Sentences with phrase «tentpole flick»

It's not as scabrous as LaBute's early work, but I wonder if that isn't a function in part of the spirit of a year that found miscegenation as a secondary conceit of the mainstream's Fourth of July tentpole flick, Hancock.

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Like Transformers before it, it's a great idea for a kid's toy line and a tentpole action flick — and you might as well get the director behind one of the biggest - earning vehicular action movies of all time to help turn it into one.

Even though it is the new tentpole of the week, debuting in the shadow of a worldwide phenomenon might be too much to overcome for the adventure flick.

And after sixteen years of big time tentpole superhero flicks, and eight years of almost suffocating omnipresence of these films in pop culture, the time certainly feels right for a movie to come along and knock them down a few pegs from the inside.

Though many of this month's films probably won't be remembered by the time summer rolls around, there are a few indie flicks with real cult potential and a pair of tentpole - type movies based on popular properties that will benefit from opening during a less competitive time of year.