Sentences with phrase «culture references while»

One can potentially enjoy Ready Player One and see it as meaningless entertainment, but despite having fantastic visuals and great editing, the film is weighed down by so much nostalgia and never - ending pop culture references while being devoid of everything else.

Ready Player One is weighed down by so much nostalgia and pop culture references while being devoid of everything else.

Not exact matches

The shows are super smart, so while adults are appreciating the intelligent references, kids are enjoying the ensemble's physicality and their spot - on pop culture references,» explains Karin McKie, managing director of ComedySportz Chicago.

Murdoch references the Times NightJacker case, saying that didn't reflect the culture there, while the NOTW situation did.

Similarly threadbare are the pop - culture references and satirical swipes that peppered Shreks 1 and 2, while the few that are present are just too vaguely aimed.

While the in - jokes are fun, and that buzz of recognition you get when you spot a reference and your pop - culture geek bell goes «ding!»

Here, there are no winking jokes and pop culture references to keep parents entertained while their offspring awe at flashing images and oscillating soundtracks that will improve impossible - to - evade for years to come.

While there are some similarities between the main characters and their dispositions, having to prove themselves and their big, lazy bodies worthy or the fight, the anticipation that Kung Fu Panda will be just another adventure coated with incessant pop culture references are not warranted.

While the script does present a realistic take on the chaos of life with little ones as far as this writer can tell (full disclosure: I am nobody's mother), it still conforms to the tired comedy mandate that at least a half - dozen contemporary pop - culture references must be inserted into the average feature - length script.

While the plot is considered dark by Mario standards, as in earlier Paper Mario titles, humorous dialogue and references to other games, nerd culture, popular culture, and even mythology abound.

Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is a big fan of references to «80s pop culture, but it turns out that he's also a big fan of striking while the iron is hot — or whatever the «80s reference equivalent of that old saying is.

You can see the Tarantino touch in his pop - culture references, entertaining dialogue digressions, and inspired celeb guest spots (Tony Curtis, Frank Gorshin, John Saxon), but his real contribution is the way he connects to the characters and draws on their backstories while they search for their kidnapped colleague (George Eads).

While most have gone cold on the director (myself included), Vanilla Sky offers up a waking nightmare of a world populated by countless pop culture references and shifting identities.

While we have showcased tons of references to Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise in pop culture over the years, this is definitely one of the coolest shout - outs that we have seen.

«Get Out,» released in February 2017, was a slow - building hit — eventually grossing more than $ 250 million while resonating in pop culture with references to its memorable characters and «sunken place» as a metaphor for race and the feeling of helplessness in America.

Their films mix a perfect amount pop culture references for both kids and adults alike while also presenting themselves as an animation studio that takes their stories, action, and of course their animation styles seriously.

Now a new Crashing trailer has debuted, showing off more of Pete's comedy struggles, trying to hand out flyers to shows, having odd gaps in his knowledge of pop culture while making obscure references to things like Will Smith rap albums and coming to terms with the fact that he's actually homeless.

May 18, 2018 • Ryan Reynolds once again assumes the role of a deadly mercenary who makes many references to various pop culture properties while disemboweling folk a lot.

May 15, 2018 • Ryan Reynolds once again assays the role of a deadly mercenary who makes many references to various pop culture properties while disemboweling folk a lot.

All the while, Tom is surrounded by supposedly backward locals who like watching The Notebook, hunting deer and making dated pop culture references to Ratatouille.

For our participation — and extra 3D glasses fee — they deliver the latest in computer generated eye candy, familiar voice talent and heroes that always win while making pop culture references.

While other animation companies are making films on computers with scripts that focus on pop culture references, the punk rockers at Aardman Animation are doing it, as Sid Vicious once sang with no reverence to Frank Sinatra, their way.

Some of these references are hilarious while others are primarily designed to make you reminisce of not just video games, but pop - culture as well.

The disconnect between Sucker Punch lovingly referencing Seattle's architecture and urban culture while inventing a fictional Native American tribe is profound.

Some boss fights are fun jokes on classic gaming and pop - culture references, including a goofy twist on Donkey Kong that relates to a school bully, while others are just over-the-top fights related to the plot.

While I personally loved the jokes and various pop culture references and Easter eggs throughout, I'm not quite certain if this is a brand of humor that everyone will be enamored by.

His work is rooted in the counterculture of punk rock and skateboarding while also using references from current events and pop culture.

While his depictions of African American history and culture referenced ancient Egyptian motifs and traditional African forms, his graphic style was decidedly modern.

Both draw on the mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, while also referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and continuing, as with Julien's earlier film work, to subvert preconceptions of race and sexuality.

While we can use the imminent changes in Chinese culture and politics as an underlying reference point for his work, Yang Fudong: An Estranged Paradise teaches us more about this particular artists» sensitivity to color, framing, composition and human behavior.

While all three artists look to literature as a primary source of inspiration, Bas's fascination with the paranormal and bizarre traces back to his childhood; Chu draws from a wide range of cultures and eras, referencing ancient mythological and ritualistic tales; and Kristalova mines the lost territory of childhood dreams, memories and nightmares.

Since the mid-1970s she has referenced and critiqued American popular culture, suggesting the influence of Pop Art while pointing to Abstract Expressionism through large, physical, drippy paintings of cartoon and comic characters such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, and Homer Simpson.

In a thought - provoking new painting that references art history and popular culture, Metzger recreates the «diver down» logo while maintaining its emblematic proportions, within the constraints of a large canvas that fills the horizontal dimensions of the Museum's entryway.

The artist Yinka Shonibare will explore the impact of immigration on British culture in an installation at Brighton's reference library while in theatre there will be visits by the Russian company led by Dmitry Krymov; and the Glasgow - based Vanishing Point.

Throughout his career, Erizku has created a unique visual language and distinctive iconography that address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history, while drawing from myriad references ranging from urban culture to advertising to the art historical canon.

While their ancient forebears may have turned to abstract form as a vehicle to explore the divine, artists today approach abstraction as a language, rich with references to contemporary culture.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

Look awhile longer and you'll discover that both their imagery and their facture reference landscape, cityscapes, pop culture and private narratives while they index the history of modern painting.

His works center around the relationship between form and content: often using several layers of paint, resin, glitter, collage elements, and occasionally, elephant dung, Ofili enlists sexual, cultural, historical, and religious references to create uniquely aesthetic and physical works that expose the darker undercurrents of society, while also celebrating contemporary black culture.

Stripped of overt narrative, his abstract forms are fabricated by hand, achieving a visible poetic harmony while offering subtle references to both the human form and to traditional cultures.

Razmi's body of work focuses on issues of identity and gender while appropriating national, cultural and artistic references to reposition pop - culture within a contemporary Iranian context, giving her re-embodied, re-contextualized works a tongue - in - cheek quality.

While saturating their canvases with as many loaded references to pop culture and painting as possible, these painters seek the same ungainliness.

The Miami based artist pays homage to his hometown, drawing inspiration from the bright colors and Art Deco designs that surrounds him daily, while also referencing the melting - pot culture of the city and its diverse array of characters.

In combination, the tree and flatware suggest a harmonious co-existence of culture and nature, while softly referencing their mutual fragility.

With his unique perspective from an island lifestyle, while still staying tethered to the larger art world, he is at times self - mocking in his style and often incorporates overtly wild color, island scenes and references to Indonesian craft and culture into his works.

Moscovitch and Casalegno initially designed these works for very different contexts; the former first exhibited the performance at the Anarchist Art Fair, while the latter intended his masks to reference BDSM culture.

While the country's longstanding former President Robert Mugabe was being ousted through a military - led coup, Chiurai was exhibiting his politically - driven work, which combines art historical imagery with references from popular culture and archival material to explore the visual language and tropes that help construct myths, history, and ultimately power.Under the continued curation of Candice Allison, «Madness and Civilization» re-stages this exhibition alongside new works and research that highlights Chiurai's creative projects over the past two years.

Hlobo has been exhibiting internationally since his graduation from the Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2002, effortlessly adapting the vocabulary of international contemporary art to reference his own «uncomfortable assimilation» into a globalized culture while maintaining his Xhosa heritage and South African gay male identity.

While the country's longstanding former President Robert Mugabe was being ousted through a military - led coup, Chiurai was exhibiting his politically - driven work, which combines art historical imagery with references from popular culture and archival material to explore the visual language and tropes that help construct myths, history, and ultimately power.

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