Trump sells schlocky books and schlocky suits but he doesn't read books and he certainly doesn't wear Trump Suits or Trump Shirts.
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Either he's the mad auteur who makes schlocky nonsense movie adaptations of videogames, or he's the mad auteur who makes schlocky nonsense movie adaptations of videogames that you really love.
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It's all very schlocky, a little '80s, and extremely fun.
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Yes, it is schlocky and stupid, but … it's Stars Hollow.
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Granted, much of horror still remains cheap, manipulative and schlocky.
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The album's still pretty schlocky in the end, and irresistibly so.
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But there is gallantry in her commitment to such schlocky material.
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Now it looks like he'll be shifting his focus back to less schlocky flicks.
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During the holiday season, our capacity for appreciating schlocky, cheesy movies grows three sizes.
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And "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return," on Netflix, reboots the beloved schlocky classic.
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Today, Bachelor Party is sadly dated, and not just because it's a schlocky 80s comedy.
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Burns, an Irish factory worker, is played with a very schlocky sensibility by Hannah Steele.
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The genre grew more detached from reality ( Pacific Rim ) and self-consciously schlocky ( Mega Shark vs.
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However, that guide is limited to actual, undebatable television — your new shows and lovably schlocky TV movies.
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Call of Cthulhu is the gaming equivalent of a late night SyFy movie: schlocky as hell, without apology.
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Your stomach flips when Justine bites down because the acting is so naturalistic and the cinematography so un-schlocky.
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Those games, from Grand Theft Auto to Saints Row, were schlocky, glossy love letters to crime and crime fiction.
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He had a plan to patch over schlocky bits by drawing on the psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto's work on adolescence.
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But that's a shallow way of reading a film whose delightfully schlocky, slightly cluttered surface belies its moral complexity.
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You can also catch decent 360-degree videos like the schlocky Campfire Creepers anthology, directed by horror filmmaker Alexandre Aja.
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And by the 1960s, he was acting in schlocky girlie movies in New York and England, portraying his own lust.
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"I remember sitting on the sofa with my grandmother," he recalled, "eating this schlocky stuff, and thinking, this is heaven."
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In her own schlocky way, she inadvertently disrobed the sterility of what so often passes for eroticism in our age.
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Where to stream it: Amazon Prime Who says schlocky horror movies can't come with a poignant, albeit blood-soaked, political message?
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Where to Stream It: Amazon Prime EVERETT COLLECTION Uncle Sam (1996) Who says schlocky horror movies can't come with a message?
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It also frees him to record songs like "Thinking Out Loud," from his last album, that are exceedingly schlocky and swaggerless.
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The family drama can veer into the overly schlocky, to the point where it doesn't seem believable, but it does seem manipulative.
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OCCULTISMThe Lost Boys' nods to occultism gave it the depth to elevate it beyond the fun, schlocky, horror comedy that it is.
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But it ends up starring in a schlocky but wildly popular science-fiction series that she would never have agreed to herself.
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Aesthetics: A high-production take on schlocky 20th-century anthologies like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, with Douglas Hodge playing Cryptkeeper.
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With rare exceptions, like last year's Her Story, these games are schlocky affairs worth an evening of laughs, rather than anything serious.
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The early years of PC adoption had spawned a tsunami of fairly schlocky computer magazines that hawked services, hardware, software, gizmos, and gadgets.
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It's still up-tempo, dark, and a little schlocky, but it's not another speed metal band—in fact, it's not metal at all.
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It was unbelievably schlocky, and yet the end result was a national civics lesson, with a whopping 33 million-plus people tuning in.
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"The 4th Awakens" is, like its predecessors "Sharknado 2: The Second One" and "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No," more than just a purposefully schlocky movie.
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Every December, a new crop of think pieces arise debating whether the movie is a delight, or a schlocky mess of unrealistic portrayals of relationships.
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A MINUS Joi Sound System: Joi Sound System (RealWorld) It does tend schlocky, like so much of what Peter Gabriel's world music label puts out.
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At the time, schlocky Europop like Whigfield's "Saturday Night" and American collegiate soft-rock such as Semisonic's "Secret Smile" became clustered in our collective consciousness.
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The radioactive palette, schlocky particulate materials, and cultural associations that get thrown into her blender make it easy to miss how honed her compositions are.
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The Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame is interesting, I guess, but it's also the world's biggest Hard Rock Café: inherently schlocky and Wikipedia deep.
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His "Battlestar Galactica" was a critically acclaimed reboot of the schlocky 1970s show, and "Outlander" has been a consistent hit for the cable network Starz.
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For a brief time, they could offer up a kind of Borgesian magic, but the writing was schlocky, the plot twists jarring, the endings inconsequential.
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Despite This Is Us' habit of going for schlocky over-the-top sentimentality over actual emotional storytelling, the beginning of Zoe's backstory comes with the appropriate weight.
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"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (1978), a schlocky horror spoof, is just one beloved example of a horror movie built around an inanimate object that causes mayhem.
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In any event, Other Space, while not perfect, should satisfy anyone who's looking for a show that simultaneously parodies and pays homage to schlocky TV science fiction.
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Built around the premise of a summer camp in the 1980s (obvi), it's everything schlocky horror should be—plus lots of Aqua Net and gross-out humor.
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In this case, a flimsy finance structure, schlocky producers and just an overall bad idea to begin with make us highly skeptical that this ever gets shot.
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In a 1995 New Republic profile of Toffler and his wife (and frequent collaborator) Heidi, John Judis rightly objected to the idea that the Tofflers were schlocky popularizers.
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Justin grew up obsessing over Sam's schlocky grindhouse films, so she's more protective of them than even her own burgeoning new relationship with a cute pizza delivery boy.
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Pink's druggy inversion of AOR, 80s soft pop, and commercial jingles reflected a fondness for the era's schlocky musical artifacts, revealing a peculiar beauty in their synthetic gaudiness.
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And so one may find oneself asking when reading this self-consciously daring but ultimately schlocky sendup, as I did, What did the Holocaust do to deserve this?
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A film that's much smarter than it looks, The Cabin in the Woods is the ultimate slasher/monster movie homage, without being a schlocky parody like Scary Movie.
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It didn't make sense when I originally played, and while I've heard the DLC filled in some of the gaps, it's schlocky nonsense that takes itself way too seriously.
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Shows like this work best when they depict the competition and become unbearable when they're just talking-head confessionals, contrived spiels and schlocky backstories that scam us into caring.
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Traditionally, on-the-job harassment training has been a choice between the lesser of two borings—schlocky video or snoozy slide deck—but Mercer wants to put you in the room.
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Dollar Shave Club itself gained attention soon after it was established in 2011, after the founder Michael Dubin's guerrilla YouTube marketing campaign went viral for its schlocky, slapstick brand of humor.
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Collaborations are normally schlocky, one-season runs, resulting in graphics splattered across clothing and handbags, or spun out cheaply on T-shirts that have all the integrity of rock-band merch.
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You'd like to keep this interactive buzz going — at an appropriately adult story level, since, let's be honest, those slim old-school CYOAs look a little childish and schlocky by comparison.
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New York (CNN Business)October is typically a slow month at the box office, a time reserved for schlocky horror movies as the studios hold their blockbusters for the holiday season.
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And so Netflix streaming became an endless scroll of programs, from recent movie hits to schlocky stuff that budget studios were just happy to have somebody pay any money for at all.
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Like watching an old flickering video of a birthday party from 1982, or switching off in front of a schlocky straight-to-tv rom-com, it is totally charming and completely disarming.
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Mel Brooks's 1967 film The Producers — so controversial when it came out — culminated in the (Jewish) protagonists attempting to stage a schlocky propagandistic musical, "Springtime for Hitler," a surefire (they hoped) bust.
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Foy's performance is the one saving grace in what would otherwise come off as a schlocky B-movie impersonator, the first of many we're bound to see in a post-Get Out world.
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It is a particularly dull January: Besides a final, schlocky "Merry Widow" on Thursday, there is no break from the same old diet of classic Italian operas until "Parsifal" opens on Feb. 5.
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And there's been no shortage of legitimate efforts to find drugs that could enhance the brain's natural capacity for neuron growth, along with schlocky, untested, but Alex Jones-approved consumer products on the market.
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"Establishment Democrats are seizing on it to try and discredit me so they can nominate some schlocky establishment Democrat who will get his or her butt kicked in 2020 by Donald Trump," Avenatti said.
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The schlocky futuristic noir thing is extremely my shit in films like The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, but for whatever reason, Altered Carbon didn't get me to smash that Next Episode button.
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I'm personally a huge fan of Lore, which to me strikes just the right tone of mixing legend and verifiable reports to creep you way out without descending to the level of schlocky horror.
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At one point we literally see intestines falling out of someone, and the schlocky, B-movie style visual of brains and other expelled bodily fluids are all over the screen from start to finish.
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In the last couple of days, I've finished up two TV shows I'd been watching for awhile: Boardwalk Empire, the prohibition-era gangster series, and Orphan Black, a mildly schlocky, truly lovable sci-fi show.
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Inside, the spacious two-room bar conjures the faded glory of Las Vegas via tufted burgundy booths, schlocky portraits (roaring tigers, Sammy Davis Jr., Dolly Parton) and a horseshoe-shaped bar strung with gold tinsel.
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In 2011, Hipster Runoff published an article about them titled "The Vivian Girls show off their banging bikini bodies (2 prove they hotter than Best Coast)," effectively perpetuating the schlocky tabloid sexism it was supposedly parodying.
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We don't believe that there's such a thing as "guilty pleasure," so this series sets out to prove that even the most shocking and schlocky corners of dance music can find a home in somebody's heart.
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The 35-year-old actress has been pushing her body to its limits as the star of "GLOW," the silly-smart Netflix comedy about female wrestling, inspired by the schlocky 1980s franchise Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
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This is a bit of a stretch for a schlocky roadside attraction, since "Hated in the Nation" ends with the ADIs killing nearly 400,000 people — it's like putting Lizzie Borden's axe next to fragments of a detonated atomic bomb.
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The pace at which the plot unfolds is unrelenting, background details and schlocky time travel story twists adding wonderful wrinkles to a fiction that initially seems content to wallow in an overly familiar stew of post-Soviet destruction porn.
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This thrill unifies the record, bringing together the ambient instrumentals, the schlocky power ballads, the thoughtful, mellow acoustic closer, and especially the electrofunk tracks, whose broadly familiar stylistic materials in tandem with the rest form a new kind of sound.
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We don't believe that there's such a thing as "guilty pleasure", and nothing is untouchable, so this series sets out to prove that even the most shocking opinions and schlocky corners of dance music can find a home in somebody's heart.
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Todd: Before we conclude, I would love to hear your takes on some of the year's bigger movie debates, over everything from whether Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri was perceptive or schlocky to whether It was fun or overhyped.
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Molière took much from the Italian commedia dell'arte tradition, and Fritsch's production highlights this influence in its exaggerated and ritualized gestures — but with the sped-up energy of a silent comedy by Chaplin or Keaton and a dose of schlocky overacting.
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But, that kind of description strips away the detail that really makes the family drama sing: It's missing the schlocky-sweet moments that have become Us' signature and replaced them with drugs, visions, difficult people, difficult politics, and explicit, sometimes bonkers, sex.
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Both were reasonably successful at the box office after factoring in foreign returns, but they were modestly budgeted affairs designed to cater mostly to people who were already fans of the games by imagining the two properties as generic schlocky action flicks.
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The idea is to showcase the beauty of "trash cinema"—the kind of films that either intentionally set out to push the boundaries between good and bad taste, or those that accidentally became cult classics for their dodgy screenplays, bad acting, and schlocky execution.
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There were heaps of VR goggle knockoffs and drone companies and wearable smartwatches, stuff that more experienced tech pressers grumbled about being derivative and sometimes schlocky, which, fair enough—but it's not like the standard CES is full of one-of-a-kind inventions, either.
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The L Word, in case you've not had the glorious misfortune of watching it, is a beautifully schlocky 00s TV drama set in west Hollywood, which ended the drought of queer female representation on TV with a veritable monsoon of lesbian and bisexual characters.
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Set in a seedy purple-cotton-candy-hued motel (a real-life joint, the Magic Castle) on a schlocky strip near Disney World, the film follows a carefree 6-year-old girl, Moonee, who lives there with her very young, very poor, wild and vituperative mother, Halley.
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These visionary directors — and many more of their ilk — rose to greatness from humble beginnings, and they did so not solely through a traditional film school education, but by immersing themselves in the filmmaking process and the language of film (even if those films were scrappy, schlocky, and obscure).
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Joel Schumacher's '90s Flatliners is a schlocky but stylish, propulsive science-fantasy about a handful of medical students who experiment with stopping each other's hearts and reviving each other, in order to get a hint at what death feels like, and what's behind the visions patients have during near-death experiences.
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Then she answers an ad looking for unconventional women to play wrestlers on a low-budget TV show helmed by Sam (Marc Maron), a schlocky sci-fi movie director, who has been hired by a moneyed young man (Chris Lowell) to create the kind of art his mother doesn't approve of.
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Like any good youth group, Straight Up also has a related series of schlocky informational videos online, like one where a teen swallows so much Xanax she gets a random guy's name tattooed on her back, and another where a girl goes on a cocaine bender inside her own high school.
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Over the past few years, Syfy has consistently advanced its apparent goal of becoming one of the "good" networks on basic cable, moving toward a lineup worthy of its Battlestar Galactica heyday and away from its reputation as the harbinger of low-budget B movies and schlocky, formulaic sci-fi/fantasy like Hercules and Stargate.
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Anyone who has followed Gunn's career knows that the filmmaker started in the world of low-budget, exploitation cinema, writing schlocky movies like Tromeo and Juliet before eventually climbing his way into the Hollywood studio system, where he wrote films like Scooby-Doo before finally breaking into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
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David Ehrlich (IndieWire) Lazily recycling the '90s schlocky Joel Schumacher thriller of the same name (once a staple of video store shelves everywhere), this lifeless new version hits all the same beats as the original, but does so without a speck of the baroque style that made it such a fun thing to rent on a Friday night.
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Indulgent, occasionally ridiculous and often gorgeous, the album crams together Auto-Tuned vocals, catchy guitar licks, programmed drums, flashes of R&B and neo-soul, acoustic tear-jerkers, schlocky '623s power ballads, ornate instrumental interludes, post-Drake tropical house, multiple background choirs and computerized spoken word into a cogent, 262-minute musing on addiction, fame and technology.
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Emin, who is known in entertainment by a single name, found himself thrust into the American spotlight this week not for his schlocky Europop dance tracks or his Las Vegas-indebted crooning of the standards, but because of his leading role in arranging Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer thought to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the 215 presidential campaign.
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And they want you to continue to feel that sense of nostalgia as they dismantle the tropes you've internalized from decades of gluing your eyes to schlocky genre flicks on a CRTV, or subvert those iconic moments from your banged-up VHS copy of E.T. Stranger Things is familiar, but not a slavish imitation, able and willing to criticize its 80s filmic predecessors' shortcomings through its own storytelling.
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In perhaps the company's first and last moment of self-awareness, Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel wrote in the inaugural blog post for the app, in May 2012: Over the years, Snapchat has gotten more complicated, more schlocky, more about selling us things through Discover and auto-playing ads than the simple act of communicating a quick reaction or message using only the ephemeral expression on my splotchy, hungover face.
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And if I had to tell you how fan culture and technology and politics have threaded together the strands of my small, stained corner of the 21st-century tapestry, if I had to pick an opening scene, it would be this: The original Star Trek fan fiction was mostly women writing schlocky homoerotic romances about Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, two tortured souls trapped in contrived situations where they had to have sex or die.
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It's a foul-mouthed, R-rated comedy with the soul of a schlocky, mid-career Robin Williams vehicle; a film that takes 10 minutes to explore the comic possibilities of an old bra but hardly cares to explain how its title character made her vast fortune (not to mention the mechanics of how she gets it back); a casually feminist Bechdel-buster that hinges not one but two big punchlines on how hilarious it is when a man gives another man a blow job.
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That she still packs punch is clearest on "Swear to God," one sock to the jaw after another, but with whimsical wordplay that shows off just how light her heavy burdens are: Say something, said something or mentioned my name, hoPut a bullet in the brain of the mane on your PoloYou could get this work for free, it's pro bonoI put funds on your bundles, mad dough on your AfroGuap on your top, green on your beanDubs on your mug, a new bag on your do-rag JON CARAMANICA The new Romeo Santos single is bachata in its most schlocky, high-gloss form, with fits of smooth jazz mixed in for bad measure, not that it matters.
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