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He also happens to be one of the great travel writers, having authored classics of the genre like The Snap Revolution, about the chaos surrounding the fall of Marcos in the Philippines.

A dark and futuristic 2D sidescroller offering adventure - style puzzles, exploration - driven platforming, and dangerous extraterrestrials, Exile's End is part Metroidvania and part «cinematic platformer,» drawing heavy inspiration from classics of the genre like Out of This World and Flashback: The Quest for Identity.

Not exact matches

The only rock Christian songs I really like include many by U2, «Spirit in the Sky» by Norman Greenbaum, and «One Toke Over the Line» by Brewer and Shipley, None of these groups were part of the Christian music genre, but their songs are classics.

And while the film definitely has a silly side to it (McConaughey's character even has a nasty run of bad luck with animals biting him), it's hardly comparable to a genre classic like «There's Something About Mary.»

Combining the gameplay design of classic pet games, like Nintendogs, EyePet and Kinectimals, THQ's addition to the genre is quite the cocktail!

Pirate's Curse succeeds as a solid sidescroller but doesn't reach the heights of other classic and modern fusions of the genre like Shovel Knight, although is still a thoroughly enjoyable experience if your looking for a sidescroller.

Unsane isn't easily dismissible, especially if you think of it as just one fragment of the wild terrazzo of Soderbergh's career, which includes jaggedly brilliant genre classics like «The Limey» and offbeat crowd - pleasers like «Magic Mike.»

But «Swan» despite its excellent execution and master class performances doesn't quite achieve the heights of other classics in this genre like «Mulholland Drive», «Memento» or even Aronofsky's amazing «Requiem of a Dream».

If you are an action - RPG fan, you're gonna like Fight the Dragon, a game with all the classic elements of the genre in their place, some nice additions (the editor, the mega-dragon arena) and a limited but pleasant technical sector.

It's not that it revitalizes a dead genre, but it does give a bit of new life and twist to the zombie genre, while also paying tribute to the classic cult films like Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Mad Max, among others.

This film feels like the musical genre's missing link, bridging the gap between the classic MGM musicals of the Freed Unit, and the more modern, less sanitised genre it eventually became.

Genre classics like Ocean's 11, The Italian Job, and The Great Train Robbery ensured that heist films were a viable box office endeavor, and they've been part of the zeitgeist ever since.

At only ninety minutes, it feels like director West, the helmer of genre classic CON AIR (and the pretty fun second EXPENDABLES movie) was shackled by the budget.

For the most part, Insidious sticks closely to the haunted house genre of horror (a sort of revival of classics like Poltergeist and The Amityville Horror).

He was in The Shimmer, of course, and it's here that sci - fi fans may start to recognize the phantom impression of Andrei Tarkovsky's deep - think genre classics, films like Solaris or Stalker, the latter similarly concerned with the traversing of a mysterious realm.

Imagine a comedy as sharp and dexterous, as light and bouncy, as the sequence in the classic musical Singin» In The Rain wherein Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor walk their way through a Hollywood soundstage, passing various pictures of different genres being shot like another day at the office.

The fact that «Scary Movie 4,» like its predecessor, is directed by David Zucker is rather depressing, given that Zucker helmed classics in the parody genre, including «Top Secret,» two of the three «Naked Gun» films, and the granddaddy of them all, «Airplane!»

I didn't mean that I hope there's a wave of remakes, just that there might be an interest in classic American genres like film noir and the western once again.

Fans of genre classics like DELIVERANCE, SOUTHERN COMFORT and THE HILLS HAVE EYES should be pleased to find the news that indie survival - horror BLACK ROCK has been picked up for distribution.

Prey is a bold entry in sci - fic genre of first person shooters that takes inspiration from classics like System Shock.

A mash - up of high school satires like «Heathers» and vintage slasher flicks like «Carrie,» «Jennifer's Body» isn't quite the cult classic it could have become, but it has enough going for it to entertain fans of both genres.

Under any name, Doug Liman's fiendishly clever almost - hit already feels like a new classic of the genre, one that can be comfortably re-watched about as many times as its main character croaks.

Classic buddy pictures typically threw together mismatched protagonists who slowly became friends: Martin Brest's Midnight Run is the gold standard of the genre, and looks like Citizen Kane next to this thing.

Coming after a pair of uneven broad comedies, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, the stark, stripped down, formally - controlled aesthetic of No Country, appeared to be a departure even from films like Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn't There, which were similarly grim and violent, but still contained their signature moments of absurd humor, references to older movies, and self - conscious pastiche of classic Hollywood genres.

While earlier Kaurismäki films like Shadows In Paradise and The Man Without A Past were deadpan, blue - collar subversions of melodramatic plot points and classic film genres, this is pure self - commentary, best appreciated by fans.

Film noir was always a cynical and dark (thematically and literally) genre, but 1949 saw the end of the first wave of classic noir films being replaced by the far rawer and more violent wave of B - grade noirs by the likes of directors such as Joseph H Lewis, Robert Aldrich and Samuel Fuller.

Far and away the best of Guillermo del Toro's English language features, The Shape of Water, like Dr. Frankenstein stitching together disparate appendages, conjoins the romanticism of the 1930s Classic Universal Monsters Movies, the conspiratorial grit of the 70s Hammer Films and a splash of Max, Mon Amour to craft a truly one - of - a-kind, genre - bending splat of modern monster cinema.

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

The original Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston, is a timeless classic, the kind of Sci - Fi that revolutionises the genre, standing up there with the classics like Bladerunner and, dare I say it, Star Wars.

But even as we are appreciating what is successful, starting with the impeccable work of Irons, Rampling and Schoenaerts, it's hard not to notice that the level of intensity, intelligence and involvement here does not reach the level of classic all - in spy movies like the Bourne films or Tomas Alfredson's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» and Anton Corbijn's «A Most Wanted Man,» both based on novels by the genre's master, John le Carré.

As horror and scifi fans well know, John Carpenter isn't just the director of genre classics like Halloween and Escape from New York — he's also a killer musician who has created some of the most memorable movie scores ever.

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

His glossy Hollywood movies of the 1980s (1987's The Big Clock remake No Way Out or 1988's Cocktail) segued into knock - off genre brands, like his remake of Arthur Penn's The Getaway in 1994, or B - grade sci - fi classic Species (1995).

It has more of an action - oriented take on the genre than we typically see, evoking classics like Secret of Mana.

While never rising above the B - movie standard that defined his subsequent career — including classics like Creature From The Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954), It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold, 1953) and The Valley Of Gwangi (James O'Connolly, 1969)-- he is quite effective at adapting his performance to the tonal shifts of the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateOf Gwangi (James O'Connolly, 1969)-- he is quite effective at adapting his performance to the tonal shifts of the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateof the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateof the genres the film navigates.

Fans of genre classics like DELIVERANCE, SOUTHERN COMFORT and THE HILLS HAVE EYES should be pleased to find the news that indie survival - horror BLACK...

Arguably the biggest breakout star of the bunch in 2017, Daniel Kaluuya rose to prominence thanks to his featured role in Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, which saw classic genre tropes removed and more relevant issues like racism infused into the unique plot line.

The collection kicks off with essays on books that were foundational to the genre (such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), then moves on to the the heyday of hardboiled crime fiction with contributions from David Peace, Michael Connelly and Laura Lippman on classics like Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister.

Sure games like Halo and COD are awesome but they take the more realistic approach to the FPS genre (yes I know you are killing space aliens and the like in Halo but you get the idea) so the more classic type of shooter where you just kill everything in sight with no mission objectives etc has kind of faded out, well that's what I thought untill I played Bulletstorm.

RESOGUN, our new exclusive PS4 game, adds a twist to the shooter genre, and while being very much a «spiritual successor» to the Stardust series, it doesn't shy away from remixing ideas and influences of classic arcade titles such as Defender, Data Storm, or Japanese shmups like DoDonPachi and Death Smiles.

caRRage is a top - down car combat game, akin to classic games of the genre like R.C. Pro-Am, Rock n» Roll Racing and Death Rally.

Konami tried to do the mech genre justice with the Zone of the Enders series (also made by Kojima), and even revitalized classics, like they did with Gradius V.

All the action plays out on the classic - style grid - based maps of the strategy genre, like the Final Fantasy Tactics series.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games that define genres, and Obsidian Entertainment, developers of classic games like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth, today announced that Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition...

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games that define genres, and Obsidian Entertainment, developers of classic games like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth, today announced that Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition... Read more

It has a classic feel that's reminiscent of games like Super Metroid and Castlevania, feeling at many times like an unabashed love letter to the genre with a focus on smart platforming and fast - paced 2D combat.

He would proclaim to us all that we've finally come across a puzzler with a straightforward mechanic that could rival the likes of Pac - Man and Tetris in the pantheon of classic genre examples.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games that define genres, and Obsidian Entertainment, developers of classic games like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth, today announced that Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs.

Alienation is in fact a spiritual sequel to Dead Nation taking all the good action elements of the original title, but as a completely new game it makes an interesting twist as an Action RPG with a loot system and character progression that takes the best of genres like modern social shooters and classic dungeon crawlers.

Sky Force Anniversary is part of the classic vertical shoot - em up genre that people will know if they're older gamers or played games like the Raiden series.