Sentences with phrase «nostalgia hit»

Should a bout of nostalgia hit, however, she can always visit a selection of precious pieces she salvaged from the suburbs.

This year's model, the SNES Classic Edition, offers an even stronger nostalgia hit than the NES Classic, thanks to its meticulously crafted design and well - curated list of games from the 16 - bit era.

More often than not nostalgia hit me like a brick to the face as I was reminded of the visual style of Streets of Rage combined with the gameplay of Tony Hawk.

For a nostalgia hit, there's the launch trailer for Red Dead Redemption.

This major summer hit somehow managed to make the long - dormant Smurfs franchise relevant to a new generation, though any adults looking for a nostalgia hit would be much better served by a trip to see The Muppets instead.

Hopefully they're all good enough, because the nostalgia hit of another round of Schumacher / Montoya / Barrichello battles would be fantastic.

It's hard to comment on this 20 years later without a flood of nostalgia hitting me.

Not exact matches

Its NES Classic and SNES Classic have been surprising hits for the company, a lesson in the power of nostalgia and appealing to Millennials with money to spend.

«Throughout my life, and usually when I least expect it, I'll get hit with a profound sense of nostalgia about someone or something, often triggered by the tiniest and most imperceptible act.

«One of the things that I think Nintendo really hit [with Super Mario Maker] was the nostalgia factor in their marketing,» says Christine Arrington, games analyst at IHS.

«La La Land» was the runaway hit of 2016 — the film emulated classic movie musicals to sell a feeling of nostalgia.

Netflix may have just mined «80s nostalgia, a la Stranger Things, to create the biggest hit summer for the second year in a row.

Its 1950s - themed locations, which average 2,400 to 2,800 square feet, are outfitted with nostalgia pieces such as dining counters, neon lights and signs and posters from past decades while hits from the»50s and»60s play in the background.

When it comes to summertime treats, milkshakes hit the sweet spot — a cool, comfort food classic to beat the summer heat, served with a side of nostalgia.

Our partner sites dish up a useful, fun hit of nostalgia.

Kontihene's performance on the night was filled with nostalgia as he took fans back in time with performances of old time hits like «Aketesea» and «Asesa.»

Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband will today say that it was the party's less affluent voters who lost Labour the election and hits out at his critics who have accused him of running on a ticket «pandering» to the left of the party, branding them guilty of «New Labour nostalgia».

Fig Newton Shake - Sometimes childhood nostalgia just hits you hard - especially, it seems, in the summer.

Outside of fashion, we've seen a lot of»80s nostalgia... Stranger Things was a huge hit on Netflix, Star Wars - mania is back, and old - school band t - shirts are everywhere!

It'll hit you right in the ol' nostalgia feels.

I'm really glad that I toned that all way down, but I totally feel that hit of nostalgia whenever I do a toned - down glittery eye for a GNO.

Retro nostalgia is hitting a sartorial high as we progress from logo - heavy tracksuits and cropped tees to apparel that quite literally screams where it originated.

However, Nostalgia just keeps hitting the same note over and over, climaxing with a character spelling the movie's themes out during a final exchange.

Yes, the»90s of it all becomes a bit much at times, but by the time Pat hits a low point and heads to a disco night at a dive bar to dance with a stranger, it's clear Robespierre and co-writer Elisabeth Holm know what they're doing with nostalgia as a dramatic device.

Though the movie became a hit, Williams chose to finish college rather than head immediately to Hollywood, appearing only in the gentle nostalgia piece Indian Summer (1993) before she earned her degree.

Grease is a nostalgia movie, so it will hit home with nostalgia buffs more than those who are not.

Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.

A nostalgia trip of sorts, it proved to be a crowd - pleaser that played all of the greatest hits, bringing back our favourite characters and allowing them the platform to deliver our favourite lines.

Nostalgia sequels are Hollywood's next favorite thing, and «Anchorman 2» and «Dumb And Dumber To» have proven in the last couple of years that even if your movie wasn't a giant hit at first (as «Zoolander» wasn't), being a small - screen favorite will lead to a big boost next time around.

George Chrysostomou on nostalgia... Upon reading Anghus Houvouras's piece on why everyone is hating on Ready Player One, a key theme of his argument really hit home — it struck me that there really ise a lot of nostalgia in the current crop of films and TV shows.

As we hit the 00s, most high school movies were mimicking the greats that came before, referencing the 80s nostalgia or trying to hone in on what made the likes of Mean Girls so successful.

The first teaser trailer has hit the web over at Yahoo!, and it's chock full of nostalgia.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

With all the recent HD collections hitting the market, it's safe to say that many gamers have had to make the hard realisation that their nostalgia for certain games paints a rosy picture of a title that doesn't hold up when replaying in 2012.

Dope — Director Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood) hits the right notes with this fresh concoction of unique characters and 90s hip - hop nostalgia.

As they hit subsequent pubs, and pints, except for Andy who has been sober since a mysterious accident with Gary 16 years before, the warm glow of nostalgia begins to kick in.

The endless mashed - up»80s hair - metal hits don't succeed as anything beyond nostalgia items.

Even the title screen is an uncut hit of nostalgia plunging right into your veins.

There's a nostalgia - driven full cinematic story mode that plays out like a Dragon Ball greatest hits, rammed with fanservice and of a decent length that neither feels short nor outstays its welcome too much — vital given that much of the story is spent fighting character clone drones.

Combat appeals to nostalgia but isn't really very good, hit - or - miss voice acting mostly misses, lame use of big - busted minor characters as promo art because boobs.

Among newly featured stuff, we've got a trio of them on TCM tonight, including Cameron Crowe's rock nostalgia trip Almost Famous, which I think hit a couple of our Best of Decade lists last year.

Film - maker Paul Thomas Anderson talks about Inherent Vice, his new nostalgia noir based on a Thomas Pynchon novel, in which a stoned private eye hits the trail of his ex, and leads a homage to 70s California

The soundtrack's full of 90s hits from Pulp, Primal Scream, The Housemartins and more, while Steven Price's orchestral score actually has quite a bit of refreshing earnestness to it — the 90s pop songs solidify the nostalgia - comedy part of The World's End, while the eerie electronic sounds and intense orchestration of Price's score help immensely to sell the action scenes and drama.

Ultimately, «Beyond Clueless» is like a»90s R&B night or even a cereal café: it hits you with a wave of nostalgia but isn't all that challenging.

This kind of pop nostalgia, of course, has only intensified in the 16 years since «Donnie Darko's» initial release, as demonstrated most recently by the hit Netflix series «Stranger Things,» which shares Kelly's affection for Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.

«Super 8»: J.J. Abrams hit it out of the park this year with the nostalgia - heavy «Super 8.»

Nostalgia for the «90s hits a new high with this tribute to the original Jeep Grand Cherokee, in time for its 25th anniversary.

Amusingly, the Mustang's radio describes Radio 4 as «Adult Hits» and Classic FM as «Nostalgia» (which might be understandable if you were born in Austria in the eighteenth century).

The solitary phase of writing, the agonising rounds of editing, the pounding in your chest as you hit the «Publish» button, the daze of initial launch time, the nostalgia, the celebration of crossing a milestone and the despair of not going anywhere, Indies can connect with it all.

In the wake of the Borders chain closings, some media are hitting back with counter-programming (either out of nostalgia or as a way to stand out.)