Sentences with phrase «movie subgenre»

«Rush» turns the feel - good sports movie subgenre on its head.

I get a kick out of the meteor / asteroid disaster movie subgenre, so here are a few fave guilty pleasure picks of the deadly fireball variety.

Not exact matches

Although the public's appetite for this tacky subgenre seemed to know no limits, I quickly tuned out the endless string of copycat movies and TV shows about Horrible Inhuman Serial Killers, the kind that exist to derive sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering.

We're beyond the era of Airplane and The Naked Gun, but even some of the early Scary Movie films had some merit, and then Walk Hard, Black Dynamite, and Wet Hot American Summer are shining examples of the best the comedy subgenre has to offer.

In either a brilliant subversion of creature - feature films, or a top - notch blending of subgenres, a good chunk of the movie is essentially Friday the 13th if Jason Voorhees was Sasquatch.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

The Discovery, Charlie McDowell's Sundance - approved Twilight Zone weepie, fits neatly into a subgenre one might call The Brit Marling Movie.

Having held its premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, the movie is hardly a revelation within the rom com subgenre.

ROUGH NIGHT Director: Lucia Aniello Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Kate McKinnon, Paul W. Downs, Demi Moore, Ty Burrell, Ryan Cooper I feel like movies about bachelor / bachelorette parties should just be a subgenre of their own.

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

The references have ranged from thematic to blatant — as in, literal writing on the wall — and they span several horror subgenres, from old slasher movies and Japanese horror to mid-aughts-style torture porn.

The most fun that could be had at the movies this year, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's clever, funny, scary feature lovingly deconstructs the creaky subgenre of the slasher flick and puts it back together into something that winks at the familiar tropes while never skimping on being rollickingly entertaining in its own right.

The Hitman's Bodyguard won't be enjoyable for people well - versed in 80s buddy movies like Midnight Run, 48 Hrs., or Lethal Weapon, and the recent gems of the subgenre like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or The Nice Guys.

Skarsgård is the Netherlands» answer to Brendan Gleeson — there's an entire subgenre now of movies that could only star one of them.

Richard Linklater is America's most distinguished auteur in the subgenre of movies in which a tight knit group of men just kind of hang out for two hours.

Fans of the exorcism subgenre of horror will no doubt get what they came for in the film's conclusion, one of the most overblown, silliest exorcism scenes in movies, but the derivative cheap thrills leading up to it barely warrant the wait.

It may also give them some new movies to seek out or a subgenre that they have never heard of before.

Lonesome is all about the city as labyrinth, a part of the city symphony subgenre of films in the late 20s and early 30s (Man with a Movie Camera, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, À Propos de Nice, People on Sunday, even Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) a time of rapid urbanization throughout the Western world.

In a specific subgenre in which every movie always gets compared to the Bill Murray original classic, Happy Death Day doesn't reinvent the loop.

Southpaw borrows plenty from other, better films, especially Rocky and Raging Bull, so it's not likely to be considered in the upper echelon of a subgenre that has produced movies worthy of Best Picture nods, as with Million Dollar Baby and The Fighter in more recent years.

While most love a good Christmas movie å la It's a Wonderful Life, or White Christmas, I reveal in the non-traditional subgenre of any random film that happens to be set in the holiday season, even if it's just for a short scene.

Despite the film's ugliness it has gone on to influence countless other movies, in particular those in the subgenre that can now be defined as «outback survival», such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975), Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) and, more recently, Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005).

But it's an objectionable turn of phrase, implying a certain intrinsically lowly or shameful status to genre film - making in itself: there are good horror movies and bad ones, smart horror movies and stupid ones, and the critical distinction seems clear enough without needing to delineate and elevate a separate subgenre on the basis of class and quality alone.

and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45; the latter is practically a spirit animal to this French take on the subgenre known as the «rape revenge» movie.

A lot of movie stars seem to enjoy the give - me - back - my - kid subgenre — the opportunity to go to histrionic and extreme lengths in the name of saving onscreen kin.

Movies detailing the lives of corrupt, disinterested and / or tempted New York police officers could and probably should constitute their own subgenre Netflix listing, and that's where Brooklyn's Finest, a very masculine, surface - level slice of familiar cop drama, slots.

This alarmingly prevailing idea that this movie somehow proves that women can too be funny is a pretty insulting thing, but the fact remains that a disproportionate amount of movies with female leads tend to be cloying tripe that hide behind the firewall of the «Chick Flick,» a bullshit subgenre classification invented to give an excuse for women to like crappy rom - coms and men to avoid great ones.

Romantic talkathons form a rich subgenre, with Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, Andrew Haigh's Weekend, Chris Rock's Top Five, movies by Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer and episodes of series like Netflix's Love and Master of None some fine examples that spring to mind.

They dig further back into cinema's history than you might think and go through the tropes of this subgenre to try to explain why people like this kind of movie so much.

If last summer's «The Conjuring» offered possession stories their classiest entry in decades, Mike Flanagan «s «Oculus» lends elegance to haunted object movies, a subgenre distinguished by such dubious classics as «Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.»

He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies.

You're deciding what movie to see on a Saturday night and wonder: What if someone took the suburban spookiness of many a Steven Spielberg or J.J. Abrams movie and combined it with the captive - prisoner subgenre of the modern horror film.

Ostensibly a horror film of the «girls trapped in a basement by a madman» subgenre, like last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, it somehow ends up being a rape - revenge superhero movie, like a DC Comics version of Elle.

One of the trends was the evolution of the martial arts subgenre of movies.

There's a difference in making a movie when there is a new wave of independent filmmakers testing a new subgenre and a purely commercial Hollywood production capitalizing on what are essentially now tried and true conventions.

Think about cop / heist movies (combining the two subgenres here) and there always seem to be a few on top of the list with regards to the best.

Some of the film isn't the most authentic, such as the time it takes for both his world to fall apart and the climb back, but this is a very solid movie for the subgenre and very much worth the journey.

If you see as many movies as I do, you start to tire of certain subgenres, and the story of the PTSD - addled soldier has been told so many times that I'm skeptical of what more can be cinematically added to it.

Horror movies have experienced an insane renaissance over the course of the last few years, but the slasher subgenre has fallen oddly silent.

Due, in part, to the outsized proliferation (and templatization) of a particularly disaster - friendly subgenre of science fiction — the superhero movie — mainstream cinema is saturated with images of VFX - bloated destruction wreaked by all manner of creatures: demigods, aliens, pirates, mummies, mutants, advanced apes, sentient cars, and humans.

I'm hoping there's a new spin on the subgenre afoot that will breathe some fresh life into the fall movie season.

Ever since the Medved brothers compiled their Golden Turkey books in the 1980s, an entire subgenre has evolved on the subject of bad and bizarre movies that actually got made.

If you look at the film industry, you have a wide variety of genres and subgenres to choose from: you have slashers, gore movies, body horror and psychological horror movies.

As a subgenre of crime fiction, detective murder mystery stories have been serving as plotlines for many novels, movies, and television shows.