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Critical Mass (film)
''Critical Mass'' is a 2001 action film directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as "Ed Raymond") and released direct-to-video. It stars Treat Williams, Lori Loughlin, and Udo Kier. The film features scenes taken straight from other films such as '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and '' Universal Soldier'' spliced into newly filmed scenes to make up its action sequences. Plot The film centers around a group of terrorists who take over a nuclear power plant and a security guard at the plant who tries to stop them. Cast * Treat Williams as Mike Jeffers * Udo Kier as Samson * Lori Loughlin as Janine * Blake Clark as Sheriff Borden * Doug McKeon as Breem * Andrew Prine as Sen. Cook * Richard McGonagle as Alan Gould * Shanna Moakler as Alexandra * T.J. Thyne as Karl Wendt * Charles Cyphers as Henderson * Jack Betts as Atty. Gen. Ames Reception Website ''Cool Target'' called it "enjoyable action nonsense" and stated: "Recycled footage to this extent is just lazy and kind of insulting but i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean McGinly
Sean McGinly is an American film director and screenwriter. His film '' Two Days'', starring Paul Rudd and Donal Logue, piqued the interest of Tom Hanks, who then agreed to produce McGinly's latest project, ''The Great Buck Howard'', through his Playtone production company. The film stars Hanks himself along with his son Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Emily Blunt. Filmography Directing *''The Great Buck Howard'' *'' Two Days'' *Brothers' *The Truth About Juliet' *Writer's Block' Writing *More Mercy' *Venomous' *''Fugitive Mind ''Fugitive Mind'' is a 1999 American sci-fi action film directed by Fred Olen Ray and starring Michael Dudikoff and Heather Langenkamp. Plot A man finds out that he was brainwashed to kill an important government official. Cast *Michael Dudikof ...'' *Sonic Impact' *Evasive Action' *Scorned 2' *Strategic Command' *The Confidence Man' *Sexual Roulette' *Time Under Fire' External links * American male screenwriters American film directors Yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Prine
Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Early life and career Prine was born in Jennings, Florida. After graduation from Miami Jackson High School in Miami, Prine attended the University of Miami and performed at the acclaimed Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. Prine made his acting debut three years later in an episode of ''United States Steel Hour''. His next role was in the 1959 Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's ''Look Homeward, Angel''. In 1962, Prine was cast in Academy Award-nominated film ''The Miracle Worker'' as Helen Keller's older brother James. In 1962, Prine landed a lead role with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode series '' Wide Country'', a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers. After the cancellation of ''Wide Country'', Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and in such television series as ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', '' The Virginian'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Dr. Kildar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Action Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). ''Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', ''Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; ''Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Hard
''Die Hard'' is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. Based on the 1979 novel '' Nothing Lasts Forever'', by Roderick Thorp, it stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia. ''Die Hard'' follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife. Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner feature in supporting roles. Stuart was hired by 20th Century Fox to adapt Thorp's novel into a screenplay in 1987. His finished draft was greenlit immediately by Fox, which was eager for a summer blockbuster the following year. The role of McClane was turned down by a host of the decade's most popular actors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Known mainly for work on television, Willis was paid $5million for his involvement, placing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Betts
Jack Fillmore Betts, also credited as Hunt Powers, is an American character actor and playwright. He has acted in film, on stage, and on television. Career Betts portrayed Chris Devlin in the CBS mystery series ''Checkmate'' (1960-1962). He also played Mr. Fisher, an 80-year-old man on ''One Life to Live'' in 1982. Among his numerous television appearances were four roles on the CBS drama series ''Perry Mason'', including the role of Bert Nickols in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Impatient Partner," Enos Watterton in the 1962 episode “The Case of the Double Entry Mind”, murder victim George Parsons in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Wooden Nickels," and murder victim Bruce Strickland in the 1966 episode, "The Case of the Fanciful Frail. Betts is also the author of ''Screen Test: Take One'', a play about a soap opera that originated on a film set. Filmography References External links * * * Hunt Powersat the University of Wisconsin A university () is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cyphers
Charles Cyphers (born July 28, 1939) is an American actor who is known in the horror movie community for his work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Carpenter's 1978 movie ''Halloween''. He reprised this role in the 1981 sequel '' Halloween II'' and the 2021 sequel ''Halloween Kills''. Film work Cyphers's first feature film was the 1974 movie ''Truck Turner'', and he first worked with Carpenter in the 1976 action film '' Assault on Precinct 13'', in which he played Starker, one of the ill-fated police officers gunned down by gang members. He later appeared as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the 1978 hit horror movie ''Halloween''. Cyphers worked with Carpenter two years later, playing Dan O'Bannon in '' The Fog'', a 1980 horror film which also starred Tom Atkins, Cyphers's fellow ''Halloween'' cast member Jamie Lee Curtis, his ''Assault on Precinct 13'' co-star Darwin Joston, and Nancy Kyes, who worked with Cyphers in both ''Assault on P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanna Moakler
Shanna Lynn Moakler (; born March 28, 1975) is an American model, actress, and reality television star. She was the winner of the Miss New York USA pageant in 1995 and was the first runner-up at Miss USA 1995. After winner Chelsi Smith won the Miss Universe 1995 pageant, Moakler succeeded her as Miss USA. Moakler began modeling at age 15. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for ''Playboy'' magazine in December 2001. Moakler eventually branched out into an acting career, appearing as a regular for two seasons on the USA Network television series '' Pacific Blue'' in 1998, and in 2005 she starred as herself on the reality television series ''Meet the Barkers'' with her then-husband Travis Barker, drummer in the rock band Blink-182. The series aired for two seasons on MTV. She hosted E!'s ''Bridalplasty'' during its two-month run in 2010/2011. In January 2014, it was announced that Moakler had joined the cast of the VH1 reality series, ''Hollywood Exes''. Moakler's private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McGonagle
Richard Francis McGonagle (born October 22, 1946) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his voice work in various video games, movies and television shows. He is also known for his work by voicing Colonel Taggart in ''Prototype'', Orlovsky in '' World in Conflict: Soviet Assault'', Mr. Incredible through various ''The Incredibles'' projects (in lieu of Craig T. Nelson), Victor Sullivan in the ''Uncharted'' franchise, Four Arms and Exo-Skull in the ''Ben 10'' franchise, Bato in ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', Dr. Peace in '' No More Heroes'', Eight-Armed Willy in ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'', Dr. I.Q. Hi in ''Duck Dodgers'', Apocalypse in '' X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'', Ed Machine in ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'', Tom Sheldon in ''Just Cause'', Abin Sur in '' Green Lantern: First Flight'', and Bill the Wrangler in '' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'', and provided additional voices for '' The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
