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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
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The range-topping version of the company’s flagship SUV looks awfully similar to the Ferrari Purosangue and features a dual-motor powertrain that makes 990 hp.
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The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.
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Directed by Jean Rollin, the film centers on a first date that goes horribly wrong after the couple get lost in a sprawling cemetery.
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Part slasher parody, part meta commentary on the structure of horror movies, and fully riotous, Behind the Mask is a dreadfully under-appreciated contribution to the subgenre that would have made for a terrific franchise.
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Especially early in its career, Hum was dreadfully misclassified as just another soft-to-loud/Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana wannabe, and remained criminally under-appreciated for its heavy/stoner-friendly Midwestern shoegaze vibes long after its breakup.
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However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced.
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However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced.
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Secondly, they were very poorly promoted.
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Another reason some people respond poorly to GLP-1 drugs is because of their genetic makeup.
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In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.
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Manny Machado apparently hates analytics, which is an odd thing to blame for his horrifically slow first two-plus months of the season.
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The episodes show, somewhat horrifically, clips of the police interview with a young Gavin Arvizo.
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