Sentences with phrase «out of a pulp fiction»

People often say that you can make a movie out of a pulp fiction better than a movie out of a classic and I think there is some reason for that because there's something more you can play with.

Meanwhile, critic and artist Walter Robinson paints a scenario straight out of a pulp fiction novel or TV soap opera with his new painting Randall and The River of Time and Aura Rosenberg takes us to the river's edge with her floor installation Dialectical Porn Rocks, a collection of creek rocks covered with erotic images from old porn magazines.

Not exact matches

While many directors start out conventional and then experiment once they have clout, Tarantino has abandoned much of the nonlinear storytelling on which he made his name (with «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction») for something more traditional.

They put Pulp Fiction on air, in the full knowledge that the director of the movie — who is white — gives currency and legitimation, out of his own mouth, to a term that they forbid to their own presenters, even accidentally and off the air.

Not as well received on its release as the exceptional Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction but over the years this has gradually gained the respect that it deserves and stands as one of Tarantino's finest and most mature outings.

With Essoe's performance proving to be a thing of complex, emotionally - shattering beauty, even if every element might not work out exactly as I hoped they were going to I was still impressed with their feature, Midnighters a tasty bit of pulp fiction I'm certainly going to be revisiting relatively soon.

Maybe Bruce Willis in «Pulp Fiction» saw it, which is why his character decided to go for the samurai sword out of all of the weapons on offer.

The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.

But unlike those earlier films with their hard undercurrent of nihilism, Pulp Fiction delivered the possibility of a way out of the malaise — through spiritual awakening, of all things.

The mother and the 7 homeschooled children, 6 boys and 1 girl, are essential prisoners in their own home, where the boys» only relief and only window to an outside world lies in the access they are granted to recorded movies, which they constantly watch and then elaborately reconstruct, acting out scenes from the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas.

With Pulp Fiction out of the way, John Travolta took his first steps toward cashing in on his newly - regained cool with the lead role in this consistently enjoyable crime caper.

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Writer - director Shane Black knows detective movies and pulp fiction inside out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.

I just thought it was unusual compared to most of the films out then - it was slow paced and the director was obviously happy to take his time (Pulp Fiction it was not!).

12:00 M — IFC — Pulp Fiction With Quentin Tarantino's newest film Inglourious Basterds out in cinemas this week, what better time to revisit his most iconic, game - changing film of all?

Like visitors from some eccentric twilight zone, the Johnsons first appeared out of nowhere to turn a high school into a stylized hotbed of pulp fiction with «Brick.»

Todays update involves the casting of Bruce Willis (hopefully it will be the Pulp Fiction, Fast Food Nation, 12 Monkeys Willis and not the Cop Out, Fifth Element, Mercury Rising Willis) and confirms Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who proved a winning combination with Johnson's sensibility in chic - noir Brick).

The infamous striptease sequence has been restored (having been cut out of the theatrical release as part of a clever «scene missing» gag), which compounds the film's phony pro-feminism, but makes up for it with snappy directing reminiscent of the Twist contest from Pulp Fiction.

Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, as a Russian agent, dance to «You Never Can Tell,» in a moment out of «Pulp Fiction.»

OKO ASHEWO A Nigerian sandwich of Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver suffers from some dodgy narrative choices and pacing issues, but knocks out some compelling footage of a taxi cruising around Lagos (with a Gandalf The Grey hood ornament).

And what exactly could have been the point of filling any disaster entry with such an assortment of bizarre characters like the Marjoe Gortner sex deviate who looks as if he came right out of the «Pulp Fiction» sadomasochist basement?

A John Travolta comparison seems appropriate here, where a star is born (Welcome Back, Kotter), gets incredibly hot (Saturday Night Fever), suffers career burnout (too many flops to pick one), revives himself to a second period of superhot stardom (Pulp Fiction) and then, inevitably, the flame's out again (too many movies in recent years).

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the paPulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the papulp fiction writers of the past).

Although some authors did make a career out of writing pulp, I don't think anyone ever got rich off of exclusively writing pulp fiction (there were no Amanda Hockings of pulp).

It includes books from modern SciFi writers which first appeared in pulp magazines, classic out - of - copyright, and earlier works of speculative fiction that not everybody will agree are science fiction.

This multi-faceted exhibition includes both Glassford's sculptures and examples of his collections, including Mexican pulp fiction illustrations from the late 1950s and a unique accumulation of 19th to 20th century drinking vessels made out of bull skin.

With a childhood surrounding a love of comic books, video games and pop culture, Doyle loves to pick out the locations and places made famous by films as epic as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner — recreating them through bold and colourful illustrations; 10 of which will be on show and available as limited edition prints during a special «collectors preview» of the show next month.

A star almost straight out of art school, and a Turner Prize nominee (2001), Nelson's vision is a complex interplay between an imagined narrative and its physical installation, often inspired by literature, sci - fi or pulp fiction (J.L. Borges to H.P. Lovecraft), in which he invents characters and then creates their environments.