Sentences with phrase «for schlock»

Not exact matches

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?»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the best lines and memorable scene - stealing belong to his Hollywood confederates, semi-retired producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and John Chambers (John Goodman), who once won an Oscar for best makeup but has been reduced to shepherding sci - fi schlock on the back end of the studio lot.

We've seen it time and again ever since 1999's The Blair Witch Project revolutionized the formula, paving the way for Paranormal Activity and countless other knockoffs striving for very little beyond schlock and awe.

At 7:30, you can head over to Landmark Magnolia and catch a disaster movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar — from schlock producer Irwin Allen, no less!.

One could call The Bye Bye Man inoffensive and even occasionally hilarious in its awfulness, but the truth is that it wasn't fit for theaters; even the most indiscriminate of horror buffs deserve a little competence with their schlock.

I wouldn't expect any less from the director of «Final Destination 5» and the writer of «Step Up All In,» but it's hard not to feel bad for the actors involved, especially Richard Armitage, because he deserves better than this kind of SyFy summer schlock.

A cult favorite for fans of author Clive Barker, but just plain silly (and very gory) schlock for just about everyone else, Hellraiser marked the first feature film as a director, adapting his own novel, «The Hellbound Heart».

What's most frustrating about The Captive is that it includes all the elements for a potentially great Egoyan movie — they're just buried in the mountain of schlock.

What's worrisome about this ludicrous art - schlock crapsterpiece is that it isn't one of Egoyan's director - for - hire jobs, like Chloe or the current Devil's Knot.

Django Unchained elevates schlock to the level of art, most spectacularly in a shootout for the ages that cross-pollinates Scarface and The Wild Bunch, but with an exhilaratingly anachronistic hip - hop flourish.

Dante, a B - movie buff who had gotten his start with schlock king Roger Corman, was the right man to helm genre - bending tales of suburbia for Spielberg.

The plot is a boring mix of Hitchcockian «innocent - man - accused» and derivative action schlock, probably more appropriate for straight - to - video crapola than in a major film release like this.

Often called «The Italian Hitchcock,» I find the term «The Italian De Palma» to be closer to the mark, for their obsessions, for their mastery of highly technical mimicries, and, extra-textually, for both auteurs» decades - long slides into mere imitation and schlock.

It's potentially gratifying to think of Trick» r Treat as a misogynistic throwback to the glory days of slick mainstream exploitation in the 1980s — like Funhouse, for instance — except that unlike, say, Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s masterpiece of schlock Silent Night, Deadly Night, the misogyny in Dougherty's film is based primarily on inexplicably poor object choice.

Perhaps with an eye on the Sundance brass ring, the film actively renounces its low - budget privilege to be either a serious meditation on the whole soliciting minors for sex over the Internet phenomenon or quasi-feminist grindhouse schlock; you can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything.

In the age of Rotten Tomatoes wars, DC fanboy anger, Oscar - baiting schlock, Netflix disruption, and $ 200 million attempts to mine our nostalgia, the time is right for the return of Jon Lovitz's pun - hurling, «It stinks!»

In the end, despite a spooky, if unoriginal, atmosphere, and ample jolts and jump scares, «Insidious: The Last Key» is only for franchise completists and hard - core genre enthusiasts with a high schlock tolerance.

Thankfully, the poster boy for teen schlock is nowhere to be found in Antitrust; unfortunately, the person in his place is no better: fellow I Know What You Did Last Summer star and Tiger Beat staple, Ryan Phillippe.

And during the 12 days on the Croisette, stars will walk the red carpet, auteurs will woo the arthouse crowd and buyers and sellers will use the world's most prestigious film festival to stage a free - for - all film market made up of equal parts status and schlock.

At first, Road Rage might seem like amusing schlock, perfect for late - night cable aficionados to enjoy for some mindlessly bad entertainment.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

From Beyond is too well acted and boldly thought through to be considered schlock horror, and makes a strong case for the fact that good taste doesn't always equal good movies.

To be honest, for standard horror - science fiction fare, it isn't half - bad for a while, but once the cave - dwelling creatures start to emerge, the movie begins a rapid descent into unappealing, mechanical action - horror clichés, taking what might have been a passable vehicle for genre junkies and turning it into the b - movie schlock.

He is the worst kind of enfant terrible, armed with a bestial cunning and taste and intent on demonstrating his disdain with an insistently predictable parade of cheap rip - offs that use schlock and celluloid catcalls as camouflage for his ape mentality.

Sure, Nicholas Sparks is responsible for a lot of Hollywood schlock.

DRACULA III: LEGACY ** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras B starring Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Westcourt, Rutger Hauer screenplay by Joel Soisson & Patrick Lussier directed by Patrick Lussier HELLRAISER: DEADER * / **** Image A - Sound B - Extras B starring Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz, Doug Bradley screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day directed by Rick Bota THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER 1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B starring Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Emmanuelle Chriqui screenplay by Lance Mungia & Jeff Most and Sean Hood directed by Lance Mungia by Walter Chaw This is the game plan if you're in the business of producing direct - to - video schlock for Dimension: go to Romania (the poor man's Czech Republic, itself the poor man's Toronto — itself the poor man's New York), show some tits, throw buckets of blood against the wall, and scrimp, wherever possible, on niceties like script and direction.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

After my first session with Brave Story: New Traveler, I was fairly convinced that I had gotten stuck with another by - the - numbers effort copying the same schlock that's been less than thrilling for the last few years.

Some of that is in director Todd Strauss - Schulson's approach, which, with its camera gymnastics and overly bold palette, is too polished by half for the movie - within - the - movie to come across as the brand of schlock he's trying to recreate (again adding to a feeling of superiority over material that the movie claims to respect — or at least like).

More schlock for the FF «brand».

I'll withhold my snark about how Hideo Kojima's P.T. has singlehandedly changed the entire horror game genre and the thanks he gets for it is trailers for other games pretending they're in a similar vein and then, whoops, it's third - person Resident Evil schlock again.

MacLaverty, always insightful and... describing the latest short - listed shock schlock for the Turner Prize.