Sentences with phrase «bit of acclaim»

Giant Sparrow's previous game, 2012's The Unfinished Swan, earned the team quite a bit of acclaim (including a couple of BAFTA awards).

Columbus is the feature directorial debut of a filmmaker known as «Kogonada», a Korean cinephile who previously made video essays that achieved quite a bit of acclaim online.

Lionsgate has launched a trailer for the indie buddy comedy Blindspotting, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to quite a bit of acclaim.

This first premiered at Sundance and has played at numerous festivals all over the world, and is getting quite a bit of acclaim because it's a hell of a film.

This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to quite a bit of acclaim and rave reviews, though not everyone loved it.

Though John Ridley's most recent work has been with his critically - acclaimed ABC anthology crime drama «American Crime,» he garnered quite a bit of acclaim for his screenplay for «12 Years A Slave,» for which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for the indie drama - documentary mix titled American Animals, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to quite a bit of acclaim.

Not exact matches

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's dark comedy won acclaim for its biting take on the pitfalls of Hollywood fame as well as some daringly experimental cinematography.

So, without further ado, let's hear from the author of this revolutionary and critically acclaimed book and dive a bit deeper into The Fourth Trimester.

In your first module, JJ will tell you a bit more about herself, some of her personal struggles, and how she became the acclaimed health and wellness expert she is today.

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but The Hunt landed on several best - of - 2012 lists a year ago, and this summer's U.S. release found many critics hailing the drama as a return to form.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head - on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody — and biting critique — of the insanity of gun violence.

It's a tad bit on the boring side at times, but at its best (which is 99 % of the time) the film deserves the acclaim it has received.

Danish director Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but some critics found this «unsettling» and «devastating» new film a return to form, and it will get a limited U.S. release this May.

Wes Anderson might garner acclaim for shoving bits of quirk into every spare corner of mise - en - scène, but Tarantino knows how to utilize them for maximum effect.

Depardieu's performance in Jacques Attali's «The Gates of Heaven» won bravos, but a lot of people walked out, finding the play — about love, death, power and Francois Mitterrand — too long and even a bit boring... President Clinton, whose childhood was troubled by alcohol - fueled abuse, asked Lions Gate for a print of «Affliction,» the acclaimed Nick Nolte movie about a man coping with the results of early years spent with an abusive, alcoholic dad.

Debut director Yann Demange has quite a bit to juggle with there but the script by Gregory Burke (who wrote the acclaimed play Black Watch) is as tight as a Lambeg drum and we have the outstanding presence of O'Connell to hold everything together.

The last time Cruise starred alongside an acclaimed foreign actress, Carice Van Houten ended up melting into the background of «Valkyrie,» so hopefully this part if a bit meatier.

Actors like Scott Eastwood, Jim Parrack (True Blood), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), Brad William Henke (Pacific Rim) and Kevin Vance (Sabotage) have memorable cameos as various soldiers, while acclaimed Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and young German actress Alicia von Rittberg (pictured above) have two of the most tense and captivating bit parts of recent memory.

Director / co-writer Kelly Reichardt, who established her style of naturalistic, deviously aimless filmmaking with the acclaimed «Old Joy» a couple of years back, gives us a portrait of a gal whose wayward existence — washing up in gas - station bathrooms, picking up cans on the sidewalk, sleeping in her car — makes her every bit as lost in America as her dog.

As a lifelong lover of cinema and patron to the likes of Harmony Korine, Gaspar Noé, and Claire Denis, it's surprising that 73 - year - old Agnès Troublé, a.k.a acclaimed fashion designer agnès b, wasn't bitten by the filmmaking bug until now.

Walt Disney Animations Studios was in a bit of a slump in the early «00s but over the last few years, films like Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero 6, and Wreck - It Ralph have garnered acclaim from audiences putting them rightRead More →

11 bit Studios» somber look at war from the civilians» perspective This War of Mine [$ 14.99] launched on desktop in November of last year to critical acclaim, and in July of this year it was ported to iOS and Android tablets.

The Evoque model line does have a fair bit of off - road capability, and the convertible variant too gets the acclaimed Terrain Response System to tackle varied landscapes.

Waid, the writer of the Eisner award - winning Daredevil as well as the acclaimed comics Irredeemable and Incorruptible, attracted quite a bit of attention earlier this year when he launched the digital comics site Thrillbent.

You might suspect that Booker Prize - winning writer John Banville used a bit of author's alchemy when he wrote a series of acclaimed, atmospheric crime novels set in 1950s Dublin, using the pen name Benjamin Black.

Following Mirabilis, her highly acclaimed debut, Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite - wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electrical sexual stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American West.

British novelist Sadie Jones has earned literary acclaim with her two previous novels, both historical tales featuring characters who are a bit out of step with the rest of the world.

The news may come as a surprise to the bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks, who this weekend expressed his wish to find a job, writing in the Spectator that he has «now spent almost a quarter of a century alone in a garret staring at a blank wall, and I think it has driven me a bit mad».

CBR's Alex Dueben interviewed Flight editor Kazu Kibuishi about the release of the eighth and final volume in the much - acclaimed anthology series this week, and Kibuishi talked a bit about...

Next, there was Trailblazer, a remake of an 8 - bit computer sci - fi racing game from the 1980s, and Gizmondo Motorcross 2005, a top - down motocross game developed by now - acclaimed PSN developer Housemarque.

The Greatest Bits already released critically acclaimed music tributes to Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country, Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon Red and Blue and Street Fighter 2.

To say Lords of the Fallen is a poor man's version of From Software's critically acclaimed Souls franchise is to sell the game a tad bit short.

The 16 - bit favorite gets dissected in this section of Read Only Memory's new book on the acclaimed British studio.

11 bit Studios» somber look at war from the civilians» perspective This War of Mine [$ 14.99] launched on desktop in November of last year to critical acclaim, and in July of this year it was ported to iOS and Android tablets.

Recently released strategy title Frostpunk, from developer 11 bit Studios — the team behind critically acclaimed game This War of Mine - has reportedly sold 250,000 units in less than 3 days.

This time we deviate from our normal format a bit, as Luke gathers an all too cramped room of guests together to rank five of the most critically acclaimed games of 2015.

The 8 - bit and 16 - bit eras of gaming have experienced quite the resurgence over the last few years with games like Cave Story and Shovel Knight earning quite a bit of attention and critical acclaim, and for good reason too, but there have been a lot of games that have tried to capitalize on this retro reawakening with mixed results.

He hasn't minded a bit, perhaps because he understood better than most the cost of acclaim.

An internationally acclaimed artist, yet still a bit foreign to many New Yorkers, the L.A. based McCarthy creates a provocative set with graphic content that is not new to his work, and, according to curator Hans - Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots, the new Artistic Director of the Armory, WS is a «true Gesamtkunstwerk» or «total artwork.»

The former is an acclaimed fictional TV show whose title needed a bit of explaining: «BREAKING BAD: A southern U.S. expression for when a good person suddenly loses their moral compass and starts doing bad things».