Sentences with phrase «many genre flicks»

Let's be clear, Cusack is the beating heart of this film and it's amazing what he does in a genre flick.

One of the best slow burn horror flicks of recent memory — though there's another on this list — The Witch is a stand out genre flick.

This movie, without giving any spoilers away, is exactly what we need in the superhero realm of genre flicks.

Today it's no big surprise when a respected actor slums it up for a paycheck in some disreputable genre flick but back then there must have been some kind of perverse kick to be had from seeing legends like Richard Burton or Gregory Peck fighting the forces of evil.

While Brancato, Ferris and McG can't capture the essence of what made its predecessors riveting entertainment, they have turned in a solid action / sci - fi piece that works better as a genre flick than it does in comparison to the more populist works that were the Cameron entries.

As a straight up genre flick, it's an anti-thriller — the actual hunt for Russell and Frankie is pretty much skipped over entirely, and solved with a couple lines of dialogue.

I'm not quite going to get sucked into the studio yet, I'm not going to try and be too lofty, I'm going to regress a bit emotionally, and make a very hardcore genre flick that's for my former self and the friends that I grew up making movies with who taught me camera techniques, and introduced me to directors like early Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese.

But, face it, in a genre flick from 1983, the lack of generic femme - focused titillation seems somehow pointed.

Not a masterpiece, but a really good genre flick.

This brutal genre flick isn't going to sit easily with some audiences, but Hostiles offers a contemplative, if imperfect, Hollywood acknowledgment of the mass bloodshed of Indigenous persons on the frontier.

Once the trailers started coming out, it was fairly clear this wasn't going to be a good movie in the sense of a The Departed or a Godfather, but an over-the-top fun genre flick, and that fits the post-Oscar-hopeful January moviegoing season perfectly.

But both prove Cuaron's knack for combining genre flicks with heavier themes: here, the real villain is the intolerance of other people.

The Chilean mining disaster of 2010 becomes a tacky but agreeable genre flick led by Antonio Banderas.

Admittedly, I have a soft spot for the horror genre, but based on the film's unforgettably tense and borderline - gothic trailer, it seems like it will be an atypical genre flick: relying less on sudden shocks and more on an atmosphere of dread and uncertainty to affect its viewers.

and, only this week, signing on to her studio debut with Sony «s genre flick «The Kitchen Sink,» about a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie who team up to fight off aliens.

As a straight - up genre flick, it's an anti-thriller — the actual hunt for Russell and Frankie is pretty much skipped over entirely, and solved with a couple lines of dialogue.

The genre flick about a family of cannibals apparently played to some good word, has potential to be a crossover hit, but now word yet when it will roll out.

As someone who has faithfully recreated a cult classic genre flick, we're also pretty sure he would respect the source material.

The movies, «Non-Stop» included, are simple, mostly serviceable genre flicks that are smart enough to dispense with exposition but not witty enough to put three acts together.

It's no fun to rip a genre flick by Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald, who makes movies with real zeal and, as recently as 2008, riffed smartly on horror movie tropes in his quasi-zombie drama Pontypool.

Genre flick?

It's a very violent film but apparently one of the best genre flicks to debut this year.

With good production values and ace technical qualities, the film does stand out among its genre flicks.

Sound of My Voice, the dazzling genre flick from Zal Batmanglij, was woefully underseen after it followed Margaret into Odeon Panton Street — the sole cinema in London that fights to programme things that otherwise wouldn't be screened theatrically.

She's come a long way from 1995's Species, and has probably done the best job of career management of any star of a cheap sci - fi genre flick that's spawned direct - to - video sequels of that ilk.

MUBI continues its partnership with Nicolas Winding Refn's new streaming platform, dedicated to reviving old curious and forgotten genre flicks.

I appreciate when a genre flick can still summon up a few surprises, and this film definitely did, working to be fresh in a venue that can so easily go stale.

Bone - crunching genre flick nirvana, with a legitimately intimidating Vince Vaughn maiming his way through an underground prison network to save his pregnant wife.

You can hear more about his love for genre flicks and superheroes on his weekly podcast Random Movie Roulette.

Instead, it's a fairly tame genre flick that is sorely lacking in atmosphere or frights of any kind save for a few cheap jump scares early on.

Because he stuck mainly to genre flicks.

«Jane Got a Gun» isn't quite the female empowerment Western that its title suggests, but it's still a pretty decent genre flick that's anchored by a top - notch cast.

But dang those are some amazing genre flicks.

What began as a slick and stylish genre flick with a clever twist on vampire / werewolf mythology has quickly devolved into a series of dull and moronic sequels, none more so than «Blood Wars,» which takes the cake for the way it so carelessly defies logic.

You can't talk much about the Emily Taylor character without giving away much of what happens in the third act of Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh's twisty genre flick from early in the year.

As with many genre flicks, the action is the real star, with the plot more substantial and performances stronger than usual.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not only as a terrific genre flick but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

Though the movie's supernatural elements aren't as prominent as the marketing campaign would lead you to believe, «Crimson Peak» is a sumptuously designed genre flick that delivers a different kind of horror from the typical ghosts - and - ghouls haunted house story.

An unusual take on the monotony of any profession (be it prostitution or engineering to - order weapons for assassins), it's more evidence that George Clooney, with this tribute to Melville, his Kaufman - scripted Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and his Tarkovsky redux Solaris, is quietly becoming a visible, above - the - line champion for smart American genre flicks — fomenting his own little underground Nouvelle Vague with movies that audiences, for the most part, are anxious to dismiss.

He also directed a handful of excellent genre flicks with the great Gene Hackman.

«Sabotage» certainly had the potential to be that movie, but this modern - day twist on Agatha Christie's «Ten Little Indians» is just another disappointing genre flick.

It follows the formula for such genre flicks, but has an impudent originality in the telling.

It kind of sounds like a zillion genre flicks that get released straight - to - DVD each year, so we hope there is a little more to that story.

Later this year, he'll be starring in his first bonafide genre flick, Andrew Niccol's thriller «In Time» and it looks like Timberlake is still looking to dirty up his good looks.

Though the film straddles a fine line due to its off - kilter tone, Reynolds and the supporting cast (which also includes Anna Kendrick as another co-worker turned victim) do just enough to make «The Voices» an enjoyably weird genre flick with an unexpected dash of humanity.

WHY: After taking the festival circuit by storm with their home invasion thriller, «You're Next,» the writer - director duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett seemed poised to deliver another cult classic with this low - budget genre flick.

Not throwing out another generic genre flick with a cult film name on it.

If nothing else, their involvement provides hope that the movie will be entertaining as a pulpy genre flick, but unless there's more to the story than the trailer hints at, chances are that «No Good Deed» will be as forgettable as the hundreds of other likeminded thrillers just like it.

Even his performance in genre flicks like «Planet of the Apes» and «Big Fat Liar» are to be applauded, though it has been these last three years that have been the most important.

In February 2012, winter's annual glut of multiplex garbage was given a minor boost by Chronicle, a found - footage genre flick that saw DeHaan play a teen abusing newfound superpowers.