• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
  • Release Date: 08/08/2008
  • Running Time: 83 mins
  • Director: Larry Bishop
  • Cast: Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Eric Balfour, Kanin J. Howell, Michael Beach, Cassandra Hepburn, Leonor Varela, Laura Cayouette
  • Producer: Larry Bishop, Michael Steinberg, Shana Stein
  • Writer: Larry Bishop
  • Distributor: Dimension Films
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Twilight, 69.6 million, 69.6 million
  3. Quantum of Solace, 26.7 million, 108.8 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Bolt, 26.2 million, 26.2 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 15.7 million, 137.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Role Models, 7.3 million, 48.1 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Changeling, 2.7 million, 31.7 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 2.0 million, 86.9 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1.6 million, 2.6 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Zack and Miri, 1.6 million, 29.3 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Secret Life of Bees, 1.3 million, 35.6 million
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Hell Ride

In the post–Pulp Fiction '90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino knock-off—all chatty gangsters with showy monikers doing the slo-mo "let's go to work" swagger. Now, with this hyper-sexualized, spaghetti-westernized, vulgar homage to the cheapie biker movies he starred in as an AIP contract player decades ago, actor turned filmmaker Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time) updates the useless Tarantino derivation for the post-Grindhouse '00s. Adding two-tone credits, sun-bleached retro camerawork, and a Morricone-goes-rockabilly score to the chatty, showy swagger, Bishop trudges through a perfunctory premise about familial revenge and rival gangs. Street cred can't save this pic, not even with Dennis Hopper and David Carradine cameos, and QT himself exec-producing and initiating the project. Bishop's jumbled, wholly unexciting throwback has very little on its mind beyond mythologizing its maker as a bad-ass biker named Pistolero. When he's not leading the pack in far too many desert-road montages, trippin' on peyote, or spouting Zen-stupid puns, Bishop lives out fantasies of fucking his frequently full-frontal female cast, most of whom look like FHM sexbots. (Villainous Vinnie Jones shows up sporting a crossbow and tattoos based on the types of pussy he's eaten: menstrual, crab-infested, or dead—yes, it's that kind of movie.) Maybe if we were given our own pleasures to indulge in, we'd be able to handle the boys getting theirs. — Aaron Hillis