"Deep Impact" released 1998

One of two comet/asteroid disaster movies to hit theaters, Deep Impact, opened May 8, 1998.  A seven-mile wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, and the world prepares for a mass extinction.

Steven Spielberg was executive producer.  It starred Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Maximillian Schell, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Jon Favreau, Denise Crosby (of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame), and Blair Underwood.

The movie is based on the 1993 novel The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke.  

"RED" released 2010

RED, released October 15, 2010, is one of the best action-comedies ever filmed.  It starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Morgan Freeman.  Mary Stuart Masterston, Karl Urban, Ernest Borgnine, Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfus finished out the ensemble cast.

Bruce Willis plays a retired CIA agent (RED = Retired Extremely Dangerous), living quietly when he realizes that someone is trying to kill him. He contacts his old team to find out why he is being targeted. 

Helen Mirren won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for Actress Defying Age and Ageism for her work in RED.