Sentences with phrase «a-corporate-boardroom schlock»

Some suggest the system will force writers to «trim the fat» or fill their works with Dan Brown-esque page - turning schlock.

Other production companies also have found a niche serving up ready - made schlock.

Exquisitely shot high glamour doesn't jump smoothly from the pages of glossy magazines to the relatively low - resolution and low - brow Internet, with its schlock dancing - cartoon - character banner ads.

To twist Bonhoeffer on his ear, I'm becoming church for the sake of the world, aren't I, making up for the lost souls who waste their money on romance novels and self - help schlock?

The big question seems to be, «When is it okay for old Christians to quit keeping up with all the latest schlock?»

Currently mocked bands like Linkin Park, Third Eye Blind and Staind brought vulnerability and thoughtfulness to a rock and pop landscape categorized by over the top aggression (Eminem, Korn) or made - in - a-corporate-boardroom schlock (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and a stack of clones of each).

There is no great secret to the marketing success of schlock as gross as this.

It came to this the first time the rating system permitted schlock films to show nudity because of the precedent set by worthwhile pictures like The Pawnbroker.

It was my first direct experience of a humanities professor delighted by pop - culture schlock.

Now it must be admitted that Catholic, and not only Catholic, churches frequently had an awful lot of schlock.

The former dances the line between science fiction and horror in Nowheresville, Indiana and the latter tells a story of schlock and excess in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

While Frykholm has no sympathy with the Left Behind series theologically, politically or literally, she has a great deal of sympathy with its readers and she explores why people with interesting lives are drawn to such schlock in their religious reading.

I found myself thinking of the summer outdoor meets — the sun on the hard blue water with schlock music over the loudspeaker and the girl swimmers, whom we saw only at those kinds of meets, with their strong tanned necks and their nipples showing under their nylon tank suits.

Kind of shopping center schlock... oops

Sure, most of what's produced is going to be schlock, and much of it will be self - promoting (hello, e.politics!)

Of course, much of the end product is going to be schlock whatever the medium, but the best pieces may well be better than anything you or your communications consultants can come up with.

And with tens of millions of monkeys banging away on keyboards, it doesn't take long for some true gems to float to the surface of the resulting sea of schlock.

In 2007, for example, he told an interviewer that his favorite book is the science fiction schlock classic Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard.

A crude but sometimes startling serving of schlock, the velocity and ferocity compensating for leaden conversation and smudge - o - vision photography.

«Guilty pleasure» is pushing it, but you might develop a certain guilty appreciation for the way this slab of breezeblock Brit - schlock goes about its ludicrously contrived business.

A gory, old - fashioned slice of schlock horror that, by successfully paying homage to one of the greats, puts many of its contemporaries in the shade.

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

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.

Wiseau's tour de schlock can only be seen on DVD or in raucous «Rocky Horror» - style public screenings, and it isn't available for streaming, which makes sense.

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

Under the Dome was a passable schlock fest of lowbrow plotting and silly dialogue up until the final episode.

Thankfully, my fears were unrealized, as we get an equally respectful and hilarious take on the making of this schlock masterwork.

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

The settings and supporting roles suggest that If I Stay started out as someone's passion project, but the final product only requires its star to sleepwalk through buckets of schlock.

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.

A grotesque slumgullion of kung fu, studio schlock and pseudo-Dumas swashbuckling that leaves you longing for Doug Fairbanks — or even Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers.

Somehow channeling the tone of both a Lifetime movie and an after - school special, Mothers and Daughters shambles into theaters oozing schlock and melodrama, just in time for Mother's Day.

Thanks in large part to the independent film movement of the late»80s, the boyishly handsome James LeGros went from being an underrated bit player in Hollywood schlock to a well - respected character actor.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

Phillips pays obvious homage to The Godfather, Easy Rider, Saturday Night Fever, and Dirty Harry, makes a semi-sly reference to insidious pod - child manifesto «Free To Be You and Me» (Owen Wilson meanwhile performs original - Hutch David Soul's schlock classic «Don't Give Up On Us Baby»), and, in the only thing approaching clever, casts Fred «The Hammer» Williamson as the duo's cranky police captain.

When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything but.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

This movie's premise could easily have lent itself to schlock: Saoirse Ronan is a super-assassin who has been trained to kill by her «father» (Eric Bana) but has never learned about music or art or love, or the joy of painting your toenails.

Far too many people go through this exact situation to treat it as laugh it up schlock when the parents arrive with a surprise knock on the door.

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.

That's the era Pathfinder, despite its sets and costumes, conjures most effectively: not an ancient North America, but a time when this kind of leaden schlock could get a theatrical release if the leading man looked enough like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

On the flip side the Aliens are reduced to cheap slasher thrills, just tacky monsters that kill faceless people that no one cares about, real «Friday the 13th» «Critters» B - movie type schlock.

As such, it will be up to Caple to make sure Creed 2 doesn't descend into the kind of schlock that marked Rocky IV.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

Adam Sandler has become such a reliable conveyor belt of cinematic schlock that people forget he once had aspirations beyond Dennis Dugan's truly...

The Amityville Horror is schlock horror adapted from a misguided book that is only interesting based on the presumption of its truth.

Hope this lives up to its attached names» previous work, and doesn't quickly spiral into fat lonely woman softcore schlock like HBO's supernatural show.

I am not exactly sure why schlock horror director William Castle has been such a source for remaking films for today's audiences, except the idea that his films might be better if they weren't so low - budget.