Sentences with phrase «of a new genre by»

Blends have the potential to be pain - free gateways to new aisles of the library, introducing readers to genres in a way that shows off the best characteristics of a new genre by pairing it with a genre they might already know and love.

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Evan Shapiro, executive vice president of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises, announced the new service in a presentation Thursday morning in New York, where he hammered home the idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy nerds.&raqnew service in a presentation Thursday morning in New York, where he hammered home the idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy nerds.&raqNew York, where he hammered home the idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy nerds.»
Sharknado is one example of a «mockbuster,» a new genre of film defined by the internet generation's insatiable demand for quirky, cheap content.
Get outside of your normal routine by learning a new hobby, reading a different book genre, or striking up a conversation with a complete stranger (exercise judgment on this one).
Mr. Siegel also was a cofounder and director of New England Asset Management, now GenRe NEAM owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
Likewise, Kennedy's search for the persuasive genre of a New Testament text is complemented by Mack's focus on the details of classical argumentation.
The work of Amos Wilder, particularly his book Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel, which deals with major literary genres of the New Testament, as well as the work on parables as extended metaphors by such scholars as Robert Funk, Norman Perrin and Dan O. Via, Jr., has become important for many of us.
32 Wilder himself has offered invaluable aid in the pursuit of his own question by analyzing the modes and genres of New Testament discourse.
Does the Old Testament conform to a genre that has been externally imposed by coercive readers and hard misreadings, or is its genre a reflection of the will of communities that produced it, assented to its ongoing word of address and handed it over to new communities of faith of which we are one?
As we mentioned earlier, the accounts of the resurrection appearances of Jesus can themselves best be understood as promissory, in the genre of the appearances and new pledges of fidelity by Yahweh narrated in the Hebrew Scriptures.
It has been noted by astute demographers that at the time the baby bust generation began to reach marriage age, the articles in women's magazines began to depart from the «Why He Won't Commit» genre to articles about «The New Morality» and reactions to the sexual excesses of the previous decade.
[207] In the 1990s a new genre of music was created by the youth incorporating the influences of highlife, Afro - reggae, dancehall and hiphop.
The challenge lies in assembling musical sequences played by other people, creating new combinations of sounds or genres in the process.
New York, NY About Blog Crime by the Book CBTB is a book review blog dedicated to investigation of the crime fiction genre.
War, the Game is a title that all strategy lovers should try out at least once in order to see how smaller teams can innovate by taking the classic concepts of the genre and turning them into something new.
What's really intriguing is the way that an Africanist myth invented in 1966 by two Jewish guys in New York, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and later elaborated upon by the likes of Reginald Hudlin and Ta - Nehisi Coates, has now been taken over by Ryan Coogler, the writer - director who previously made the very good social - realist drama Fruitvale Station and the first - rate genre - revisionist Creed.
A new generation of brilliant filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have rediscovered and embraced this cutting edge genre; introducing story elements and developing a visual style influenced by the maestros from the Banned Western Channel.
None of this will be new to fans of the spy genre, but by wedding one of the world's biggest stars to a surprisingly brutal and forthright consideration of these ideas, Red Sparrow puts its text and subtext on parallel tracks.
The whole glum genre has made millions and that in itself is a little dispiriting; unlike the old - time sci - fi of Asimov, Silverberg and Clarke, which were rich with possibility, these new tales all forecast a bleak future, ruined by adults.
The latest from publisher Acttil seems to be focused on capturing those new to the genre, or at least those who were intimidated by the difficult nature of Experience's games.
Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.
In short, expository flashbacks cast Angela's awkwardness in a new light even before the justly - famous closing image, one of the most baffling and incongruous climaxes in a genre known and celebrated by devotees for its WTF factor.
director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.
But if the quantity of the films has decreased, the quality of the included filmmakers has not: new movies by Darren Aronofsky (genre tale «Mother!»)
A feather - light thriller that adds nothing new to the «gather a group of friends and kill them off one by one» genre.
Giménez, who has already received over 30 awards worldwide for his work on the film, breathes much - needed new life into a genre plagued by convention and shows us that passion can be found in the most unlikely of places.
The striking new cover art by Devon Whitehead depicts all your favorite characters from the film in a retro - tastic bloody homage to one of my all time favorite genre movies.
Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.
But perhaps the real star of Fear Clinic is the highly impressive visual FX, headed up by genre favorites Robert Kurtzman and Steve Johnson, who manage to still find new ways to disturb me with the striking and unforgettable sites of real world totally - imaginable - yet - utterly - disturbing nightmares, images that will stay with you for days.
While popular in New Zealand, these were mainly cult films for international audiences who had to purposefully seek out these quirky and raunchy examples of genre by the then - little known Kiwi auteur.
We are stoked about the upcoming The Evil Within, a new survival horror game by the master of the genre, Shinji Mikami.
Language: English Genre: Adventure / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Ridley Scott Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen Plot: Maximus, a general and friend of Caesar, is sold as a slave by the new emperor to protect his thrown from Maximus who is the chosen heir.
In between, The Wild Bunch presents coffin nails for every single thing sacred in the western genre: its heroes are broken - down, paunchy, exhausted, and driven by the wrong things; its whores are nasty; and its bloodshed is excessive and unconscionable.3 Other New American westerns could only pretend at this picture's level of absolute obscenity; like Apocalypse Now, it wasn't a movie about Vietnam — it was Vietnam.
When The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford came out in 2007, a lot of people believed a new golden age of the Western genre began, with both financially and critically successful movies such as James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma, John Hillcoat's The Proposition or the Coen brothers» No Country for Old Men.
With Wolfenstein II as the highlight for single player titles and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds as the new (and unexpected) king of multiplayer shooters, let's dive into our recap of 2017 for this genre (don't miss our bundled most anticipated shooters of 2018 article, by the way).
It's the only viable approach to the Captain John Smith / Pocahontas story in a minefield of debris strewn by not only our Western genre tradition, but also our newer guilt at how American Indians have been (and continue to be) portrayed in our culture: the most bestial, savage notions of the Natural have come around to their personification as an unsullied, Edenic embodiment of an impossibly harmonious nature.
If that wasn't enough, he is now jumping into the horror genre with another new project based on a comic book by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night).
Indeed, the notion of these documentaries as belonging to a particular genre is challenged the most by French and Japanese films that borrow narrative techniques from their coinciding «new waves.»
Told through the eyes of the adolescent Thomasin — in a star - making turn by newcomer Anya Taylor - Joy — and supported by mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score, The Witch is a chilling and groundbreaking new take on the genre.
Directed by one of the architects of the 1960s British New Wave, John Schlesinger, who exploded on the American Cinema scene with 1969's Midnight Cowboy and showed how adept he was in many genres, from thrillers like Marathon Man to British Satire Cold Comfort Farm, The Believers would seem to be somewhat in his wheelhouse.
When I first properly developed a love of the genre, I was spoilt by the wealth of classic and new titles being released by Hong Kong Legends, a DVD label that started in 1999 which specialised in Hong Kong action movies.
Now on a new episode of «On the Score,» Brian Tyler is joined by «Mummy» filmmaker Alex Kurtzman as they talk about a long - lasting collaboration that's evolved from «Eagle Eye» to «Hawaii Five - 0» and «Now You See Me» to reach its biggest challenge yet for a genre directing debut that's drawn vital powers of grandly melodic, evil excitement as both men seek to create a new, Dark Universe for Universe Pictures» most prized and fearsome properties.
MOVIE: KNOCK KNOCK STARRING: KEANU REEVES; LORENZA IZZO; ANA DE ARMAS; IGNACIA ALLAMAND; AARON BURNS DIRECTED BY: ELI ROTH AMovieGuy.com's RATING: 1 1/2 STARS (Out of 4) With Knock Knock, the newest film from horror genre director, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever; Hostel), I'm forced to guess what his end game is.
The Academy acclaims the oppositional project of these new genre films; Logan articulates this in comic - book terms when a mad scientist (Richard E. Grant) restores Wolverine's twisted, evil doppelgänger: «You're a newborn by any measure.
Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.
While it pointed fingers and gawked at the genre, Vaughn and company clearly had fun building a new spy series for the next generation by simultaneously honoring the films and icons of the past, while also pointing out their glaring flaws.
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Fact - Based Holocaust Film Chronicles Case of Jewish Resistance in Poland In 2006, Black Book put a provocative new spin on the Holocaust genre by featuring Jews as resistance fighters rather than in the generally - depicted role of passive victims of genocide.
This phenomenon of a festival darling being praised after an initial screening only to be loathed by mainstream audiences once it is released is nothing new, but the horror genre seems to have been hit hard with this occurrence lately.
Here you will find all of the latest news and updates about the annual haunt event Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, California, featuring new mazes and attractions every year inspired by many of your favorite horror movies and genre icons, including Michael Myers of «Halloween», Leatherface of «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre», and many more!
Powered by the Unreal Engine 4, Tekken 7 sets a new benchmark for graphical fidelity for the fighting game genre, pushing the new generation of console hardware and PC visuals to the limit.
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