Sentences with phrase «nostalgia pieces»

Father's Day 2013 brings with it memoirs, nostalgia pieces, books on child - rearing (specifically from Dad's POV) and also interesting volumes related to golf's singular, imaginative hold on the father - son bond.

It takes place in the 70s, but outside of a few references, it thankfully doesn't beat you over the head with it the way other nostalgia pieces have done recently.

What impresses me most about these nostalgia pieces is the vivid memories they clearly summon up for many here.

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.

«I wrote «Diary of a Wimpy Kid» as a nostalgia piece, looking back like «The Wonder Years,»» said Kinney, referring to the 1980s TV series set in the 1960s.

Jones managed to work consistently in movies from then on, with bit parts in Mike Judge's comedy Office Space (1999) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999), as well as a starring role in Barry Levinson's praised but little - seen nostalgia piece Liberty Heights (1999).

This is one of those rare movies that I think I enjoyed more over time rather than think it is not as good, or like it as a nostalgia piece.

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.

Director John Hyams (The Smashing Machine, Rank) calls it an»80s nostalgia piece, particularly because of the synth soundtrack they decided to use.

It's no surprise that «There's No Business Like Show Business» was a bit of a dud in its original run and only came back to prominence as a nostalgia piece on the old movie networks.

by Walter Chaw Emboldened, perhaps, by the surprisingly good The Other Guys and the surprisingly great Get Him to the Greek, I went into Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piece.

Still, as a nostalgia piece, Newsies has its sepia - tinged moments.

But Brooklyn is no mere nostalgia piece (even though these Montreal streets sure do the trick).

But «Brooklyn» is no mere nostalgia piece.

Ostensibly a hybrid of an Adam Sandler lovable schlub vehicle with a kids» picture nostalgia piece, «Pixels» imagines that an alien invasion takes place in the form of vintage video game characters attacking major metropolises around the world.

The Times Online has a curious nostalgia piece entitled, «Whatever happened to the radical lawyers,» that keys off Michael Mansfield's autobiography, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer (co-written with Yvette Vanson).

Not exact matches

In fact, the co-founders focus grouped dozens of ideas before landing on spin tops, which ultimately met their criteria for a simply designed, handcrafted piece of nostalgia that was high - quality and made in Canada.

The Mighty Ducks does not hold up as a «good» movie, but if you are looking for the ultimate piece of early «90s sports nostalgia, there is no one better to deliver it than Emilio Estevez and his ragtag team of hockey cast - offs.

Cereal makers are playing the nostalgia card in an effort to drive demand back up, but short of putting pieces of gold in the box instead of toys, sales aren't likely to recover soon.

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Then again, I have nostalgia for nearly every piece of lint that ever blew across my path.

Mike Atherton seems have developed into a proper columnist and sports writer, and while his column may the type of wise after the event piece you have in mind and are warning about, I think it was well judged and that the centre - left doesn't need to go into «jumpers for goalposts» nostalgia to strongly agree with this.

Old family photos are another piece of nostalgia that I like to display throughout the home.

A hint of nostalgia is in each and every one of their hand - made designs, for example, a piece of antique lace found in a friend's attic or a piece of twig found on a walk in the Scottish woods.

I strive to create pieces that look like they could have a history or a past, and combine that feeling of nostalgia with a modern silhouette and fabrics that move and stretch gracefully.

By now most of us had written the site off as a piece of early 21st century nostalgia, but it's just gotten a mobile makeover and has plans to join the booming online dating business.

It's the writers, stupid: Solomon's book is not the nostalgia - ridden piece the MGM book is, but a serious history of Fox before the merger in 1935 with the upstart 20th Century Pictures.

A gentle, rose - tinted piece of political nostalgia - one that glances at the divisions in American society, but still casts a optimistic view toward whatever's next.

O'Mara's Sam is incredibly engaging, and I'm pleased with how well this Americanization of an already very fine piece of flinty cop nostalgia is going.

These are the driving themes behind Mark Pellington's Nostalgia - a melodramatic examination of grief, and how people pick up the pieces following both expected and unexpected deaths.

If you love 60s style then your bound to like this, but this is not one to be taken seriously and overall is just a fun piece of nostalgia.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Since there can be a cultural lag to our political movements, the new rom - com piece of Obama nostalgia, Southside With You, and the TIFF - premiering Barry, capture the young Barack and the happy side of the Obama Era while coinciding with the recent uptick in Obama's domestic popularity.

I can only imagine three audiences for Campus Man — those that collect every piece of 80s piffle purely for nostalgia, those that want to see homoerotic music montages featuring hunky men in swimsuits, or perhaps you're curious to see some early work by John Dye of «Touched by an Angel» or Kim Delaney (Mission to Mars, Body Parts) of «NYPD Blue».

In its kneejerk nostalgia, Wonder Wheel fillets bits and pieces of Manhattan (the declamatory opening), Broadway Danny Rose (the guys yakking, the mob), The Purple Rose of Cairo (the cinephilia, the hopeless romanticism) and Bullets over Broadway (the period love, the mob) among sundry others.

It's an obvious piece of nostalgia farming for a series that was honestly never that great, it is just remembered as -LSB-...]

Right from the albums opening track «Capable of Lies» to the closing notes of «All in a Day's Lurk» the album is two parts nostalgia and two parts new as the 4 piece band consisting of Poli van Dam, Jen Razavi, Josh Lewis and Neil Wayne provide listeners with 90's styled pop - punk fueled with modern day angst.

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.

A piece of history and nostalgia, it's a document of decency in simpler times when heroism was tied to doing the right thing for reasons that seemed clearer.

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Nostalgia for the 1980s has been too narrow in scope lately, focusing on genre pieces featuring kid characters in the horror remake «It» and Netflix sci - fi series «Stranger Things.»

Sonic Mania is the new 2D Sonic title fans have wanted for many years, and it delivers on every bit of its promise both as a piece of nostalgia and a new Sonic title in its own right.»

Audiences will still likely see every punch coming from a mile away, but what's remarkable is how the movie lands them all: It's an invigorating piece of nostalgia that fuels a bigger adrenaline rush with its climax than any big - budget blockbuster could provide.

If «120 Beats Per Minute» is inescapably a period piece, a flashback to a moment when AIDS was decimating the gay community in much higher numbers than it is today, the movie nevertheless unfolds in a brisk, urgent present tense that refuses the consolations of nostalgia.

Nope, it's a whimsical and hilarious piece of animated nostalgia from Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

FM will most likely appeal to 70s nostalgia buffs than anyone else, and as a peek into that crazy decade, it's a recommended time capsule piece.

Nostalgia isn't pieced together like Crash or other large ensemble pieces.

It's of course very promotional in nature, but it's a fun piece of nostalgia, as all these types of vignettes are.

Each set piece and the next is a hyperstimulation of 80's nostalgia and prized pop culture in a blink - or - you'll definitely - miss - it fashion designed to make viewers puke glitter or roll their heads over.

Iger's presentation last week at Disney's Mobile Product Showcase began with an anecdote recalling his time spent with the late Steve Jobs, adding a pleasant piece of nostalgia to these announcements for those of us that still miss him a little bit.