Sentences with word «schlock»

If you are a fan of schlock horror like I am, you might want to check this one out.

Meanwhile, we get another pile of digital schlock in more Dissidia garbage.

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus brought the film rights to the series, hoping to turn Cannon Films from a maker of B - Movie schlock into a major studio.

Mara and Oyelowo are fine actors (and the supporting cast includes the always - welcome Michael Kenneth Williams), but the film — based on Smith's book, Unlikely Angel — was adapted by Brian Bird, best known for schlock like Touched By An Angel and Step By Step (and for being Michael Landon's partner and co-founder of Believe Pictures).

I found myself thinking of the summer outdoor meets — the sun on the hard blue water with schlock music over the loudspeaker and the girl swimmers, whom we saw only at those kinds of meets, with their strong tanned necks and their nipples showing under their nylon tank suits.

But the best lines and memorable scene - stealing belong to his Hollywood confederates, semi-retired producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and John Chambers (John Goodman), who once won an Oscar for best makeup but has been reduced to shepherding sci - fi schlock on the back end of the studio lot.

There is no great secret to the marketing success of schlock as gross as this.

At 7:30, you can head over to Landmark Magnolia and catch a disaster movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar — from schlock producer Irwin Allen, no less!.

The Conjuring has amassed an impressive amount of hype as a classy horror offering from schlock director James Wan, the new master of scare of the week films Saw, Dead Silence, and Insidious.

In 2007, for example, he told an interviewer that his favorite book is the science fiction schlock classic Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard.

Why it's worth a watch: This is directed by Renny Harlin, the master of schlock action switch - off - your - brain entertainment.

It's apparent that Director Tim Miller wants to turn the «Superhero Movie» on it's ear, but it would take a deft touch to do so without going overboard and turning it into schlock.

There is a scene early on in Lamberto Bava's 1986 low - budget Italo - horror schlock fest Demons 2: A sinister figure is seen limping down a hallway.

Watchers isn't the worst example of low - budget schlock horror that was popular among teen films in the late 1980s, but that doesn't mean it remotely approaches the status of being good either.

It is an excellent article, there is so much schlock on the «net it was good to see.

Those not enamored of Besson's particular brand of Euro - schlock grindhouse existentialism, however, may find their brains more stimulated elsewhere.

Thanks in large part to the independent film movement of the late»80s, the boyishly handsome James LeGros went from being an underrated bit player in Hollywood schlock to a well - respected character actor.

So I didn't see a downside to cutting off this sort of marketing schlock at the source, and fed up one day with credit solicitations clogging my mailbox, I took action.

More Grade - B schlock coming at us....

More schlock for the FF «brand».

At the rate he's going, without some kind of Tarantino - style revival, Nicolas Cage seems mere months away from embracing direct - to - video schlock as his new calling.

And people will continue to wonder why gaming has such a hard time climbing out of the cultural ghetto inhabited by schlock sci - fi and superhero comics.

Who would have thought that Peter «Lord of the Rings» Jackson started his career off by making campy, gory horror schlock films like this?

While Frykholm has no sympathy with the Left Behind series theologically, politically or literally, she has a great deal of sympathy with its readers and she explores why people with interesting lives are drawn to such schlock in their religious reading.

The reputable, and talented, small presses (and reliable self - publishers) who are out there get lost amid the background white noise of static created by so much schlock.

He's done plenty of respectable fare (High Fidelity, Cradle Will Rock, Being John Malkovich — all 1999 - 2000, incidentally) but the past decade of his resumé is positively littered with genre schlock; action, horror, whatever.

Mr. Right is a perfectly entertaining, harmless little rom - com film infused with some post-modernist fun that sets it apart from your standard Nicholas Sparks schlock.

MacLaverty, always insightful and... describing the latest short - listed shock schlock for the Turner Prize.

I wouldn't expect any less from the director of «Final Destination 5» and the writer of «Step Up All In,» but it's hard not to feel bad for the actors involved, especially Richard Armitage, because he deserves better than this kind of SyFy summer schlock.

The Buzz: I can't believe that a 3D movie would ever end up as my movie of the week, but this one has schlock written all over it.

To say the writing in the game was disrespectful schlock doesn't even begin to cover how problematic it was.

Combining the influence of ancient pre-Columbian cultures and Mexican art with modern - day schlock horror and comic - strip grotesque, Yarber's work, at once disturbing and comedic, trashy and mythical, embodies an eternal contemporaneity.

Their chic — not schlock — designs (and flavours) mean they can add glam and style to your space year - round, not just on Valentine's Day.

Some suggest the system will force writers to «trim the fat» or fill their works with Dan Brown-esque page - turning schlock.

Other production companies also have found a niche serving up ready - made schlock.

So, once we factor in the necessary storage space and so forth, we're left with a design that, although much better than the decades - old schlock now in place, is not the cutting - edge design I would have liked to have devised.

On the flip side the Aliens are reduced to cheap slasher thrills, just tacky monsters that kill faceless people that no one cares about, real «Friday the 13th» «Critters» B - movie type schlock.

Though hampered by bad distribution deals and multiple title changes, word of mouth helped Spider Baby to connect with fans of schlock cinema.

by Walter Chaw A cacophonous mess of misguided revisionism and misplaced emphasis, Simon Wells's (and an uncredited Gore Verbinski's) updating of H.G. Wells's poli - sci - fi schlock masterpiece The Time Machine is a miasmic disaster, a sinkhole of shrug - worthy special effects, matte paintings, relentless music, and dangling plotlines and motivations.

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

He penned feather - light romances like Roman Holiday, sweeping war pictures such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a swords - and - sandals epic in Spartacus, and even low - grade schlock in the vein of The Green - Eyed Blonde.

Regardless of the ratings decision, The Good Son isn't really a film that strikes home with any particular audience, except save for schlock thriller junkies, as the boring story and lack of quality scares keep this one firmly grounded by routine formula plotting and overwhelming predictability.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is pure schlock, in the best possible way.

To twist Bonhoeffer on his ear, I'm becoming church for the sake of the world, aren't I, making up for the lost souls who waste their money on romance novels and self - help schlock?

The big question seems to be, «When is it okay for old Christians to quit keeping up with all the latest schlock?»

Currently mocked bands like Linkin Park, Third Eye Blind and Staind brought vulnerability and thoughtfulness to a rock and pop landscape categorized by over the top aggression (Eminem, Korn) or made - in - a-corporate-boardroom schlock (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and a stack of clones of each).

It came to this the first time the rating system permitted schlock films to show nudity because of the precedent set by worthwhile pictures like The Pawnbroker.