Sentences with phrase «of these low budget films»

Wayne, born Marion Morrison, had already worked as a prop man, done stunt work and starred in a number of lower budget films when director John Ford decided to cast him in the role of Ringo Kid.

The title is also one of his lowest budgeted films.

Having come up through the American independent film movement of the early - mid» 00s commonly known as «mumblecore», Greta Gerwig began her career as an actor in a number of low budget films that would typically revolve around the complicated love lives of self - involved, twentysomething hipsters living in New York City.

Not exact matches

Each of the two previous films have generally positive Rotten Tomatoes ratings, and they fared reasonably well at the box office ($ 170 million in global gross for Cloverfield and $ 110 million for 10 Cloverfield Lane) for lower - budget movies.

Lions Gate began in Vancouver as a small distributor of low - budget films, and though technically incorporated in Canada, most of the company's operations are now in California.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

Los Angeles Times: Charity head says «Innocence of Muslims» filmmaker misled him One of the purported filmmakers behind «Innocence of Muslims,» the low - budget anti-Muslim film that has generated unrest across the Arab world, issued a statement Monday saying that he as duped.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

He also helped a brother of a senior New York pension official distribute a low - budget film called «Chooch» through a DVD company controlled by Quadrangle.

According to the SEC complaint, the $ 100 million investment from the New York pension fund came only after the Quadrangle executive arranged for a Quadrangle affiliate to distribute the DVD of a low - budget film called «Chooch,» which was produced by the brother of former New York state deputy comptroller David Loglisci.

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time — and is certainly one of NZ's favourites.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom coms of all time.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

The only complimentary thing about the film is the description of being a low - budget sexploitation feature in which the characters are amateurs and don't even remove their bathing suits.

low - budget and claustrophobic film, most of which takes place underground with a plot that develops only slowly

In 2002, Oedekerk found himself in the leading role of a feature film again when he cast himself in a pet project, a parody of low - budget martial arts films entitled Kung Pow!

Good production values for a low budget film and good acting from the main characters and most of the cast and good pace but the story feels empty, cliché, flaw and lack of depth.

This routine, often disappointing, «B» - grade, low - budget western is directed by Edward L. Cahn and was the penultimate film of his career.

American director Alan Rudolph was the son of Oscar Rudolph, a one - time actor who later directed such low budget films as Twist Around the Clock and such economical TV fare as «The Lone Ranger.»

After being cast as Lorene Rogers in a TV remake of From Here to Eternity (a role she reprised in a subsequent series based upon the film), Basinger finally made her way to the big screen in the low - budget drama Hard Country.

On top of that, there is something very realistic about low - budget films that do exactly that, because it feels more grounded in reality, instead of overblown on a large scale.

This crude low - budget exploiter is one of the most grotesque character assassinations ever put on film.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it's a fine piece of low - budget horror cinema that is guaranteed to be a memorable viewing experience.

It's a decent piece of low - budget film - making that shows what you can do with artfully built tension, skilful editing and a handful of shocking moments.

This low budget but highly - effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D - movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the»70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)

He graduated to feature - film directing at the Columbia Pictures «B» unit, then turned out several low - budget thrillers at Monogram; he also helmed Marilyn Monroe's first starring picture, 1949's Ladies of the Chorus.

Truth: Blumhouse Productions is the boutique horror studio whose high - volume, low - budget business model has fostered a culture of creative risk that actually pays off, and has given rise to films as vital as Whiplash and Get Out.

Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its studio.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

A newcomer to our year - end report cards, Cohen releases foreign films and a variety of low - budget English - language indies.

The quintessential B - movie lawman, granite - faced, mustachioed Jack Rockwell began turning up in low - budget oaters in the late 1920s and went on to amass an impressive array of film credits that included 225 Westerns and two dozen serials, working mostly for Republic Pictures and Columbia although he was never contracted by either.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

For a low - budget film, it's not bad, but the only reason why this film is remotely interesting is because it is the «legit» directorial debut of Francis Fords Coppola.

Ray's low budget dictated that the new film be lensed in black - and - white, but when East of Eden really took off at the box office, the existing footage was scrapped and reshot in color.

This is what makes the film better than other low budget horror's because of Johnson's brilliant makeup wizardry and freaky imagination with his monsters.

The final of the films is the real low point of the series but its hard to blame the film makers, the budget was at a all time low here and the studio wanted a more lite family film here.

Of course, being a low - budget independent film with relatively little star power, no high concept, and minimal sizzle, The Intervention was destined to make do with the obscurity of limited theatrical releasOf course, being a low - budget independent film with relatively little star power, no high concept, and minimal sizzle, The Intervention was destined to make do with the obscurity of limited theatrical releasof limited theatrical release.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

A low budget is not an excuse for a film to be a complete vacuum of interest, but that's what was encoded on the DVD that I watched.

Still, from a production standpoint, the film is as close to top - notch as a low - budget cinematic affair can get, with Mac Fisken's razor - sharp cinematography at the top of the list and Giona Ostinelli's disconcerting score not far behind.

A mean, leering, deeply misogynistic film, Killer Joe earns every bit of its US NC - 17 rating, even as it belies its low budget origins — I was shocked to see that Caleb Deschanel shot this, given that stylistically it resembles a telemovie.

During the shoot of John Cassavetes» momentous 1970 film Husbands, BBC documentarians visited the low - budget production to chronicle not only the pioneering director's filmmaking process but also his collaboration as an actor with co-stars Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara.

Economically produced on a remarkably low budget of $ 20 + million, it's an earnestly written and directed film that competes with Ridley Scott's historical action epics for pennies on the dollar.