Sentences with phrase «minor classic»

Dark and disturbing, this Assault on Precinct 13 honours John Carpenter's minor classic in recognizing that the pleasures of B - movies lay in their willingness to do anything for a cheap thrill.

Factory continues its series of minor classics from the 70s through 90s with the release of Collector's Editions of RoboCop 2.

Irrational Man is so clumsily staged and lethargically paced that it makes such clunkers as «Small Time Crooks» and «Cassandra's Dream» look like minor classics.

It's this latter trio of titles, minor classics debuting with little fanfare in bare - bones editions, that I hope to draw a little attention to.

With THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese has taken a good film, the Hong Kong minor classic INFERNAL AFFAIRS, and remade it into a movie that is as bloated as it is bland.

Not making the cut, inexplicably, were such minor classics as Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude, Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital, Woody Allen's Bananas, Mike Nichols» Carnal Knowledge, and Milos Forman's Taking Off.

This theme — of the tension or rivalry between our natural loves and love for God — is given its most systematic treatment by Lewis in The Four Loves, a book that deserves, I believe, to be considered a minor classic in Christian ethics.

It is still in print and has become a minor classic.

It rather quickly became a minor classic in Tocqueville studies.

26 years ago the same two teams met in the final and produced a minor classic: 2 - 2 after 90 minutes, 3 - 3 after extra time.

It is merely a minor classic, the pleasantest walk imaginable over the old hazardous terrain.

Manchester United 3 Arsenal 2 This was a minor classic that featured two more Marcus Rashford goals, a sold - out Old Trafford witnessing Louis van Gaa -LRB-...)

With engaging performances from Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, the movie, which follows a workaholic (Hanks» Allen Bauer) as he falls for an honest - to - goodness mermaid (Hannah's Madison), is an agreeable romantic comedy that's deservedly become a minor classic of the genre.

A minor classic from late director Garry Marshall, 1987's screwball romantic comedy...

It is a minor classic of Australian cinema.

This gritty film noir set in a sun - drenched small town stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Connelly, and is definitely a minor classic, particularly if you're a fan of»90s thrillers.

It's a minor classic of a certain attitude, twenty years or so past when it was fashionable, but honourable — if only for the awesome rockabilly soundtrack — just the same.

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

«I'll Make A Man Out Of You», sung by Donny Osmond, has become something of a minor classic in the Disney repertoire, and it is appealing for its punchy tempo and well - matched animation.

But he never flinches from the contradictions inherent in the enigmatic antihero, whose very professionalism puts his loved ones at risk, in this minor classic of cool French crime cinema.

Japan's Takashi Miike, who has often infuriated fans with his productivity: Since making Audition (1999), a minor classic of women's revenge, he's put his name to a credited 51 films, mostly junk.

That Flesh and Bone — a doom - filled piece that glowers with malevolence from its horrifying opening sequence to its unsettling conclusion — never received a great deal of attention upon its initial release isn't as much of a surprise as the fact that not even the passage of time has cemented it as a minor classic.

The movie under scrutiny, alas, seems unlikely to ascend to the level of even a minor classic.

It's a remake of a minor classic 1972 film of the same name, starring Charles Bronson and Jan - Michael Vincent, and while this is a glossy, modern - day take, it's for the interesting character touches that The Mechanic doesn't become too «mechanical» to disappear into the action movie abyss many other Statham starring vehicles fall into.

Though less well known than The Twilight Zone or the The Outer Limits but it completes the triumvirate of sixties American television of the fantastic and is a minor classic of its era, as this long - awaited set finally reveals.

A love story set in the Caucasus on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Ali and Nino had been originally published in German in 1937 and was revived in translation in the seventies as a minor classic.

Connecting such fabled breaks as Swami's and Pipes, the highway inspired the song «Surf Route 101,» a minor classic from 1964.

It's nice to see Passage (1957)-- a minor classic from what is often tagged Philip Guston's «Abstract Impressionist» period — join three Gustons from the late»70s, when the artist had abandoned his lyrical form of abstraction in favor of a cartoonlike figuration laden with autobiographical clues, fragments from nightmares, and literary and art - historical symbols.

It's a shame, when a little extra consumer demand for higher quality might see more tablets like the minor classic LG G Pad 8.3 arrive at a low price.