Sentences with phrase «crafted homage»

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island is a beautiful and passionately crafted homage to old school 3D platformers.

What we have here is a lovingly crafted homage to the «greatest hits» of the franchise.

Cuphead, developed by Studio MDHR Studios, exists on a whole other level as a lovingly crafted homage to an animation pioneer.

Along with that, Coogler has crafted an homage to the Rocky series with authentic affection, referencing many of the greatest and corniest moments — chasing chickens in the backyard, Rocky and Apollo's secret final fight.

An exquisitely crafted homage to love among the marginalized, del Toro's Cold War fairy tale is apparently more celebrated on the West Coast than the East this season, whereas Nolan's epic yet concise re-creation of the British military's desperate stand against advancing Nazis at Dunkirk has a more obvious transatlantic appeal.

This brief recap brings us up to date with Nioh as it appears in its current form — A lovingly crafted homage to the precision combat and mechanics of the Soulsborne games, whilst also introducing an RNG loot system inspired by Diablo and Borderlands and transplanting the action from the more European fantasy aesthetic of Miyazaki's aforementioned series to a feudal Japan setting that is more than a little reminiscent of the Onimusha games.

The press materials for Our Heroes Died Tonight promise a film that is both a lovingly crafted homage to film noir and a great cinematic experience.

And out of nowhere, there is a lengthy and lovingly crafted homage to the shower scene in «Psycho.»

Compare his last two films with Quentin Tarantino's: both are directors accused of cribbing — only one of them is still crafting the homage into a vibrant, viable identity.

Not exact matches

Black Button Distilling pays homage to Barrett's grandfather and the world he knew — where real men worked hard and drank hand - crafted spirits like Black Button's Citrus Forward Gin on hot summer days.

The hand - scripted logo was crafted by Jay Schwartz, founder and Chief Creative Officer of IdeaWork, as were the accompanying rose illustrations, a further homage to the namesake.

As New England's leading independent craft brewery, the Samuel Adams brewers are paying homage to their roots and joining fellow New England craft brewers in celebrating this unique style by making it available to the rest of the country.

He likely would have been thrilled by the crowd of more than 100 people, the beautiful weather and mostly by the large flotilla of boats — including the Coast Guard, fire and rescue craft from Greenport, Shelter Island, and Orient, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Patrol — in the harbor to pay homage to him, hospital president and CEO Paul Connor III said.

This three day gathering, running from Friday to Sunday October, 6 — 8, pays homage to the agricultural roots, world - class wines, craft beers, and top - chefs of Sonoma County.

Cabin in the Woods is a uniquely crafted dark horror comedy that is writer Josh Whedon's homage to classic slasher flicks.

However, a great deal of love has gone into crafting this retro homage.

It's a 2.5 D RPG platformer with stunning visuals that seek to pay homage to the brilliantly crafted Studio Ghibli films as well as classic Final Fantasy concept artists such as Yoshitaka Amano.

Building on Raimi's blood - soaked vision, Alvarez was able to craft an Evil Dead that paid homage to the original while still presenting a different — more serious, perhaps, but no less exaggerated — take on the «ultimate experience in grueling horror.»

Raised Calvinist, the writer of «Taxi Driver» and director of «Light Sleeper» crafts an elegantly formal homage to Robert Bresson's «The Diary of a Country Priest.»

Although the movie has Lanthimos» trademarks, the homage it pays to the likes of Haneke and Kubrick comes off as cheap imitations of people more versed in their craft.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

McQuarrie again has crafted a clinical and labyrinthine thriller full of surprises and not a million miles away from the tactically - inspired 1970s crime thrillers he paid homage to in his first merciless movie.

Django Unchained - Writer / director and master storyteller, Quentin Tarantino pays homage to 70's blaxpoitation and spaghetti westerns in yet another well crafted, gritty tale of revenge and redemption.

There's a deep and fairly complex homage to Monster Hunter under the hood, and it's packed with materials to gather, gear to craft, and baddies to capture... so long as you're prepared to spend some hours learning its ways and don't mind plenty of frustration and repetition along the way.

Maguire pays subtle homage to Tolkien and Rowling and even Frank Baum while having a grand old time in the fantastically complicated world he has crafted.»

Even with its little homages to the private detective pieces of old, he has fashioned a unique take on the mystery and has crafted a plot like no other.

Paying homage to the Roaring Twenties — when Hotel De Anza was founded — we serve everything from Prohibition - style cocktails to what's hot right now, including craft beers.

The furnishings are a homage to colourful Sardinian crafts and ultra-contemporary design.

If the answer is no then you should seriously consider abandoning this review now, not because of my jumbled writings, although that would be a valid reason in itself, but because Pillars of Eternity is a lore - heavy RPG that pays homage to the classics such as Baldurs Gate, cherry picking everything great about grand adventures to craft one of the deepest role - playing experiences around.

A faithful and beautifully crafted Metroidvania homage that never quite stamps its own identity on the genre.

Above all else, Deponia is a labor of love, carefully crafted as an homage to those classic point and click games that I grew up with while somehow still managing to retain a modern vibe, despite having left the age - old gameplay formula almost completely untouched.

The sheer weight of this history would be enough to crush most developers, but Rocksteady did an amazing job of paying homage to some of the more popular Batman mythos while crafting their own original take on the character.

Like the game it's paying homage to, Junk Jack is a largely free - ended sandbox experience designed to let players experiment with a variety of crafting options in order to survive and build in a persistent world.

So, Nioh hews too close to its inspiration to be classified as an homage, but is also too skillfully crafted — and, it must be said, too fun — to be categorized as just another cash - in clone.

Situated somewhere between botanical field studies, studio portraiture and billboard advertising, Myoung Ho Lee's tree studies pay homage to the everyday object and transform nature's craft into a work of...

To Snitzer's point, there was a great deal of exhaustively manipulated work; Syrian photographer Hrair Sarkissian recreated and destroyed an architecturally exact model of the house his parents are still living in, Urs Fischer planted an elaborate installation under a flurry of green raindrops, and Mickalene Thomas crafted a walk - in room in homage to her mother that recreated her lamp, favourite chair and a diary of personal items such as lipsticks, jewellery and underwear cast in bronze.

The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as «Anatomy of a Kimono» (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and «Wonderland» (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.

This meticulously crafted exhibition pays homage to and questions the architecture, presenting new interpretations and representations.

Homage and futurity are imaged throughout the works as Barnette presents a meticulously crafted, affective space of the familial gathering.

He used the same stone as that in the University for continuity, and crafted the building to look like a ship in homage to the city's old industries.

Deniz Aslan is an illustrator who responded to this year's summer solstice theme by organizing a Pagan craft workshop, where participants made dolls paying homage to a Celtic goddess.

Schapiro not only honored the craft tradition in women's art, but also paid homage to women artists of the past.

Speaking of traditions, craft up some spider - themed decor to pay homage to Ukrainian Christmases.