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...escape from a Turkish jail. Without any visible means of box-office support, i.e., genuine stars, or even a few recognizable players, Express has already made $52 million. At the same time, the era of the disaster movie appears to be over. It cost $14 million to shoot The Swarm-the price of honey being what it is these days-but audiences decided that bees, even when they are threatening humanity, were, well, just bees, and the producers were the only ones to get stung...
...Bombers vs. the Pleasant Valley Bears, and they are contending before a homecoming crowd. At the kickoff the ball sails up, disappears in the darkness beyond the reach of the lights, then drops suddenly into view. A Palmerton deep back streaks to it, and is promptly buried under a swarm of blue jerseys...
...packets of pulsing light, faeries were the UFOs of our ancestral imagination. On closer encounter, the world of Faerie, as the authors designate their enchanting nutshell universe, reveals a swarm of terrifying and erotic forms: gruesome spriggans who specialize in kidnaping infants and blighting crops; horse-stealing pixies; a bat-frog that preys on Welsh fishermen; amphibious hags who drown and devour careless children; a birch spirit whose touch causes madness; a practical joker known as the Fir Darrig, and assorted boggarts, bogles, goblins and fachans-all up to no good...
...Linsley the younger remembered to show up, and she saved the Crimson's upset victory over UMass by holding off a swarm of UMass runners right behind her to finish a surprisingly high 11th place...
Such is the problem with The Swarm, in which it sometimes seems that the character actors may outnumber the bees. There is much evidence that heavy cutting took place after shooting (why no one thinks to do this before the cameras turn, when it is ever so much cheaper, is one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries), since many scenes have nothing much to do with one another. The most egregious error of this sort concerns a geratic triangle involving Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson and Fred MacMurray that has no relation to the insect world. Then, too, one wonders...