Sentences with phrase «kind of audience as»

The Amazing Catfish will connect with all kinds of audiences as it deals with a dysfunctional family, having both funny and sensitive parts.

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«When I uploaded the British dialect videos, as I expected [my Korean audience] found it quite interesting because they didn't know very much about the fact that there are different kinds of British dialects and accents,» he said.
«I look at them as kind of the top - down voice to this audience, and we're one of the bottom - up voices,» Levin says.
With website custom audiences, as well as other audiences, Facebook can create all kinds of additional audiences that are ideally suited for your products and services.
Mari stays at the forefront of the industry by, as the example above, knowing what's happening now and what's next, actually using it for her audience, and wrapping all of this into a kind of heart - based marketing.
As a reminder, Jon was kind enough to offer the Niche Pursuits audience only a discount of 20 % off his Link Building Course.
Stanley Kubrick, creator of such memorable films as «Dr. Stangelove,»» 2001: A Space Odyssey,» and «Barry Lyndon,» understands how this happens: «I think an audience watching a film or a play is in a state very similar to dreaming, and that the dramatic experience becomes a kind of controlled dream....
What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.
«As opposed to conventional theater where the audience is asked to sympathize with an event that is taking place very far away, we like to call our event a pageant because it's a kind of ritual in the way the audience takes part in it and, we hope, is transformed by it.»
Vint Cerf happened to make the issue snap into focus: while answering a question from the audience, he mentioned that he expected today's young people to change their behavior as they age because they'll be maintaining different kinds of relationships then than they do now.
Join hosts Mark Walsh and Dave Goodfriend as they talk progressive politics, the environment, foreign policy, common sense business, beer, sports and all kinds of smack in front of a live audience.
Warren urged the audience to join her as she works to reclaim Rochester's history as the kind of city where people like her grandparents moved to find better opportunities.
Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).
As the most popular site of its kind, MacRumors attracts a broad audience of both consumers and professionals interested in the latest technologies and products.
As online dating shifts toward a mobile audience, FirstMet welcomes a new kind of single into their ranks.
Many audience members, particularly women, responded to his turn as the gruffly macho Bob Falfa, the kind of subtly charismatic portrayal that would later become Ford's trademark.
I'd wager that ARGO is yet another TIFF film that's bound to be a major player at the Oscars, and also one that could be a real blockbuster, as it's the kind of film literally any audience can enjoy.
When Zach slices open the palm of his hand in preparation for joining as blood brothers with the other guys, the filmmakers set up the kind of grace under physical pressure that the characters, vis - a-vis, the audience will endure through car crashes, punch - outs, and sexually blank nudity.
It's a shame to watch, because it's not as if the comedy world isn't continuing to produce all kinds of great talent — it's just that the lumbering process of putting together a mid-budget studio comedy feels ill - suited for their skills and the tastes of audiences alike.
Is Wiseau, who seems to appreciate «The Room» only as a way to make more money, really in on the same joke as the audiences who have adopted him as a kind of aging - hipster mascot?
No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.
With his long hair and kind eyes, Salva looks a bit like Jesus, and Bigardo (Daniel Giménez Cacho), the creator of the show, decided to play the resemblance for all it's worth; the home audience not only acquits Salva, but he's given a new job as a TV preacher.
Raunchy frat comedies are as hard to pull off as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and «The Hangover» does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility.
Once a vibrant, innovative network, it has been unable to develop a good comedy since «Arrested Development» (while NBC and CBS excel there), and as the Fox audience matures, the network has chosen to become a kind of CBS Lite.
And like their previous work, which floated between genres and refused to pin the company down as the maker of a certain kind of movie, this one looks visually stunning and unlike anything else being sold to family audiences these days.
Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.
A supporting role, certainly, but a star turn, the kind of performance you are almost afraid of ignoring, and as Maggie holds sway over her devotees, it's hard not to feel that the audience is in that basement.
It kind of worked, bringing a nice relationship between the two characters and Farrell acting as a narrative device for the audience to explore McClane's character a bit more.
To be honest, there actually is some merit to Kubrick's assertion that the book is unfilmable, as the story itself doesn't really lend well to the kinds of things film audiences would find easy to digest.
The best and most distinctive of the bunch was the Indonesian filmmaker Kamila Andini's «The Seen and Unseen,» whose title might just as well describe the contrast between the kinds of films that play to maximum buzz in Toronto and those that struggle for press and audience exposure.
The early posts on the trailers and immodest promotional posters for Love have labeled it simply as a «3D porno,» both because the idea of a film that climaxes with a literal climax off of the screen and into the audience's face infiltrating an arena as prestigious as Cannes is kind of hilarious, and because that's what it is.
The recent release of Lady Bird makes Greta Gerwig one of several directorial debuts this year to strike a resonant chord with audiences — it's self - assured and absent of clichés, and if you've seen it already, you're probably aware that it's the kind of movie that will make you want to go and call your mom as soon as its done.
Christopher Nolan's name arouses a special kind of attention, not only among cinephiles but, crucially, for once - a-year film - goers as well, an audience majority whose decision to go see a film relies...
Maybe out of some insecurity about American audience appeal, «Birth» introduces a struggling student of Lee's named Steve (Billy Magnussen, «Ingrid Goes West») as a kind of Caucasian bridge between the circling Chinese masters.
There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.
Violence is generally made way too palatable in these kind of movies and it's become something that we have developed a tolerance for as an audience and there's something wrong about that.
This was kind of expected, as it was released for Japanese audiences in April and rated by the ESRB just a few days ago, but hey.
... Superhero movies have long needed this kind of representation in terms of men and women of color, and for black audiences, «Black Panther» will undoubtedly be as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of identity, race and gender as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.»
Bishop Jakes, who heads the Dallas - based nondenominational church the Potter's House and is the host of a weekly broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, appears in the film in two modes as a charismatic preacher performing before an enraptured audience, and as a quiet, compassionate confessor, whose deep, rumbling voice seems to provide a kind of aural absolution for the troubled Michelle.
The Poseidon Adventure is a bad movie, but it's precisely the kind of bad movie that audiences could get nostalgic over and appropriate as their own.
Wizardry of the technological kind broke the film out of the mold of the standard Marvel movie and turned the tale of Doctor Strange's supernatural awakening into a breathtaking spectacle, ranging from ever - shifting urban geographies to a high - speed multidimensional flight that can leave audiences almost as short of breath as the film's protagonist.
Some whole storylines never really work (though from your list I'd replace the far - flung future, which I kind of liked, with the storyline that has Hanks as a goofy - looking, morally ambiguous 1800s doctor), and the decision to re-use the actors is distracting on multiple levels, both because the audience is playing «Where's Waldo?»
The 2017 holiday season was kind to movie fans as there were plenty of films to choose from, and audiences showed up in droves.
It's almost as if his attention span wasn't large enough to bring the heavier musings to any kind of fruition, or he didn't have faith that his audience would want them, but Sunshine's individual parts, particularly the mesmerizing visuals and score, aren't enough to create a sum meaningful enough to match them.
Having premiered during Nintendo's press conference earlier today, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword might've gotten off on the wrong foot, as legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto struggled with the motion controls, claiming there must've been some kind of interference caused by someone's wireless device in the audience.
Her embrace of what she called De Palma's trashiness was central to her celebration of youthfulness in both movie art and movie audiences — especially the kind that regarded leftist humanism as square and choked with noble intentions.
The MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.
With today's audiences clamoring for more violent and terrifying films, Funny Games now comes across as more of an indictment of this trend and, more specifically, of the audiences who love these kinds of films.
He takes an impish delight in ambushing the audience, in trotting out the kinds of promotional gimmicks that arrest our attention, even as they threaten to reduce the movies themselves to mere afterthoughts.
Observe and Report ranks as one of those kinds of movies that I think will hit only a very small fraction of the viewing audience, and the majority of those who see it will find increasingly abhorrent.
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