Sentences with phrase «up genre flick»

As a straight - up genre flick, it's an anti-thriller — the actual hunt for Russell and Frankie is pretty much skipped over entirely, and solved with a couple lines of dialogue.

As a straight up genre flick, it's an anti-thriller — the actual hunt for Russell and Frankie is pretty much skipped over entirely, and solved with a couple lines of dialogue.

Not exact matches

Her new flick What If is a rom - com (of sorts) that also serves as a send - up to the genre itself.

Today it's no big surprise when a respected actor slums it up for a paycheck in some disreputable genre flick but back then there must have been some kind of perverse kick to be had from seeing legends like Richard Burton or Gregory Peck fighting the forces of evil.

I'm not quite going to get sucked into the studio yet, I'm not going to try and be too lofty, I'm going to regress a bit emotionally, and make a very hardcore genre flick that's for my former self and the friends that I grew up making movies with who taught me camera techniques, and introduced me to directors like early Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

«Starred Up» This tiny, fierce little British prison - set gem was overlooked by most at Telluride and TIFF this year, and it's easy to understand why: a cast of mostly unknowns, a director (David Mackenzie, of «Young Adam» and «Hallam Foe «-RRB- who'd never quite lived up to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.&raquUp» This tiny, fierce little British prison - set gem was overlooked by most at Telluride and TIFF this year, and it's easy to understand why: a cast of mostly unknowns, a director (David Mackenzie, of «Young Adam» and «Hallam Foe «-RRB- who'd never quite lived up to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.&raquup to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.»

As the year unfolds, there may be other flicks from this genre that will end up being better than what we get here.

Astron - 6 is a genre team that appeals to die - hard genre fans that grew up watching random horror flicks at their local video stores growing up.

and, only this week, signing on to her studio debut with Sony «s genre flick «The Kitchen Sink,» about a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie who team up to fight off aliens.

The film is a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's malevolent and masterful 1974 flick, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, picking up hours after the genre classic before a modern setting takes us on a journey of more mayhem with the chainsaw - wielding maniac, Leatherface (Read our review HERE).

Salman Khan, who is gearing up for his upcoming action flick Race 3 says that he did not think he fit the genre.

What works best about Insidious, which is about as adoring a love letter to Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist as a good film can get, is how it takes horror flick concepts both old and relatively new and mixes them up, blender - style, and the result is a 95 - minute fun - time ass - kicker that has as much love for the genre as it does in making you pounce out of your seat.

A mash - up of high school satires like «Heathers» and vintage slasher flicks like «Carrie,» «Jennifer's Body» isn't quite the cult classic it could have become, but it has enough going for it to entertain fans of both genres.

But whatever genre they might inhabit — action flick, historical drama, romantic comedy — they tend to line up along one relatively familiar spectrum or another.

I appreciate when a genre flick can still summon up a few surprises, and this film definitely did, working to be fresh in a venue that can so easily go stale.

They are releasing crazy genre stuff like Dianipponjin (deadpan Japanese monster movie) and Mirage Man (Chilean superhero martial arts flick), Olivier Assayas» Boarding Gate and they just picked up the Thai autistic - martial arts film Chocolate to give it a theatrical push in the land that hates subtitles.

Flicking through the catalogue on the Nintendo Switch eShop reveals a line - up of quality indie titles across a range of genres.

Combining a screening with a panel discussion works so beautifully to bring everyone to the same point of reference for conversation, and this one opened up the concept of Chick Flicks as a genre worthy of much more thought.

Working through the neophyte filmmaker's genre playbook, director Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her vampire movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with this dystopian flick most reminiscent of the Australian strain in terms of vibe / aesthetics, what with its shantytown sets, symbolic names, and obligatory feral child.

(A bout portant) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Hubby Has Three Hours to Save Pregnant Wife in Adrenaline - Fueled Action Thriller Paris has served as the backdrop for several superb revenge flicks lately, such as «Taken,» «District B - 13» and «From Paris with Love,» and this adrenaline - fueled thriller measures up well in comparison with the best of the genre.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins and Kristen Connolly Directed by Drew Goddard Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality / nudity Serenity writer / director Joss Whedon and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard team up for this new take on the «cabin in the woods» genre of horror flicks.

Later this year, he'll be starring in his first bonafide genre flick, Andrew Niccol's thriller «In Time» and it looks like Timberlake is still looking to dirty up his good looks.

On this week's Film Club, A.V. Club film critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk about their shared fondness for James Mangold's Logan, a grisly (and very R - rated) superhero flick that is also the most measured and grown - up movie that this industry - dominating genre has produced — the elegiac revisionist Western...