Sentences with phrase «classic tropes with»

This raunchy look at growing up in a broken home hits all of the classic tropes with panache — living in the shadow of an older sibling, an absentee mother, nursing a crush on the high - school bad boy and the student - teacher friendship.

Not exact matches

Sticker Star's lavish tapestry of neat touches keeps you pushing forwards in spite of the wonky puzzling and boring combat, and its vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes.

It follows the classic tropes of the romance genre, enhanced with nuanced performances that elevate what might otherwise be stock characters in a plot with few surprises.

Our own Evan Narcisse called it a «crowd - pleaser with bite» and said that despite it obviously being influenced by classic scifi of the «70s and «80s, Whannell did his best to avoid and upend those tropes.

For his 1992 comeback hit, The Player, he satirized film - industry politics with the tropes of a classic crime movie.

But it is of a piece with the rest of the movie, which plays less like a classic gangster film than like a 99 percent pure, Heisenberg - quality, blue - crystal distillation of all the tropes and themes and moods of the classic gangster film.

«Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» has unleashed a new U.K. trailer that deftly blends the themes of Jane Austen's classic with the tropes of the horror and action genres, while laying out the film's premise.

Also, killing - people - with - weapons - that - aren't - supposed - to - be-weapons is a classic Bond trope that Kaluuya has clearly already perfected.

With the mystical overtone of Ingmar Bergman overlaid on a framework that is unabashedly Sergio Leone by way of John Ford, Quentin Tarantino ably deconstructs the tropes of the classic western while boldly evoking the metaphysical overtones of the ci - mentioned Bergman and the violent intensity of the ci - mentioned Leone.

Yet the style, unique framing device and top - shelf execution are what ultimately help sell this mash - up of classic genre filmmaking with new - school tropes.

It takes its tropes and its idioms from classic noirs, but with nary a cliché, and with a soul more hard - boiled than the film... Read More»

Wrapping itself with references to movie tropes, such as its overt allusion to classic Christmas tales like A Christmas Carol — in which Michael Shannon appears in a drug - deal version of Ghosts of Christmas Past / Present / Future — it never avidly mocks the traditions but instead embraces its ridiculousness, alongside Rogen's trademark crass humour.

Starting with a classic fantasy trope (awkward heir far down the line suddenly comes to power) The Goblin Emperor knows what it does well and sticks w

For with every theme Ross presents — the Hitchcockian fallen hero, the classic «wrong man» trope, the Möbius strips and Escher imagery that emerge again and again, lest we forget the unending nature of marriage, love and murder — there is a way in which this too - clever - to - be-neat story resists such thematics, indeed calls into question the expectation / fulfillment nature of storytelling itself.

Grey Goo breathes new life into the RTS genre by blending classic, established gameplay mechanics and tropes with modern design tools and technology to create a thoughtful, exhilarating strategy experience.

Flawlessly flaunting immersive motion control, as well as a design which incorporates classic design tropes with an influx of imaginative new ideas, the title brilliantly lives up to its lofty heritage.

Similarly, the game feels ancient in the way it's designed and comes with some tropes synonymous with the classic action platformers of the PlayStation 2 — and honestly, I appreciated it all the more for having that gritty, low - poly, old school look and feel.

The game smartly combines tropes from classic genres — murder mystery, science fiction, coming - of - age quests — and subverts them with unique, non-linear game - play mechanics, taboo subjects, and gorgeous environments.

Among the grandest of Eisenman's recent paintings are the beer gardens — a classic trope, along with the cabaret, of German Expressionism.

Based on disturbing events Mars witnessed while visiting a relative at a mental hospital, his new work explores the dark crevices of the mind, approaching this classic horror trope with sensitivity and nuance.

Artist's Response: The grass is always greener on the other side Saturday 12 June 2010, 1.00 pm, New Galleries, IMMA Mark Joyce, the Irish painter and IADT lecturer, will speak in the context of his own practice, exploring classic tropes found in manifestos of artists and composers in the Modernist period and how this may have informed Morton Feldman's relationship with the visual arts.

It ends up mashing together these elements, but with a big enough dose of classic Assassin's Creed tropes to make it feel part of the iconic series.