Sentences with phrase «movie fodder»

Release date: August 24 Cast: Jaz Sinclair, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Annalise Basso Directed by: Sylvain White (The Losers) Why we're excited: The internet - born story of Slender Man is ripe for horror movie fodder, if not controversial (the myth recently inspired two young girls to attempt murder).

It's an unexpected ingredient that separates the movie from the bulk of action movie fodder.

In terms of movie fodder, and the gangster - movie genre, Black Mass reminds us that truth is not only stranger than fiction: it can be much more outlandish.

There are a couple of setup / payoff moments that I didn't see coming, and the characters are clever, rather than simple horror movie fodder.

«Passion Play» would be midnight - movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded - male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art - movie moodiness that was abandoned in the»80s.

Not exact matches

That's an entirely new way of capturing prey, the scientists report this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. And perhaps fodder for an upcoming superhero movie.

Although theoretical at present, these questions may become fodder for fan magazines if interest already expressed in Intuition's movie rights turns into a green light for production.

By the time the platform formally launched on Thursday in Houston, the test kits had sold out, meaning there are thousands of people somewhere in Texas so fed up with Tinder they decided to take part in this fodder for a B - rate dystopian movie.

Male virgins have always been fodder for the media and movies, but women are more discreet in this area.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.

I almost want to encourage you to go see this because, if Lucy fails, the studio fatheads will use it as more fodder for their arguments that female action stars can't carry a movie.

While the 2008 election provided plenty of media fodder and resulted in Jay Roach's solid HBO movie Game Change, the 2016 election was truly unlike anything we've seen before.

Dysfunctional families are classic fodder for movie entertainment, especially when the relationships between family members seesaws between loving and withering.

Big Question: Is this prime acquisition fodder or a movie that would have been a hit at the festival... 10 years ago?

Look deep into the movie listings this January, past the big name awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).

In fact there's a whole series of six books, so if this vampire movie has the same bite and humour as MEAN GIRLS there'll be lots more potential fodder.

When a movie isn't blockbuster fodder, getting it made is all about timing.

It is still slightly mind - blowing that Lady Bird is nominated at all at this year's Academy Awards, because there is nothing about this movie that screams «Oscar fodder!»

Unlike, let's say the space marines in 1986's Aliens (still the ultimate marines vs. aliens movie out there) all the characters here are largely indistinguishable from one another and largely serve as mere cannon fodder (or is that laser fodder?).

This movie, which plays like 1970s drive - in fodder, is also almost wholly derivative, borrowing from any number of underdog sports pictures and campus raunchfests.

Still, «Pixels» stumbles heavily with a weak story and a forced in romance — evidently, Sandler can't go through an entire movie without kissing a pretty girl, this time played by Michelle Monaghan, in a surprisingly more intelligent role than most female fodder in Sandler's movies as a military weapons specialist.

Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have 50 years of movies — 23 movies — and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder.

Sadly, after that brief Bacchanalian frenzy, Wishmaster 3 settles down to a stultifying series of unimaginative shots of Prof. Barash stalking around alternated with Diana and her Djinn - fodder pals going through the supernatural horror movie motions of researching the occult at the library and exchanging worried glances.

According to the Peoria Journal Star, there's a reason why these two small cities, hardly fodder for monster movies, received the distinction of being first and last on the list.

One at least has to appreciate that the movie uses its setting as a fact and not as fodder for lazy jokes about outdated technology and contemporary fads (More technical - minded folks, though, will wonder why television broadcasts of the era are shot in scope).

Is it obscene to turn the lives of gun - violence victims into fodder for an enigmatic art movie?

While we've yet to see the box office returns for Logan Lucky, which is budgeted around $ 29 million, and the film is hardly conventional sequel - fodder, there are certainly elements of the ending that leave the movie open for another crime in the Logan family's future.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

The Christmas season only truly begins with the coming of the first Christmas movie however Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is not the usual naff, over-sentimental festive fodder but a macabre mix of a dark fairytale and an action adventure.

It is an intelligently realized, efficiently presented, and breathtakingly rendered action film that will hopefully revitalize the sputtering genre back to more serious presentations, instead of the cartoonish, cheeky, dumbed - down fodder that has been passing as mainstream popcorn - movie fare for the last several years.

While Money Monster could easily be cast aside as the latest pop culture fodder to depict the financial woes of modern society, it manages to stand out as a no - frills thriller and a solid movie.

Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain in particular ground it in character, but there's also plenty of fodder for those who want their movies to be visually audacious and designed so you're taken on a journey with the main cast.

As a brainless action movie rental Terminator Salvation is perfect fodder for those evenings you only want to escape the drudgery of the lingering economic recession which they said would be over by Christmas but isn't.

That enduring career as well as his self - indulgent private life prove to be fertile fodder for Hockney, a reverential biopic featuring a mix of home movie footage and intimate interviews with David's friends and associates.

It's disappointing to see Brad Anderson's once - promising career relegated to low - rent fodder like this, because while the director and his two stars try their best to elevate the material, their effort only goes so far before the movie crumbles into a clichéd mess.

If you're a fan, watch it, but otherwise, it's just more action fodder from the king of blandly brutal b - movie revenge films.

Based on released footage of Cable obliterating nameless fodder and seemingly getting the better of Deadpool, it's clear that Domino is quite formidable and the movie has some fun putting her power to use.

Face it, nobody makes movies about the upper - class anymore — gone with Visconti, except for the occasional period - pieces used as Oscar fodder.

This is perfect movie night fodder for you and a group of like - minded friends.

What it cuts down to is a double shot of implausibility mixed with too many subplots that bog down the momentum into «television movie of the week» fodder.

While this movie doesn't hit men below the belt (except in one well - aimed kick to the crotch), it should feel like a low blow to young women who see themselves as more than fodder for sexual objectification.

That's a huge part of their storytelling arsenal — the inevitable escalation of violence and its uncontainable nature are the fodder for some of their best movies, like No Country For Old Men and Blood Simple.

Bottom Line: Remember when films like this one were fodder for a network «movie of the week» that would run on a Friday or Saturday night, for free, and never be heard from again?

Blue Wizard Digital's debut title Slayaway Camp masterfully combines challenging puzzles with a loving tribute to 80s slasher movies, and the result is a darkly humorous joyride as you plan out how to hack and slash through the numerous, young adult fodder.

A gag might be attempted at some point after the fact but is lost in the carnage (The remaining finger is a prime example), although the movie's other best scene results in the grotesque death of a character who immediately beforehand announces his role as fodder by way of a dry line reading.

The amazingly eclectic mixture of movies on the UK Video Store has been updated again, with such joys as Fred Claus, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and incredibly dull Hallmark Channel fodder like The Fugitive and Analyse This also appearing for download.

(For those of you confused by the above, the novel version of Starship Troopers is very different from the movie version, and the titular Troopers in the novel wear powered armor, often equipped with limited - power nuclear weapons and jets capable of «bouncing» over miles of territory, rather than being the cannon fodder of Starship Troopers» movie.

Blue Wizard Digital's debut title Slayaway Camp masterfully combines challenging puzzles with a loving tribute to 80s slasher movies, and the result is a darkly humorous joyride as you plan out how to hack and slash through the numerous, young adult fodder.

A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.