Sentences with phrase «as mainstream entertainment»

Movies like Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight series and Marvel's The Avengers have swept box office records and re-instated superheroes as mainstream entertainment.

State of Play succeeds as mainstream entertainment to the point where it hardly makes sense to complain about its pulled political punches.

But as a mainstream entertainment vehicle, it is not profound enough to be gripping and it isn't entertaining in any other way.

But as a mainstream entertainment vehicle, it is not profound enough to be gripping and it isn't

Not exact matches

Demonstrating how much SXSW has become a mainstream entertainment industry event, HBO will also have some heavy duty merchandising ploys, such as a tasting for its new line of Game of Thrones - themed wines.

«Just as these misguided arbiters of the mainstream view an adult entertainment star as an anathema to the political process,» she said, when she eventually decided against a bid, «so too do they view the dishwasher, the cashier or the bus driver.»

Just as the charismatic movement introduced the musical influence of mainstream American Christianity back into Pentecostal circles, the new, respectable Pentecostals could not help absorbing the entertainment tastes of Silent Majority America.

You have a point about rock but hes far too busy and has too much money to trot out on tv every cple weeks for next to no money (compared to his movies) the ronda thing has been all over sports sites and entertainment sites im not really a ronda fan but i cant deny she has mainstream appeal (not nearly as much as before but still has it) lets put it this way whens the last time we saw something like «sasha banks (insert every wwe star) wrestles tonight» featured in major media publications online.

But on a pure pop level, as a piece of big - time mainstream entertainment, let us also celebrate this:

As a history lesson for scholars of game design, this is a genuinely educational product, providing firsthand experience with the birth of the console as a mass, mainstream entertainment producAs a history lesson for scholars of game design, this is a genuinely educational product, providing firsthand experience with the birth of the console as a mass, mainstream entertainment producas a mass, mainstream entertainment product.

As mainstream as entertainment gets, Passengers is light on art but big on entertainmenAs mainstream as entertainment gets, Passengers is light on art but big on entertainmenas entertainment gets, Passengers is light on art but big on entertainment.

Once hailed as a «boy genius» with enough gumption to turn Batman into his own darkly personal vision, Tim Burton has lately seemed confused about how to further adapt his singular talent to mainstream entertainment.

As for McQueen's work, advance chatter had some wondering whether he had what it took to make a mainstream entertainment his third time around, but there won't be much questioning of that after doubters see «12 Years a Slave.»

Or can it be successfully positioned as a high - concept, commercially mainstream sci - fi entertainment?

Of course, this doesn't qualify as mainstream cinema, certainly not in this unrated 101 - minute director's cut that this week resurfaced on DVD and premiered on Blu - ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment alongside an unlikely remake's home video debut.

One gets the impression that the writer does not understand what makes movies like «Die Hard» work as a genre piece as well as a successful mainstream entertainment.

MAYA ENTERTAINMENT www.maya-entertainment.com Based in Los Angeles, Maya Entertainment Group, Inc. is an independent multi-platform content and distribution company that has established itself as the leader of media product that appeals to the «new mainstream» of American Latino and Multi-cultural audiences.

But I do feel that to dismiss The Skelton Key — or Munich or Syriana or any movie that might be grouped under the heading of «mainstream popular entertainment» — simply because it isn't as complex in its arguments or as subtle in its art - making as some other movie that probably won't even reach cinemas in most cities across the country is to risk compromising one's own relevancy as a critic.

As the year 2013 winds down, there is a darkness that is sweeping America and the world, and these individuals are collectively blinded to it by self - medication and by The Powers That Be through the entertainment and mainstream news media.

For your average reader, they have most of the mainstream magazines, such as Wired, Popular Mechanics, Bloomberg, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Macleans, People, and Vogue.

While the Times has been reviewing and ranking ebooks for a short time, this marks the first time an author — albeit an author with a strong platform due to his well - known body of work as an entertainment critic, as opposed to an unknown debut author — has crossed over into its mainstream book reviews with a two - page review.

As a result, audiobooks have become mainstream entertainment enjoyed by millions of people.

But as the ultimate realisation of Microsoft's now abandoned transmedia storytelling plan to blur the line between TV and video games, developer Remedy Entertainment has crafted a video game with all the qualities of a mainstream hit.

As suggested by their titles — The Audition, The Rehearsal and The Interview — in each of the three installations making up The Woods, a particular show business ritual becomes the locus of meaning through which to more broadly reflect upon and decode the machinery of mainstream entertainment.