Sentences with phrase «as popular entertainment»

The trilogy taken as a whole is certainly the most significant work this decade thus far, as popular entertainment goes, it doesn't get a whole lot better.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

He has tackled tough subjects — the Holocaust in Schindler's List, WWII in Saving Private Ryan, terrorism in Munich, the Civil War and slavery in Lincoln — while somehow always managing to make films that also work as popular entertainments along the way.

Not exact matches

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producerAs the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other produceras a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

From radio dramas in the 1940s, TV variety shows in the»50s and»60s, a stint on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and, of course, her series - stealing turn as Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, White has been a staple of popular entertainment since the cathode ray's beginning.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more than 100 of the most popular music venues in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.

For iOS consumers between the ages of 25 and 34, the most popular app category is sports, health and fitness, followed by music, media and entertainment as well as lifestyle and shopping, according to a recent survey by Flurry.

To that end, an increasingly popular parlor question in the stocks as entertainment business is which company will be worth $ 1 trillion first?

Evidence of this cultural septicity is everywhere: in the rise of hedonistic escapism, in the violence of our popular entertainment, in the media's embrace of assisted suicide as the next great progressive cause.

The assumptions and techniques of psychology and therapy have found their way into business, schools, families, popular entertainment, and even the courts» so much so that it has become common to speak of our society as a «therapeutic culture.»

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

I don't think we have to choose between embracing and shunning popular entertainment as a whole.

• The vulgarization of popular culture and entertainment, which has so deeply wounded our politics that they've become another form of reality TV, producing a spectacle that should shame us into a collective examination of our consciences as consumers.

China scholar Orville Schell says, «Tibet is going to enter Western popular culture as something can only when Hollywood does the entertainment injection into the world system.

IDG's portfolio includes classic American fare with BOA Steakhouse as well as restaurants located in The W Hotel Hollywood — Delphine Eatery & Bar serves guests contemporary California cuisine, while Station Hollywood & The Living Room has become one of Hollywood's most popular dining and entertainment haunts since it opened in 2010.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Family - entertainment network INSP will premiere the second season of their popular and critically - acclaimed original series, State Plate this Friday, August 11 at 8:00 PM ET, as part of the «Destination Fridays» programming block.

Padma is an extremely popular name in Asia and has been adopted by an unusually large number of people who ended up as famous figures, be it in the entertainment industry, education field or the political arena.

Popular Ghanaian Reggae Artiste Blakk Rasta has commended entertainment group Zylofon Media as a group of serious minded young people who are ready do business.

And each year the games are becoming more popular — not only as a form of entertainment but as a medium for education or even as a therapeutic agent for keeping people's minds sharp.

Christopher Michael Benoit was a professional wrestler from Canada described by the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) as the most popular among his fans for his incredible stamina and ability to wrestle.

As the magazine's Editor - in - Chief, she created innovative and popular columns like Fit Rx, which applies exercise programs to combat specific health ailments, and Top Trainer, which focuses on how top athletes and entertainment figures stay in shape.

In today's SkaDate Dating Software digest we've got the latest online dating industry news, a look at a possible dating - politics crossover, an obligatory research report, as well as the always popular sampling of entertainment posts from across the Internet.

Online acquaintance becomes very popular and for those who lives in London, it is fantastic possibility to meet new people, and for entertainment and as potential future partners.

One of the most popular forms of entertainment in the Philippines is the festival, more popularly known locally as fiestas.

Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popEntertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popentertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popular culture.

Bordwell, as all film students know, is the author of such books as «Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment,» «Figures Traced in Light:» and «The Way Hollywood Tells It.»

Because they sit just outside the remit of what we might coin as «popular entertainment» (in short: they take ages to read), the term novel is now employed as a byword for a more cultivated, high quality and serious form of media.

Sid Colin began his entertainment career as a guitarist and singer with the popular British dance band, Ambrose and the Squadronaires.

The particulars of the case, something to do with a string of mysterious suicides precipitated by an Egyptian cult existing in Holmes - era London, aren't nearly as interesting as the lengths to which Spielberg and company go to make Homes «exciting» for a mid-Eighties youth audience that mostly learned what they knew about popular entertainment from twin godheads Spielberg and George Lucas.

The Bourne Ultimatum isn't Nietzsche, but it is popular entertainment as a mirror held to the spirit of this age.

(Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray all Coen staples, were also the adult cast of Moonrise Kingdom) As the two filmmakers working today that do not operate in franchises or sequels, but still make popular entertainment on a significant scale, they feel like increasingly rare birds in the American movie landscape.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times: «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

In his review for The Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.

Because they sit in a sphere that exist just outside the remit of what we might coin as «popular entertainment» (in short: they take ages to read), the term novel is now used as a byword for a more cultivated, high quality and serious artform.

His mocking, defeatist attitude toward popular entertainment comes across as more than just a little alienating.

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.

Shyamalan's name has now carried a negative connotation for longer than it stood as an invitation to quality popular entertainment.

Ann Cusack — Born into an entertainment family, daughter of actor Dick, and sister to popular actors John and Joan Cusack, Ann has lived a wealth of experience on the stage, the big and the small screens, as well as singing the blues with various bands.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, either, as Capcom's supremely popular franchise has brought countless hours of entertainment to handheld lovers.

When popular media are used as a springboard for learning, she adds, formal education becomes a bridge for youth «from the often insular and entertainment - focused digital culture of the home to a wider, broader range of cultural and civic experiences that support their intellectual, cultural, social and emotional development.»

Romania's Transfagarasan Pass has been labeled as the best driving world in the road, especially since three gentlemen proclaimed so on their popular «entertainment show».

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.

A popular choice on a budget, it is perfectly capable of running entertainment apps such as Netflix, Spotify and Amazon Prime Video, but has inbuilt adverts and pushes Amazon's own services.

The NOOK Store features all of the most popular and bestselling top 100 app titles for tablets available anywhere, including the hottest games, as well as lifestyle, productivity, news, entertainment and reading apps.

First, while it doesn't pretend to take the place of the Kindle reader — hence the official name, despite the popular talk that it would simply be referred to as the Kindle tablet or sometimes, the Kindle 4 — some proponents of the device also state that it doesn't even pretend to compete with the iPad in that it is more an e-reader and entertainment - based device.

This is a big win for the publishing and entertainment industry and the popular torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents, which allow people to illicitly download books, movies and TV shows online without paying, are expected to be among the first websites in rights holders» sights.

According to a press release from Barnes and Noble, «Fans of widely popular titles from Alloy Entertainment can now enjoy Iva - Marie Palmer's The End of the World As We Know It, a novel about a group of misfit teens facing an alien invasion, and Elena Perez's The Art of Disappearing, a heartbreaking and mysterious novel about a popular girl who starts to lose it all when she learns she may be psychic.