Sentences with phrase «classics of the genre such»

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Prominent Christian publishers such as Thomas Nelson and Zondervan offer extensive lines of novels in the «Amish romance» genre but little in terms of Christian classics and no poetry in a contemporary vein.

They are perfection of the classic pb cookie genre in both taste and looks, and I've never gotten so many compliments on such a humble cookie.

I love music of quality, genres with a little patina, such as Motown or classic rock, really capture me.

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So on the American Miserabilism shelf at your local shuttered video store, you can put Andrew Haigh's powerful and poignant «Lean on Pete» alongside such other classics of the genre as Werner Herzog's «Stroszek» and Andrea Arnold's «American Honey.»

The DSG genre is not to be scoffed at — it's given us such classic comedies as Caddyshack and Animal House and, more recently, Wedding Crashers and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin — and has done much to codify the behavior of drunk heterosexual men everywhere.

The original was such an important milestone in the fighting game genre and this takes the package of the classic and puts it in HD with animations that look fluid and artistic.

1981 was a landmark year for the horror genre, seeing as it did the release of such lauded genre classics as...

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

There is, in fact, more going on beneath the sheet to make the ghost look substantial, to have discernible body language, but Lowery's use of such a classic childhood trope somehow makes his striking images indelible — a familiar image used to upend a genre.

Silent Running is a classic film in the sci - fi genre, although it's one of those films that has little appeal to anyone that typically avoids such fare.

Steeped in Australia's brutal colonialist past and evoking other contemporary classics such as The Proposition and The Tracker, Sweet Country continually defies and undermines genre expectations with its masterful command of film style and its confronting tale of racism and injustice.

Despite giving audiences some bona fide classics such as The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), the genre has been rather dead as of late with lackluster offerings such as Poseidon (a weak 2006 imitation of the far better original) and the overly confident 2012 (2009).

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

Originally airing in November of 1979, Salem's Lot was a modern - day vampire tale that reflected the gothic overtones of the genre's classics such as Nosferatu and Dracula.

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.

Very good film makers such as Darren Aronofsky and Nicolas Winding Refn have sourced inspiration from the mood and saturated hues of a genre classic, which remains the perfect way to pay tribute to past pioneering while producing something new and exciting.

The classic western had all but already faded away, so thinking about the Coen's version as being such a classic western (though I'd argue with enough of a darker tone and elegiac ending that it's edging toward revisionist in tone if not in content) after so many years of revisionist westerns is interesting in relation to the original True Grit being almost a throwback to earlier western styles itself, as 1969's westerns generally blew the lid off classic westerns as a genre.

«I am proud of the breadth, intelligence and style of the choices the London critics have made, honouring the richness of world cinema and the fresh, cool takes on classic movie genres seen in films such as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, DRIVE and THE ARTIST.

Hammer is synonymous with horror, after defining the genre in Britain with classics such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy, which spawned numerous sequels.

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.

Garland's film traces a line through these cinematic developments all the way back to the genre's roots via such classics as The Fly and The Thing, both of which explore the horrific possibilities of genetic engineering.

Such is the enduring notoriety and classic horror status of The Exorcist (1973) that anything that has come since in the genre arguably has had a mountain of expectation to climb.

Some genre purists would certainly take issue with such an obvious effort to create new material by fusing the icons of literary classics, but Sommers» adrenalized upgrading for modern audiences isn't that different from Siodmak's first venture; the former's just over-cranked and way louder (aided by Alan Silvestri's outrageously bombastic score) in a 5.1 mix guaranteed to work out your home's subwoofer.

The Kobo Kids app features a bright and bubbly interface that showcases a series of icons pointing to genre topics such as space, dinosaurs, animals, classics, superheroes and many others.

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.

Even though I will always be a fan of the old classics when it comes to this genre the real gems that stick out for me are the less mainstream titles, such as Metroid or Castelvania.

Created by the team behind mobile kart racing classics such as the Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart - series and Konami Krazy Racing, Cracking Sands represents the next step in the evolution of the genre.

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.

Not a bad choice for revisiting a classic genre of gaming such as this.

The creator of such classic franchises such as Devil May Cry, Okami and Viewtiful Joe returns to the action genre with a character who may become the most renowned figure in action gaming.

The development team has made it known that they too are lovers of the FPS genre and all of the classic shooter titles, which is a large reason why they have included such iconic environments and props.

Brazilian developer Joymasher will team up with The Arcade Crew, a new publishing label from DotEmu, to release Blazing Chrome, a side - scrolling shooter with a look and feel inspired by several classics of the genre (such as Contra III: The Alien Wars, Conra: Hard Corps, and Metal Slug):

Taking influence from many iconic games in the genre such as Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV, Lost Sphear has a story and gameplay that would've felt right at home during the SNES era of Japanese role - playing classics.

The return of a classic franchise in a genre that has been utterly abandoned for far too long — and it's come back with such style!

For the adventure genre, the twin peaks of the early 1990s and the late 1990s saw the releases of many classic graphical adventure games such as the King's Quest and Monkey Island series as well as many survival horror adventure hybrids such as the Clock Towers, Fatal Frames, and Resident Evil (Biohazard) series.

David Cage, head of game development at Quantic Dream, has stated that he wishes to make a war game with an «emotional» approach, moving away from the mainstream's idea of how the war genre is portrayed, citing classic films Apocalypse Now and Platoon as influences for such a project.

Lasting First Impressions of Ash from SRRN Games Classic games such as Final Fantasy, Ultima, Phantasy Star, and Dragon Quest forged the ever popular RPG genre laying the groundwork that would eventually bring us such modern hi...

Wolfenstein: The New Order is what happens when a classic first person shooter franchise is left in the capable hands of a developer known for some of the better modern day efforts in the genre such as the Riddick games and The Darkness.

Developer: DragonJam Studios Platforms: PC Release date: TBA 2016 WinCars Racer is a modern take on the classic karting genre from Spanish studio DragonJam Studios that's heavily inspired by the likes of «90s arcade racing staples such as Mario Kart, Sega Rally and Crazy Taxi.

There's such a wealth of different genres available, and so many classic and undiscovered titles to choose from, nobody can truly be bored having a browse of the PS Store on the small screen.

99Vidas is a side - scrolling Beat»em up inspired by the classics of the genre of the late 1980s and 1990s, such as Double Dragon, Final Fight, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage, featuring hand - drawn sprites and sound samples to emulate the look and feel of the 16 - bit era.

Duke Nukem 3D, along with first - person shooters such as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, represents the dawn of the first person shooter genre and are considered classics today.

Despite other experiments such as Brave Fencer Musashi, Tobal 1 & 2, Front Mission and so on, Squaresoft were still contributing to the RPG genre through continuations to their ongoing series like Final Fantasy VIII and IX, Legend of Mana and Chrono Cross, Square will also willing to release new IP's that later went on to become cult classics (Xenogears anyone?).

The result is a strange and wildly imaginative amalgam of various genres — sci - fi, action, horror — and even a few genre classics, such as System Shock, Dead Space, and BioShock.

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch has too much in the way of problems to be one of the classics of the genre, though with its outstanding art direction, voluminous lifespan and absorbing mechanics, it narrowly misses out on being such, and also has the advantage of possessing some of the magic that has been lacking in many of the more contemporary Japanese RPG's.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.

The exhibit looks at this specific genre of photography and the surprising variations in the way it has been captured for nearly 175 years: from classic portraitists such as Richard Avedon and Herb Ritts, to masters of the genre like Neil Leifer, to documentarians including Rineke Dijkstra and Brian Finke, to those better known for other art projects such as Catherine Opie and Andy Warhol.

As a contemporary continuum to classic art historical genres such as Landscape Painting and Still Life Painting, Hanson and Schmidhofer contemplate what we have done and are doing to our environment, what the environment in turn does to us, how we naturalize what we do to each other, and how these «doings» are enacted in the media of representation during our lifetime.

Placing emphasis on stylistic elements instead of the overarching photographic medium, the contemporary collection cites how the conventions of classic genres, such as portraiture, landscapes and architectural, are developed through new practice.