Sentences with phrase «about your genre as»

They'll be one (or two or three) out there and they'll be as passionate about your genre as you are.

I'm a newbie when it comes to being an author, but being an avid reader with eclectic tastes (I enjoy reading just about any genre as well as non-fiction) has helped me in my plunge to write commercial fiction.

Not exact matches

He's cheerfully brought vulgarity to the highest office in the land and, come to think of it, has reconfigured American politics as a form of porn, squarely in the S&M genre, in which someone in the White House is always about to get publicly humiliated.

It's hard to consider fears about the world as the motivation for the rise in the horror genre when» from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Max Brooks» World War Z, and from Richard Jefferies» After London to Cormac McCarthy's The Road» post-apocalyptic subject matter is hardly a creation or expression confined to this century.

Details about the format are being kept under wraps, but the hourlong project is described as a «fresh take» on the dance competition genre.

I do not argue that the reflexes of abstraction and generalization have no function at all, but we need to be more honest about their derivative quality and about the normalness of narrative or hortatory genres as good theology.

One wonderful thing about the fountain pen reviews as a genre is that the average pen fiend cares about all the things I think about when buying an ink.

Jeremy McCarter, who co-authored Hamilton, describes it as «the music of ambition, the soundtrack of defiance», suggesting it is the perfect genre for a musical about the American Revolution and the life of Hamilton.

It also reprises some themes from Smith's earlier books, including the case for postmodernism as an ally of Christianity rather than as a threat, and skepticism about the value of straightforward apologetics — with Taylor, he suggests that the genre diminishes religion by reducing it to just another «closed» set of propositions in an age that prizes storytelling and fluidity.

I would attempt to show that what members identify as their doubt about Christian claims can also be viewed as reliance upon a genre of interpretation that has a reciprocal relationship with other, quite different genres of Christian belief.

This is a topic close to my heart, so it was a joy listening and learning as Jose Morales (a bishop in the Disciples of Christ Church who also happens to be a DJ) explained how we can think about biblical genres much in the same way we think about musical genres, and as Jay Bakker shared why he hasn't given up on the Bible, even when he's seen it abused and misused.

In my Rock Songbook posts I have had on occasion to talk about various pop music genres that aren't rock but which are commonly conflated with it, contrasted with it, etc., as I did with the posts on disco, or with various ones distinguishing R+B and rock n» roll from Rock.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

But Mark Reinfeld has raised the bar on the genre with his latest, bringing together his training as a chef with a masters degree in holistic nutrition for a cookbook that's about more than health and more than cooking.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

Refinery29 asked Brooks about what that particular period of post-college angst was like for her, what advice she has for her younger self, and why she's reclaiming the romantic comedy as a genre.

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I am being critical about the fact it is a mainstream genre film as you stated and not a mockumentary.

Muschietti does an excellent job of revealing just enough about Mama as we go along (and just enough of Mama herself) to show he's in control of this genre.

I was questionable about how meshing three genres together would work, and the result isn't that bad of a game, as long as you know what you're doing from day to day.

For a genre that's supposed to be about carefully considering the possibilities of the future, science fiction too often feels just as slick and mindless a genre as any other.

While hardly a breakthrough on any level — indeed, about as unoriginal as the genre gets — if the goal is simply to keep the torch flickering between the Games and the fall season, mission probably accomplished.

Certainly, there's a subversive European flavour to Pearce's ambitious Brit - pic that keeps us guessing about its characters» motives as it slides between genres (melodrama, crime thriller, beastly chiller) with ease.

And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet - eyed sincerity — the thing the film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.

As far as the film itself is concerned, its a credit to its genre, another incredible reason to follow / watch / talk about indie animation and to share it with your kids so that they can be educated in film beyond the typicaAs far as the film itself is concerned, its a credit to its genre, another incredible reason to follow / watch / talk about indie animation and to share it with your kids so that they can be educated in film beyond the typicaas the film itself is concerned, its a credit to its genre, another incredible reason to follow / watch / talk about indie animation and to share it with your kids so that they can be educated in film beyond the typical.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

Like most films in this overworked genre, it's as formulaic in its own way as a John Wayne western, and the characters and situations all have a gnawing predictability about them.

It's important to remember that these films are more than just spoofs or parodies of the genres they emulate as each film has a powerful emotional core with something to say about friendship, growing up and more.

How much research did you have to do in the period, and as a Scotsman, where you at all worried about taking on the MIGHTY western genre that is almost sacred to American movie culture?

Likewise, the current popularity of the superhero genre allows Birdman to be all the more relevant as social commentary - and allows it to land its punches with greater precision (see: the joke about Keaton's character refusing to do Birdman 4).

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

Its conclusion an ejaculation of complicated genre reversals and confirmations, Death Proof is a film about courtship, untimely intoxication, bad decisions, and testosterone as a literal elixir taken like a shot of Jaeger when you need to seal a deal.

Taylor - Joy claims never to have even seen a scary movie before The Witch, but as I chat to her about my decreasing faith in Hollywood horror, she's surprisingly well aware of the formulaic approach to the genre that seems to have been adopted by so many.

He may as well be talking about the madhouse genre itself, in addition to the fraught young woman on display, Eliza, played by Kate Beckinsale.

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

A decade or so ago, it would have been hard to talk with any conviction about Irish horror as a genre.

Dance and melody, mise - en - scène and movement, spectacle and logic - defying plot — these are the constituent elements of a genre with an improbably high built - in fun quotient (even material as «difficult» as Sweeney Todd has something deliriously infectious about it), and so there's no reason why our search for a toe - tapping good time at the movies should lead us to choose the offensively bad over the competent.

Again, it feels awfully conventional as the take - charge American puts together his team to go fix the situation, and nothing about the way it progresses rises above the crushing genre conventions.

Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.

It's a genre piece, and it's uneven (for once the juvenile actors in a movie aren't as good as the grownups) but it's not didactic or overly preachy and it makes some trenchant points about despair.

It's such a middling entry in a well - developed genre that one must cast about for elements that worked well enough to justify making yet another movie about it, and using some of our favorite character actors — Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Abbie Cornish — as they did.

Miike clearly enjoys shaking up movie genres, and the first half of this film is an impeccable samurai costume drama, as we learn about the characters and the politically charged situation through encounters that add increasing levels of urgency, plus a few grisly Miike touches.

AVC: One of the interesting things about horror as a genre is that it's possible to work on a micro-budget and still make an effective film.

I knew there were some scripts around about it, but I knew that they were horror films, and I thought it was impossible to do a story about this as a horror genre film.

As we head towards the 2017 Academy Awards, many horror fans (myself included) are insisting that John Goodman be nominated for 10 Cloverfield Lane, and all the Oscar chatter got us thinking about other great genre performances that probably should have, at the very least, nabbed nominations.

The horror genre is probably the most frequent producer of remakes, as most of them tend to adhere to one of about a half dozen basic formulas, so why not add a brand name to the mix if you're going to be taking on such a similar story anyway.

That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.

Language: English Genre: Action / Sci - Fi MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Actors: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson Plot: Stever Rogers aka Captain America, continues to adapt to the modern world while working with S.H.I.E.L.D but an old friend is about to turn up: his former partner - in - arms James «Bucky» Barnes resurfaces - but he's been programmed as a Russian assassin known as The Winter Soldier.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.