Sentences with phrase «cult films go»

Of course, some cult films go on to become classics.

As far as $ 150 million R - rated sequels to»80s cult films go, Blade Runner 2049 wasn't as transcendent as Mad Max: Fury Road, but still a worthy successor to the original Blade Runner.

Not exact matches

I think I'm going to be sick, AA wants nothing to do with press radio or film (nor does it wish to engage in any sect, cults or religion), yet you have the nerve to write an opinionated article about not believing in God and being part of AA?

Anyone who has attended a Star Trek or Star Wars film on opening day and then gone a few weeks later knows the difference between a piece of art viewed by cult followers and one viewed with casual fans.

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.

I went for a modern 90's vibe today — it was one of my favorite decades for film and fashion the first time round (think Sex And The City, Clueless, Melrose Place and other cult classics!)

Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.

The friendship arc continues to have a touch - and - go handling and the movie itself egregiously abridges the film's natural, long ascent into cult status with its ending, the strangest of its kind since Danny Boyle's «Steve Jobs.»

Well Russ continued in his exploitive areas becoming a gigantic cult filmmaker, beloved by «geeks» everywhere, and Roger went into the film criticism arena.

The film follows the making of «The Room» - directed by and starring Wiseau - which has been dubbed the worst movie ever made but went on to gain a cult following.

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

As a quirky tip of the hat to junk food cinema, it would go on to a similar cult status as the films it pays homage to.

The movie could be summarized as «Rosemary's Baby if Rosemary were the head of the cult,» but while Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece is a rich, nuanced film that works (and disturbs) on multiple levels, Hungry Hearts never goes any further than preying on some pretty basic fears.

-- or go all but unnoticed at the Oscars and become something of a cult classic, like his first film, A Single Man.

The thoroughly awful movie that resulted from their collaboration would go on to become a midnight cult classic, one of the most highly regarded so - bad - it's - good films ever made.

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.

His two biggest films, Office Space and The Idiocracy, went straight to DVD in Britain but became cult hits thanks to their cutting observations about the general stupidity of humanity.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).

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.»

The Festival programme is organised into categories clustered around the themes of Love, Debate, Dare, Laugh, Thrill, Cult, Journey, Sonic, Family and Experimenta — an approach designed to help Festival - goers find the films that appeal the most to them and to open up the Festival for new audiences.

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.

The Election films are great as are many of the 80s cult films where directors were going for broke on the sleazier elements.

After the Kids left television in 1995, Scott and the boys went on to write and star in their own feature film, the cult favorite Brain Candy.

But with the exodus of talent off the island in the wake of the handover to China (all of the above went to Hollywood, at least for awhile), the deterioration of existing prints and the rise in the cost of running repertory, as well as the inevitable change in what counted as fashionable cult cinema, the films disappeared from Seattle screens.

When Doc Ock goes on his first rampage, tearing up a medical lab filled with gleaming metallic buzzsaws, the sinister lighting and gruesomely slick camera movements echo his celebrated cult films The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II.

While Broken Lizard did go on to create another feature films, including Club Dread in 2004 and Beerfest in 2006, the films themselves didn't have the same cult - following fanbase as did Super Troopers has achieved.

Franco is garnering Oscar buzz for his performance as Wiseau, a singularly strange individual who somehow or other was able to arrange financing for his feature film The Room, a movie so bad it went on to become a cult sensation.

Pegg and Frost went on to co-write the lackluster extraterrestrial comedy «Paul» on their own (and Pegg appeared in two «Star Trek» pictures) while Wright made the stellar «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,» a film which failed to connect in its initial release but has become something of an instant cult classic.

Previous Oscar nominee Berg's film, an investigation into Warren Jeffs and the cult of the FLDS, goes in to theaters on Sep. 25 for an Oscar qualifying run.

Our Take: John Carpenter's The Thing is a cult classic horror film, and this prequel is basically going to tell us a story we already know the ending of.

Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives was first filmed in 1975 by Bryan Forbes — a dark thriller about the lengths the men of the town of Stepford will go to in order to keep their wives in line, with a chilling score by Michael Small; it wasn't a huge success at first but went on to become something of a cult favourite and had its own kind of cultural impact.

some people are being picky and trying to pass themselves of as a know it all film critic... if you went into this movie with your brain in anything higher than 1st gear you are a fool, i went looking for a bit of action and a salute to a cult classic and i got what i wanted @ 25 «if anybody thinks either Topher Grace or Adrien Brody could stand - up to a Predator seriously needs to consider suicide.»

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.

Elizabeth Hurley, the Brit beauty who is no stranger to the onslaught of tabloid headlines both in the U.S. and her native England, calls the film «a satire on the cult of celebrity in America, and how the media goes insane and intrudes on peopleís lives.»

Test audiences didn't enjoy the direction the franchise went with the cult mythology so huge chunks of the film were re-shot to make the film feel like your average slasher, which is what the result felt like.

Wright has been a cult icon for years, a favorite among critics and Comic - Con goers, but «Baby Driver» broke through to another audience, making over $ 225 million worldwide and counting (it's his first film to break nine figures).

I did not care for this film at all, and while this is a good marketing push from A24, it's going to be forgotten, which is cool because it will be a cult classic even faster.

Four years later, he returned with «Birth,» starring Nicole Kidman, a strange, unclassifiable, but deeply wonderful film that didn't find the audience or critical reception it deserved at the time, but which has gone on to be something of a cult favorite.

Cult classic «Doctor Who» won for best brand on Tumblr, and best use of animated GIFs went to «The Purge,» the film starring Ethan Hawke about the one night a year where anything and everything is legal.

In the grand scheme of things, The Last House on the Left does fare a great deal better than this week's other remake / reboot of a»70s cult classic, Race to Witch Mountain — a kids» film that wants to sit at the grown - ups» table but can't bring itself to go that extra mile.

Two of his films, Alien and Blade Runner, have become such cult hits and are loved by many that when he announced he would be making a brand new sci - fi film that would be a tie - in to Alien, people went nuts.

It nonetheless went on to become a cult film.

Even board games can see success as a feature film, if 1985's cult classic Clue is anything to go by.

This film is not going to convert anyone who has been resisting the cult of Tarantino, but it does prove that even 23 years after

How this film went completely under the radar of critics and audiences is a shame, but hopefully its strong potential of having a word - of - mouth cult following once it is released on DVD will be realized.

This film is not going to convert anyone who has been resisting the cult of Tarantino, but it does prove that even 23 years after Reservoir Dogs first graced the silver screen, he is still the vital and impassioned director he has always been.

After the Vilarasau character does some creepy investigating in an abandoned clinic, the film goes downhill quickly, making a wild leap from an intriguing, intimate chiller to over-the-top nonsense about cults and grandiose plans about unleashing some type of Ultimate Evil.

On a walk to Mori Point, visitors can see this famous spot where the car goes over the cliff in the cult film «Harold and Maude.»

Mary Woronov emerged in the early»60s as one of Andy Warhol's superstars, appearing in his film Chelsea Girls and dancing with The Velvet Underground before going on to star in dozens of cult films and b - movies.