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Disgruntled former scientist with NASA is brought back to the fold after a comet--"wrenched out of orbit by Jupiter's gravitational pull!"--collides with an asteroid in space, sending a chunk of rock five miles wide heading straight for Earth.
Best watched without former knowledge of plot.
It is also the debut film of former Spike Lee cinematographer Ernest Dickerson.
Rowlands is subtle and complex: she's a rich bitch with a soft side, but we don't know if she's the former because she's a player or if she's the latter because she wants to use Ryder.
Here she plays a retired Latin teacher--yes, Latin was once taught in public schools, folks--who reconnects with a former student who is now a male nurse.
After being conked on the noggin he revives to find he has spent the last nine years as someone he isn't and reverts to his former tricky self.
Then in another show he'll be supporting former "bullied nerds" now "super skanks".
The film is good, but plays more as a parody of Flynn's former films such as Robin Hood, Sea Hawk, etc., with little emphasis on action until the final reel, which gives us one of filmdom's best sword fights with Flynn vs. Douglas and his men on the staircase.
The plot follows Steven "Flash" Gordon (Eric Johnson) who along with his former girlfriend Dale (Gina Holden), eccentric scientist Hans Zarkov (Jody Racicot), and alien bounty hunter Baylin (Karen Cliché) travels between Earth and the alien world of Mongo with the help of dimensional rifts.
The Hall of Shame Faded Name cast makes for pretty sad viewing: former Tarzan Denny Miller as a stern, no-nonsense colonel, Grant ("The Monolith Monsters") Williams as the lecherous jerk captain, veteran TV actress Mala Powers as a feisty Russian astronaut, song and dance man Bobby Van as an obnoxious hipster, Henry Wilcoxon as a crusty old-timer, Top Forty radio disc jockey Casey Kasem as a Mission Control announcer, and future "M.A.S.H." TV series regular Mike Farrell as a TV reporter.
The Insider is the story of Jeffery Wigand (again Oscar-worthy Russell Crowe), a former tobacco company scientist that begins to rebel against his former employer.
In this very serviceable thriller, a young woman named Jill hears from her former lover Roderick.
The former is not quite as bad, and hence never really popped up on any Worst Of Lists, but it is that kind of 1980s dubious horror in that, despite the urgency of the situation (hideous monsters who "live so that others may die"), the characters carry on like it's just any other day.
No wonder so many people think Kal Ho Naa Ho is directed by Karan Johar himself though in reality KJ only scripts and produces , his former assistant Nikhil Advani is actually at the helm .
I was keen to see to former Bond baddies square off but, at 140 minutes, it dragged on.
I saw The Last Mimzy and The Water Horse on two consecutive nights, and now I have forgotten many elements of the former simply through watching the latter.
Brian DePalma's follow up to his popular "Carrie", was in many aspects a continuation of the mood he had already established in his former work.
Eventually he and Zakes are sucked into crime though their relationship with Nazareth (a potent Jeffrey Sekele), an angry disaffected, former ANC guerilla.
A former child member of a '70's funk band called the 'Neighborhood Gang'.
In that one the former was a police officer who is trying to protect the Pope on a visit to San Francisco, and the latter is an innocent by-stander who stumbles into the details of an assassination plot.
Sensitive camera work doesn't allow us to be more than very limited voyeurs into the workings of a SoHo sex club where our protagonist grandmother, played to perfection by Marianne Faithful, in a role that shows us how multi talented this former rock chick of 1970's fame as the muse for Mick Jagger is as a mature woman.
As a former skater back in the day, I knew the names and board designs of everyone in the flick.
At general - aide-de-camp Mizinova, former chief Fandorina, the order of the commander-in-chief is already prepared on this account, which Peter Yablokov urgently ciphers and sends.
Anderson is easily the brightest spot in the film for me, even at one point making reference to former employer Jack Benny!
Second: Not content to makers of this absurdity is that a bomb has painted a hammer and sickle, the universal emblem of communism coincided with the former Soviet Union.
Lenny Cantrow and Lila Kolodny are a newlywed Jewish couple.During their honeymoon in Florida he meets this tall blonde, Kelly, and realizes he's made a terrible mistake.Now he wants to have an instant divorce and get together with this attractive gentile.Another problem is the girl's father who can't stand this guy.Elaine May, the former sidekick of Mike Nichols is the director of The Heartbreak Kid (1972).Its writers are Bruce Jay Friedman (story) and Neil Simon (screenplay).What a wonderful and funny comedy this is!
The best thing about it is that the viewer is kept in the dark as to Ford's guilt or innocence of the murder of his former lover.
Duvall is a hitman who's hired to fly to Argentina and kill a former general who presumably was responsible for tortures and executions of innocent people during the troubles of the 1970's and 1980's.
What ensues is a noble saga worthy of the former Indian scout and tracker.
As a former high school wrestler, a movie centered around a wrestling team would normally be good viewing....not in this case.
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