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In 1975, Navajo Indian Calvin Duggai (Sonny Landham) deliberately abandoned five men to die in the desert because of an argument involving tribal rivalry and the powers of Indian witchcraft.
This movie brought to full and vivid life the powers of addiction.
The first story deals with a former government agent (Kirk Douglas) who searches for his son, who has been kidnapped by the feds who want to exploit his telekinetic powers.
The second story revolves around a teenaged girl (Amy Irving) who discovers that she too has paranormal powers.
The plot, as incredibly(and messily)convoluted as it is, is about some Aztec glass skull which seemingly grants powers.
Why is there a caterpillar with a dog's head or an Aztec skull with powers to keep Gramps alive?
But then about 2001 or 2002 something changed Maury Povich probably saw his ratings drop to (I'm guessing) Jerry Springer (as around that time, Springer would have the camera men go to people's houses, I wonder why they stopped that?) as Rikki Lake and Jenny Jones had been long gone, it only left those two super powers in the talk show industry (at the time).
La Face cachée de la lune is a brilliant Canadian film which has human being's fascination for moon as its backdrop.It is for this purpose that we are taken to 1950s when efforts were being made to send a man to moon.We witness how two major scientific powers America and Russia do all that they can in order to outdo each other.All this is done by them so that somebody is able to establish supremacy in all matters related to travel on moon."La
A lot of this stuff is absolutely ridiculous, Stanley seems to have supernatural powers when pinning people to trees with pickaxes and making a human shishkebab.
I always enjoy watching a good "bad" movie but the powers that be couldn't even get THAT right.Thank God there was never a Surf I or Surf III.
Anna is forced to give up the home she loves and the nanny she adores when her father quits his job in order to dedicate himself full time to fighting for the proletariat against the repressive corporate powers of the world.
not only is ot completely far-fetched with the whole "uber computer" who has more powers than the terminator and my pentium III combined, but the plot is WEAK, and the acting is HORRIBLE.
The boss of an institute for psychic researches of the American government discovers that his own son and a girl are being sought by terrorists who want to use their mind's powers.Narrative conducted in an agile and suffocating way by the veteran De Palma, responsible for equally violent and full of action classic such as "The Untouchables".
The big influence comes from Hiro - he's a boy, deeply interested and amazed by all the unfairness in this world, and as we can see, does everything in his powers to fix it all.
They introduced Terra, a girl who can't control her powers, and turned her into a spoiled brat who joins Slade for no apparent reason whatsoever.
She said it was so she could learn how to harness her powers, but the other Titans could have helped her with that.
There are little to zero special effects and the ones that are in the movie do not revolve around the fighters special powers.
The Obsolete Man makes quite an obvious comment on the role of government and certain ways in which powers can be abused or societies can go astray.
Trying to rule the earth with dark powers never seemed quite popular.
Oily hypnotist Carlo Lombardi has virtually enslaved young carnival follower Andrea with his incredible mind powers.
It possesses startling chameleon powers, coupled with hypnotism & telepathic ability, enabling it to fool all the cast members during the story as it imitates several of them.
No one else believes in him and the powers that be are trying to get rid of him.
Let's start with a shallow story, awkward pacing, loads of unmotivated 360 degree jump cuts, inconsistent character super powers, recycled explosion footage, unresolved two dimensional character issues, inconsistencies in alien monsters, and perhaps some of the worst secondary character acting I've seen since Hercules Goes Bananas.
James Mason is intense and snarling as a demanding ballet impresario who falls for ill-fated ballerina Moira Shearer, who, unbeknownst to him, is suffering from a bad ticker; Leslie Caron plays governess to ungrateful brat Ricky Nelson, both magically touched by the powers of Ethel Barrymore, reputed to be a witch; Kirk Douglas (as Pierre!) is a former star of the trapeze who trains suicidal Pier Angeli to be his new partner under the Big Top.
A husband and wife move into his family-owned mansion and discover photographs of his great-great grandfather; one of which shows him holding a skull made of solid crystal and is said to hold all the powers of the universe.
With shows about superheroes becoming more and more common it is nice to see a storyline that allows those powers (useful and not so useful) able to transfer from one person to another.
do they have super powers?
You've got all these cute looking monsters with special powers and abilities and for some reason they're fighting each other.
Her character, by magical powers, becomes a cat!
Until one day, officer Shade survives a mysterious incident in a freezer (I still haven't figured out what exactly happened there) and all of a sudden he enjoys monstrous powers.
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