Sentences with phrase «in campy»

In this campy office - home - movie, a bunch of suit - wearing, mostly white, mostly male, mostly sweaty guys charge the office in a client - service lather, yelling excitedly, litigation cases a mano, while their carefully manicured secretaries (yes, all women) cheer them on.

The way it's an action game that is a puzzle game and also the way it tells a story in the details, rather than in campy cutscenes.

Mary - Louise Parker pops up as a corrupt chief - of - staff to an American politician which veers off piste in a campy direction for one scene before returning to normal service, as if it had been cut in from a different spy movie altogether.

In this campy horror film, five young adults plan a vacation in the woods at a cabin only to end up with a lot more than they expected.

While there is a lot of gore on display, most of the film is played in a campy manner that evokes a little more laughter than horror, and probably saves the film from being unpalatably dark and disgusting.

Bette Davis» last Oscar nomination came a decade after her second - last, and it was for the ultimate in campy horror.

The only fun to be had was in the campy, flashy performance of Jude Law, as an evil usurper, who combined casual physical elegance with the facial expressions of a man coming apart.

This was enjoyable in a campy way, even if I'd say it was, looking at things realistically, a below average movie.

It's rare to attend a movie these days and see 95 percent of the audience stay through the end credits just to watch six people dressed in campy garb singing ABBA tunes and trying to dance.

Shaun returns Eddie's discrediting paternalism with her own clapbacks, of course, which is where the fun of this movie lies — in the campy and habitual nature of its generic retreading.

There's modest fun to be had in this campy low - budget horror flick that ultimately doesn't have much bite.

In this campy thriller, a pregnant sculptor is tormented with terrible nightmares just before the birth of her son.

The hayrides were fun though, in a campy sort of way.

The penguin is a weird villian to begin with, much more at home in the campier 60's series, so I like the new direction so far.

Not exact matches

In the background, a campy»90s pop tune called «Meeting on Manezh,» the location for the rally, blared on repeat.

When the author is not sniggering over his campy double entendres, he indulges in juvenile rage against religion's alleged oppression of homosexuals.

I happen to love men, and I certainly don't want to live on a planet like the one in «Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women,» a campy»60s sci - fi flick about a planet populated entirely by women (and some ugly lizard - like beasts because all sci - fi flicks have to have beasties).

The promise apparently bought unwavering support from animal rights group likes NYCLASS, the most moneyed and savvy, and allowed Mr. de Blasio to avoid the campy, ghoulish yet incisive television ads that attacked Christine Quinn, the arch rival he felled in last year's mayoral race.

I kind of looked like I had gone raiding the Westworld wardrobe closet and not in a good campy way.

It's festive, it's campy, and this season it comes in a million different cuts and colors.

When naming this polish, the KBShimmer team learned that Holly is a huge straight - to - DVD scary movie fan, so they knew that there had to be a tie - in with a campy horror name!

This combination of classic horror action and satire make The Cabin in the Woods unique and a film that is sure not to disappoint fans of campy gore and violence.

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

The show's overall tone is less campy than the Flash Gordon movie, but it's more mature, and entertaining, than the old «Battlestar Galactica» or «Buck Rogers in the 25th Century» series.

Supporting performers add colour, although Stanley Tucci is in danger of being typecast as campy and effeminate.

But even other «minor» flaws in the editing, lighting and shaky camera - work are not in any way less responsible for this movie turning out to be the most campy thriller with a decent cast I've seen in quite some time.

The dialogue is over-the-top, stereotypical and campy in the way a 90s action flick's should be.

Cheesy, campy, funny and sad all in the same scene sometimes.For a movie I stumbled into this was a frigin awesome mistake and one I am happy I made.

Coolidge hasn't made a campy, condescending comedy, but a satiric romance, in which the background gags and caricatures contribute to a sense of significant conflicts and solid emotions.

In the end the film suffers from campy acting and no character development.

As its seasons have worn on and its universe of beasties and beastly acts has expanded, True Blood has become less interested in revising or adapting the soap - operatic tropes that made it such campy fun to begin with.

When they arrive the Count is horrified to find the camp has been turned into a namby pamby, nanny controlled, lawsuit - sensitive summer camp, which in - turn is now run by a predictable social justice warrior type, complete with hipster beard and campy voice (I think we've all seen many of these student types around).

The basic storyline, that of researcher Dr. David Marrow (Neeson) inviting a trio of unstables (Zeta - Jones» campy, bisexual Theo; Wilson's insomniac swell Luke Sanderson; Taylor's mousy introvert Eleanor) to a much - maligned manse in order to study their reactions to fear and hysteria is set up well enough.

While Z Nation (or as I prefer to think of it, The Running Dead) doesn't exactly play the gory low - budget mayhem for campy laughter, it's hard not to roll, or possibly cover, one's eyes at something this familiar and deeply shallow, with casting mostly so generic — with the exception of Lost's Harold Perrineau as a Delta Force soldier barking orders — that they're all so much chum in this kill - or - be-eaten apocalypse.

Through it all, actress Posey strikes attitudes and preens across the glib surface of the film, and though her campy excesses are tolerable for a brief time, the performance becomes an exercise in overkill.

Created in 1977 by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, Brit cult comic book character Judge Dredd was last seen on the big screen in 1995 for the Disney - produced, campy Sylvester Stallone vehicle simply titled «Judge Dredd.»

The campy opening credits montage depicts murderous women in film, as if Harris were continuing a long - honored tradition of lovers who were wronged taking action against former lovers when they try to get out of the relationship.

«Die Mommie Die» (Sundance Films) This campy homage to»60s Ross Hunter flicks features the writer - actor Charles Busch («Irma Vep») as Angela, a pop diva mixed up in a murder - whodunit with a tennis pro, a gigolo, the maid, an actor and a couple of screwed - up kids.

Let's not forget his turn as rock star Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, which was fun on a campy level.

Cuse, of course, helped deliver Lost, Bates Motel, and FX's campy vampire drama The Strain in recent years, while Graham is known for his work on Fringe and Almost Human.

The film unfolds like a hybrid of Funny Games and Hard Candy, albeit in a much campier, sloppier fashion.

The melodrama between the people in the office rivals the actual murders, which is where the film starts to become too unintentionally funny and when you add the media angle, this is more campy than expected.

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

The Hunger Games drags at times, is not particularly imaginative as much as it's campy, the romance part seems more perfunctory as touchy - feely love than steamy and any complexities in characters or angry revolutionary messages can't be drawn out on film like they were supposedly in the book (I'm not one of its 26 million readers, but I'll take the word of those who stated that was so in the book).

De Palma's victims have often been women, and his carousel of Grand Guignol style and campy tone, sometimes in the same scene, can still make for a queasy ride.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Netflix remakes the campy 1960s space fantasy in more serious vein in Lost in Space, a science fiction adventure about a family of space colonists whose ship goes off course en -LSB-...]

Before H.G. Lewis was bathing in cheap stage blood and flipping stomachs at drive - ins everywhere and the same year that Alfred Hitchcock ran chocolate sauce down the drain while a sort - of nude Janet Leigh screamed, there was director Sidney (BURN WITCH BURN) Hayers» wonderfully pulpy and surprisingly sadistic CIRCUS OF HORRORS, a Grand Guignol shocker with a campy cruel streak that was far ahead of its time.

Cemetery Man is campy at times, there's lots of old school gore, black humor, murder sprees, a supernatural reoccurring love story, odd characters and shifts in tone (the first half is VERY different from the latter half).

The drawback is that Kunis never seems to actually buy into the mythos and world that were supposed to come out of all the green screen and CGI work; Tatum, by comparison, seems to be deep into a drama that feels out of place in a big popcorn film, and his character has little humor or charm underneath the brooding, gruff attitude, campy facial prosthetics and drag - style makeup work.