Dirt biking is one of the most exciting and adrenaline-pumping sports out there. For many people, it’s the perfect way to get out and explore the great outdoors while getting a fantastic workout. And, of course, there’s the bonus of being able to show off your skills to your friends.
Dirt biking is a form of off-road motorcycle racing that takes place on natural terrains such as dirt, grass, and sand. Unlike motocross, which is held on manufactured tracks, dirt bikes allow riders to test their skills on more challenging and varied terrain.
Racing Dirt bikes requires a high level of skill and fitness, as riders must be able to handle their bikes at high speeds over rough terrain. But for those who are up for the challenge, dirt bike races provide an exhilarating way to experience the great outdoors.
When it comes to Best Dirt Bike Movies,...
Dirt biking is a form of off-road motorcycle racing that takes place on natural terrains such as dirt, grass, and sand. Unlike motocross, which is held on manufactured tracks, dirt bikes allow riders to test their skills on more challenging and varied terrain.
Racing Dirt bikes requires a high level of skill and fitness, as riders must be able to handle their bikes at high speeds over rough terrain. But for those who are up for the challenge, dirt bike races provide an exhilarating way to experience the great outdoors.
When it comes to Best Dirt Bike Movies,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Israr
- buddytv.com
Actress Patricia Hitchcock, the only daughter of Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, died on Tuesday at her home in Thousand Oaks, according to multiple reports. She was 93.
Born Patricia Alma O’Connell in 1928, Pat Hitchcock appeared in many of her father’s films and his eponymous ’50s TV show.
In 1939, the family moved to Los Angeles. After her father’s Hollywood career took off, Hitchcock wanted to become an actress.
He helped her find a role in the Broadway production of Solitaire in 1942. Two years later, she played the title role in the play Violet on Broadway.
Starting about 1950, she had small roles in several of his films, beginning with Stage Fright.
In early 1949, her parents went back to London to make Stage Fright, Hitchcock’s first British-made feature since decamping to Hollywood. Because she bore a resemblance to the film’s star, Jane Wyman, her father asked if she...
Born Patricia Alma O’Connell in 1928, Pat Hitchcock appeared in many of her father’s films and his eponymous ’50s TV show.
In 1939, the family moved to Los Angeles. After her father’s Hollywood career took off, Hitchcock wanted to become an actress.
He helped her find a role in the Broadway production of Solitaire in 1942. Two years later, she played the title role in the play Violet on Broadway.
Starting about 1950, she had small roles in several of his films, beginning with Stage Fright.
In early 1949, her parents went back to London to make Stage Fright, Hitchcock’s first British-made feature since decamping to Hollywood. Because she bore a resemblance to the film’s star, Jane Wyman, her father asked if she...
- 8/11/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has beefed up its sales slate as the American Film Market gets underway in its virtual form.
The company has acquired world rights on the hybrid live-action/animated family comedy Ollie. In development, the pic will star Mario Lopez (Saved By The Bell) alongside skateboarder and musician Tony Alva. Story follows Cj, a 13-year-old by who is having a tough time at his local skatepark. His life takes a dramatic, adventurous and positive turn when he is befriended by Ollie, a skateboarding bulldog who was just fired from his watchdog job.
Lopez will produce and voice the character Ollie. Also producing are Mark Roberts via Roberts/David Films, along with Lorena David. Clay Epstein is executive producing.
Film Mode has also boarded international rights on comedy Last Call alongside BondIt Media Capital. The pic features Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Taryn Manning (Orange Is The New Black...
The company has acquired world rights on the hybrid live-action/animated family comedy Ollie. In development, the pic will star Mario Lopez (Saved By The Bell) alongside skateboarder and musician Tony Alva. Story follows Cj, a 13-year-old by who is having a tough time at his local skatepark. His life takes a dramatic, adventurous and positive turn when he is befriended by Ollie, a skateboarding bulldog who was just fired from his watchdog job.
Lopez will produce and voice the character Ollie. Also producing are Mark Roberts via Roberts/David Films, along with Lorena David. Clay Epstein is executive producing.
Film Mode has also boarded international rights on comedy Last Call alongside BondIt Media Capital. The pic features Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Taryn Manning (Orange Is The New Black...
- 11/10/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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Wff Films: Serving up 86 fresh films
Canada’s Coolest Fest Rolls Out Lineup
23 World Premieres plus 15 awards and $146,500 in cash and prizes
Lost Transmissions and The Tony Alva Story to bookend festival
Highlights include Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Canada’s entry to the Oscars Antigone, Chelsea Peretti in her feature film debut Spinster, the newly restored version of the classic The Grey Fox and more
Festival goers can look forward to 86 fresh films, comprising of 43 features and 43 shorts from 15 countries. Selections for this year’s festival include leading award season fare, quality Canadian content, with over half of the offerings representing World, North American and Canadian premieres.
‘Canada’s coolest film fest’ remains true to its mandate of discovering new talent, with the inclusion of 11 first-time feature films, 13 feature films directed by women, and 67% of...
Redeem your Ticket Package before single tickets go on sale Nov. 15.
Wff Films: Serving up 86 fresh films
Canada’s Coolest Fest Rolls Out Lineup
23 World Premieres plus 15 awards and $146,500 in cash and prizes
Lost Transmissions and The Tony Alva Story to bookend festival
Highlights include Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Canada’s entry to the Oscars Antigone, Chelsea Peretti in her feature film debut Spinster, the newly restored version of the classic The Grey Fox and more
Festival goers can look forward to 86 fresh films, comprising of 43 features and 43 shorts from 15 countries. Selections for this year’s festival include leading award season fare, quality Canadian content, with over half of the offerings representing World, North American and Canadian premieres.
‘Canada’s coolest film fest’ remains true to its mandate of discovering new talent, with the inclusion of 11 first-time feature films, 13 feature films directed by women, and 67% of...
- 11/8/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Isn’t skateboarding one of the coolest sports? It must be an awesome feeling to be able to ride a skateboard and perform tricks on it. I definitely wish I was good at it.
What some people may not know though is that there are actually health benefits that you can gain from skateboarding. Plus if you are any good at it, you can always try to go pro and use it as a good source of income.
Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Well, it is. There are many people who have been so good at skateboarding that they have become millionaires from the sport. It’s as if they have lived the dream of many people – getting really rich by doing a job that they absolutely love.
One of the amazing things about skateboarding is that there are really no age limits so you do not have to feel restricted because of your age.
What some people may not know though is that there are actually health benefits that you can gain from skateboarding. Plus if you are any good at it, you can always try to go pro and use it as a good source of income.
Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Well, it is. There are many people who have been so good at skateboarding that they have become millionaires from the sport. It’s as if they have lived the dream of many people – getting really rich by doing a job that they absolutely love.
One of the amazing things about skateboarding is that there are really no age limits so you do not have to feel restricted because of your age.
- 6/26/2018
- by Dom
- SoundOnSight
For the past six days, Doc NYC has screened numerous documentaries that shine a light on untold stories, marginalized figures and crucial history. Tomorrow, the festival comes to an end, but before it closes, the festival will screen Takuji Masuda’s new film “Bunker77,” the true story of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and heir to a sugar fortune, who lived fast and died young. A classic American rebel in the vein of James Dean and Andy Warhol, Bunker turned his back on his fortune to live a simple life out of the public eye. He pushed surfing’s boundaries by riding very short boards in Hawaii and the Jeffrey Bay in South Africa. He also mentored skateboard legend Tony Alva and collaborated with filmmaker Kenneth Anger, leaving behind a complicated, nuanced legacy. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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- 11/16/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Jay Adams, a skateboarding legend who is credited with helping to shape modern skateboarding style, has died. He was 53. The Santa Monica, California, native died Friday in a hospital in Puerto Escondido, in Mexico, where he was on an extended surfing trip, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's believed he died of a heart attack. Adams gained attention in 2001 when he was featured prominently in Dogtown and Z-Boys, an award-winning documentary about Adams and childhood friends Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva. The teenagers formed Z-boys in the '70s in the Dogtown neighborhood of Santa Monica and unwittingly pioneered modern skateboarding,...
- 8/16/2014
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
There probably isn't a better way to introduce a special edition Vans x Star Wars collection than to get a young Wookie to take part in the likeness of a 1980s skate contest. I will try and think of a way, but it will be tough. The new commercial from Vans celebrates its recent collaboration with the Star Wars franchise in very cool style. Skateboard legends Tony Alva, Jeff Grosso and Steve Van Doren and Christian Hosoi are witness to the young Wookie's (Steve Caballero in...
- 5/15/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: They’ve cast one of the final major roles in Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Universal Pictures and Focus Features adaptation of El James’ global bestseller that stars Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey. Victor Rasuk has been set to play Jose, the aspiring photographer and classmate of Anastasia, whose close friendship with the young girl — he’d like it to be more — pits him as rival for her affections with Grey, the wealthy businessman whose warped past leaves him with a need to dominate his partners and unable to accept Anastasia on equal terms (yes, I read the damn book). Related: Another Grey Casting In ‘Fifty Shades’ Rasuk made his breakthrough playing skateboard pioneer Tony Alva in The Lords Of Dogtown, and he starred in HBO’s How to Make It In America, as well as Raising Victor Vargas and the Steven Soderbergh-directed Che.
- 10/31/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Skater enthusiasts will love the new documentary short film “Day at the Pool.” The documentary short is now available online through the film’s official site as Xbox and iTunes. The film explores the beginnings of what we now know to be modern skateboarding: “Day At The Pool is a documentary short film which sheds new light on the true origins of modern skateboarding. The film features blazing interviews with Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams and the rest of the Dogtown crew. They all reveal that one anonymous kid from the swimming-pool suburbs of Los Angeles may have been singularly responsible for the skateboarding revolution that redefined adolescent life in [ Read More ]
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- 4/2/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
So there they were ... a couple from San Diego driving along a California road ... when they pick up a hitchhiker -- naturally -- who turns out to be one of the Greatest Living Skateboard Legends Ever!!!It's a crazy video -- the couple tells us, they routinely pick up hitchhikers and film them (call it a hobby), but this week ... they hit the hitchhiker jackpot, picking up none other than skater legend Jay Adams, who...
- 10/7/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Annalynne McCord sported a sexy printed bikini while lounging on the beach in La last week. She showed off her toned figure and relaxed on the sand before buying a Big Stick Popsicle from a passing vendor, then taking a walk down to the water to cool off. The 90210 star is enjoying a break from filming the show, which just finished its fourth season, but has been staying busy in the city. AnnaLynne had a cute lunch date with her boyfriend, Dominic Purcell, over the weekend, and flexed her design muscles by judging a custom Vans shoe-design contest with Whitney Port and skateboarding legend Tony Alva. View Slideshow ›...
- 6/6/2012
- by Brittney Stephens
- Popsugar.com
Most people don't have enough happen in their life to make one documentary, but it turns out Stacy Peralta has enough to make at least two. Eleven years after he delved into his own adolescent history with “Dogtown And Z-Boys,” Peralta has made another skateboarding doc about the next phase of his career after the Z-boys. When Peralta founded his skateboard company Powell Peralta in the late '70s, he brought together a bunch of unknown amateur skaters, cherry picked from around the USA -- including Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen, among others -- and created a skate team called the Bones Brigade. In case you know less about skating than me, these guys pretty much all grew up to be the top competitors of the 1980s, and went on to inspire and shape the next generation of skaters and their culture -- in short,...
- 5/6/2012
- by Samantha Chater
- The Playlist
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography Directed by: Stacy Peralta Featuring: Tony Alva, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta, George Powell In his break-out documentary, Dogtown and Z Boys, director Stacy Peralta told us the story of how he and his friends turned skateboarding from a goofy novelty for dorks and children into an extreme sport. Now, with Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, Peralta shows us how the next generation of skaters (that he personally scouted, coached, and sponsored) turned skateboarding into a worldwide phenomenon. Prepare yourselves for 90 minutes of fluorescent t-shirts and Flock of Seagulls haircuts. Like most historical docs, Bones Brigade is driven by talking heads and archival footage, but there is such an incredible array of amazing archival footage here, much of it from Peralta's own personal collection, that the film is never dull. What is surprising about the footage, most of...
- 1/27/2012
- by Josh
- FilmJunk
Dogtown And Z-boys (Blu-raySONY Home ENTERTAINMENT2002/Rated PG-13/91 minsNow Available – List Price $24.95By the mid seventies, skateboarding was considered to be a sixties fad that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in Santa Monica, California. When a group of surfers known as the Zephyr team sought to translate the phenomenal stunts of world-class wave riders onto their skateboards, they had no idea they were giving birth to modern skateboarding. At the Santa Monica Surf Shop, Zephyr Productions, twelve of these surfers organized themselves into a team to compete at local skate events with the help of the store's owners Jeff Ho and Skip Engblom. Soon the radical moves and urban style of the Zephyr Skate Team, aka Z-Boys, destroyed public preconceptions of skateboarding as a sport and a lifestyle, and the pioneering styles of Z-Boy skaters like Tony Alva, Jim Muir, and Jay Adams...
- 1/14/2010
- LRMonline.com
(Young Stacy Peralta, above, right, in Dogtown and Z-Boys.)
The Accidental Revolutionary
by Terry Keefe
(Our line-up of previously unposted interviews from the Naughties continues with my short talk in 2002 with Stacy Peralta, whose Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary went on to spawn an entire sub-genre in the documentary world - as in, "It's Dogtown and Z-Boys set in the formative days of 'fill-in-the-blank sport.'" In 2005, Dogtown was also adapted into the popular narrative feature, Lords of Dogtown, which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and gave an early career boost to Emile Hirsch. It also featured a very off-beat performance from Heath Ledger, indicating what he was really capable of as an actor aside from the pretty boy roles he had been typecast in previously. This article originally appeared in Venice Magazine.)
If there had been a few more days of rain in Southern California in the early 70’s, today...
The Accidental Revolutionary
by Terry Keefe
(Our line-up of previously unposted interviews from the Naughties continues with my short talk in 2002 with Stacy Peralta, whose Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary went on to spawn an entire sub-genre in the documentary world - as in, "It's Dogtown and Z-Boys set in the formative days of 'fill-in-the-blank sport.'" In 2005, Dogtown was also adapted into the popular narrative feature, Lords of Dogtown, which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and gave an early career boost to Emile Hirsch. It also featured a very off-beat performance from Heath Ledger, indicating what he was really capable of as an actor aside from the pretty boy roles he had been typecast in previously. This article originally appeared in Venice Magazine.)
If there had been a few more days of rain in Southern California in the early 70’s, today...
- 1/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
NEW YORK -- A fictionalized rendition of the events and figures described in the award-winning documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, this film tells the story of the young skateboarding enthusiasts who rose to fame and riches in Southern California in the 1970s. Written by that film's creator Stacy Peralta and directed by Catherine Hardwicke ("thirteen"), Lords of Dogtown takes a surprisingly gritty approach that gives the material some gravitas but also robs it of some of its fun. With its handsome young male stars frequently shirtless, the film could reach some commercial traction thanks to its appeal to teenage girls as well as boys.
From its clever, graffiti-style opening credits to its canny use of pop music from the period, the film well conveys the atmosphere of its setting, 1970s Venice Beach. But it also -- not so surprisingly from the director of the gritty portrait of female adolescence "thirteen" -- eschews sunniness, both in its storytelling and visual style. Indeed, at times Southern California looks as depressing here as an eastern industrial city.
The story depicts the bonding together of the Z-Boys, longtime surfing buddies, over their newfound appreciation of the landlocked sport of skateboarding. Propelled by the invention of urethane wheels that enabled the skates to hug concrete surfaces and a drought in Southern California that resulted in many empty swimming pools perfect for this new style of skating, the trend caught on. The boys' youthful sex appeal and daring physical bravado further fueled the movement into a media and commercial phenomenon.
The interpersonal dynamics of the group, which included Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Peralta (John Robinson), are less interesting than their sheer physical prowess, well demonstrated by the actors themselves and a formidable team of stunt doubles. Such plot elements as the romantic triangle that develops between Alva's sister Kathy (Nikki Reed) and two of the Z-Boys, the fatal brain tumor of one of the skaters (Michael Angarano) and the relationship between Adams and his troubled but loving mother Rebecca De Mornay) ultimately come across as detours from the extended skateboarding sequences.
With its frequent use of handheld cameras and jerky editing, the film well conveys the dizzying and terrifying aspects of the virtuosic skating stunts, as well as the air of iconoclasm and danger that gave the activity, a precursor to today's extreme sports, its allure.
The young performers supply the necessary physicality and charisma, with Hirsch particularly effective as the sensitive Adams. Heath Ledger, seemingly channeling Val Kilmer, delivers a colorful turn as Skip Engblom, co-founder of the legendary Zephyr surfboard and skateboard shop and the boys' team leader. De Mornay downplays her glamour, if not her still-potent sexuality, in her affecting performance as Adams' mom, and Johnny Knoxville delivers an entertaining turn as a sleazy entrepreneur. There's also an amusing cameo by skating legend Tony Hawk, as an astronaut unable to remain vertical on skates.
Lords of Dogtown
Sony Pictures Entertainment
A Columbia Pictures presentation of a TriStar Pictures release
A Linson Films production in association with Senator International
Credits:
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta
Producer: John Linson
Executive producers: Art Linson, David Fincher, Joe Drake
Director of photography: Elliot Davis
Production designer: Chris Gorak
Editor: Nancy Richardson
Costume designer: Cindy Evans: Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
Cast:
Jay Adams: Emile Hirsch
Tony Alva: Victor Rasuk
Stacy Peralta: John Robinson
Sid: Michael Angarano
Kathy Alva: Nikki Reed
Philaine: Rebecca De Mornay
Skip Engblom: Heath Ledger
Topper: Johnny Knoxville
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 110 minutes...
From its clever, graffiti-style opening credits to its canny use of pop music from the period, the film well conveys the atmosphere of its setting, 1970s Venice Beach. But it also -- not so surprisingly from the director of the gritty portrait of female adolescence "thirteen" -- eschews sunniness, both in its storytelling and visual style. Indeed, at times Southern California looks as depressing here as an eastern industrial city.
The story depicts the bonding together of the Z-Boys, longtime surfing buddies, over their newfound appreciation of the landlocked sport of skateboarding. Propelled by the invention of urethane wheels that enabled the skates to hug concrete surfaces and a drought in Southern California that resulted in many empty swimming pools perfect for this new style of skating, the trend caught on. The boys' youthful sex appeal and daring physical bravado further fueled the movement into a media and commercial phenomenon.
The interpersonal dynamics of the group, which included Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Peralta (John Robinson), are less interesting than their sheer physical prowess, well demonstrated by the actors themselves and a formidable team of stunt doubles. Such plot elements as the romantic triangle that develops between Alva's sister Kathy (Nikki Reed) and two of the Z-Boys, the fatal brain tumor of one of the skaters (Michael Angarano) and the relationship between Adams and his troubled but loving mother Rebecca De Mornay) ultimately come across as detours from the extended skateboarding sequences.
With its frequent use of handheld cameras and jerky editing, the film well conveys the dizzying and terrifying aspects of the virtuosic skating stunts, as well as the air of iconoclasm and danger that gave the activity, a precursor to today's extreme sports, its allure.
The young performers supply the necessary physicality and charisma, with Hirsch particularly effective as the sensitive Adams. Heath Ledger, seemingly channeling Val Kilmer, delivers a colorful turn as Skip Engblom, co-founder of the legendary Zephyr surfboard and skateboard shop and the boys' team leader. De Mornay downplays her glamour, if not her still-potent sexuality, in her affecting performance as Adams' mom, and Johnny Knoxville delivers an entertaining turn as a sleazy entrepreneur. There's also an amusing cameo by skating legend Tony Hawk, as an astronaut unable to remain vertical on skates.
Lords of Dogtown
Sony Pictures Entertainment
A Columbia Pictures presentation of a TriStar Pictures release
A Linson Films production in association with Senator International
Credits:
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay: Stacy Peralta
Producer: John Linson
Executive producers: Art Linson, David Fincher, Joe Drake
Director of photography: Elliot Davis
Production designer: Chris Gorak
Editor: Nancy Richardson
Costume designer: Cindy Evans: Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
Cast:
Jay Adams: Emile Hirsch
Tony Alva: Victor Rasuk
Stacy Peralta: John Robinson
Sid: Michael Angarano
Kathy Alva: Nikki Reed
Philaine: Rebecca De Mornay
Skip Engblom: Heath Ledger
Topper: Johnny Knoxville
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 110 minutes...
- 6/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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