Sentences with phrase «genre filmmaking»

Spring is one of the most original films to come along in years, an absolute must - see piece of genre filmmaking that doesn't play by the rules.

This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking — the kind of movie where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources.

Yet the style, unique framing device and top - shelf execution are what ultimately help sell this mash - up of classic genre filmmaking with new - school tropes.

If he can, this could be the kind of smart, adult genre filmmaking we don't see enough.

What's great about genre filmmaking is that they have the audience react physically.

He clearly loves genre filmmaking but the toned down realism he brought to sci - fi is absent in this fantasy experiment.

True inspiration in genre filmmaking can be hard to come by.

This is genre filmmaking at its best.

There's nothing wrong with doing a straight - up piece of genre filmmaking as long as one can pull off familiar genre elements well enough to make them exciting again (You're Next and The Conjuring successfully did this last year).

Call it a haunted house / high school romp / demon killer / surreal fairy tale: a stylized candy - colored bomb of a ghost story more jaw - droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop - art genre filmmaking with a cartoonish flair to its art direction, special effects and graphic expressionism.

Hayato Ichihara stars in Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking in what's being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire movie.

Two early Dario Argento gialli (that's plural for giallo) debut on Blu - ray, neither of them among his masterpieces but both showing a young director exploring the possibilities of play within genre filmmaking and perfecting his technical skills and expressive talents.

Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales, and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.

looks to perhaps strip away the space opera pomp and circumstance of the main films and revel a bit more in distinct genre filmmaking, in this case a good old fashioned heist picture.

He reinvented genre filmmaking, giving it the depth of the most ambitious fiction.

Writer - director Ari Aster's first feature culls from a tradition of slick, elegant genre filmmaking, making up what it lacks in originality with an impressive volume of atmospheric dread.

Nearly unwatchable and yet too compelling to turn away from, Audition is a remarkable piece of genre filmmaking from horror master Takashi Miike.

David Twohy's latest installment in the sci - fi franchise is meat - and - potatoes genre filmmaking that sticks in the throat.»

Again, it doesn't make a lick of logical sense in terms of the setting in which Killing of a Sacred Deer takes place, but Lanthimos» picture is a precise piece of frightening genre filmmaking that is totally fine playing by its singular auteur's narrative playbook.

The Love Witch is a seductive 60s time - capsule that calls back to the technicolor charms of early genre filmmaking.

Mike Flanagan: I have a real affinity for DIY filmmaking, especially DIY genre filmmaking.

But one of the most refreshing aspects of The Last Stand, despite its foreign inflection, is its acceptance of both western and action - film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre; it aspires instead to simply be a great example of classical genre filmmaking, a modest but nevertheless admirable goal.

Held in Austin, the film festival is eight days of the best genre filmmaking has to offer.

Directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski (Father's Day), The Void marks a new, more serious direction for Canadian genre filmmaking collective Astron - 6.

Essentially a paper - thin, unremarkable, but not unentertaining piece of semi-high-toned genre filmmaking, Erased has nothing to say about the way the world works that's at all worth taking seriously.

«Midnight Special» Jeff Nichols» films have proven to be plum actor showcases, including Michael Shannon in «Take Shelter» and the McConaissance — kick - starting «Mud,» but this is Nichols» first foray into genre filmmaking.

As mid-level budget filmmaking wanes and decent visual effects become quite affordable, we're seeing more and more genre filmmaking exploring big ideas and themes in a way that often makes a very small scale film feel large.

is a slightly myopic overview of the trends in genre filmmaking circa the 1980s, with embarrassing quips from Elvira further diminishing the word of legitimate authorities like John Kenneth Muir, Joe Dante, and FANGORIA editor Tony Timpone.

The rare horror film that is actually about something, both personal and political, the film combines Jewish Dybbuk mythology and subtle genre filmmaking that we simply do not get enough of these days.

Intense, emotional, and twisted, Green Room is fine genre filmmaking, with the cast delivering first - rate performances, especially Stewart's brilliantly devious turn as Darcy.

Insidious is both costlier and blander than any of these examples, yet it fitfully evokes the pleasures of low - budget genre filmmaking, especially when it's introducing its knowingly worn premise.

13 Assassins is near - flawless genre filmmaking of the highest order.

The 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival kicks off this Thursday and Team Twitch will be descending on South Korean suburbia once again to revel in Asia's largest celebration of global genre filmmaking.

One of the most exciting voices working in genre filmmaking today is director Ben Wheatley.

It's Argento's revelry in one part in the unrelieved nihilism and delicious confusion that would characterize the best of the»70s» paranoia cinema — and in the other part, in the joy of great genre filmmaking.

Intense, emotional, and ingeniously twisted, GREEN ROOM is genre filmmaking at its best and most original.

Whether it's a disturbing slasher movie like Macabre or an intense thriller such as Killers, the directing team comprised of Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto have become a force for genre filmmaking.

Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian (The Raid, The Raid 2) and Hayato Ichihara star in Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking in what's being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire movie.

This month, two early Argento gialli (that's plural for giallo) debut on Blu - ray, neither of them among his masterpieces but both showing a young director exploring the possibilities of play within genre filmmaking and perfecting his technical skills and expressive talents.

It is one of the terrible beauties of Hollywood genre filmmaking that it remains committed to the cause of ideological equivocation, even while seeming to attempt to confront the Realities of Globalization, Extremism, and Socio - Political Anxiety in the Post-9 / 11 World: it is consistency amidst chaos, perpetuating chaos.

Expanding on that film's opening crawl («Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon»), Rogue One looks to perhaps strip away the space opera pomp and circumstance of the main films and revel a bit more in distinct genre filmmaking, in this case a good old fashioned heist picture.

The director, who last tried his hand at genre filmmaking with the low - key quasi-whodunit Cold Weather, goes all out with the stylized, Los Angeles - set thriller Gemini, his biggest project to date — something about a young movie star (Zoë Kravitz), her protective personal assistant (Lola Kirke), and a homicide detective (John Cho).

That's why I couldn't be more excited about Bad Hombre and the prospect of supporting fresh and exciting voices in genre filmmaking.

This is a classic example of genre filmmaking with a political punch, albeit in broad, sloganeering terms.