, "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly, Rutger." Mr Hauer is by no means burnt-out, he's still flickering along nicely in fact, but nothing in his subsequent career has quite matched his white-hot moment as Roy the über-replicant in Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic. He was such a believable model of Aryan perfection: too handsome and blond and blue-eyed to be naturally occurring, versed in chess, molecular biology and literature, and fond of reciting poetic epitaphs to himself. Many sci-fi fans can recite verbatim Roy's closing speech from the end of Blade Runner: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe … All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Few have had quite the introduction into big time Hollywood filmmaking than Jason Eisener has. But when you kick off your career with a bloody, cracked out insane piece like Hobo with a Shotgun, "conventional" just isn't going to be part of the playbook. Hobo with a Shotgun, which stars Rutger Hauer(Blind Fury) as..well, a hobo with a shotgun, began as a simple two-minute YouTube trailer. It got...

“Do you know what happens to an eyeball when it is punctured?” asks Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher (1985), sliding a switchblade up to The Kid’s eye, catching a tear on the glistening blade and watching it twinkle in the passing highway lights. This was not in the script and co-star C. Thomas Howell may have had to contemplate the fact that this bear-like Dutch actor might actually show him.

After all, with his manic intensity, reliance on gut instinct and bloody-minded commitment to character Hauer had become one of Hollywood’s favourite psychos. Roles in Blade Runner (1982) and Flesh and Blood (1985) had cemented his reputation as an unhinged cinematic killer – “a one-man slaughterhouse,” as one critic labelled him.

In the 1980s Hauer seemed fearless. Onscreen he was intense and regularly insisted on fucking with his audience (and co-stars) expectations. He claims he put the blade to Howell’s eye because it,...

Phillip Noyce (Salt) will direct the pilot of ABC's Revenge, written by Swingtown creator Mike Kelley. According to Deadline, it is a contemporary re-imagining of Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo but from a female perspective. The story of Revenge centers on Emily Thorn, a mysterious young woman who comes to the Hamptons to take revenge on those who destroyed her family. Temple Hill are producing Revenge with ABC Studios. Noyce previously directed pilots for Showtime's Brotherhood. Australian-born helmer Noyce directed films like The Saint, Blind Fury, Clear and Present Danger, Sliver and the strong Catch a Fire...

Phillip Noyce (Salt) will direct the pilot of ABC's Revenge, written by Swingtown creator Mike Kelley. According to Deadline, it is a contemporary re-imagining of Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo but from a female perspective. The story of Revenge centers on Emily Thorn, a mysterious young woman who comes to the Hamptons to take revenge on those who destroyed her family. Temple Hill are producing Revenge with ABC Studios. Noyce previously directed pilots for Showtime's Brotherhood. Australian-born helmer Noyce directed films like The Saint, Blind Fury, Clear and Present Danger, Sliver and the strong Catch a Fire...

Here's a fun new movie poster Jason Eisener's grindhouse style film Hobo with a Shotgun, which stars film legend Rutger Hauer (Blind Fury) as a badass, homeless vigilante who blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with a pump-action shotgun. The film is based on a fun, blood filled fake trailer made for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse film.

The movie is all set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film and I'm looking forward to watching it while I'm there. I wonder if this film will offend the hobo's of the world, or inspire them to rise up and start blowing people away. 

Synopsis:

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa,...

Magnet Releasing has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the hardcore grindhouse style genre movie Hobo With a Shotgun, which is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and I'm looking forward to seeing it. 

The movie was directed by Jason Eisener, and stars film legend Rutger Hauer (Blind Fury) as a badass, homeless vigilante who blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with a pump-action shotgun.

As you know by now, the film is based on a fun, violence filled fake trailer made for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse film.

Synopsis:

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to...

Here's the first poster for Jason Eisener's low-budget grindhouse style film Hobo With A Shotgun. The movie stars film legend Rutger Hauer (Blind Fury) as a badass, homeless vigilante who blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with a pump-action shotgun.

The film is based on a fake trailer made for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse film. It looks like it's going to be a fun flick. The film might actually premiere as a midnight selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which would be awesome because I'll be there!

Synopsis:

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the...

Stephen K Amos, Wallace and Gromit, Armstrong and Miller, Brimstone and the Psychoville Halloween Special. Plus great movies too in the coming week on UK TV!

This week, naturally, it's all about the scares and there are plenty of films and shows to provide the shivers for Halloween and the next seven days or so.

But the scheduling genies have also managed to squeeze in the laughs among the shrieks this week, for those too squeamish for the scream-inducing telly treats.

We start off with a newcomer to the eponymously named stand-up comedian sketch show club with The Stephen K Amos Show airing tonight, Friday, October 29th at 10:00pm on BBC2. There's plenty of room for series of this sort and we look forward, with a warm welcome, to Mr Amos' particular brand of funny stuff.

Those UK fans of the world's first loveable serial killer who managed to...

If you were forced to give up one of your senses which would it be? Hearing? Touch? Spidey? It would be devastating to lose any of them obviously, especially the sixth, but I expect the most frightening would be the loss of sight. The idea of your world going slowly and irreversibly dark is terrifying, and while some films choose to view the subject of blindness as fodder for treacly drama or humorous action (At First Sight, Blind Fury) there have been a few that embrace the horror of it all. Audrey Hepburn’s Wait Until Dark is probably the best known blind-centric thriller, but for me few films beat the little-seen Afraid Of the Dark when it comes to milking the nightmarish premise for maximum chills. But the new film produced by Guillermo Del Toro comes pretty damn close. A blind woman stumbles through her home, staring in vain into the dark corners and pockets of...

I'm not too sure about the new sorta-trend of faux-grindhouse fare. Machete probably won't do particularly well, and while I love the idea of it, I'm not sure how successful the execution will end up. Our own Dan Carlson seemed none too enamored of it, and his is an opinion I tend to trust.

Hobo With A Shotgun was another fake trailer that screened before Grindhouse, and it was met with a good amount of audience glee. I thought it was pretty funny myself. Now it, much like Machete, is becoming its own movie, starring none other than C-movie star Rutger Hauer. Now, I loves me some Hauer, whether it's in ironically awful flicks like Blind Fury and Split Second, or more serious genre films like Batman Begins. So when reader Lauren sent me the link for the trailer, I was all sorts of excited. And I admit, the trailer's pretty sweet.

Hey gang! A new unrated trailer for Jason Eisener's Grindhouse film Hobo with a Shotgun has been unleashed on the internet in all it's head popping bloody glory! The movie stars film legend Rutger Hauer (Blind Fury) as the shotgun wilding hobo. 

This trailer offers you a us a fun look at what exactly this movie has in store for you, and I have a feeling your going to like what you see. It's got some pretty epic death scenes. I seriously hope this trailer lives up to what the full film ends up being. If so we're in for a really blood splattered treat.

Check out the unrated trailer below and let us know what you think!

As my title suggests, I am a female. Gal, lady, woman, chick, girl. In some ways I could even be considered a girlie girl. I like to shop. I love shoes. Heels specifically. I tend to get cranky if I have a bad hair day and I never go to work without putting on my make up. Any time I’m not at work is a completely different story. But I digress….

I am a girl in most respects. I’ve been told that the one area I’m not like most other females, is in my choice of movies. I don’t care much for the “chick flick”. Romantic comedies can be fun, but if given the choice, I’d go with action or science fiction instead. If I had to pick between watching Pretty Woman or Aliens for all eternity, I’d pick Aliens without thinking twice.

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