Sentences with phrase «other pop culture movies»

It's a social pattern that has been a central theme of television shows such as «Modern Family,» «The Office,» «Sex & the City,» «Will & Grace,» and other pop culture movies and television programs for years.

Not exact matches

From pop culture references to callbacks to other Marvel movies, the newest superhero addition has some fun details that fans might not have picked up on.

Others have written eloquently of the way in which Andraé Crouch's own musical compositions have had a broader impact on American culture, through his cross over into pop music and his musical arrangements for movies like The Color Purple and The Lion King.

He draws his inspiration from the 80's culture with, on the one hand, SF and Horror movies (Blade Runner, Halloween, The Thing), and on the other, the 70's with the italian Giallos of Dario Argento and the dark era of pop - occult culture that ensues.

This film really is a piece of history, an old iconic pop culture movie that has inspired so many other ideas in various formats.

More than any other type of songwriting, rap lyrics are peppered with pop culture references, from movies to cars to sports to fashion to other rap songs.

Soderbergh's a rangy, hard - to - pin talent, but his list looks pretty similar to that of any other diligent consumer of pop - culture: O.J.: Made In America, Westworld, a whole lot of the Olympics, and Fury Road, among other movies and TV shows.

The hilarious jokes and jabs are there (with plenty of references to other movies) and so are the many, many zippy pop culture references that go flying by, begging for repeat viewings.

Other films earning multiple nominations, but absent from the Best Picture field, include Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, with six nominations, Steve Jobs, which landed acting and ensemble recognition, Creed, Ryan Coogler's rebranding of the Rocky franchise (3 nominations), and the pop culture movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which rallied for four technical nominations.

The Double Dragon legacy even gained momentum in pop culture, spawning not only various sequels and ports for multiple platforms, but appearing in other mediums like comic books, cartoons and movies.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Regardless, this slice of pop culture goodness has gotten me excited for the revival of everyone's favorite plucky blonde detective... and has made me wonder about other TV shows that deserve a similar second chance in movie theaters:

The third «Hunger Games» movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson among many other big name actors, does well as a pop culture phenomenon movie.

Unlike the annual glut of licensed Monopoly variants that lazily slap on a specific theme from a movie or videogame or some other pop culture work to the board game's standard rules, Monopoly Gamer brings with it a Super Mario Bros. theme alongside a fresh ruleset that streamlines the real estate aspect and peps up the pace to satisfy a gamer's sensibilities.

Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.

Manga, anime, horror movies, and other stereotypical aspects of Japanese pop culture merge to present iconic images of buoyant menace and cruelty, which serve to contrast startlingly with the sugary cartoon characters that are also common.

-- in visual pop culture, which in the 1940s and»50s meant, among other things, comic books, monster movies and advertising.

There were nods to movies, television shows, Supreme Court decisions, and other newsworthy pop - culture related events at the time.