Sentences with phrase «schlock as»

Mamet the director, however, seems to believe that his writing self produces work of gritty realism and stark vérité, fostering an unintentionally hilarious misstep like House of Games or such remote masturbatory schlock as State and Main and The Spanish Prisoner.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Thankfully, my fears were unrealized, as we get an equally respectful and hilarious take on the making of this schlock masterwork.

The settings and supporting roles suggest that If I Stay started out as someone's passion project, but the final product only requires its star to sleepwalk through buckets of schlock.

Phillips pays obvious homage to The Godfather, Easy Rider, Saturday Night Fever, and Dirty Harry, makes a semi-sly reference to insidious pod - child manifesto «Free To Be You and Me» (Owen Wilson meanwhile performs original - Hutch David Soul's schlock classic «Don't Give Up On Us Baby»), and, in the only thing approaching clever, casts Fred «The Hammer» Williamson as the duo's cranky police captain.

When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything but.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

Far too many people go through this exact situation to treat it as laugh it up schlock when the parents arrive with a surprise knock on the door.

As such, it will be up to Caple to make sure Creed 2 doesn't descend into the kind of schlock that marked Rocky IV.

THE DVD Anchor Bay's 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen DVD presentation of Link looks as bright and bouncy as a badly - filmed piece of schlock can.

Rick Moreweather (Ray Romano) is already established as a Hollywood producer, albeit one specializing in low - budget schlock that goes straight to video.

As nifty as some of these elements are, none of the professionalism brought in can cover up the fact that this is still B - movie material at its core which, unlike Pitch Black, can not rise above its schlock nature to ultimately entertaiAs nifty as some of these elements are, none of the professionalism brought in can cover up the fact that this is still B - movie material at its core which, unlike Pitch Black, can not rise above its schlock nature to ultimately entertaias some of these elements are, none of the professionalism brought in can cover up the fact that this is still B - movie material at its core which, unlike Pitch Black, can not rise above its schlock nature to ultimately entertain.

And it's a welcome opportunity to think and feel deeply as we're about to entire the summer season of mindless schlock.

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.

Writer / director Joe Begos has fashioned Almost Human, his debut feature, as a love letter to 80s horror / sci - fi schlock.

A cult favorite for fans of author Clive Barker, but just plain silly (and very gory) schlock for just about everyone else, Hellraiser marked the first feature film as a director, adapting his own novel, «The Hellbound Heart».

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.

DIR: Martin Scorsese • WRI: Laeta Kalogridis • PRO: Brad Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Martin Scorsese • DOP: Robert Richardson • ED: Thelma Schoonmaker • DES: Dante Ferretti • CAST: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams There are 2 ways to approach Shutter Island — one is as a masterfully constructed cinematic homage; the other is as a return by Martin Scorsese to the overblown schlock fest of Cape Fear.

It's potentially gratifying to think of Trick» r Treat as a misogynistic throwback to the glory days of slick mainstream exploitation in the 1980s — like Funhouse, for instance — except that unlike, say, Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s masterpiece of schlock Silent Night, Deadly Night, the misogyny in Dougherty's film is based primarily on inexplicably poor object choice.

Also in the recent tradition of Disney animation, the picture appears to have no clue as to why it is that its once robber - baron grip on the field has slipped to the point that the Magic Kingdom is no better than mechanized schlock - houses like DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios.

Mirren relishes her one - dimensional villain, Diane Lane plays Trumbo's supportive wife Cleo, Michael Stuhlbarg is deeply sympathetic as Trumbo's friend and actor Edward G. Robinson, and I would love to see a spinoff featuring schlock - peddling producers Frank (John Goodman) and Hymie King (Stephen Root), who hired Trumbo when no one else would.

As a veteran of USC «film school,» I can assure that anything those mopes screen as an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the worlAs a veteran of USC «film school,» I can assure that anything those mopes screen as an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the worlas an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the world.

I wouldn't call it a metaphor, but as a bleak emotional landscape — Eliot's «The Wasteland» committed to genre schlock — it boasts of an intimidating gravity.

He is the worst kind of enfant terrible, armed with a bestial cunning and taste and intent on demonstrating his disdain with an insistently predictable parade of cheap rip - offs that use schlock and celluloid catcalls as camouflage for his ape mentality.

We're talking about Hammer Films, the organization that brought us such cheesy, guilty pleasure,»50s era creepshow treats as Horror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torture porn.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

Some of that is in director Todd Strauss - Schulson's approach, which, with its camera gymnastics and overly bold palette, is too polished by half for the movie - within - the - movie to come across as the brand of schlock he's trying to recreate (again adding to a feeling of superiority over material that the movie claims to respect — or at least like).

What we're not talking about is a business book masquerading as a 45,000 word brochure, full of salesy schlock and rampant self promotion.

Once maligned as Surrealist schlock, Dalí's prescient forays into popular amusement and unbridled marketeering have lately come to the fore of scholarship on the mustachioed Catalonian.

Gopnik calls Gerhard Richter abstractions, en bloc, «schlock», which is worse than childish, buffoonish and moronic, it's simply wrong, as anyone with a real involvement with art instinctively knows.