Sentences with phrase «bits of pop culture»

Pirate Radio is neither historically accurate enough (it can't even stick to its year of 1966 to provide its tunes, some of which came out a little after («Jumpin» Jack Flash» is from 1968, as is «So Long, Marianne» by Leonard Cohen, to name but two) to provide interest in a bit of pop culture history, nor is it consistent enough to sustain its good cheer without collapsing from the weight of its own cutesy manipulations in its characters for laughs, It's not so much a story as it is a collection of sitcom moments meant to induce laughter and mirth, mixing it with all of the best rock tunes of its era.

A bit of a pop culture junkie,...

I thought about just doing this post as a way to laugh at how silly conservative outrage over another bit of pop culture they don't like is, especially this guy's movie review, but I just can't get over how wrong his assumptions are about what most people that call themselves environmentalists really believe and want for themselves and the environment.

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The difficulty of answering this question explains why Dunham resorts to the calculated inauthenticity of seeing herself in movies, novels, and bits and pieces of pop culture.

A slight change of plans here — I had wanted to talk about this recent Conor Friedersdorf piece about the lack of conservative rap critics as part of a three - part essay called «Paradoxes of Conservative Pop - Culture Studies,» but I realized that to really to do that, I would have to talk about rap more than a bit, indeed, enough to demand a Rock Songbook post or two.

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Ed Jefferson is a freelance journalist, writing about pop culture, obscure bits of history and «the millennials».

I'm a bit fan of many aspects of asian culture such as anime, J pop, J rock, kpop, k rock, etc..

The eye poking, cartoon violence gags are straight out of the old shorts, which was like pop culture comfort food, save for a Farelly Brothers - like bit where urinating babies cause trouble for the three.

The novel is built entirely on nostalgia and pop culture references — particularly video game references — making it a bit of a tricky adaptation given the various licensing hurdles involved.

There is also quite a bit of good pop culture thrown in the mix, and satirical knocks on how kids pick up things from video games and music, such as when B - Rad tears up a neighborhood with his gats, and credits

With good reason, too: as writer and director of the Back to the Future movies, he's a pop culture icon for more than one generation (and his DeLorean is every bit the hero of the movie as Parzival).

The script is also chock full of pop culture references throughout including bits about Cheers, Mary Poppins, and David Hasselhoff.

All of it is written — overly peppered with her unique insertion of pop - culture references and strange slang — by Cody with a sense of detached irony that feels dishonest, especially when director Karyn Kusama tries to inject subtle bits of humanity into it, which in turn feel dishonest because of the overall tone.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like Seven and Saving Private Ryan and the Taken films, as well as quite a bit of television work, but Faults is a rare case of a director putting him in the driver's seat, and he proves himself equal to the task.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like

It's not the best film, it gets a bit repetitive with the constant barrage of American pop culture, and the second half slows down and loses the momentum it built, but it's a wild ride and totally worth seeing if you love the very dark, brutally honest humor that Bobcat does so well.

The giant designs in the graphic novel and upcoming big - screen adaptation take inspiration from other giant monsters in pop culture, like the Ents from Lord Of The Rings, or the kaijū from Pacific Rim, but as the creators tell us, the designs Niimura originally came up with were a bit more phallic.

The action has been transplanted to America almost intact (the pop - culture references are a bit more up to date and the people say coffee instead of tea).

The humor is actually a bit better, and I found myself amused on a handful of occasions at the parodies and pop culture references that are sprinkled throughout the film.

Functioning as a social critique but operating first and foremost as the driest, bleakest type of comedy, the film seeks not chuckles but gasps of amused horror, a goal most ably and hauntingly achieved during a sick - joke finale in which the bubble is finally burst thanks to a sly bit of pop - culture infiltration.

Airing on Cartoon Network's late - night Adult Swim, Robot Chicken has amassed six seasons of bite - sized episodes parodying pop culture and, in particular, genre movies and TV.

In what became an unfortunate trend that continues to this day, the modern breed of animated features relies a bit too much on crude gags and up - to - the - minute pop - culture references rather than on a magical sense of eternal appeal — Shrek falls into that camp, and even a mere decade - and - a-half later, much of it feels dated.

You may assume empathy and even genuinely feel empathy, but for whatever reason, be it unfamiliarity or decades of pop culture that make you assume how everyone acts, your interactions prove to be little more than micro-aggressions that serve as a biting reminder of the clear power divide despite living in a post Civil Rights America.

None of the jokes stand on their own as jokes; they depend on the usual boys» bathroom humor and on pop culture references that range from a bit outdated to very outdated.

Brought to you in 16 - bit pixelated glory, chock - full of references to not only gaming but also 80's and 90's pop culture.

Several billboards feature hilarious texts which are references to other games or pop culture, and there is even a tiny bit of a level inspired on the world's most famous birds!

To add in a bit of humor, there are some indirect jokes made about pop culture icons.

Brought to you 16 - bit pixelated glory, full of references to not only gaming, but also 80's and 90's pop culture.

Hunting for hidden pop culture references, completing every puzzle, and hunting down each character - specific bit of dialogue should add several additional hours to that total.

Adding to a long list of pop culture collaborations, which has yielded fare like Star Wars - and Disney - themed kicks, Vans is now working with Nintendo on a new line of branded sneakers featuring characters and power - ups from classic 8 - bit NES games, including Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and even Duck Hunt.

Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates plaster religious statues painted in the form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.

His strategies often include the manipulation of scale, which can be traced to René Magritte, Oldenburg, and Robert Gober, and a Pop - inflected appropriation of bits of consumer culture, invoking the (sometimes) ambivalent relationship to the religion of capitalism / consumption that lies at the heart of American life and art.

Snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other bits of nature from his hometown appear mixed in with Catholic symbolism, aliens, gang members, pop - culture references, and commercial imagery, giving brand logos and religious icons the same attention and placement.

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Arcangel is celebrated for his modifications of popular video games, a series of which were on view in that show; he also reuses appropriated gradient patterns from Photoshop, YouTube videos, and other bits of digital pop culture to craft prints, drawings, musical compositions, videos, and performance works.

She absorbs influences from pop culture as much as she does from high art, and I think sometimes she feels a bit divorced and distanced from the grand tradition of painting.

New York - based artist Adam Lister creates «8 - bit» watercolor versions of pop culture icons and famous paintings.

Flood's «Maintain» is a 2011 piece that speaks to the artist's nature as an astute and biting observer of pop culture.

Created by American artist Garth Britzman, in collaboration with University of Nebraska students, this piece, titled (POP) culture, took 200 hours to make and features a bit of coloured liquid within each bottle, adding some vibrancy to the transparent plastic.

Boston, MA About Blog NerdBastards.com, founded in 2009, is a pulsing nerd / geek / genre - centric entertainment news site with a focus on unique features and opinion pieces.Offering trending pop - culture, cosplay, anime news and other various «nerdy bits» in one place was a product of necessity.

Topics include politics, sports, celebrities, relationships, awkward social situations and pop culture... and even a little bit of Fort Lauderdale living.