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An unlikely mobster bridges the gap to some unlikely alliances and forms an empire.
This exploration of a unique decade in US cinema begins with the fall of one ailing, out-of-touch empire and culminates with the unstoppable rise of another, equally associated with escapism and box office receipts.
Is the idea of a powerful would-be empire worth reducing to misery and killing thousands of its citizens now?
Part one illustrates the vicelords' empire from inside one of their clubs, showing the fate of a victim who is beaten and then picked up by police in the pay of the Mob.
He eventually built his system into a huge business empire with hundreds of schools across the world, without compromising his teachings.
I know she has a Martha-Stewart-esquire empire.
stars Brandon Davis as an adopted high school senior Chris Hughes, a geek who inherits the heir to a porn empire left to him by his biological parents.
Alex D. Linz replaces Macaulay Culkin as the central figure in the third movie in the Home Alone empire.
Instead I watched a man who rues the fact that his great grandfather lost his tobacco empire to the Duke family.
Chris, an adopted son of a moral family, a loser whom works at the school newspaper with Kate (Christine Lakin from of the awful sugary "Step by Step" show of the now thankfully defunct ABC's TGIF line-up), finds out that he's just inherited a porn empire from his biological parents.
Apparently Hernand Cortes, before conquering the Aztec empire, had to first conquer a Tyrannosaurus Rex and her mate.
The movie segues from decade to decade from the 10's to the 80's with amazing newsreel footage trailing Soviet history from the revolution to war famine and the titanic technological achievements of an empire (terrific visuals here!
A true story about a true revolution, 25 of April ; a revolution against a repressive regime of 41 years, that was imposing a colonial war on it's military's, for maintaining an empire (Angola, Mozambique, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, S. Tomé e Principe; the first and the last of the great colonial empire's of Europe) of 600 years, since it's beginning in the conquest of Ceuta in 1415; a revolution by the army for the people, and for a democratic Portugal; the most's surprising fact in this revolution is that it were no people killed in it (except those that died in the hand's of PIDE, the political police of the State, during a brutal gunfire against an unarmed crowd protesting in front of it's headquarters in the day of the revolution, in 25 of April 1974, has it show's on the film).And has all revolutions it has it's heroes, one them of was Captain Salgueiro Maia, a returned soldier from the war, whose convictions along with the rest of the army, was that they were fighting (since 1961) a hopeless war, and that sometimes a soldier has to disobey it's country.
In Return of the Jedi the epilogue of the first trilogy is over and the Empire finally falls.
Frankie initially ignores the little crook, but they do eventually form an unlikely team when Frankie's entire criminal empire turns against him and a new French criminal mastermind even assassinates Frankie's innocent brother.
Montana then becomes the "king" in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his empire of crime in Miami, Florida.
The Vulcan ambassador Soval proposes to unplug the life support system and bring the corpse of Klaang to his warrior empire in planet Kronos with honor.
Paltrow is not aided by the fact that her hairstyles are simply 'wrong' for the part (and I believe the era) and she looks positively ill in the empire line dresses.
Steve Biko was a black activist who tried to resist the white minority governed South Africa in much the same way as Gandhi tried to resist the British empire's colonialism in India.
I Like To Play Games Too is another offering from the Eros label, part of the Playboy empire.
And what happened to The Machine Empire?
This is the story of Eliot Ness and his small band of men against Alphonse Capone and his empire.
The film depicts the "Feds" in some of their raids on Capone's empire.
She did, however, have a connection to Java (then part of the Dutch empire), having lived there 1897-1902.
The whole Rugrats empire has gone too far.
She is one of my favorite actresses, appearing on ER in the U.S. It was also about an empire which ran over indigenous people, a practice which continues into the present time.
And kudos to Jean-Claude La Marre for not shying away from the subject by creating a sterile, gutless, Disney story out of what really was a good example of the everyday horror of life on the fringes of the Roman empire.
I mean you only have to look at some of David Lynch's work, and especially inland empire, to see just what can be done in the medium, but it is unredeemed dreck like this, which consistently mark DV, and DV film-makers as amateur, when it needn't be! Please,please, to the film-maker: actors, real actors please.
If you're going to write fantasy, please stick to a plot that's interesting and enjoyable, like a rebellion against a galactic empire.
The creators don't even try to present the then Japanese empire as something magnificent, on the contrary.
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