Sentences with phrase «schlock at»

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.

Other extras include «Judy,» a short film by fansite webmaster Jeff Hayes that follows up on Karen Fields» bully and largely proves that it's a blessing that «80s schlock at least had the entry barrier of professional shooting and editing equipment.

Not exact matches

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.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

Over at ShockYa, for my latest Blu - ray / DVD column, I take a gander at Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of horror flicks, a pair of documentaries on men that could scarcely be more different (New York Times society photographer Bill Cunningham and schlock - meister Herschell Gordon Lewis), and the film that inspired Austin Powers «machine - gun - breasted fembots.

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!.

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 entertain.

Overall, this latest addition to the King Arthur filmography is at best mildly enjoyable schlock with some cool moments scattered about here and there, and at worst an inconsistent take on a classic character with an unpromisingly shaky foundation on which to build a film franchise.

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.

In fact, The Happening is very much like the basic made - on - the - cheap B - movie schlock that took up residence at your»50s /»60s passion pit.

The action parody, exploitation satire and mock schlock that purportedly sit at the centre of Machete Kills are — or, at least once, were — rife with comedic possibility; alas, this time round precious little is funny.

At 45 - years - old, she's far too experienced to be doing lackluster schlock like this.

At first, Road Rage might seem like amusing schlock, perfect for late - night cable aficionados to enjoy for some mindlessly bad entertainment.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

And therefore tags on a schlock horror bit to what was otherwise interesting - at least on a visual level?

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).

But at least Portman is playing someone who is recognizably human, unlike her dancer in «Black Swan,» where she was a projection of the director's pop - schlock fantasies done up in a high - art tutu.

«Artist Craig Drennen gives the schlock treatment to high art in his quirky, conceptually challenging solo show «Bandit» at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

At White Cube meanwhile an ugly exhibition by Marc Quinn conveys the cynical message that schlock beats substance.

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.