Sentences with phrase «of genre flicks»
This movie, without giving any spoilers away, is exactly what we need in the superhero realm of genre flicks.
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Her new flick What If is a rom - com (of sorts) that also serves as a send - up to the genre itself.
Let's be clear, Cusack is the beating heart of this film and it's amazing what he does in a genre flick.
The genre has seen a slew of solid flicks in the last few years — It Follows, The Babadook, and Coherence are some of my favorites out of the independent sector - and 2016 is no exception.
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.
I like all genres of movies, even some chick flicks.
For all its slow spots and predictability, The Missing isn't actually a terrible little flick, particularly if you're a diehard fan of the Western genre.
After dipping into the family - friendly genre with How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events his latest, Mr Popper's Penguins, is further evidence that Carrey should keep well clear of flicks for the little ones.
The tweaking of genres — the prison - escape flick in Chicken Run; monster horror in Were - Rabbit — in ways that made fun of cinematic tropes while also rapturous embracing them has elevated Park's work way above the standard notion of «it's a cartoon, it's just for kids.»
«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.
The old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were not science fiction, the «alien invaders» flicks of the 50s were likewise fantasy, and it continues today with such non science fiction films as Independence Day, Red Planet and Event Horizon trying to claim a genre title of which they are not worthy.
It has certain elements from various flicks of the «zombie» genre.
(There's a lot of meat to be mined in a clever dissection of the zombie genre, in other words, whereas most action flicks of this type are already self - parodying exercises in excessive hetero - affirmation amidst much piece - fondling and weeping.)
However, for all lovers of Bruce Lee, kung fu flicks, and revivalists of Seventies cool, it's a quintessential film, indispensable in its genre and firmly implanted forever in film history as the one that set the mold, even if future endeavors would top it in terms of breathtaking action, daring stunts, and more substantial stories.
While it is true that the unassailable main character who leaves a wake of bodies in their path isn't often a waiflike teen girl, and not all action flicks feature European scenery (a novelty for North American audiences), the gratuitous content is just like most other offerings in this genre.
One of the buzz titles on this year's festival circuit (at least in our genre circles) was Julia Ducournau's coming of age cannibal horror flick...
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.
A mixed genre of stoner film and action flick, American Ultra doesn't succeed at either.
At 93 minutes, the story doesn't stay longer than warranted, but still, the rest of the film clicks well enough that a bit more fleshing out would have turned a good action flick into a must - see for genre fans and even some non-fans alike.
There are just one too many genres crammed into this flick to the point where a handful of moments are tragically undercooked.
But, face it, in a genre flick from 1983, the lack of generic femme - focused titillation seems somehow pointed.
While English comedies of this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphof this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphof cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphOf The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphs.
Conceived by the briefly prolific, ultra-low-budget director Herschell Gordon Lewis (who will be forever known as the Godfather of Gore)-- along with producer David F. Friedman — as an alternative to the commercially competitive genre of cheap - and - easy nudie flicks, the splatter movie was at -LSB-...]
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.
Blade, to the fresh eye, free of the fandom surrounding the character, comes across as the kind of film that is probably closer to a B Movie in the action genre than a superhero flick, as it is branded to be.
These little toys were more of a»90s favorite, but they began production in the late»80s; the Micro Machines catalogue includes play - sets for tons of flicks that fall under the «genre fiction» category, from Aliens to Indiana Jones to Men In Black.
Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.
That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.
In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.
Dunaway and Wood's primary focus seems to be a brief commentary on all the manner of genres that Linklater has tackled: Sports flick, Bad News Bears; Period piece, Me and Orson Welles; Western, The Newton Boys and Sci - Fi, A Scanner Darkly all get a look in while highlighting his lack of pretension and his ability to dig deeper into more meaningful and intelligent projects.
«Starred Up» This tiny, fierce little British prison - set gem was overlooked by most at Telluride and TIFF this year, and it's easy to understand why: a cast of mostly unknowns, a director (David Mackenzie, of «Young Adam» and «Hallam Foe «-RRB- who'd never quite lived up to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.»
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.
Showing once and for all that Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper) can act if he shaves off his moustache, The Longest Yard is a mixture of two genres, the sophomoric sports film and the sadistic prison flick, both of which were enjoying a heyday in the exploitative decade of the 1970s.
Both Takashi Miike's muscular chase flick Shield of Straw and Johnnie To's wildly compounded romantic policier Blind Detective make an asset out of their respective pillaging of genre signifiers.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Robert Rodriguez Homage to Zombie Genre Released on DVD This Robert Rodriguez tour de force was originally released in theaters paired with Quentin Tarantino Death Proof as the better half of Grindhouse, a double feature of deliberately low - grade throwbacks designed as an homage to the B - flicks from the Fifties.
So it seems only fitting that director Gary Fleder and Sylvester Stallone set out to craft a clever and engaging action flick with a Western theme starring today's hottest star of the genre, Jason Statham, in «Homefront.»
Interestingly, Olivia Hussey's casting is a bit of an homage as well, as she appeared in what many consider to be the first of the slasher flick genre that Psycho inspired, Black Christmas.
Transcending genre, infamous ensemble efforts include the original incarnation of rat pack comedy Ocean's Eleven (and subsequent remake, and sequels), John Hughes» seminal teen flick The Breakfast Club, and Steven Spielberg's war offering Saving Private Ryan.
That or you've just done a mountain of cocain; either way, this is the problem that Ryan Reynolds» Jerry Hickfang find himself in with Marjane Satrapi's genre - bending flick The Voices after he accidentally kills his girlfriend.
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.
As a childhood fan of watching Godzilla and Gamera flicks on Saturday afternoons, I went into Pacific Rim excited yet nervous that one of my favorite genres would be destroyed in the same way Roland Emmerich bastardized Godzilla with his 1998 remake.
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.
The film is a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's malevolent and masterful 1974 flick, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, picking up hours after the genre classic before a modern setting takes us on a journey of more mayhem with the chainsaw - wielding maniac, Leatherface (Read our review HERE).
I thought he'd spent himself on flotsam like the last two Spy Kids flicks, thought he'd really screwed the pooch on a fiasco like Once Upon a Time In Mexico, on which he mistook Sergio Leone's formalist genre Diaspora for a mess of ideas trailing camera flourishes.
Yet, this flick certainly stands on its own as South Korea's kooky and kinky contribution to the battle - of - the - sexes genre.