Sentences with phrase «more schlock»

More schlock for the FF «brand».

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

Not exact matches

Sublimely trashy, this conceptual sequel to 1997's surprise hit, «Anaconda,» doesn't expect to be taken any more seriously than its schlock predecessor, and keeps its tongue - in - cheek thrills flowing rapidly.

Those not enamored of Besson's particular brand of Euro - schlock grindhouse existentialism, however, may find their brains more stimulated elsewhere.

What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

Over at ShockYa, for my latest Blu - ray / DVD column, I take a gander at Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of horror flicks, a pair of documentaries on men that could scarcely be more different (New York Times society photographer Bill Cunningham and schlock - meister Herschell Gordon Lewis), and the film that inspired Austin Powers «machine - gun - breasted fembots.

The plot is a boring mix of Hitchcockian «innocent - man - accused» and derivative action schlock, probably more appropriate for straight - to - video crapola than in a major film release like this.

Schlock, despite being well - made, is still schlock, and not even Agnes Bruckner's (Rick, Blue Car) acting or Rick Cramer's (Pros & Cons, Counter Measures) impressive menace can make something more out of a story that regurgitates more than it stimulates.

Perhaps with an eye on the Sundance brass ring, the film actively renounces its low - budget privilege to be either a serious meditation on the whole soliciting minors for sex over the Internet phenomenon or quasi-feminist grindhouse schlock; you can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything.

Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies)-- Typical horror schlock elevated into the second best horror movie of 2010 (behind Let Me In) by three core performances that bring more to the material than the sort of movie ever typically receives.

Transparent postproduction effects and obvious puppet - work show how»50s schlock could, with the forgiving nature of black - and - white film stock, more easily pass off its flaws.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

Meanwhile, we get another pile of digital schlock in more Dissidia garbage.

0 also represents the strongest indicator, to me, that Resident Evil had abandoned its schlock B - movie horror charm in favor of a more fantastical and anime - lite approach.