Sentences with phrase «good cult film»

James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

It is my honest opinion that this movie is the best cult film ever made.

With the help of a panel of film experts from around the country, the film center has identified the best cult films of all time — and will play every one of them over the course of 2017.

Not exact matches

The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.

But we'd do well to define what «cult» actually means, both inside the Christian church - i.e., Christians use the term largely to differentiate other religions which deviate from orthodox, historical and Biblical Christianity - and outside, where it's thrown around to describe everything from followers of Kevin Smith films to any organization that's secretive and raises boat loads of money.

Although best known as the director of the cult classic films Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch is also a painter and designer.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

Directed by and starring James Franco, this film is much more of an homage to the cult classic that is The Room, as well as a nod to the passion it takes to make something so terrible.

In 1991, Oedekerk also wrote a script for a motion picture, High Strung, in which he played the lead; the film didn't do well at the box office, but it later gained a cult following, and was reissued after bit player Jim Carey rose to fame.

Other screen work includes the films AFFINITY, for which she won Best Actress at Nymphe d'Or, MR. SELFRIDGE, THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER, Anya in the cult series UTOPIA, SECRET STATE with Gabriel Byrne, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and IN BRUGES.

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

Now an indie darling and cult classic, the film certainly resonates because of its following of a family's turmoil, but more importantly the role of the deadened senses of the young, and how a person in a quagmire really needs to grab at life for the good.

Ahead of his appearance at Filmbase, Gemma Creagh talked to Greg Stesero, co-star of cult film «The Room» and best - selling author of the «The Disaster Artist».

Anyone familiar with Michael Showalter's work - be it his groundbreaking comedy troupes, The State and Stella, or his widely cherished cult films which he co-wrote with David Wain - is well aware that Showalter is a comedic mastermind; a...

His breakthrough year was 2001, however, with standout turns in a pair of indie films: a haunted adolescent in the cult classic Donnie Darko and a gawky teen in love with an older woman in Lovely & Amazing, a performance he more or less repeated the next year opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl.

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

Hirsch is best known as being the creator of Disney's the cult favourite «Gravity Falls,» so with him and Perlman both being in the mix, should they do end up writing it, Detective Pikachu might just wind up being a film worth watching for those who aren't Pokémon fans, as well as the ones that are.

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

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.

With that said, however, this week's offerings are even better, including several Oscar nominees and one of the coolest cult films ever made.

His cinematography and camera orchestrations are as sumptuous as ever, almost worth watching without dialogue, and yet, he doesn't exactly offer anything new here — it occasionally seems like he is trying to remake his cult classic, Chungking Express, for a Western audience, with some of the more interesting bits of his other films tossed in for good measure.

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.

Round those good points off with a cleverly - selected soundtrack (The Cult, the Rolling Stones and Duran Duran are among those providing a classy, imaginative musical backdrop) and you've got the spine, at least, of a very good film.

Now at last, Mitchell — best known as the director and star of 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch — releases his next film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in select theaters this month.

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

With films like Fast & Furious 7, Tarantino's upcoming The Hateful Eight, Bone Tomahawk and Road to Save Nome in the pipeline, as well as a possible Stargate sequel, Russell will continue to be a fixture in cinemas across the nation, and although the latest entry in his expansive body of work is a long way off being his best, his cult status remains very much intact.

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).

It became personal for me, very important, that we made the film the best it could be, because it's destined to become an instant classic, a favorite, a potential cult film.

It dramatizes the making of The Room, a bizarre 2003 cult film that has become a staple of the so - bad - it's - good midnight - movie circuit.

These films have received a cult following for a very good reason.

Adam Sandler's raunchiest film to date is not one of his best, but That's My Boy has enough funny moments to wield some cult film potential following its poor theatrical reception.

by Walter Chaw Joe Cornish's low - budget creature - feature Attack the Block is a charmer, a delight, the kind of rare film — like Jack Sholder's The Hidden, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, or Steve De Jarnatt's Miracle Mile — that devotees will latch onto, and for good reason, with the fervour afforded genuine cult classics.

Like the latter, acclaim, word of mouth, and home video would help give it a cult following, a phrase Lebowski earns as well as almost any modern film.

Loyal fans of cult film director Tobor Takacs (The Gate, I, Madman, Sabrina the Teenage Witch) know well the terrifying supernatural thrillers THE GATE and GATE II, based on characters created by Michael Nankin (Battlestar Galactica, Hell on Wheels).

But he would contribute to a number of other notable films over the years as well, like with the lush Art Deco look of Prince's weird cult item «Under the Cherry Moon» (1986), or helping director Paul Newman keep his adaptation of «The Glass Menagerie» (1987) from feeling hopelessly stage - bound.

Marling — who also co-wrote and co-produced this with director Batmanglij (and has written two other films including the cult hit Another Earth)-- is clearly a roaring talent, and here she inhabits the role of the cold - hearted, all - business operative well, perhaps too well, as this is rather a cold movie, the only person you ever really feel remotely sympathetic to being the shaky - handed, brain - damaged Doc.

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.

This is well worth the purchase for cult fans of this motion picture or ones that haven't seen it who are seeking out restored action exploitation films from this era.

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either before it's time and / or has aged like a fine wine.

From cult classics and arthouse gems to Hollywood must - sees, we bring you the best films international independent cinema has to offer.

It plays on TCM as part of the Cult Movies line - up for July and you'll why it fits the bill: the tension between personal loyalty and the communal good and the contrast between the peaceful beauty and the savage violence of the wilderness defines the film.

The sci - fi / romance hybrid worked wonders for Kaufman on the aforementioned film, a film that has since been decreed a masterpiece as well as a cult classic.

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.

Good Kill is the latest feature film from Andrew Niccol, who sci - fi fans will know as the writer / director of the cult classic Gattaca (1997) and more recently for In Time (2011).

Bad Santa is directed by Terry Zwigoff, who has scored two acclaimed cult comedies in a row, Crumb and Ghost World, and there's probably a cult audience for this film as well, although I suspect it's a much different audience for much different reasons.

Jeff Nichols's new film Midnight Special is at its best when it keeps things simple: It's a chase movie set in darkness, with a broken father - son dynamic that's healing, and a history involving a religious cult that's left largely unexplained.

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.

While Tank Girl has amassed a cult following over the last 20 years (it has the highest audience rating of any film on this list), it did not fare well with critics and performed horribly at the box office.

The best part of Galaxy Quest, playing the guy playing the ethnic guy in a «Star Trek» - like cult television series, Shalhoub also stole the show as fast - talking lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider in his reunion with the Coen Brothers, The Man Who Wasn't There; demonstrated uncommon intelligence and sensitivity in the still - underseen Big Night; and made his feature - film debut behind the camera with wife Brooke Adams in the independent Made - Up, now trickling into video stores.