It's more like an 1980s-style cheapie retread, disguised as a more respectable legacy sequel.
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CHEAPIE, here, for something that's just not very well made, is onomatopoeic for a little bird sound.
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The faux-cheapie printed T-shirts, the tablecloth florals, the tonic blasts of neon: Vetements has offered them up before.
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Hada Labo — a beloved low-budget line of simple, well-formulated products — offers the low-pH Hyaluronic Acid Cleansing Foam, $9, free of harsh sulfates to rival all other gentle cheapie drugstore cleansers.
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Yes, we knew there would be laughs, but there's also a lot of affordable buys, from cheapie glasses from Amazon to the everyday products she totes with her, to consider adding to our own bags.
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They're from a great brand as opposed to one of the cheapie ones they sell at the souvenir shops so, even though they're on sale, I feel they're worth the slightly more expensive price ($73).
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When my group first received out hats, we were all surprised to find that they were actually real hats, not cheapie throwaways, and in terms of sun protection this almost certainly bests the previous two options.
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While we never really need an excuse to muse over all the best beauty found at your local CVS, Target, or Walmart, summer is a perfect time to add a few cheapie finds to your makeup bag.
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Inspired by Los Angeles' biggest hair trends, spiked with luxury scents (developed by Jérome Epinette, the French perfumer behind Byredo's Gypsy Water), and poured into the chicest cheapie packaging we've seen, the line feels different right out of the gate.
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"He got the little bouncer with the infield in to give him kind of a cheapie, and then he has two good at-bats where it squares it up in left center and hits that rocket to right, so he looked pretty good tonight," Miami manager Don Mattingly said.
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"He got the little bouncer with the infield in to give him kind of a cheapie, and then he has two good at-bats where it squares it up in left center and hits that rocket to right, so he looked pretty good tonight," manager Don Mattingly said.
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A recent Hollywood Reporter interview about the cheapie horror movie The Belko Experiment reveals two nuggets of information that seem pretty relevant to how the film came out: reportedly, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn got the plot hook from a dream, then banged out the script in a week.
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He's been in the industry since the 1980s, with credits logged on two of the Toxic Avenger sequels, a long string of cheapie horror movies (Sometimes They Come Back, Happy Hell Night, Night of the Demons 2), and some better-known films, like the Coen brothers' Barton Fink and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.
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I always heard or used the word in the context of something that might be valiant and serviceable, despite its small cost, like this kitchen chopper I've had for the longest time that just continues to chop away — it was a CHEAPIE but I'll be sad when it grows dull in the tooth.
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A few minutes of cheapie "Calgon, take me away" no longer quite cut it: "Me time," suggesting people so overstretched they have to schedule a slot of relaxation into their Google calendars, has become a phenomenon of such refinement — and potential expense — that this very news organization now devotes a column to exposing its myths and excesses.
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"Slow, stagy cheapie" – Leonard Maltin.Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide, Signet/New American Library, New York, 2007. "This interesting film...is badly let down by Simms' over-talkative script." – The Aurum Film Encyclopedia – Science Fiction.
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The Cyclops was released as a double-feature with Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, which also starred Gloria Talbott. Film critic Leonard Maltin in Leonard Maltin's 2012 Movie Guide (2011) dismissed the film as, "Nothing much in this cheapie."Maltin 2011, p. 309.
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The third picture he completed was a co- production between MGM and himself, a cheapie B-film, The Happy Road (1957), set in his beloved France, his first foray in a new role as producer-director- actor. After leaving MGM, Kelly returned to stage work.
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Variety wrote that the film "has a quaint corniness about it, as of it were a cheapie horror movie from the 1950s ... Special effects and production values are mediocre, which in this case is part of the fun.""Film Reviews: Ghoulies". Variety. January 22, 1985. 16, 18.
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Strange Illusion is a 1945 film noir crime film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is "a stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies."Selby, Spencer. Dark City: The Film Noir, film listed as film noir #391 on page 182, 1984.
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He stated that while "glaive" was a vague term and there wasn't an actual word that defined the weapon, "the writer should have made [another name] up rather than borrowing one which doesn't fit." The effects have also garnered detractors. The House Next Door critic Steven Boone stated that Krull "stands out because it has some of the clunkiness and uncertain production design of a cheapie like Beastmaster, but its visuals fairly pulse like something from the Spielberg–Lucas realm"."Summer of '83: Krull".
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Temple was then lent to other studios. Kiss and Tell, The Bachelor and the Bobby-SoxerWhen she took her first on-screen drink (and spat it out) in Bobby-Soxer, the Women's Christian Temperance Union protested that unthinking teenagers might do the same after seeing the teenage Shirley in the films (Life Staff 140). and Fort Apache were her few hit films at the time.Windeler 49–52 According to biographer Robert Windeler, her 1947–1949 films neither made nor lost money, but "had a cheapie B look about them and indifferent performances from her".
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Miller was a basketball player for the UCLA Bruins at the University of California, Los Angeles, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while he was working as a furniture mover to pay for school, Miller was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His screen test was directed by George Cukor. He became the first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Johnny Weissmuller movies.
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Doriath received mostly positive reviews at the time of its release. Commodore Horizons gave the game 5/8 for graphics, 5/8 for sonics, and 7/8 for gameplay, calling it an "excellent little cheapie", and comparing it to "Sorcery, Staff of Karnath, and any number of similar arcade adventures." It also praised the game for its "true combination of arcade skills – avoiding guards and hazards – and adventure strategies and mapping." However, the magazine considered the game's graphics to be merely adequate, and, judging it among budget titles, felt it inferior overall to Blackwyche.
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Dorothy Short (29 June 1915 – June 4, 1963) was an American film actress, mainly in low-budget Westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another antimarijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937. She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s.
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It is asking a lot of an audience to believe that she could display anything but clothes. George Raft as a poker-faced detective acts with flat- toned indifference, too, and Gene Tierney and Reginald Gardiner barely manage to live through their roles." Film critic Dennis Schwartz panned the film in 2011, opining that "It's a flimsy story that is apathetically written, poorly paced and overacted with shrill performances by both Ginger Rogers and Peggy Ann Garner. The B-film crime drama might have been better served as a cheapie production, with some of its filler scenes lopped off.
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Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing, "An unknown Yul Brynner, with all his hair, in his first film role, plays a well-spoken, smug narcotics smuggler named Paul Vicola. It's directed by Lazslo Benedek (The Wild One/The Night Visitor/Death of a Salesman) in a voice-over documentary style ... It generates an authentic sinister atmosphere, having been filmed on location in New York. The police investigation procedural drama plays as minor film noir, that follows along the usual routine lines for such Eagle-Lion cheapie crime stories ... Not much to get excited about, but it does feature an early acting part by Yul Brynner as a ruthless gangster."Schwartz, Dennis .
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Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a somewhat positive review, writing, "John Reinhardt economically directs a crisp crime thriller from the screenplay by Robert R. Presnell, Sr. that is based on the short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room" by Cornell Woolrich. Though the surprise ending is hardly convincing or for that matter original (Robert Siodmak's The Dark Mirror covered the same territory of identical twins in a superior fashion), and the acting was rather stiff, nevertheless this cheapie Monogram flick always kept me interested in the twisty plot and was quite engaging as it adequately covered the film noir conventions of following the dark sides of the main characters."Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, December 7, 2004.
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Thomas told Weaver in a separate interview that he "wanted to make Sally Todd up as the monster, but the producers didn't think she was big enough to fight and look menacing". Critic Bryan Senn says that "though there's much to scoff at in this gender-bending cheapie, director Cuhna and cinematographer Meredith Nicholson at least try to invest the proceedings with some visual interest, utilizing shadows, depth of field, and even change of focus within a shot to bring a character into sharp relief at a dramatic moment". Those attempts do not sound entirely successful, though. Hardy writes that Nicholson's "shadowy lighting, however, can't fully disguise the few cramped studio sets and banal exteriors ... and so the picture possesses a cheap, claustrophobic feel".
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From contemporary reviews, Jack Zink stated that Frankenstein Island was "abominable" stating that both John Carradine and Andrew Duggan "show their age dramatically enough to indicate the film stock isn't as must as the images imprinted on it" and that Warren was "a hack" and "among the '50s-era cheapie filmmakers, hasn't changed his tactics a bit." Zink concluded that "cultists may get a kick out of investigation to determine whether Frankenstein Island is terrible enough to rank among the worst films of all time. For the rest, this boring nonsense is an excruciating peek at just how low once-respectable marquee names can sink." From retrospective reviews, academic Peter Dendle wrote in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, called it "a ludicrous mishmash of random elements, lovingly stirred into a burgoo of cinematic insanity".
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" In The Encyclopedia of Western Movies, Gunslinger was praised for exploring the potential of a woman gunfighter, and that it was "the most assured of Corman's quartet of Westerns." In his book Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, Michael R. Pitts said that it was an "early six day Roger Corman cheapie that is rather appealing." Adversely, Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Verdict, gave Gunslinger a negative review, writing, "Roger Corman was responsible for a lot of smoldering cinematic cowflops over the course of his economically sound career, but Gunslinger has got to be one of the most overripe and ridiculous." While he stated that "Beverly Garland, who plays our dispassionate Rose, and John Ireland, as the cool and callous Cane Myro, are decent enough", he wrote that "there isn't much to recommend in this movie", saying that "there's too much unresolved intrigue, too many easy answers to rotten questions, to make heads or tails of what is supposed to matter.
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