Sentences with phrase «cult film of sorts»

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

Not exact matches

Maybe not ALL his films are hits, but pretty much all of them have some sort of cult following (The Mariachi trilogy, Spy Kids, Sin City, Machete, Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror)... and I'll take him over Michael Bay or any other cookie cutter director.

Did or does S.W.A.T. the television series have the sort of cult following that made a film version inevitable?

Nevertheless, it does retain a small cult following, and can even be seen as a precursor of sorts to such films as the horror flick Event Horizon and Danny Boyle's dying sun thriller, Sunshine.

But in a few weeks, that might change, because after the film premiered at Sundance back in January, Fox Searchlight are opening «I Origins,» Mike Cahill «s follow - up to his cult hit «Another Earth,» in theaters, and it's right up that sort of street.

The co-writer and director, James Gunn, is a cult favorite but hadn't helmed a film of this scale (sort of similar to Joss Whedon's position before «The Avengers» became the third - highest grossing film of all time in 2012).

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking film that features Cassel as a sort of cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often violent.

Lillard is in the process of becoming a sort of Steve Buscemi for the 13 - 25 set, appearing in everything from cult faves Hackers and Scream to Chris Roberts» upcoming Wing Commander film.

Over the years, this film has gained a cult following for those nostalgic for the 70s, as well as Peckinpah fanatics, who probably see this as a curious sort of masterpiece.

Just four years after The Silence of the Lambs made Levine sort of a cult figure, the film is the first to capitalize on his new status, its resounding failure freeing him to return to the character actor ghetto.

Yes, the film received an F CinemaScore, and was thrashed in certain critic circles — but it has also been fiercely embraced in others, which admire the film for its sheer insanity and have given it an instant sort of cult status.