Movies starring Henry Rollins
In 1980, 'Henry Rollins' (qv) was a teenager living in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry and his friend Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Henry jumped on stage and took the mike for a song. A few days later, Henry was called back to New York to auditi ...
show all In 1980, 'Henry Rollins' (qv) was a teenager living in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry and his friend Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Henry jumped on stage and took the mike for a song. A few days later, Henry was called back to New York to audition for the band. Henry spent the next six years riding in vans, sleeping in the back of trucks, getting beaten and mauled on stage, and fronting the baddest, most primal rock and roll band in the history of the world. Since 1986, Henry has enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle and career as a singer. He is a published (and often lucid) poet. His band, Rollins Band, was a highlight of the Woodstock '94 concert. His autobiography, Get In The Van, is available in print and as a self-narrated compact disc. He has written several articles for Details, an American magazine.
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Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) is hosting and producing his own reality T.V show called “The Ultimate Survivalist,” with six contestants lead by Nina Papas (Erica Leerhsen) who’ll be thrown together for six days in a simulated post-apocalyptic wasteland. Located in a remote part of West Virginia, the contestants discover that what they are really fighting for is their survival- against a family of hideously deformed inbred cannibals who plan to ruthlessly butcher them all… Who will survive?
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Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
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If the 1995 original brought A-list status for Will Smith and director Michael Bay, then this excruciatingly overlong and overindulgent Miami-based sequel deserves to drop the duo further down the Hollywood alphabet. On a superficial level — the only one the film exists on — this reteaming of bickering cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) delivers high-energy, high-gloss action and brutal bloodshed on a formidable scale. Yet Bay’s trademark swirling cameras and fast-cut assembly are racked up to near nauseating levels, punctuated by juvenile, wafer-thin interplay between the stars (a surprise given a co-writer’s credit for the usually snappy Ron Shelton). Add a hollow romantic subplot with Gabrielle Union and the banal premise of taking down a Cuban drugs lord, and this extends to a truly tortuorus running time. By the end, you’re past caring who kills whom and just want to escape from this smug, sadistic nonsense.
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