Sentences with phrase «celebrity culture set»

Not exact matches

One habit of Prince's they told me about struck me as so counter to our times that I came to see it as illustrating what set him apart from today's culture of celebrity: he allowed no one near him to use a cell phone.

Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.

Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social - media - driven celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.

Adding to tons of pop culture references (Star Wars, Aliens, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, celebrities like Reynolds himself and Hugh Jackman) and two cameos of Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld (the latter is at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children), Tim Miller tied the knot with impressive fight choreography and a timely, mood - setting presence of Junkie XL's scores.