Sentences with phrase «movie sleeper hits»

Is this movie the sleeper hit of the summer or is it basically just a THC induced Bourne Identity rip - off?

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Writing last year on Pop Matters, Dylan Fremont called the indie horror sleeper hit It Follows «a mixtape in movie form.»

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

Mars also boasts the participation of Frank Marshall, who with Steven Spielberg has produced the Back to the Future and Indiana Jones movies (among many other hits) and on his own helmed Disney's 2006 snow dog sleeper Eight Below.

This fun zombie movie was a sleeper hit back in 2009.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

I love horror movies that play fundamentally with the idea of sound — just recently Hush and Don't Breathe — and if Krasinski can pull off the concept, this could be a big sleeper hit.

Last summer Now You See Me, the movie about bank - robbing magicians, trucked to over $ 117 million at the domestic box office, qualifying it as a sleeper hit.

Nobody remembers this now, but back then, the trades were counting on the reunion of Silverado collaborators Lawrence Kasdan and Kevin Costner to deliver the sleeper hit of the summer; although back then everybody involved in the production tried to pawn off the film's failure on the growing cult of Tombstone, the fact is that Wyatt Earp is, if not the most boring movie ever made, perhaps the second-most.

Is this sequel to last year's sleeper hit smarter and bloodier than the first or should you just purge your memory from even knowing this movie exists?

Horrible Bosses isn't likely to be a sleeper - hit like The Hangover or Bridesmaids - where sharp scripts, relatable stories, and hilarious performances created must - see movie fervor.

Originally published in German in 2008, the novel became a sleeper hit in Europe, and was made into a movie in 2013.

This included the recently released «Wonder Woman» movie, Damien Chazelle's «La La Land» and the 2014 sleeper hit action film, «John Wick.»