Sentences with phrase «by older audiences»

To provide context, Nintendo had something of an image problem back in the late N64 / early GC years, where they were dismissed as «too kiddy» by older audiences.

This makes it an experience perhaps better had by older audiences, with a degree of parental supervision also likely to be beneficial.

Not exact matches

Old industries that have not yet adjusted to the vast opportunities provided by the Internet and its ability for anyone to become a thought leader to audiences they otherwise wouldn't have access to.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

When a couple came on to talk about their 16 - year - old daughter, who had been murdered by her boyfriend, they told the host that they wanted the audience to know their daughter's life was bigger than her tragic death.

Take ConvertKit as an example: The 5 - year old company launched by CEO Nathan Barry makes an email - marketing tool for professional creators, helping them to grow their audience across different social platforms while keeping their branding consistent.

At the time of the Old Testament, God's Covenants were in place for His people of the time, as revealed first verbally from generation to generation, then when Hebrew became a written language, by Moses and the prophets, and through all time the intended audience knew as much about their condition and need for salvation as God wanted them to know at the time.

Voskuil shows how the old establishment attempted to hold power in the media by trying to pre-empt free air time, but failed to develop and hold an audience.

Similar substitutions should be made in the passages where Jesus deals with the centurion of great faith (Matthew 8:5 — 13, Luke 7:1 — 9), where Peter brings the gospel to gentiles for the first time via the centurion Cornelius (Acts 10), and where the writer of Hebrews commends to his Christian audience the acts of force used by noble soldiers in the Old Testament (ch.

At a November 1999 Stonewall concert attended by Cherie Blair, Frank Dobson and Simon Hughes, 18 - year - old male strippers dressed as boy scouts, who were accompanying Sir Elton John singing «It's a sin», stripped off their uniforms to the loud approval of the audience.

He recognizes that «Israel's grammar was indeed impinged on by the vagaries of historical experience.Brueggemann also recognizes that old Testament theology exists in two historically and culturally distinct audiences.

It is these little Westminster - insider quirks that draw audience members into the grubby little world decried by one disillusioned MP: «it's archaic, it's old - fashioned, it's bollocks.»

She used some old lines («in your world every problem is caused by immigrants») but also deployed humour, saying «Nigel, you're obviously setting out to win friends and influence people» after he attacked the studio audience (twice).

In the audience Wednesday night was Evelyn Rodriguez, whose 16 - year - old daughter, Kayla, was killed along with a friend in September, allegedly by MS - 13 members.

Entrance should be free, the focus must on be 15 to 25 - year - olds — an audience that he says is not reached by many science centers — and to function as a «porous membrane» between a university and city; urban locations are vital.

Six of the top 10 channels included adolescents as young as 12 years old in their primary target audience based on audience demographic data reported by a cable advertising trade group.

The same methods can be applied to other fears and phobias — apply it to that workplace bully by imagining a giant wart on their forehead, or try the old naked audience trick to deflate the fear of public speaking.

For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).

In this near perfect story of an unlikely 100 - year - old man, the audience follows Allan Karlsson (portrayed wonderfully by Robert Gustafsson) as he leaves his old age home to literally go anywhere.

Other than the boozing scene, Miyasaki clearly realizes the importance of teaching lessons to his young audience, as the old «Don't judge a book by its cover» adage is a central theme, as well as several scenes that depict the awful devastation that mankind is leaving on our oceans.

By the movie's midpoint, the Wachowski brothers» screenplay has gotten so bogged down in back story that it takes 40 minutes for director James McTiegue to get back to the explosions that his 16 - year - old target audience assumes will solve everything.

With some of the cast talking directly to the audience to fill us in on what's going on, «I, Tonya» stars Margot Robbie as a 15 - year - old right up to her 25th year: credit the wig people and makeup artists for converting a classy - looking actress as a hardscrabble, working - class woman who had in at least one instance is looked over by as a representative of her sport because she does not radiate a wholesome, family manner.

Audiences most definitely will squirm and wish they were anywhere but in the theater, despite the fact that it features some of Clive Owen's best work and a startling movie debut by the 15 - year - old Liana Liberato.

An old - hat but somehow still fresh horror - comedy that wins its audience over by the personalities onscreen.

Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs composed by Alan Menken.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

Jon Turteltaub's pitch for audience investment is four characters diminished by old age.

Older audiences braced for tragedy may be drawn to its imaginative visuals — the stories told by the monster are rendered in delicate, painterly animation — and to the achingly vulnerable, growing - up - too - fast boy at its center.

The fact that the narrative (rewritten by The Devil Wears Prada's Aline Brosh McKenna from a first draft by Emma Thompson) can't raise its rich / poor themes above the level of mobile phone ownership or its modernity beyond an acknowledgment of viral videos, and social media (an Instagram - led helicopter chase seems terribly old - fashioned) is only part of a more general uncertainty about what Annie means to today's movie - going audiences.

This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.

Yet despite the distracting detours of adult content, this film, like most of Jane Austen's novels, is determined to give older audiences a glimmer of hope by championing the value of marital bliss.

Kids today, perhaps the prime audience for «Max,» could be troubled by some aspects of the movie, but ultimately they will acquire a real - life, vicarious experience involving the death of a 14 - year - old boy's brother (shown graphically in a scene from Afghanistan) and the violence involving gun smugglers, one of whom violates the Marine code of behavior by being involved in the theft and sale of AK - 47's and a bazooka.

EVE, «Wall - E» Introducing audiences to fan - favorite, butt - kicking female characters is by now old hat for Pixar, but EVE from «Wall - E» has to be one of our all - time favorites.

Furthermore, Pixar films usually don't have stereotypical antagonists and stick to their guns by telling character driven stories that resonate with audiences young and old, rather than conforming to conventional structures.

The discussion, led by Film Comment Digital Editor Violet Lucca, touches on modern audiences» emotional distance from older works, the enduring power of the film medium, and the particular experience of younger generations of cinephiles.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

«Obviously younger audiences will be attracted to the film by Freddie and Odeya, but Christopher Meloni and others have been able to attract older audiences.»

The good old days when audiences, critics and filmmakers were divided by spirited debates and stood their ground openly attacking each other seem to be confined to a bygone era of economic prosperity.

Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers — Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci — Favreau brings an all - new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.

Performed by the Riders in the Sky, the song instantly calls to mind the old American West and practically mandates a square dance from its audience.

The audience meets them all via Carl (Tom Sturridge) an 18 - year - old newly expelled from school and sent to live on the ship by his glamorous and slightly scandalous mother in order to sort himself out.

The Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to The Surrogate, written and directed by Ben Lewin, about: Mark O'Brien, a 36 - year - old poet and journalist in an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin.

Based upon this new information, it seems as though Nintendo is attempting to keep the old audience and gather new audiences by including the components that have worked in the other games of the series while creating a story - mode-esque game that everyone can enjoy.

The 44 - year - old actor and Ellar, 20, were joined by their Boyhood co-star Patricia Arquette and her artist boyfriend Eric White, producer John Sloss, and director Richard Linklater at the ceremony where they took home the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award.

Leading out of the shorts, the fest debuts the Slamdance Audience Award winner for 2014, «Copenhagen» by Mark Raso, an excellent drama that features a breakthrough performance from Fredrikke Dahl Hansen as a 14 - year - old who happens to fall in love with a much older, boorish American tourist trying to find an ancestor in the titular city.

«Rise of the Guardians» is your basic by - the - numbers unlikely hero tale, although it does give audiences something that has been missing from the other movies of this year — an old - fashioned villain.

Seamlessly adapted for American audiences by Donald H. Davis and Cindy Hewitt Davis, this spoof / pastiche of old - movie cliches also soars as a paean to the redeeming power of friendship and loyalty.

Riggan's attempt to destroy this critic's approach to art is not far off from Sam's tearing Riggan apart for feigning artistic altruism in staging a Raymond Carver play that will be seen only by «white, old, rich audiences.»

On the heels of the more audience - friendly shoot»em - up 3:10 to Yuma comes the ponderous but often pretentious epic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — an intriguing visual poem starring Brad Pitt as the Old West icon and Casey Affleck, Pitt's co-star in the Ocean's films, as James» assassin.

The evidence is Swanberg's 2 - year - old son Jude, who handily upstages anything co-stars Melanie Lynskey and Anna Kendrick can come up with to generate interest onscreen, to the extent that one can imagine a greater audience for 80 minutes of «baby Jude does the darnedest things» YouTube videos than might turn out for this sweetly insipid, mostly improvised dramedy, acquired by Magnolia and Paramount together prior to its Sundance premiere.