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Unlike a lot of the self - serious, Bryan Adams - like crooners the genre had become famous for, dcTalk was fun.

I'm grieved to point out a new and growing genre of mommy blogs: blogs set up specifically to recount the death or serious injury of babies at homebirth and the aftermath for their devastated mothers and families.

Killer Flu is a «serious game» — an increasingly popular genre of online games designed to deal with real - world issues.

The book Science on Stage, by Kirsten Shepherd - Barr, is a comprehensive survey championing this genre but raising many serious questions.

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Festival Fashion is its own genre, let's be serious, and we are prepared to embrace it full force.

War of the Worlds is only the latest Spielberg blockbuster that infuses, seamlessly, serious themes into an ostensibly genre work.

The other shocking moment is a stalking / attack sequence that proves Garland has some serious genre chops.

Best - known to BMD readers will undoubtedly be Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, a reality - melting Italian - style horror freakout that made serious waves in genre circles.

Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the idea of either a superhero or the genre.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

Undervalued as a genre filmmaker and perhaps overexposed as the standard - bearer of «serious» Hollywood filmmaking, Spielberg's most vexing feature may be the double - edged hyper - reality that his best tricks bring to bear on historical drama.

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than traditional commercial fare.

However, underneath the high - concept themes of the film, Rumor Has It remains a routine romantic comedy with serious moments thrown in, and will likely only please viewers considered to be regulars of the genre.

Akira's popularity obscures the finest examples of the medium, films that manage to balance serious metaphysical musing with actual forward momentum (the two Ghost in the Shell films, for instance); to tell adult tales in affecting ways (Grave of the Fireflies); to redefine genre thriller (Perfect Blue), action (Ninja Scroll), and fantasy (Princess Mononoke); and to present children's fables as artifacts that are as useful for adults as they are for kids (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).

Although the story also goes Rad thought he was making a serious genre piece, so maybe it's a good thing he's not around to see how a distributor today is trading on the increasingly viable «low quality» cachet.

One of my favorite Directors, Matthew Vaughn (Kick - Ass, Stardust) brings his unique sensibilities and a breath of fresh air to the stagnate Spy Genre, a genre that has been overly serious lately and in need of a kick - sGenre, a genre that has been overly serious lately and in need of a kick - sgenre that has been overly serious lately and in need of a kick - start.

The Last American Hero is an entertaining genre picture with a serious - sounding title, and so it runs the risk of being underrated in some quarters and overrated in others.

Personally, I'm not a fan of this genre and can't fathom why anybody would be interested in making this, although I am fully aware that family films can make serious money at the box office — despite their (often) poor quality.

Whereas Fallen was packaged, and ultimately delivered, as a dead serious action / thriller, I don't think White House Down marketing did enough to prep its potential audience members for the over-the-top, often times ridiculous, self - aware genre piece they would encounter.

While he still works frequently in the genre, Young succesfully shook off his typecasting as «the horror guy» a few years ago (perhaps his Golden Globe nomination for 2001's The Shipping News signalling the final shackle coming off); and this is probably his strongest «serious» score since then.

However, a refreshing effort with a satisfying number of laughs is a not a bad way to kick - off the genre in 2015, and it's a welcome alternative to all the serious Awards Season options currently in theaters.

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than...

As for Eckhart, while no stranger to genre films (The Core, Battle Los Angeles) he's also an actor with serious mainstream credits and may be the most unusual casting for the monster since Robert DeNiro in Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein made twenty years ago.

They're inherently terrifying, which lends itself to more serious genre fare, yet we often see them portrayed in horror comedies like Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland (just to -LSB-...]

After suffering through countless overtly serious genre films at this year's SXSW, I was saved by Tyler MacIntyre's fiercely entertaining Tragedy Girls.

After suffering through countless overtly serious genre films at this year's SXSW, I was saved by Tyler MacIntyre's fiercely entertaining Tragedy...

It's been a full 50 years of A-game work in Hollywood and back home in the UK, across serious drama, slapstick comedies, genre films and arthouse gems.

Granted, it does have many noteworthy moments for genre fans, but there is a serious lack of laughs.

She is aided by Clarke, an actor at home in a genre film such as this or in serious dramas.

But while the Doug Liman - directed action comedy was a fizzy and fun twist on the spy and rom - com genres, «By the Sea» looks like a deadly serious affair.

Hereafter (Warner), directed by Clint Eastwood, is (in the words of MSN critic Glenn Kenny) «a film of rather rare ambition... (that) attempts to create a serious drama, as opposed to a genre exercise, out of speculations concerning the afterlife and the supernatural.»

The film it feels closest to is James Gunn's Super, which is actually quite a dark film but is clever and odd and plays with the tropes of the genre enough not to make it serious.

«The Exorcist» is one of the best movies of its type ever made; it not only transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural, but it transcends such serious, ambitious efforts in the same direction as Roman Polanski's «Rosemary's Baby.»

Although they have frequently employed Western styles, True Grit is the Coen Brothers» (A Serious Man, Burn After Reading) first attempt at the true Western genre, quite traditional in its adaptation of the classic Charles Portis story, a novel originally published in the «Saturday Evening Post» in 1968, more in the vein of its creation than the comedy, thrills, and snark we've come to associate with their style.

It was pretty clear that Hopkins was attempting to blur the lines between genres and try to mix and match tones, but the film went from way too cutesy and light - hearted to way too serious.

But though it grapples with serious subject matter, it's difficult to pin A Fantastic Woman to any one genre.

It is an intelligently realized, efficiently presented, and breathtakingly rendered action film that will hopefully revitalize the sputtering genre back to more serious presentations, instead of the cartoonish, cheeky, dumbed - down fodder that has been passing as mainstream popcorn - movie fare for the last several years.

No genre storytelling exists in a vacuum: it responds to and expands upon what has come before... or at least it does if it wants to be seen as serious and significant and adding to that ongoing conversation.

Most important of all, though, the film possesses moments and sequences that return a sense of wonder to a genre that, while it hasn't quite reached that point yet, is in serious danger of growing stale.

Gone Baby Gone is a thoughtful, serious film, whose strong moral undercurrents carry it beyond mere genre.

It constantly flits between genres — serious addiction drama, black comedy, wacky stoner comedy, legal thriller, romance, aviation disaster thriller etc... For a while, the film's offbeat tone is interesting, and threatens to do surprising things with its familiar setups.

She's the breakout filmmaker behind the cult sensation «A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night» (our review), which earned serious buzz all through 2014 (and received a lot of shine in our Best of 2014 coverage), and her latest sounds like another promising take on genre tropes.

Josh Boone, who is both cowriter and director on New Mutants, is clearly serious about taking the X-Men franchise into full - blown horror genre territory here.

Lockdown tries very hard to be a serious film, but when you dabble in the action genre, occasionally you have to feature an action scene.

It's glib, and the rest of the essay doesn't read like that, making me wonder if this is something Kalat truly believes, or if he's merely wrestling with the same disconnect he identifies contemporary critics of Franju's work wrestling with: namely, how could a serious artist be working in the horror genre?

Speaking of comedy: a horror genre workout could be improved immeasurably through Green's idiosyncratic sense of humor and off - kilter dialogue, which turns up even in his most serious efforts.

Coming full - circle from the wry noir of Blood Simple and Fargo and presenting itself eventually as of a piece with a later Coen noir, The Man Who Wasn't There (just as A Serious Man is a companion piece to Barton Fink), The Big Lebowski serves as the transition point in that process while also moving the brothers from broad genre takedowns to a very specific kind of literary adaptation.

Several interlocking characters are introduced early and, unlike the recent entries of the genre such as «San Andreas» (2015) and those by Roland Emmerich, their attitude towards the catastrophe in hand was dead serious, leaving very little room for humor.