Sentences with phrase «indie hits like»

He also explained that he's always looking for extraordinary experiences like Zelda, Ico, The Last Guardian, obviously Kojima's games and even indie hits like Firewatch, Inside, Journey and Gone Home.

The once proud 3D platformer had been set out to pasture while its older brother, the 2D platformer went from strength to strength with the successful revival of franchises like Rayman or breakout indie hits like Braid and Fez, rubbing salt in a polygonal wound.

The genre had just been given fresh legs thanks to indie hits like Amnesia and Outlast, and I knew VR could take it to the next level.

Political Animals is being developed by a small studio of veteran Filipino game developers whose work ranges from indie hits like Prison Architect and card games by Gameloft like Order and Chaos: Duels.

Potential indie hits like The Fundamentals of Caring, Tallulah, Mascots, and Barry simply get added to Netflix's ever - expanding library, which is harder and harder to browse (especially because the company doesn't create easy landing pages for its original content — which, to be fair, is also a problem Amazon Prime has).

The film was met with much praise when it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and was picked up by Fox Searchlight, a studio known for indie hits like Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and, of course, The Descendants.

Before directing Cyrus, the two directed indie hits like The Puffy Chair and Baghead.

Favreau has such an impressive and varied resume, and the fact that he can jump from an Indie hit like Chef to a massive blockbuster like The Jungle Book shows why he's destined to go down as one of the great directors.

Not exact matches

Indeed, music and romance are so intertwined that it doesn't matter if you are a fan of pop songs or rock songs; top 40 hits or indie darlings; the Beatles or Bauhaus - chances are, if there is a band out there that you like, they will have written a song or even an album about love.

Fe is being hold back by a few ancient choices when it comes to game and level design, but certainly is a beautiful Indie game that, as the kids like to put it, will hit you right «in the feels».

The movie was a big hit at this year's Venice Film Festival, and between its «Life of Pi» - like survival story and Redford's reportedly triumphant performance, this is one you'll want to hunt down at your local indie theater.

We always like to end our weekend box office reports with a little reminder to «Support your local indie theater, boys and girls,» and with the roster of films hitting art house and repertory cinemas in 2011, it was an especially great time to stray away from the sticky floors and text friendly megaplexes.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

As a director, Rick Rosenthal has worked on a wide range of projects, from hit TV shows like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Veronica Mars to indie and studio features like Bad Boy and Halloween II.

And that makes the «Hunger Games» film vulnerable to a newcomer like «Creed,» which reteams writer - director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan — who first worked together on the critically acclaimed low - budget 2013 indie hit «Fruitvale Station» — and brings them together with Rocky Balboa himself, Sylvester Stallone.

Jay is currently on Transparent, the smash hit series on Amazon Instant, and Mark continues to flit between television projects (The League, Togetherness) and indie films like The One I Love (TFF 2014).

Before hitting it big with his smash hit Three Kings, writer - director David O. Russell made his mark with small indie comedies like Spanking the Monkey and this cult gem, Flirting with Disaster.

There's probably a world in which Christopher Abbott followed a sort of Joseph Gordon - Levitt career path — he's a good looking dude with a ton of indie cred thanks to appearances in movies like «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» and could have hit crossover heartthrob status thanks to playing Charlie on «Girls.»

Unlike many directors we've listed previously who use the profile that an indie hit bestows to break into the bigger - budget bracket or even into Hollywood, Baker seems like a bona fide independent filmmaker, with a plucky, old - school lemons / lemonade attitude to moviemaking.

I'm sometimes wary about unreservedly recommending indie films that have hit it big because there's the inevitable backlash of «Do people only like this because it seems cool to like an indie movie?»

From small roles in the likes of Oscar baity films, such as Zero Dark Thirty and, le sigh, Parkland, to larger roles in unsung indie hits Humpday and Safety Not Guaranteed, and simply as the reliably affable straight man, Pete, on The League, it's easy to admit that Duplass has got range.

Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.

As with his breakout indie hit Tangerine, Baker's approach is to immerse you so deep in a place, and the patter of the people who live there, that it begins to feel like your home.

While most of us are still trying to wrap our heads around a Joe Dante-less Gremlins remake, the legendary director has a new film on the horizon — the undead comedy Burying the Ex, which looks (and sounds) a lot like last year's indie hit Life After Beth.

Now that summer movie season is dying down, I've got more time to hit up some indie films like I did earlier this year; after seeing The Spectacular Now, I'm glad I did.

That's right, despite releasing in October, Chucklefish and ConcernedApe's indie farming life simulator Stardew Valley is the overseas best selling eShop game of 2017, beating out big name games like Sonic Mania and Snipperclips, not to mention indie mega hits such as Shovel Knight.

It feels like we've been waiting a long time for indie comedy The Oranges to actually hit cinemas outside of the festival circuit since it was finished last year.

Holly Hunter already has Oscars, Emmys and a whole slew of other awards for movies like The Piano, Broadcast News over her long and successful career, but now last summer's indie hit The Big Sick has sparked a new round of honors for the star including two SAG nominations, a Critics» Choice nom, and tonight a Career Achievement Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival's awards gala.

If it seems like we've been pushing a lot of Dope trailers the past couple months, that's because we firmly believe that everyone needs to see this fantastic indie teen comedy when it hits theaters starting next week.

Self - published authors are expanding into conferences throughout the world, with some indie - centric events hitting the big time like Author Marketing Live, PubSense Summit, and IndieRecon.

But it's part and parcel of producing a book that makes you look like you know what you're doing, and an indie author has to work even harder than a traditionally published one to hit that goal.

She's the indie author of fantasy and steampunk hits like The Emperor's Edge series and The Flash Gold Chronicles.

This feels like many questions, but I think the TL; DR version is probably, «Is a book's success all luck, even if «luck» includes hitting the right subject matter at the right time, or is it marketing — and can an indie author in any way compete with a publisher?»

Okay, maybe it's a slight exaggeration, but getting one hundred times the normal website hits and being championed by such indie author giants as Hugh Howey, The Passive Guy, Courtney Milan, the Indie Voice Authors and H.M. Ward is a big deal for a little fish likindie author giants as Hugh Howey, The Passive Guy, Courtney Milan, the Indie Voice Authors and H.M. Ward is a big deal for a little fish likIndie Voice Authors and H.M. Ward is a big deal for a little fish like me.

For a writer to make any kind of decent money at indie - publishing, the author either has to have a lot of products selling at low levels, but regularly, or the author needs to hit it big like Amanda Hocking.

I'm thinking that in the future, we're going to see more authors like David Dalglish, who hit it big in indie and then got picked up by Orbit.

They had the indie market down pat with Xbox Live Arcade, an XNA development kit that allowed people to publish games for 100 bucks on their platform, and had such hits like Fez, Super Meat Boy, Braid, Limbo, and so many others providing even more reasons to not only buy an xbox, but to become a developer themselves.

I feel like there might be too many indie platformers hitting Steam and other marketplaces now.

However indie developers Brutal Studios, who you may know from their previous games like Dawn of the Sniper, have hit up Kickstarter to get a little additional funding for their unique upcoming management game called Gentlemen's Club Manager.

The indie games market like any market is hitting its awkward phase, or some would say a phase where the potential for self - implosion may be reaching critical mass.

The games included in the Instant Indie Hits bundle boast solid reviews on sites like Metacritic, with the lowest - rated game in the bundle, Action Henk, scoring a not - too - shabby 72.

Even though they don't hit the wallet as hard as mainstream triple A titles, a lot of people don't like to take a chance on indie gaming.

Although the idea of a publisher for a platform that encourages such free self - publishing may seem like anathema to indie developers, Chillingo's efforts have helped turn Cut the Rope into a big cultural hit for iOS.

(from Axiom Verge Review) • Examiner.com — «Breathtaking... This work of love is one of 2015's best yet» (from PS4 Review: Axiom Verge) • The Huffington Post — Indie Hit «Axiom Verge» Shows How One Person Can Take On Video Game Giants • TheVerge.com — Axiom Verge Feels Like a Brand New Metroid on PS4: An Indie Developer Picks up Where Nintendo Left Off • More than 24 independent review scores of 9/10 or higher

In a hit - based industry like games where there is little to no stability, having the right kind of structure can be vital to the survival of an indie studio.

The game was fun but never hit the heights of the games which inspired it (Wind Waker, ICO, Journey), but the music was fantastic and ranks up there with other indie soundtracks like Journey and Abzu.

Indie games have thrived on the Switch, with titles like recent hit Celeste selling better there than all other platforms combined.

Inspired by first person shooter classics like Quake and Unreal Tournament, with all the fun of a buildable and destructible environment, DownGate is the new multiplayer deathmatch shooter from Gristmill Studios, makers of hit indie builder XenoMiner.

Dark Day Interactive - is a small indie Development company, based in Australia and the United Kingdom, with past experience in the video game market, with the current release of Once Bitten, Twice Dead on PC, and iOS hits like Sky Island, the team has taken there past skills and knowledge from other projects and combined them into one tight company, answering to no major publishers, only making games they love, for the community and helped shape by the community.