Sentences with phrase «latest schlock»
The big question seems to be, «When is it okay for old Christians to quit keeping up with all the latest schlock?»
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Thanks in large part to the independent film movement of the late»80s, the boyishly handsome James LeGros went from being an underrated bit player in Hollywood schlock to a well - respected character actor.
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.
Overall, this latest addition to the King Arthur filmography is at best mildly enjoyable schlock with some cool moments scattered about here and there, and at worst an inconsistent take on a classic character with an unpromisingly shaky foundation on which to build a film franchise.
No good sex goes unpunished in «The Boy Next Door,» breathless, uninspired January junk that feels like the iffiest bits of a Lifetime movie and late - night cable schlock slapped together.
A schlock epic in every sense, this Dawn has captured a vision of Melbourne that's hardly there ten years later.
At first, Road Rage might seem like amusing schlock, perfect for late - night cable aficionados to enjoy for some mindlessly bad entertainment.
Watchers isn't the worst example of low - budget schlock horror that was popular among teen films in the late 1980s, but that doesn't mean it remotely approaches the status of being good either.
There's no reason to doubt the director's intentions here, however inelegantly he sometimes announces them — his use of Nina Simone's «Strange Fruit» is certainly a bold stroke — but the film's late descent into such deep, abrasive unpleasantness feels entirely unearned after the b - movie schlock that had dominated the earlygoing.
MacLaverty, always insightful and... describing the latest short - listed shock schlock for the Turner Prize.