Sentences with phrase «cult film name»

Not throwing out another generic genre flick with a cult film name on it.

Weller will never overdraw the credit he got from starring in Robocop and Buckaroo Banzaiâ $» the cult film name - checked in Ready Player One.

Not exact matches

(The name appears to reference the 1970s cult film Soylent Green, in which humans ate a strange food that turned out to be other humans, but Rhinehart says that in the book version, soylent was made of soya and lentils.)

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

In this wickedly smart (and downright wicked) cult classic turned quintessential high - school film, smart - girl Veronica (Winona Ryder) throws in with the popular crowd (headed by a bratty group of girls all sharing the name Heather).

Based on a cult favorite 2010 Mexican film of the same name, We Are What We Are is a brooding genre film from co - writer / director Jim Mickle about family traditions.

He's made quite the name for himself over the years in the world of genre film, writing three movies for Danny Boyle (two of which he directed), — «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine,» and «28 Weeks Later» — one for Mark Romanek («Never Let Me Go»), and he also penned the 2012 cult fave «Dredd.»

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Inspired by real events, the film takes us back to Chile in 1973 when a woman named Lena (Watson) sees her boyfriend (Brühl) taken to a stronghold called Colonia Dignidad, and the only way to get him back is to infiltrate the cult herself.

Like many recent films based on well - known cult comics, director and co-writer Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) attempts to translate, quite literally, the images from the comics to the screen, with phonetic musical demonstrations (songs written by alt - rock fave, Beck), visual name tags for character introductions, and bleeped (visually) foul language.

Chase, of course, was instrumental in escalating the beloved humor magazine — co-founded in 1970 by Doug Kenney, who'll be played by Will Forte in the movie — from cult success into a mainstream name with his starring role in the brand's various Vacation films.

In the»90s, Anchor Bay made a name for itself as a boutique home video company which specialized in releasing horror and cult films, some famous and some obscure.

A disturbing yet mesmerizing psychological thriller about a girl who runs away from a cult only to become increasingly paranoid that its members have tracked her down, «Martha Marcy May Marlene» (so titled for the various names that its protagonist uses throughout the course of the film) is bone - chilling suspense at its best.

Diaz became a household name after starring as «Scarface» in the cult classic film «Half Baked» in 1998, opposite Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer.

In 1987, a fresh - out - of - film - school young man named Todd Haynes created a biopic of the late singer Karen Carpenter that became an overnight cult hit.

Ford has announced that the Bullitt Mustang, a limited edition Mustang based on the 1968 cult film of the same name, will be sold in the UK and Europe.

The 1993 novel quickly attained cult status, and then, fueled in part by Danny Boyle's boldly adapted 1996 film of the same name, the cult grew some more.

«These books were alive; they spoke to me,» is a quote from François Truffaut's 1966 dystopic cult film Fahrenheit 451 (based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name).

Taking Peter Weir's cult classic Picnic at Hanging Rock as it's starting point, Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly The Right Time and Place finds the artist, who shares first names with the film's iconic protagonist, wandering through a forest that seems to be unending.