Sentences with phrase «such schlock»

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

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.

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.

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.

Adam Sandler has become such a reliable conveyor belt of cinematic schlock that people forget he once had aspirations beyond Dennis Dugan's truly...

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.

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.

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.

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.