Sentences with word «namecheck»

The trailer (cut by Anderson himself), combined with the director's namechecking of the Zucker brothers (of Airplane!

In fact, Shakespeare, Byron, Melville, Rimbaud and plenty more all get namechecked in William Monahan's pretentious...

It's easy to forget that at one time McConaughey was being touted as the new Paul Newman, having received back - to - back praise in the mid -»90s for A Time to Kill and Lone Star, the latter of which has been namechecked by writer / director Jeff Nichols for part - inspiring his third feature.

Similarly, it would be hard to write about this movie without namechecking the likes of David Lynch, Roman Polanski (specifically his Chinatown), Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen brothers.

Gioni namechecked artists James Richards, Ed Atkins and Helen Marten — all of whom, coincidentally, were the subject of shows last year at the Chisenhale Gallery in east London.

Microsoft itself is unlikely to be directly coding Sonos and hue integration for Kinect, though the company did namecheck its own Internet of Things work briefly during the Build opening keynote.

Not only does Drake namecheck the Cheesecake, but also the chain employs multiple characters on Big Bang Theory, granting it further pop culture cache.

Surely a few more of the tedious celebrity namechecks could have made their way to the cutting room floor.

Theresa May opted against namechecking the European Commission president in her speech today.

with a passel of special features, beginning with «Ghost Story Genesis» (40 mins., HD), a new interview with Peter Straub, who recites long passages from the source material for some reason, namechecks John Fowles and Henry James, and ends on a passive - aggressive note by saying he was very pleased indeed to cash all the checks written to him for the sale of his property.

Even so, if Stahelski can namecheck Buster Keaton and deliver, John Wick: Chapter 2 offers enough reason to believe he can run his own gauntlet, wherever it might lead.

He regularly namechecks the films he likes — George Romero's Martin, Tony Scott's Near Dark, Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In, which comes across as O'Shea wanting to broadcast the fact that he's done his homework.

To namecheck all the amazing moments would be a long and tedious process, but seems vital to mention a climactic monologue given to Stuhlbarg which is breathtaking in both content and delivery.

It's only right that Happy Death Day, wherein a sorority girl is forced to live the day she is murdered over and over again, takes an entire scene to namecheck Groundhog Day.

This is a movie that namechecks Independence Day in a winking gesture, and thinks nothing of tasking its fictional commander - in - chief with firing a rocket launcher from a limousine driving in circles on the front lawn of the titular landmark.

Yes, the plot is cursory at best, and essentially exists only so the film can namecheck carefully placed apps in a series of sponsored, rather pointless extended set pieces.

There are more than a few well - known actors and (LEGO) characters namechecked.

In its opening minutes, the first episode sketches out a landscape of gang violence, institutional racism and street protests, quotes Martin Luther King and fellow civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, namechecks Harriet Tubman, and plays Billie Holliday's protest song Strange Fruit.

Peugeot itself is heavily encouraging such behaviour; its press release happily namechecks the 1980s hot hatch icon, while the «GTI» badge on the 208's rear quarter panel is an unashamed nod to its ancestor.

You know you've made it when flight attendants namecheck your product during takeoff.

Glance at the credits for an Assassin's Creed game and you'll see several studios namechecked.

While the skeleton of the game is cobbled together from Dark Souls II assets to some extent (Kotaku namechecks at least ten things, including a «struggling frame rate,» that feel verbatim) the aesthetic is totally fresh, even allowing for the Tower of Latria comparison.

Being a grad of The Parsons School of Design she gained some impressive experience as designer at some of the major houses — namechecking J.Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Nick Knight — before concentrating on her arty passion that brings in huge applause.

Ask anyone about 1960s «New Journalism» and the chances are they will namecheck Hunter S Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote.

Namechecking Steve Jobs, John Peel AND Margaret Thatcher in the same sentence confirms this for me.

The design is based on the theme of musical bars and namechecks musicians including 4 Hero, Alice Coltrane and Attica Blues.

He already seems to have gone through the appeals process, and Google does not seem to have any other procedure for real people with real names that are rejected by Google's algorithm and its army of malicious namechecking drones.

Peers routinely namecheck litigators from its roster as being some of the best in Manitoba.

Apple namechecked the game developer community, saying they will be able to develop «closer to the metal.»

Sprint even took the time to namecheck BGR in the official press release.

And as I'm saying that, I'm realizing a lot of woman - centric flicks get namechecked.

Kordansky was trying to woo Johnson to his gallery, and the two were sniffing each other out, namechecking artists they loved.

He namechecked a variety of thinkers influencing his new - age concepts, including Janette Sadik - Khan, a transportation advisor to Michael Bloomberg; Designer Alex McDowell of the World Building Institute; and Geoffrey West, the complex systems theorist at the Santa Fe Institute.

He namechecked some players in the French squad.

Dominic Calvert - Lewin was among those namechecked by the manager, as he animatedly discussed the value to his emerging stars of sampling nights like those in Hajduk Split's vibrant Stadion Poljud.

As my MP was getting up, he asked the presenter whether he could namecheck him when back on air, suggesting he said something like: «Well, thanks to [name] for that interview.»

Nadine Dorries got a namecheck there.

He gave seven namechecks to Corbyn, but failed to mention the party's candidate for City Hall once.

2.26 pm He namechecks some of the Shadow Cabinet - George Osborne, Ken Clarke, Theresa May.

And never mind Margaret Thatcher's visit to Downing Street... David Cameron paid homage to her too with a namecheck and a hint of further tax cuts to make the Conservatives once again the party of aspiration.

However, if Katniss Everdeen is your heroine of choice you're still in luck; female fans of the Hunger Games receive 44 % more online communication and men see the number of messages they receive increase by 21 % when they namecheck Suzanne Collins» series.

All this, plus numerous pop - cultural allusions (Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Frozen, Basic Instinct, the Bourne films, MatthewMcConaughey and Sabrina The Teenage Witch all get namechecks), could, in less able hands, become tiresome.

The namechecking of Dickens is used by the film - makers as an excuse for the improbable amount of chance and coincidence that takes over the film.

We get not one but two serpentine tracking shots around the establishment, with Allen himself as narrator, namechecking the clientele: an imperious Austrian countess, we learn, was born «Chickie Sherman from Passaic, New Jersey.»

It's been going on for a while to one degree or another, but Edgar Wright's «Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World» was one of the most obvious and conscious examples in recent memory: taking its leaf from Bryan Lee O'Malley's source material, it namechecked energy bars, extra lives and save points, among other video game tropes, in a smart and poppy way.

In long, thoughtful answers, he namechecks clarinetist Artie Shaw and punk rockers the Buzzcocks with equal enthusiasm.

As for Ant - Man, he barely merits a namecheck, much less an appearance.