It could very well be a pile of unbearable schlock.
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For one thing, he has scraped out all the schlock.
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That was better than expected for a barely marketed schlock thriller.
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Mr. Kosky's directorial skills extend to eliminating much of the stereotypical schlock.
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It's the kind of schlock I so adore about the Witcher franchise.
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Schlock and good taste have a way of creeping into Afro-Euro fusion.
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Users on the site called the movie poorly acted and filled with schlock.
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The show mixes for-sale work with institutional loans, masterpieces with utter schlock.
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The Artist feels like both Hollywood schlock and a weird sort of video art.
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Barris was particularly frustrated with prominent black figures who, to his mind, supported schlock.
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It's gonna sound like I'm giving you some schlock here but none of it's premeditated.
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Giant Little Ones promises to be equally as meaningful, but without the standard schlock factor.
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But Mr. Pastoll isn't able to resurrect the pop pleasures of that decade's enthusiastic schlock.
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I also stuck with "kitschy" instead of SCHLOCK for too long — I prefer kitsch myself.
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It's as if the author were gunning for the Paulo Coelho Chair in Maudlin Schlock.
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Barris was panned as the King of Schlock, Baron of Bad Taste and Ayatollah of Trasherola.
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The rumor, possibly apocryphal, is that Hansen wanted no part of American wrestling's early 1990s schlock.
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But Graham wanted something grander and more meaningful than the schlock of a traveling tent show.
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Remember when Robert Lucas accused Christy Romer of corruptly producing "schlock economics" to justify government spending?
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Working for TVNZ, she saw how higher-quality sponsored video – "not schlock" – was wanted by advertisers.
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It rankled me in a way that earlier shows—even schlock like "Joe Millionaire"—had not.
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A piece so overplayed that it has passed into the automatic schlock-recognition zone of every American?
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But "Batman & Robin" is such worthless schlock that it's hard to fathom that the movie even exists.
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I defaulted to the kind of small-talk schlock that generally flops with bus drivers and baristas.
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These were artists like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, who, despite critical disdain, earned millions off their schlock.
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Mostly, "Godzilla" exhibits a level of reverence that a cinematic series known for its schlock value doesn't necessarily deserve.
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These days the duo's popularity is sometimes held against them, as if they were merely purveyors of mawkish schlock.
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Even with Tarja in full diva mode, the song's winkling keys and gently flowing melodies never descend into schlock.
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It has potential to be smart, but the one I saw (Anarchy) fell far short and was just lazy schlock.
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Years and Years is a sometimes sweet, sometimes schlock family drama injected with increasing levels of full-blown sci-fi dystopia.
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For every movie in which Cher wowed critics, there were half a dozen songs establishing her as the sultan of schlock.
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Streaming Movie Review Lupita Nyong'o saves kindergartners from zombies — and the movie from total schlock — in this wan Australian horror comedy.
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And in "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," DiCaprio has a ball recreating Rick's TV-western mulch and B-movie schlock.
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The roughly 10-minute Killer Deal has a few jump scares, but it's primarily a piece of winkingly goofy splatter-film schlock.
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They were infatuated, too, with unhinged emotion and mystical mumbo-jumbo, and the art that inspired that generation was, often, spiritualist schlock.
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He called himself The King of Daytime Television, but to critics he was The King of Schlock or The Baron of Bad Taste.
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If that sounds dicey, three decades ago it was—a way to fund direct-to-video schlock starring D-listers and has-beens.
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His landmark book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" predicted that schlock entertainment values would eventually strangle American democracy like a cluster of poison ivy.
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Language is so fungible a medium that English has absorbed dozens of Yiddish words, like chutzpah, kvetch, kibitz, megillah, schmooze, nosh and schlock.
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Spending the last of his trust fund's shrinking reserves on the schlock of the new, he's a pathetic figure and an easy target.
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And while that combination could easily be grating, the film's generally strong pacing and Cosmatos' colorful dreamscapes keep it from tipping into outright schlock.
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"Schlock economics" was how Robert Lucas, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, described Barack Obama's plan for a big stimulus to revive the American economy.
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As with reality TV, decades later, these schlock industries at least let working-class faces, fat bodies, older women, and ethnic outsiders be seen.
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Despite Ozuna's stylistic range, he never shows off, makes a big, attention-grabbing move, or attempts either a schlock ballad or an upbeat banger.
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Similarly, the Death Stranding soundtrack stands as a model of how to bend the language of schlock toward something more unsettling and genuinely weird.
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The place represented the unreality of American myth-making, embodied our love-hate relationship with Hollywood, schlock and all, and its dominance of pop culture.
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Still, the Chinese market wants those movies, and we'll keep making them to satisfy the desires of a cash rich nation hungry for American schlock.
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We shouldn't confuse the audience rejecting overhyped trash for better-made films (whether schlock or art — or both) for the entire cinematic medium falling into peril.
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To reject love is to tacitly acknowledge love's power over you: a truism the album affirms, for musically, behold finely wrought romantic schlock of the highest order.
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It's a stylized schlock zombie vid featuring a pink palette and Charli's squad of undead, and as you might imagine from the title, shit gets pretty messy.
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If Ms. Jelinek's acerbic play has a whiff of Vienna's storied bitterness and cynicism, Mr. Amir shows us the opposite side of the coin: sentimentality and schlock.
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The stories were bunk, but they were a boon to the career of schlock jock Geraldo Rivera, and kicked off a moral panic that lasted well into the1990s.
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Avoiding upbeat bangers and schlock ballads in equal measure, he instead occupies the mild, juicy, fragrantly sugary essence of synthetic pop softcore, delicious until it starts to cloy.
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Those coming to the original for the first time, expecting the sort of B-movie schlock horror it has inspired, may be surprised by its knotty, highbrow prose.
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It's been elevated to cult status in more recent times, but the gritty, grimy vibe of the originally was ditched in favor of a schlock gross-out comedy.
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He was a sort of collage artist, indulging in conventions of the avant-garde, but also those of advertising, music videos and the nonstop schlock of cable television.
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Catnip for people who love reality TV schlock, the video (titled Keeping Up With the Katdashians) is rife with bleeped profanity, Kim Katdashian's tears, and kats absorbed by their phones.
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Boll makes willfully bad video game adaptations and ultra violent schlock that even the most jaded stoner would turn off in favor of finding something funny to watch on YouTube.
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"Warmest Christmas Wishes" is his second album of new recordings in two years, following a several-year drought, and it is peak holiday schlock, a hearty and unerringly smooth nog.
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The fluid, uncluttered staging, with sets and costumes by Court Watson, is blessedly free of the schlock that has accumulated on the musical like edelweiss over the past 60 years.
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But Murphy lets the contradictions sizzle: he knows that schlock can double as great art; that self-loathing can work both as a goad to ambition and as an emotional crippler.
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It's got a stomping '80s vibe, and it borrows liberally from the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video — a VHS grain, a high frame rate car chase, and a bucket or two of schlock.
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But the film swings wildly from pure schlock to heartstring-tugging pathos, by presenting main character Ava Hamilton as a grieving mother who lost her children to an energy crisis-related fire.
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SHADES OF GRAY On the overstuffed Pier 1003, the quality varies even more than usual this year — and in places the schlock gets so thick you may rue paying a $50 admission.
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Museums and foundations in Venice also put on their biggest shows during the Biennale, and in canalside palazzi rented for the season, you'll find a pop-up masterpiece here, some sponsored schlock there.
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The cast's schlock redemption efforts only go so far in a story that stacks the deck with a tragedy in Stella's family and a series of increasingly implausible rendezvous between Stella and Will.
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Now the subject of FX's Feud, the upcoming series from TV's reigning master of camp, Ryan Murphy, it is the rare genuinely great film that has also become a textbook example of Hollywood schlock.
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The Cloverfield Paradox really can't decide if it wants to be a wonderful schlock-fest a la Event Horizon, or a serious, poignant movie about love and loss and doing the right thing for humanity.
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And last week, it revealed an interesting tidbit: the origin of hacker group fsociety's trademark Anonymous-style mask, which comes from an obscure piece of made-up '80s schlock called The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie.
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Elsewhere on Born This Way there's a new bulk to the sound matching the weightier themes: stadium rock and eighties schlock add ballast and bombast to the clubby sound, flavors of Springsteen, Pat Benatar, Jim Steinman.
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And on "Misunderstood," an uproarious collaboration with Young Thug, the schlock-pop producer Ricky Reed serves up triumphant "Eye of the Tiger"-esque 1980s power rock, while D.R.A.M. comes on like a comedic Rick James impersonator.
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But through it all, "The Four-Dimensional Human" is sustained by such fine writing, as well as an eclectic palette of references, from Seamus Heaney to schlock horror films, that it's hard not to be charmed.
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Groban's return to adult contemporary after several years in the musical theater conveys the desperation of a man who missed raw schlock with all his heart, and on Bridges he lunges for it twice as hard.
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I'll provide the blankets and wine, and if we start to doze off, I hope we wake up for the big finish, when Mary Steenburgen tap-dances to a wholly unexpected schlock ballad, because it's great.
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The studio's approach is shifting from schlock fare, he continues, to wholesome stories that will "make you feel good on the inside" — like "Cornbread, Earl and Me," about a boy who makes it out of the ghetto.
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Though some of what was offered could be considered mawkish schlock, much was vigorous and moving, particularly once the literary playwright Jacob Gordin insisted that actors stay faithful to the text and stop larding it with shtick.
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Or it prizes singers like the Transit Vocal Band frontman Adam Decker, who imported the needy gestures of a schlock-rock bar singer (he was inexplicably honored for his antics with the other award for outstanding soloist).
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Earlier this month came "The First Purge," a prequel to the successful schlock series in which nearly all crime is legal for 12 hours, and which explicitly depicts police brutality and the resurgence of white nationalist ideology.
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My feelings when someone finds deep meaning in a book that I consider to be commercial schlock says far more about the emotional work I need to do than it does about his or her therapeutic progress.
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The two great motifs of his life were established: a nagging feeling that his work in comics was cultural schlock, and the fact that he would be a lifelong corporate employee, never owning the rights to his creations.
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Senior officials liken the process to Europe's annual TV music schlock-fest, when the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is often determined by viewers phoning in votes for acts from like-minded neighbouring states and historic allies.
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It seems strange that this flimsily justified action schlock from 1991 would be such a relevant work in 2016 but the militarization of the police and the murder of unresisting suspects is a huge issue in modern America.
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We holed up watching Troma schlock or looping slasher flicks, discussing one friend's family's vision of the Evangelical apocalypse or another's furious commitment to supporting the war, stepping outside only to smoke cigarettes under the abyssal Northern sky.
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He's sufficiently comfortable with schlock (of which Christmas music is but one variant) to incorporate it neatly into his larger seductive project, which is to refine the conventions of pop-R&B into a light, gossamer, buttery-smooth delicacy.
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Compare Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan's work with well drilled teams of stunt men to the rapid camera angle changing schlock of almost every big budget action movie today and you will realize that directors have noticed this difficulty too.
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Director: Fede Álvarez Writer: Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues Remake of: The Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead doesn't have quite the whimsy (or schlock factor) of the cult-classic original, but for a straight-faced adaptation, it's pretty damn good.
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That's because their credits include the semi-classic "Ed Wood," Tim Burton's ode to the schlock director, a similarly pitched period pieces that also focused on a guy laboring to produce low-budget movies while surrounded by colorful but quirky characters.
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With creepy, meticulously designed illustrations that threw subtlety out the window, and text that made outrageous claims far beyond the movie's actual contents, these ads could make a minor piece of schlock look like the most elaborate exercise in terror.
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The first works better, looping in, as it does, to the main story: Robert Aldrich's desire to capitalize on the surprise success of "Baby Jane" but also to prove to Jack Warner that he has more in him than horror schlock.
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Without the pumped-up arena-ready schlock on Revamp, the album overcompensates in the other direction; the sunny guitar jangle and seeping waves of pedal steel favored by artist after artist seem encased in amber, warm but inert, collecting dust.
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That faint thrumming belongs to Duncan Jones, the director who, against the odds, has mined a watchable movie out of an entertainment franchise that started with a video game and now includes novels, comics and assorted schlock (toys, costumes, a mah-jongg set).
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And as Tasha noted above, indie distributor A24 has become a trusted arbiter of left-of-center and genre fare in 2016 — it's a good bet that Oz Perkins' directorial debut will offer more genuine surprises than the next month of horror schlock.
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Featuring blood-drenched characters staggering through the seedier areas of Hollywood, it plays like an amalgam of the works of the underground luminary Kenneth Anger, David Lynch, the B-movie schlock/shockmeister William Castle, and the barrel-scraping grindhouse auteur Andy Milligan.
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Warner backed it with a full-frills advertising campaign — billboards, stunts designed to stir up online chatter — that combined to hammer home one message: This was a quality movie, not just some throwaway possessed-doll schlock dumped in the doldrums of summer.
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A lot of my disappointment with Greenblatt (as well as others' disappointment with him) has stemmed from the way he transformed NBC, a network generally associated with "quality TV" for almost all of my lifetime, into a relentless purveyor of mass-market schlock.
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While Fulci's work has often been defined as pulp schlock, here he blends it with an artful approach that creates parallels between the filmmaker and the artist believed to be a warlock, whose lynching sets off the events of this horrific and beautiful film.
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At the time, it was slightly less rousing—and not just because of my own personal opinion that the Boi-1da beat is perhaps the most boring piece of knockoff locker-room pump-up jam schlock to make it into the catalogue of any of these artists.
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First things first: all of Swift's previous albums have at least one token exercise in schlock, just to prove she's still in touch with the people, but Reputation is the first to include a genuine Bad Song, the one song in which she explicitly addresses celebrity.
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This has been a summer filled with silly sports schlock, spurred by NBC's Olympic Games coverage, which carried on its tradition of dramatically lit, slow-motion human-interest reels: a young athlete learns to swim after meeting a dolphin at a water park in Tarzana, Calif.
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In December, I wrote an essay that later went viral titled "Pendeja, You Ain't Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature," which strongly critiqued the schlock-fest American Dirt, about a middle-class Mexican bookseller who, along with her son, flees from cartoonish cartel violence.
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Let's talk instead about all the wonderful women — brawlers, bawlers, schemers, dreamers — on the small screen, a nickname that we have to retire because television is proving infinitely bigger in spirit and more in tune with the moment than most of the loud schlock shoveled into multiplexes.
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Recent projects like Blumhouse's 12-film Hulu anthology series Into the Dark are a reminder of the company's wide-ranging interests and tastes, which run the gamut from smart, culturally thoughtful projects like Jordan Peele's Get Out and Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman to cheerfully campy, culturally relevant schlock like Unfriended.
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"The title is borrowed from Umberto Lenzi's 1988 supernatural schlock masterpiece of the same name, but like most tracks with borrowed titles in our current crop of songs the lyrics have nothing to do with the source material and instead focus on elements of lifelong battle with insomnia," they said.
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Neither snobbery nor slobbering fandom is allowed to mar the proceedings, and the interviewees gamely tackle David Cronenberg's high concept Videodrome with the same appreciation of craft and gore that they bring to discussions of open schlock like Chopping Mall or Stephen King's cocaine-fueled directorial debut (and directorial swan song), Maximum Overdrive.
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Immediately recognizable for his tall, lean frame and expressive face, Landau had a prolific career that saw him appear in movies ranging from studio epics to schlock horror films, and it's hard to name a procedural television show from the '19883s and '70s that he didn't pop up on at some point.
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The band's breakout success in the 22001s owed much to the advent of adult contemporary radio, where huge hits like "Smooth Operator" and "The Sweetest Taboo" eventually got sandwiched between selections from Michael Bolton and Kenny G. But then and now, Sade had an appeal that lifted it far above the slush pile of schlock.
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I will say, what happens after that is that my debut teen mystery, the one I spent my adult life making into a reality, but which, despite the schlock regularly featured in its pages and online, People decided to ignore—more to the point, they ignored me entirely—even after I toiled away for them for 14 years.
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If you didn't read Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash, you may have seen the movie Lawnmower Man that same year—a divine piece of schlock that featured VPL's gear (and was so far removed from the Stephen King short story it purported to adapt that King sued to have his name removed from the poster).
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It seems to be the result of a Netflix exec looking at the network's library and realizing more Christmas movies were needed — but it almost reminded me of the movies of Roger Corman, the beloved low-budget producer of schlock, who would hand promising directors a certain amount of money and a rough premise, then let them go nuts.
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Far Cry 5's premise is potent enough: For years, Hope County has been slowly coming under control of the Project at Eden's Gate, a well resourced cult that is preparing for the end of the world by buying up local businesses, building up a sizable militia, and converting the county's residents through a cocktail of schlock-y Hollywood brainwashing techniques.
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I didn't know my grandfather well — he was estranged from the family and died in 19303, when I was 19340 — but I've spent a good part of the last two years piecing together his life and, in the process, trying to understand how an artist whose work hung in the Whitney Museum of American Art alongside Edward Hopper's could also have been capable of such, well, schlock.
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I suppose handing $24454 to 26-plus artists each is one way of stretching a $10,000 budget, but as someone who has witnessed stalwarts of Detroit's scrappy arts community use less than $10,000 to construct awe-inspiring works from salvaged materials — including entire sculpture parks and working windmills — and open their own gallery spaces, I think Hoffman overpaid for a crowdsourced room full of schlock.
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Before Andrew Lloyd Webber became a campy running joke among musical theater nerds, before the endless debates over whether Carl Anderson or Murray Head played the best Judas (sorry, Ben Vereen), before the "British invasion" of Broadway in the '80s permanently associated Lloyd Webber with high-budget, glitzy schlock while genius lyricist Tim Rice went on to write The Lion King, the debut of Jesus Christ Superstar delivered a once-in-a-generation electric shock to a sleepy musical culture — complete with electric guitars, political, racial, and class tension, and a seething critique of Christianity.
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