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While THE MECHANICAL MONSTERS is far from the worst of the lot (that honor goes to THE MUMMY STRIKES), it's also not particularly noteworthy and is typical of the low quality of the series.
Forest Whitaker is a religious TV host who does not seem to care to much about God, but when disaster strikes his personal life he remembers Him and starts praying and believing - are we supposed to believe as viewers that this sincere?
the movie depicts his personal growth, how he begins to reflect and think for himself and become discontent with the collective. he takes a few tentative steps away from the group, and returns - after coming up against challenges when he strikes out on his own or gets pulled back in by other members.
The old South and it's "strange ways" never once strikes an odd chord.
FROGS is an entertaining entry in the sub-genre of Nature Strikes Back environmental horror films popularized during the 1970s.
Sci Fi channel strikes again with another adaptation that sucks the big one.
All in all check it out, it's not a masterpiece by any means, although it rather strikes my fancy!
But what strikes most is Charlotte Rampling, who's never been so real, so beautiful, so mysterious.
(Then again, we've all heard the expression about three strikes and an out.)
Then disaster strikes in the form of an earthquake causes her to miscarry and her injuries are such that she will never be able to have a child.
Every aspect of it, from the narrative conception to the sense of movement to the editing and (not least) the cinematography, strikes a stunning balance between dazzling clarity and a vague dreamy quality.
However, the film has many more strikes against it--most notably the very, very limited range of the starlet in this film.
Hopkins also strikes "attitudes" and she often poses dramatically as she stares off into the distance and speaks rather ponderous and unfunny speeches.
Ram Gopal Verma strikes gold once again as debuting Randeep Hooda stars in this absolutely breathtaking movie!
Carol Reed's "The Third Man" strikes all the right cords, establishing itself on so many different levels that it almost becomes untouchable.
Before the first half were admittedly some funny parts, mostly left over material from "Strikes Again" (I thought the car lighter scene was funny and also the scene on the plane).
R.G. Arledge's lax, ham-fisted direction strikes out in every conceivable department, thereby sinking this leaden bomb to an unforgivably schlocky sub-level of rank amateurishness: the sluggish pacing, putrid acting, wafer-thin cardboard characters, ill-judged stabs at lowbrow humor, the huge letdown creature (it's some heavy-stepping zhlub in a rubber ghoul mask and black gorilla costume), weak off-screen killings, and dissatisfying sudden'n'senseless ending all leave a great deal to be desired.
The drillers make friends with the Cajuns, while off- camera the rig strikes a pocket of gas.
Many argue that Obama’s climb-down from his threatened missile strikes against Syria last August emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to annex Crimea.
On the other hand, talk of military intervention – which, under the circumstances, would largely boil down to air strikes – is cheap.
Moreover, Iran’s leaders seem to assume that the country is too big and too strong to be subdued by sanctions or air strikes.
Earlier this month, both leaders – along with British Prime Minister Theresa May – ordered strikes on Syrian military installations, following a chemical-weapons attack on rebel-held territory allegedly carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
To be an engine of change in Europe, France must undergo a deep structural transformation, which, as student protests at Sciences Po and railway strikes across France show, will be very difficult.
In the UK, major trade union strikes have returned to the scene for the first time since early in the Thatcher era.
Hence the extreme unpopularity of all measures designed to reduce the public deficit and debt, with strikes breaking out all over the map.
Instead, the US concentrated its drone strikes in Pakistan’s Waziristan region, allowing the Taliban leaders to remain ensconced.
Ground the Drones in 2013LAHORE – Although 2012 saw an accelerating drawdown of United States and NATO forces’ in Afghanistan, a grim aspect of that decade-long war – reliance on air strikes by unmanned drones – continued unabated.
America’s drone strikes in Pakistan reflect an arrogant frame of mind that fails to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent, between the perpetrator and the afflicted, and between the criminal and the aggrieved.
The US drone strikes have left behind a long trail of death of innocent civilians, with no one being held accountable.
According to WikiLeaks, former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani approved the US drone strikes, saying: “I don’t care if they do it as long as they get the right people.
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