Sentences with phrase «major cult film»

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Roth began acting during her years as an expatriate, earning her first major film role in Ivan Zuleta's cult film Arrebato (1979).

The film opens with a Nietzsche quote and sees Arnie, in his first major headline gig, infamously punch out a camel and bed a shapeshifting sorceress en route to avenging his parents» death at the hands of James Earl Jones» mystical snake cult leader.

Sure, Showgirls is a cult classic, but some critics find it obscure why NC - 17 films can't even make it to a major wide release unless it's still an R - rated raunchfest.

Sure, Showgirls is a cult classic, but some critics find it obscure why NC - 17 films can't even make it to a major wide release unless it's still

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

While a critical misfire at the time of its release, there is a following among action fans that pushed Point Break up to cult camp status, and no less than three films in recent years have paid major homage to it (Hot Fuzz, Brice de Nice, and Fulltime Killer).

Factory's «Roger Corman's Cult Classics» line of drive - in classics and exploitation items presents a pair of standouts that are both superb examples of their respective genres and early works by major American film artists.

There's some wasted narrative opportunity with Lowell, who's dropped and forgotten for most of the film only to resurface when he's needed again in the third act, but the the major missing element in comparison to those cult classics is that while Tragedy Girls is clever, it doesn't have much to say beyond a slew of quick - witted barbs.