Sentences with word «hicksploitation»

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

hicksploitation trilogy — but hadn't yet seen the third, and most meta, of those films.

Kelly's strong, steely performance recalls recent femme - led rural dramas Frozen River and Winter's Bone, but where those films» cold, hardscrabble poverty skirted hicksploitation, Runoff «s finely - observed, understated performances invoke a kind of heartland neo-realism.

Here, though, Cage pretty well blends in with the largely non-professional cast assembled around him by director David Gordon Green, who harks back to the lyrical Southern gothic feel of his earliest films («George Washington,» «All the Real Girls») and keeps «Joe» from descending into hicksploitation.

Chronicling the years - long battle between a North Carolina bargain - hunter who found a human foot inside a smoker bought at auction, and the owner of said foot, the film borders on hicksploitation, but it's funny as hell, and deals meaningfully with themes of celebrity and grief.

The Rock got to do some fun movie - star stuff in the otherwise barely there remake of the hicksploitation classic Walking Tall.

From the description above, Logan Lucky sounds like a bleak Sundance indie about hard times, a hicksploitation flick for the Hillbilly Elegy era.

That ensures things don't descend into the «hicksploitation» realm — well, at least for the most part.