Sentences with phrase «like old screen»

Lots of young girls stretch around, thin, long - limbed, rubberised, sometimes tricked out like old screen starlets.

Each croak of the springs in Mazzone's brown leather recliner is punctuated by a knock in the wooden frame, like an old screen door blowing open and shut.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, app developers were left scrambling to adjust their products to fit the iPhone 5's new taller four - inch screen, to avoid looking foolish for producing games with black bars on the sides, like when you try to watch an old TV show from the»90s on a widescreen TV.

Adapted from Stephen King's massive series of novels, the big screen version of the story promises to wrestle with ideas like good vs. evil, spirituality and, of course, old - west inspired adventure.

It's kind of like those old - fashioned video games in that when you get to the edge of the screen you pop out on the other side.

My memories of that surreal afternoon resurfaced like old flotsam at a recent screening of Seabiscuit, directed by Gary Ross and based on the best - selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, and not just for the eerily similar themes that the Seabiscuit - War Admiral match race engendered but also for the even more haunting similarities in the two great matches.

He goes on and on, and it all seems like some mad, glamorous old Technicolor drama played out on a drive - in movie screen.

Thandie Newton (big screen films like W and Crash) is the mother of two girls, 10 - and 5 - years - old.

For example, some simulated universes behave like an old arcade game — if you walk to one edge of the universe, you cross back over to the other side, like Pac - Man exiting the right side of the screen and reappearing on the left.

As I watch them on the screen, Provine's teenagers remind me of an old Carl Sagan riff, which begins with his describing «a species of primate» that likes to gather in packs of 50 or 60 individuals, cram together in a darkened cave, and hyperventilate in unison, to the point of almost passing out.

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new microscopy technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.

«It is like comparing an old standard definition television screen to today's ultra high definition screens,» said Saba, a member of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Ecosystem Assessment Program who works at GFDL.

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with the quantum dots.

ok now my laptop's screen is wet after I cracked up seeing rosie perez in that dress it's so horrible, it's almost funny again she looks like a toddler who plays dressup and a (do nt get me wrong I loved her ever since White boys cant jump and I think shes totally cute) old hag AT THE SAME TIME!

It pays to do your research before embarking on this date idea, as you'll find which theaters are older and have a more iconic feel and which are newer with more updated features, like high - resolution screens.

Now married with a 6 - year - old son, the family indulges in geeky events like «Planet of the Apes» screenings and at - home «Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition)» movie marathons.

but here every wall that needs a wallrun has scratches on it, every ring you see needs to be grabbed, and every ledge you need to jump to is worn down, and any time your little flying friend is needed the screen turns black and white (very agitating) It just feels like the game is treating you like you are a 5 year old.

Destroying stuff never gets old like using lightning and tornadoes to destroy a lot of stuff on the screen.

The battles mostly consists of tapping the screen like you have parkinson's, while some stratedge is involved it gets old real fast.

This game is definitely aimed at the younger Pokemaniacs, but older fans like myself can still get enjoyment out of it if they keep an open mind, it's not as good as the first PokePark game do to looser controls and by just not being as much fun, but it manages to expand on what the first game offered in the way of new content, for instance this time you don't just play as Pikachu but also Tepig, Snivy, and Oshawott after you meet them, and you can switch between them on the fly anytime you want, and you'll need to use each of their special abilities in your adventure, it also adds side - scrolling sections and a few other new features to keep things fresh, it also has some multiplayer attractions to play with so that's also nice, and you'll still be befriending all sorts of Pokemon just like the last game, you also get free roam after the main quest so you can make sure to befriend them all, and it's all adorable do to the cute graphics and world, even the loading screens are adorable, and as a gamer who typically plays more serious and violent games it was nice to spend time in the lighthearted PokePark with some of my favorite Pokemon, I recommend it and I definitely see myself returning in the days to come.

It looks like Chrono Trigger, which to say, at 4:3 frame cropped to the old iPhone 3.5» screen ratio, then blown up to be horribly blurry.

Even though I understand the character of Legolas is not in any of JRR Tolkein's «Hobbit» books, it was like seeing an old friend when he came on screen.

Naomi Watts — so wonderful in better horror fare like The Ring or thrillers like Mulholland Drive and Funny Games — does the best she can here with a comparatively inferior character, but Charlie Heaton, who broke out as the protective and lovelorn older brother in last summer's Stranger Things, and Jacob Tremblay, Oscar - nominated for his role in 2015's Room, are stymied in roles that require too little in the way of nuance or are lacking in enough screen time to show real depth.

I was one of many that was convinced that, as soon as the Switch made its debut, the 3DS would fade away quickly, with game releases drying up and there no longer being a need for me to pick up the quirky dual - screen handheld, but instead, between games like Fire Emblem Echoes, Metroid: Samus Returns and soon Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, there's more than enough reasons to invest in a fresh 3DS, not just keep turning on your old one.

Jeff Goldblum returns to the big screen after a long hiatus and it features other old cast members like Bill Pullman and Vivica A. Fox.

There's Malcolm (newcomer Shameik Moore), who's trapped in the»90s with his flat - top haircut and loud clothing; Diggy (22 - year - old Kiersey Clemons in her first big screen role), a lesbian who cares not for what anyone thinks about her preference for dressing a little differently; and Jib (The Grand Budapest Hotel «s very own Tony Revolori), who may seem like a misfit but his 14 % African blood speaks for itself, thank you very much.

Personally, I wish the filmmaker hadn't put so much effort into trying to make Gordon - Levitt look like his older counterpart — particularly when Willis has about half the screen time of Gordon - Levitt.

You expect it from people like Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, of course, but even the stuffy town merchants and the grubby, no - dialogue banditos have a heft to them and an on - screen presence that lets you know this movie could just as easily have been about them instead of a 14 - year old girl with a bone to pick.

As the old stagers leave the screen (Michael Gambon appears as a corpse), other dependable character actors are sprinkled about the place like scatter cushions.

Since his screen debut in the 1970 classic Love Story, Jones has appeared in iconic films like Natural Born Killers, Men in Black, No Country for Old Men and, recently, Lincoln.

Though the «new blood» (including Kellan Lutz, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and boxer Victor Ortiz) fare just fine alongside their larger - than - life counterparts, the real treat is seeing old - timers like Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas back on the big screen.

succeeds precisely due to its mix of modern technological wonder, old school devotion to the themes that made the series the genre - defining behemoth it has been, and a measured understanding of what makes a story like this work on the big screen.

Godzilla succeeds precisely due to its mix of modern technological wonder, old school devotion to the themes that made the series the genre - defining behemoth it has been, and a measured understanding of what makes a story like this work on the big screen.

There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of actors playing their two kids.

André Aciman's 2007 novel, about a precocious 17 - year - old boy falling in love with an older man on vacation in Italy, was wildly acclaimed but seemed like it'd be difficult to translate to screen.

But a less familiar face became just as important to the show over time, in the shape of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman, and the 32 - year - old actor looks like he's on the verge of further big - screen success very soon.

The full - length audio commentary with Ruzowitzky is interesting enough, boasting a generous supply of anecdotes about the production and some of the director's thoughts on translating real events into screen material (and inventing a few), but it feels like the 90 - year - old Burger is the real star of the fairly generous slate of extras, almost all of them only in SD.

An index of Winner & co.'s sense of film history: at the world premiere of the new Rudy Montague (Rudolph Valentino by way of Ron Leibman) picture, the image on the screen is blocked - up, ultracontrasty, and scratchy («Gee, didn't old movies always look like that?»).

Locate in Night Moves and its brothers the seeds of films like The Dark Knight and No Country for Old Men, and consider that it took the collapse of two towers to bring the United States (after Reagan and his screen analogue, Gump) back into this golden age of bleak self - reflection and, at times, incomparable artistic expressions of fear and trembling.

If at times «The Old Man and the Sea» looks like an animated version of those lame megabudget nature documentaries they used to show at IMAX theaters, that's partly because it is an IMAX film — the first animation to be shown on that huge screen, in fact.

In this she seems well ahead of some of the older, more rooted characters like Sam, who spends much of her screen time comparing herself to others and bemoaning her dissatisfaction with her job and singlehood.

If that makes you laugh, then you should enjoy the movie like the older crowd who spent much of the evening howling with laughing at my packed screening.

In a contemporary cinema world dominated by silent reverence for whatever junk in on screen, discount / second - run cinemas feel more like old school movie - going.

Brooklynn Prince, «The Florida Project:» The year's most startling and realistic performance came from this 7 - year - old, who was so authentic on screen it never felt for a second like she was acting.

When we think back to what it was like playing a game at release, our memories tend to be in higher resolution than our old computer screens.

The 16x9 animated menus are set in the hole - y desert with selection screens made to look like an old - time newspaper with clips of «Kissin»» Kate Barlow.

That's because, like older Metroid games, Samus Returns wants you to play it again and again, faster and better each time — with Samus rewarding you at the end with a slightly different end screen, just like her feminine reveal in the NES original.

Through the eyes of a child (like the ten - year - old sitting next to me at the promotional screening), The Terminator's heroics may provide justification for resolving conflicts with violence.

As the digital revolution has swept through Hollywood like brushfire, Nolan has remained a stalwart champion of shooting on film, and as 3D has increasingly become the blockbuster norm, he has refused to join the bandwagon, advocating instead for IMAX, a variant on the old 70 mm process responsible for the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and 2001, and whose screen - filling images envelop us in a way that only a select few 3D movies (chiefly Avatar and Hugo) have even approached.

Like all Telluride festivals, this one had great moments, as when 92 - year - old John Alton recalled discovering Maurice Chevalier in a Paris nightclub and filming him in a screen test, only to have MGM turn him down (Paramount saw more promise in the performer).