Michael Nash Movies
- 2009
Samuel L. Jackson stars as Marion Delacroix, a Southern specialist in speaking with children, who gets hired by a fatigued father needing help with the care of his four kids in this New Line Cinema production. Waiting...'s Rob McKittrick provides the screen story along with Josh Cagan, who provides the script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Samuel L. Jackson
- 2007
A reclusive genius attempts to end the world's oil addiction by inventing the first-ever magnetic engine, only to find the demons of his past threatening to derail his search for a new form of renewable energy in director Michael P. Nash's paranoid conspiracy thriller. When Dan Tort (Dave Buzzotta) first hatched his plan for a magnetic engine, he thought that the masses would thrill at the prospect of a having an alternative energy source to power their automobiles. Little did he realize that the Military Industrial Complex wouldn't take such a shine to his brilliant invention, and that they'd soon be using every means at their disposal to prevent his plan from being made public. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dave Buzzotta, Joey D. Vieira, (more)
- 1992
- PG
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Brain Donors is a game attempt to redo the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera in a contemporary setting. John Turturro plays the "Groucho" character, a shifty lawyer (he's even given a Grouchoesque three-barrelled moniker). Bob Nelson is the "Harpo" counterpart, a puckish handyman. And Mel Smith completes the trio as a Chico-like cabbie. All three conspire to save a failing ballet company on behalf of dowager Nancy Marchand, who does a film-length impersonation of Margaret Dumont. At times, Pat Proft's script comes off more like a 3 Stooges short than a Marx Brothers romp, but that's not so bad. What hurts the film is its fluctuating pace, which shifts into neutral just when it should go into hyperdrive. Will Vinton's Claymation opening titles supply some of the film's biggest laughs. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Turturro, Bob Nelson, (more)
The Lost Continent is a crazy-quilt of a film, with chunks of several unrelated plotlines sewn together willy nilly. Eric Porter plays Lansen, the captain of a tramp steamer who has agreed to deliver contraband dynamite for a hefty price. His passengers are a polyglot of the good, the bad and the worse. Shipwrecked on an mysterious isle in the Sargasso Sea, Lansen and party find themselves prisoners of a bizarre inbred colony still governed by the long-abandoned edicts of the Spanish Inquisition. The film is no more coherent than the original Dennis Wheatley novel Uncharted Seas, but that doesn't detract from its endearing wackiness. To their credit, the cast members of Lost Continent play the script straight, which merely adds to the kinky fun. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eric Porter, Suzanna Leigh, (more)
