Sentences with phrase «about a cult movie»

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I just watched the movie «September Dawn» where on 9 - 11 many Americans lost their lives to this cult and I spoke with my Son about this movie where they believe by killing gentiles (anyone not a mormon) that they are saving us, and we can go to the planet kolob and be a god.

Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

For example, there is more than you could ever want to know about the machine that inspired the game - theorising computer in the cult teen movie War Games.

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The disaster artist is about the making of the cult movie «The Room», so you should see that first instead to appreciate «The Disaster Artist» better.

An insufferable, self - conscious cult movie, The Chumscrubber smugly heaps on half - baked ideas about media violence, the homogeneity of suburbia and the disintegration of the American family.

I can definitely see why this is one of those cult movies - it has that realistic vibe to it and basically talks about really serious things, but at the same time it has comedic elements and even though you feel disgusted with all the narcotics and heroin they are taking, the movie draws you in with it's storyline

I can definitely see why this is one of those cult movies - it has that realistic vibe to it and basically talks about really serious things, but at the same time it has comedic elements and even though you feel disgusted with all the

The Disaster Artist is based on Greg Sestero's best - selling tell - all about the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult - classic disasterpiece The Room («The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made»), and stars James Franco, Dave Franco, and Seth Rogen.

The picture is based on Greg Sestero's best - selling tell - all about the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult - classic disasterpiece The Room («The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made»).

In the vein of Tommy Wiseau's» The Room» comes» Dangerous Men», a movie the distributor no doubt hopes will become a cult classic thanks to the obvious lack of quality on screen and the narrative about the behind - the - scenes personality who made it.

I, along with several friends, used to write movie reviews daily about cult films that would tickle our odd fancy.

Filmmaker Sean Durkin, whose most significant credit was the art house movie about a woman escaping a cult, «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» is reportedly set to direct.

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

The 1971 cult hit «Harold and Maude» is the best movie about an affair between a suicidal teen and an 80 - year - old woman ever made, thanks to Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort.

Not content to just make a movie about the end of the world, or the bisexual frolics of American collegegoers, or masked cult devotees murdering students on campus, Araki has gone and merged them all together in the form of Kaboom.

Not content to just make a movie about the end of the world, or the bisexual frolics of American collegegoers, or masked cult devotees murdering students on campus, Araki has gone and merged them all together in the form of

This is a true story about the making of THE ROOM — the cult classic described as the «Citizen Kane of bad movies».

The film, directed by and starring Franco, is about the making of the infamously bad cult movie «The Room.»

Within six months, the film was premiering at Cannes, beginning a year - long whirlwind that culminated in the film's immediate cult status on its release back in the spring, and has put Saulnier (who also served as the movie's stellar DP) on just about everyone's one - to - watch lists.

Based on Greg Sestero's best - selling tell - all about the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult - classic disasterpiece The Room («The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made»).

But The Disaster Artist will be compared more easily with Tim Burton's wonderful Ed Wood, about a similarly clueless would - be Orson Welles who succeeded in making Plan 9 from Outer Space, another indescribably bad movie - turned - cult sensation.

Drew's Review: In case you were wondering, yes - I decided that immediately after a «2009 in Review» article all about how I never go to the movies anymore and have reconnected with older cult films, my first review of 2010 would be of a movie currently in theaters.

They certainly had good reason to be optimistic: The movie is a genuine crowdpleaser about Wiseau's unlikely saga from Hollywood outcast to cult hero.

It took writer John Hodge and director Danny Boyle 20 years to cook up a sequel to «Trainspotting», one of the most talked about movies of the 90's and a cult classic.

When it begins Thursday night with a story of international rivalry and cult - of - hothead - personality (tennis drama «Borg / McEnroe» with Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe)-- and continues over the following 10 days with movies about race, environmentalism, globalism, feminism and politics — TIFF will engage with the current moment as few cultural events do.

Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.

Franco directs himself, his brother, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Zac Efron, and Alison Brie, in what appears to be a pretty darn good movie about the making of a very bad movie, Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult favorite, The Room.

Before the internet and YouTube, the ways that you became informed about cult cinema was from reading books, fanzines, and watching some beat up VHS copies of the movies.

Despite horrendous reviews, word about the movie's awfulness spread around Los Angeles and the film quickly became a cult classic, complete with Rocky Horror-esque traditions at midnight screenings.

Her comedic delivery, heart and spirit spill over the frames; she is far and beyond the best thing about this movie, and if it manages cult - classic status, she's the one to thank.

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

Ryan Downey talks to brothers John Erick and Drew Dowdle about their insane new action movie No Escape, which is destined to be a cult classic.

A woman drops her robe, but we only briefly see her back and shoulders; a man is seen naked on a bed with a pillow covering his private parts (check the movie's trailer if you want to preview this) and a short reference is made about a person being conceived during a cult ceremony (it is vaguely implied that the mother may have been raped).

Summary Capsule: Okay, so there's this ultimate cult movie about transvestites and musical numbers.

James Franco directed and starred in this movie about the making of The Room, which has gained cult status as one of the worst movies ever made.

I vividly remember when word began to spread, in the loose community of movie and culture bloggers of which I was then a part, about the 2003 cult phenomenon The Room, a self - produced and self - distributed movie that was the vanity project of an enigmatic figure by the name of Tommy Wiseau.

The Disaster Artist, a film about the making of Wiseau's doomed The Room, a movie so bad and weird it became a cult hit.

The San Saba County native told a story about shooting the cult movie «Rolling Thunder» in Texas and how, while he has shot many pictures in the State, that one stayed with him.

No, the strange thing is that The Disaster Artist probably wouldn't be so good if the movie it's about, the 2003 cult film The Room, weren't so bad.

But getting a chance to watch the entire trilogy about mutant babies b y cult horror director Larry Cohen is a really fun B - movie experience.

This cult favorite TV movie about a mentally challenged man who's wrongfully killed by a lynch mob while dressed as a scarecrow and seemingly returns from the grave for revenge smartly keeps things low key but still manages to deliver (non-explicit) thrills, buoyed by the scene eating of perennial love - to - hate - him bad guy Charles Durning.

We thought about giving this story a catchy headline like «Ten Movies You Must See Before You Die This Fall,» but then if you took that too literally you wouldn't be around to see how we did — which of our picks ended up getting Oscar love, which would clean - up at the box office, and which were destined for an eternity of cult adoration.

The clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

James Franco's movie about the worst movie ever made — which became a beloved cult classic — will join Terrence Malick's latest and others at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival.

5:45 p.m. — 6:45 p.m.: THE DISASTER ARTIST»S JAMES FRANCO AND DAVE FRANCO Actor - director James Franco and his brother, actor Dave Franco, join Vulture Festival to discuss their new film, The Disaster Artist, about the making of the modern cult - classic The Room (known to its many fans as the greatest bad movie of all time).

film as director (or co-director) will be The Disaster Artist, about the making of the 2003 cult film The Room, regarded as the «worst movie ever made.»

by Walter Chaw John Hough's cult favourite The Watcher in the Woods is a movie about how a camera presents a point - of - view and of how that point - of - view, if it's not attached to a specific identity, can become menacingly voyeuristic; shame that The Watcher in the Woods isn't also about a story with characters in whom you're interested and performances that don't set teeth on edge.

When talking about cult classics and midnight showings, few movies have the fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show beat.