Sentences with phrase «schlock films»

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.

Not exact matches

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.

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.

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

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.

I am not exactly sure why schlock horror director William Castle has been such a source for remaking films for today's audiences, except the idea that his films might be better if they weren't so low - budget.

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.

Thank goodness we had films like Snowpiercer that plowed their way through the schlock and left a lasting impression.

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.

The film was now in the challenging position of having to meet a set of lopsided expectations: If it turned out to be anything less than transcendent schlock, I'd feel cheated.

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.

I watched great films and schlock, 1940's melodramas and foreign arthouse classics, all on the same tiny black and white TV, lying on the carpeting in my mother's dining room.

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 plot is a boring mix of Hitchcockian «innocent - man - accused» and derivative action schlock, probably more appropriate for straight - to - video crapola than in a major film release like this.

A remake of the 1983 schlock horror The House on Sorority Row, this film is too bland to catch our imagination.

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.

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.

Jones, who's so violence - adverse he won't squash a spider, is dismayed to discover that the Italian film he's been misled into working on is pure sadistic schlock.

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.

Perhaps with an eye on the Sundance brass ring, the film actively renounces its low - budget privilege to be either a serious meditation on the whole soliciting minors for sex over the Internet phenomenon or quasi-feminist grindhouse schlock; you can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything.

The film touches on many subjects — family, mental illness, masculinity, vulnerability — but never alights on any issue with enough significance to rise above what is, essentially, schlock.

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

And during the 12 days on the Croisette, stars will walk the red carpet, auteurs will woo the arthouse crowd and buyers and sellers will use the world's most prestigious film festival to stage a free - for - all film market made up of equal parts status and schlock.

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 world.

It's the kind of film that is initially tempting to dismiss, the kind of overly familiar action schlock you'd expect to find lurking towards the bottom of a Netflix search gone on way too long.

Enter the Ninja is typical Golan Globus, Cannon films, B - movie schlock, but not completely intolerable, thanks to a dose of self - deprecating humor that lets us know this adventure isn't meant to be taken too seriously.

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.

A horror movie in the giallo tradition, The Neon Demon is equal parts art film and B - movie schlock, with the dreamlike underpinnings of a fairytale.

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.

Transparent postproduction effects and obvious puppet - work show how»50s schlock could, with the forgiving nature of black - and - white film stock, more easily pass off its flaws.

There's no reason to doubt the director's intentions here, however inelegantly he sometimes announces them — his use of Nina Simone's «Strange Fruit» is certainly a bold stroke — but the film's late descent into such deep, abrasive unpleasantness feels entirely unearned after the b - movie schlock that had dominated the earlygoing.

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?»

However, those films were knowingly schlock, but reveled in the fact.

Fortunately, both the Tomb Raider game and film franchises were rebooted to great effect — if not, the series would forever be associated with B movie schlock.