Sentences with phrase «embraced by audiences»

Using the physical street as a canvas for expressing their ideas, Faile is part of a global movement that has been embraced by audiences for its popular approach to artistic and creative expression.
Both continue to be embraced by audiences around the world.
«I think ultimately it made for a really interesting, almost more complicated ending to that film because of how well «Black Panther» was embraced by audiences.
HollywoodNews.com: Ever since becoming a Hollywood commentator on «Saturday Night Live's» Weekend Update, David Spade has always been embraced by audiences for his biting sense of humor.
Indeed, the film has been embraced by audiences across the world as a rousing and original adventure film.»
The lack of honors wouldn't bother me as much if the film had been embraced by audiences, but due to the release «strategy» that proved impossible.
Here's hoping that, in spite of all the critics / bullies who had decided long before they saw the damn thing that they would pan it just because they have a hate - on for Shyamalan, it's gonna be embraced by audiences and become a big enough box - office hit so we get to see the next two chapters.
Of those, A Scanner Darkly does get some actual commentary from critic and New York Film Festival honcho Kent Jones, where he posits it as considerably underrated, but the group's otherwise just put out there as something of a dark stage in the man's career, where he had a string of films failing to be embraced by audiences, critics or both, but with little extrapolation as to why those films were made, or what Linklater thinks of them.
«It was such a delight to see his first big screen adventure embraced by audiences around the world, and I couldn't be more excited about Hugh and Brendan joining the cast to bring his next outing to life.
With sequels and spin - offs suddenly featuring so prominently in the schedule of a company built on original storytelling, it's refreshing to see Unkrich, co-director Adrian Molina, and their two fellow credited writers introducing all - new characters instead of recycling and revisiting ones already embraced by audiences.
Holes in the plot aside — and there were lots of them — the movie was fully embraced by audiences, who bought $ 306 million worth of tickets, or $ 456 million today.

Not exact matches

Six years ago, Nintendo's Wii was in a position that every hardware company dreamed of — a game system that not only captured the imagination of the core player but also was widely and warmly embraced by the mass audience.
There are new platforms being embraced by your brand's target audience, platforms that allow them to shine and be creative or maybe just be heard in a different way.
«My new bias, which I now embrace, is that I don't eliminate the Ivies in hiring, but I intentionally prefer kids from regular backgrounds and regular students,» he told an audience at the University of Florida, as quoted by Business Insider.
Indeed, The Man in Grey opened a new, highly exploitable sub-genre of period bodice - ripper melodramas that war - weary audiences whole - heartedly embraced, and not just in England; it also did respectable business on the far side of the Atlantic.It was also Crabtree's permanent ticket out of low - budget cinema and to work with some of the more prestigious filmmakers of the period, most notably Anthony Asquith on Fanny By Gaslight (1944).
What should be tricky for mainstream audiences expecting a star - filled madcap romp to fully embrace will still be met warmly by those ready for something just left of center after the end - of - the - year gloss.
But the film otherwise remains one of the most beloved queer movies ever made, embraced by gay and straight audiences alike.
«Films like The Shape of Water, A Fantastic Woman, Lady Bird, and Call Me By Your Name not only have complex, detailed, and moving portrayals, but prove that audiences and critics alike are hungry for stories which embrace diversity.»
By contrast, Spacey's Lester, jerking off in a shower and lusting after his teenage daughter's nymphet cheerleader pal (see: Election for a better snapshot), is meant as post-modern icon: the inner dude embracing the stupid»70s teen chowderhead, who remains the taffy moral centre for an audience of middle - aged men remembering what it's like to get stoned, bang minors, and listen to Pink Floyd and The Who.
A sharply different film, Breathe, from Bleecker Street, was embraced by festival audiences but dismissed by critics» rating services.
But prodded by some favorable reviews and word of mouth, audiences embraced The Graduate wholeheartedly, particularly the huge boomer audience that had started to wield its enormous box - office clout.
Co-starring Kathryn Hahn and Shirley MacLaine as Walter's sister and mother, plus Patton Oswalt as a disembodied eHarmony customer service voice that's constantly calling Walter and therefore continuously reminding the audience of Walter's growth (the dialogue is unfortunately that artless), «Walter Mitty» boasts a strong cast, but one misused by a pedestrian script that embraces clichés and places conventional, groan - worthy conclusions at the end of each storyline shared by Walter and every major character he's met.
Beyond the entracing and lyrical storytelling, Crouching Tiger stands as a rare, beautiful beacon of hope: a foreign film that was actually universally embraced by Western audiences.
Films like «The Shape of Water,» «A Fantastic Woman,» «Lady Bird,» and «Call Me By Your Name» not only have complex, detailed, and moving portrayals, but prove that audiences and critics alike are hungry for stories which embrace diversity,» said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO.
While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.
«I'm so excited that it's being embraced the way that it has by audiences.
Already warmly embraced by festival audiences in Telluride, Colo., and set to premiere in Toronto on Monday evening, the movie tells of a most remarkable discovery — an amphibious humanoid creature, found somewhere off South America — that is being kept locked in a tank at a U.S. government facility amid the mounting Cold War anxieties of 1962.
A winning vocal performance by Antonio Banderas — a zesty, winking turn that jibes with the persona he has chosen to embrace especially for American audiences, that of an exotic, comedically accented «other» — anchors the swashbuckling animated family adventure Puss in Boots, a peppy, character - rooted romp that thankfully abandons some of the more frenzied and forced in - joke references of the Shrek series, which first introduced its main character.
Upon its initial American release three decades after its possessed nascence, House, Nobuhiko Obayashi's long - lost debut feature, was embraced with open arms by a bewildered but more than amenable audience.
In the last week or two, we've had «Stonewall» director Roland Emmerich «s admitting to giving his film a «straight - acting» hero to attract mainstream audiences, followed by Matt Damon «s admonishment that non-hetero actors need to embrace a sense of public mystery (even through straight performers are never told to leave their spouses off the red carpet).
It was Clint Eastwood's riveting war drama American Sniper, which was embraced by many critics, audiences across the country and even Oscar voters, who gave the Clint Eastwood biopic six Oscar nominations.
Seven Stories audience research shows that families would benefit from later opening times and by allowing families this flexibility the centre aims to encourage even more children to embrace books; raising their aspirations and providing a platform for building confidence levels, coping with feelings and language and learning.
The goal of showing Raiders of the Broken Planet here at GameLab was to show to the industry that we, as an independent developer can have more control of our destiny by embracing the direct relationship with our audience and build something with them, instead of for them.
When franchises such as Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Suikoden, Grandia, and Lunar became embraced by global audiences amidst the 1990s, many believed that these engaging JRPG experiences would influence the output of North American and...
The exhibition received great critiques, and both reviewers and audiences were fascinated by Israel's interaction between surface and depth, and his ambiguous embrace and revelation of the media world's mechanisms.
The news was announced this morning by the Austrian culture minister Thomas Drozda at a press conference in Vienna, at which Schmidt stressed the need for the KHM to embrace digital opportunities to appeal to a wider international audience.
It demonstrates Hasui's popularity as possibly the greatest landscape artist of the 20th century, and why his art has been embraced by American and Japanese audiences for nearly a century.
Masters of their primary mediums and inspired by cultural specificity, each artist expands their artistic practice to embrace installation with works that fully engage the audience in constructed objects, the spaces they inhabit, and the concepts they conjure.
It's good that the National Gallery is reaching out to new audiences by embracing modern art, but it must maintain its authority.
That's because there has not been a decades - long corporate - funded effort to create a subculture of «liberals» who will obediently embrace, believe and obey whatever propaganda is branded «liberal» and spoon - fed to them by corporate media personalities, comparable to the subculture that is the eager audience for the so - called «conservative» media.
Michaluk encouraged the audience of lawyers to embrace project management, explaining that he keeps his project plans simple and often sends them by e-mail.
Embracing families» individual narratives by creating opportunities for families to share their stories and experiences with various audiences within the school
This dramatic redesign came about because Joe embraced a very structured approach to planning his new site by honing in an audience that shared his passion: the military.
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