Sentences with phrase «schlock in»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

The former dances the line between science fiction and horror in Nowheresville, Indiana and the latter tells a story of schlock and excess in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

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

A gory, old - fashioned slice of schlock horror that, by successfully paying homage to one of the greats, puts many of its contemporaries in the shade.

Sublimely trashy, this conceptual sequel to 1997's surprise hit, «Anaconda,» doesn't expect to be taken any more seriously than its schlock predecessor, and keeps its tongue - in - cheek thrills flowing rapidly.

Wiseau's tour de schlock can only be seen on DVD or in raucous «Rocky Horror» - style public screenings, and it isn't available for streaming, which makes sense.

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

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.

Somehow channeling the tone of both a Lifetime movie and an after - school special, Mothers and Daughters shambles into theaters oozing schlock and melodrama, just in time for Mother's Day.

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.

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.

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.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

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 entertain.

One could call The Bye Bye Man inoffensive and even occasionally hilarious in its awfulness, but the truth is that it wasn't fit for theaters; even the most indiscriminate of horror buffs deserve a little competence with their schlock.

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.

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.

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.

What's most frustrating about The Captive is that it includes all the elements for a potentially great Egoyan movie — they're just buried in the mountain of schlock.

We're in schlock corridor here and Soderbergh runs with it, cellphone in hand; under the buzzing suspense mechanics, however, a cautionary note on the perils of disbelieving women is just audible.

Django Unchained elevates schlock to the level of art, most spectacularly in a shootout for the ages that cross-pollinates Scarface and The Wild Bunch, but with an exhilaratingly anachronistic hip - hop flourish.

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.

No good sex goes unpunished in «The Boy Next Door,» breathless, uninspired January junk that feels like the iffiest bits of a Lifetime movie and late - night cable schlock slapped together.

A schlock epic in every sense, this Dawn has captured a vision of Melbourne that's hardly there ten years later.

«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.

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.

That schlock classic wouldn't have come within a hundred miles of the Academy Awards in its day; now, in an indirect, multi-mirrored way, even the old guard is seeing the beauty in the B - movie muck.

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.

In the age of Rotten Tomatoes wars, DC fanboy anger, Oscar - baiting schlock, Netflix disruption, and $ 200 million attempts to mine our nostalgia, the time is right for the return of Jon Lovitz's pun - hurling, «It stinks!»

In the end, despite a spooky, if unoriginal, atmosphere, and ample jolts and jump scares, «Insidious: The Last Key» is only for franchise completists and hard - core genre enthusiasts with a high schlock tolerance.

In my opinion, this «classic» is just 105 minutes of schlock.

Thankfully, the poster boy for teen schlock is nowhere to be found in Antitrust; unfortunately, the person in his place is no better: fellow I Know What You Did Last Summer star and Tiger Beat staple, Ryan Phillippe.

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.

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.

Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies)-- Typical horror schlock elevated into the second best horror movie of 2010 (behind Let Me In) by three core performances that bring more to the material than the sort of movie ever typically receives.

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.

DRACULA III: LEGACY ** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras B starring Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Westcourt, Rutger Hauer screenplay by Joel Soisson & Patrick Lussier directed by Patrick Lussier HELLRAISER: DEADER * / **** Image A - Sound B - Extras B starring Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz, Doug Bradley screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day directed by Rick Bota THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER 1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B starring Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Emmanuelle Chriqui screenplay by Lance Mungia & Jeff Most and Sean Hood directed by Lance Mungia by Walter Chaw This is the game plan if you're in the business of producing direct - to - video schlock for Dimension: go to Romania (the poor man's Czech Republic, itself the poor man's Toronto — itself the poor man's New York), show some tits, throw buckets of blood against the wall, and scrimp, wherever possible, on niceties like script and direction.

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.

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.

That in itself places it above most horror schlock that mainstream Hollywood dumps in the cineplex these days.

Though «The Founder» has a fairly competent director in John Lee Hancock, who has turned in well - received work in the past with «The Blind Side» and «Saving Mr. Banks,» this could either be an oddly fascinating biopic or just generic schlock.