Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mmstag film of his daughter with two young men.
Van Dorn then suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and forced to join California's porno underworld. His quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture.
Hardcore Henry is a first-person perspective action film, in which the audience sees everything through the eyes of Henry, who's resurrected from the brink of death and remembers nothing about his past. He is trying to save his wife Estelle, who has been kidnapped by Akan, a powerful warlord with a plan for bio-engineering soldiers. In the unfamiliar city of Moscow, Henry tries to avoid being killed while discovering the truth behind his identity.
The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015. The film became one of the highest-profile at the festival, and led to a bidding war between Lionsgate, Universal, and STX Entertainment. Ultimately, STX acquired worldwide rights to Hardcore, including a wide release commitment, for $10 million, becoming the studio's first festival acquisition. It was retitled Hardcore Henry for its domestic release.
On June 14, 2011, it was announced that Paramount Pictures had acquired the rights to the comedy spec script Bastards written by Justin Malen, about two brothers who believe that their father died when they were young, but later they discover that is a lie.The Montecito Picture Company would produce the film. On August 7, 2014, Alcon Entertainment came on board to produce and finance the film for Warner Bros. after Paramount left the project, while cinematographer Lawrence Sher was attached to make his directorial debut.Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, and Ali Bell would produce the film through Montecito. On July 15, 2015, Owen Wilson and Ed Helms joined the lead cast of the film to play the brothers, while Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove would also produce the film through Alcon.J. K. Simmons and Terry Bradshaw also joined the cast on August 13, 2015, where both would play the lead characters' biological fathers. Bradshaw would play the role of himself. On August 18, 2015, Ving Rhames signed on to play Rod Hamilton, friend and the ex-teammate of football player Bradshaw. On September 11, 2015, Katt Williams joined the cast of the film. On September 17, 2015, Glenn Close was in final negotiations to join the film. On October 7, 2015, Katie Aselton was also in final talks to sign on. On October 22, 2015, Zachary Haven also joined the cast.
Bastards (stylized as bastards) is the third remix album by Icelandic artist Björk, it was released on 19 November 2012. The album features remixes of tracks from her eighth studio album, Biophilia (2011). All of the remixes were previously released on The Crystalline Series or the Biophilia Remix Series, and they were all remastered by Mandy Parnell.
Background
Although all tracks had already been released, Björk "felt it important to gather together the essence of the remixes" so she "picked a quarter of them for one CD for people who are perhaps not too sassy [sic] downloaders or don't have the time or energy to partake in the hunter-gathering rituals of the internet". The cover features the 'strata' persona Björk adopted for the "Mutual Core" music video which was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.
Track listing
"Mutual Core" (These New Puritans Remix featuring Solomon Islands Song) includes samples from the Traditional composition "Funeral Song (Solomon Islands 1978)", as extracted from the album Spirit of Melanesia by David Fanshawe.
Bastards (Russian:Сволочи, Svolochi) is a 2006 Russian war film.
Synopsis
In the Soviet Union, 1943, a group of teenage convicts are secretly trained for a guerrilla mission to stop the actions of a German army group called "Edelweiss".
Plot summary
A "Hitler Jugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
Year 1943. Colonel Vishnevetskiy is released from prison to organize a school of military training for saboteurs. Students come from prisons and correction colonies; these are 14–15 years old criminals who nobody will even look for. After severe training they are sent to destroy a German oil depot deep in the Carpathians.
Being lost high in the mountains and being on the edge of life and death, you still can make a choice: to remain a bastard or become a hero for a country that doesn't want you.
Controversy
The film's release caused massive controversy in Russia, where some deemed it "state-supported anti-Sovietpropaganda". The plot for the film, written by Kunin, involved a story of teenagers with a criminal background who were caught by the NKVD during the Great Patriotic war, then trained as saboteurs in special schools and thrown into the German rear to face a certain death.
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sun ... 16-18 ... Fri ... An evening of punk, hard rock and barbecue, this annual event his headlined by influential hardcore punk band Fear, along with Giuda, D.O.A., War on Women, Against the Grain, Bastardous and BillKozy’s Rising Force.
... 6, though I did love "Battle of the Bastards.". Even so, the Game of Thrones ending is pretty much considered one of the worst of the 2010s, and as a hardcore Daenerys supporter, I fully stand by that.
Japanese hardcore band KLONNS / Courtesy of Chihiro Yoshikawa ... The Japanese hardcore band KLONNS is coming to Korea this weekend seeking revenge ... hardcore punk with Japanese hardcore bands like Lipcream and Bastard.
VideoLink. Western governments were complaining about the Albanians attacking the Serbs... RT. ... This is going to get hotter and hotter ... Read ... There’s just no way that will happen, unless some hardcore bastard seizes control of the Serbian government ... ....
Porn auteur and actor Max Hardcore was one of the most reviled figures in the seedy world of pornography ... In a milieu that had sleaze as raison d’etre, Hardcore — real name Paul Little — was among the sleaziest and was even jailed for his porn output.
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