Sentences with phrase «namechecking of»

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

Perhaps by stealth, director Paul Feig has invented a form of bizarro fan service — namechecks to an original property that actually make you question whether it was any good in the first place.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 increased by 21 % when they namecheck Suzanne Collins» series.»

He offers one nugget on the whole idea of shared single - player experiences, though — right after I namecheck Dark Souls.

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.