Sentences with phrase «other yesteryear»

If you are not familiar with spaghetti westerns or other yesteryear Italian cinema, then you may find the lack of synchronicity between picture and sound jarring.

Not exact matches

Other modern chapters include one about the bowling - alley stocks of yesteryear.

Movie mavens will quickly detect his limited conversance with the romantic - comedy genre of yesteryear, as Reed states his desire to bring Saul Bass to mind with the opening credits: Bass designed the main titles for Anatomy of a Murder, Seconds, and the remake of Cape Fear, among others — not exactly the first guy you'd think of for Pillow Talk 2, in other words, and just the earliest of Down with Love's disingenuous lapses.

A tribute to the Quatermass serials of yesteryear as well as a hodgepodge of other elements, «Lifeforce» is one of the most messily dazzling science - fiction epics of the last quarter - century.

What: Guillermo del Toro has introduced the world to haunted houses and kaiji - fighting robots, Hellboy and other fantastical realms of reality, and his new project is just as magical: a creature feature of yesteryear, about a mute woman (Hawkins) who falls in love with a hardboiled egg - eating sea creature held in a secret government laboratory.

Stagecoach's original 3 1/2 - minute theatrical trailer unexpectedly opens with talk of aviation and other modern transportation, segueing into the yesteryear streamline in which the film is set.

If you're looking for a challenging yet rewarding single - player experience, some intense co-op action (other players can be summoned for boss fights and other activities), or even a new PvP experience, you'll find in Nioh a fitting tribute to the challenging action - RPG games of yesteryear which didn't pull their punches.

Some paid homage to the platformers of yesteryear, while others soldiered ahead with inventive new approaches to the genre.

Aside from artist George Michael being present in the way that other artists / icons of yesteryear are used for neverending jokes in R rated comedies, (seemingly starting with Ted), just about all of the laughs come courtesy of Key & Peele.

The premise, which pits crooks on both sides of the law against each other in the aftermath of a heist gone wrong, might bring to mind the foul - mouthed Tarantino imitations of yesteryear, but this style-less Take Your Daughter To Work Day release doesn't even have the personality of a knock - off.

Still others will resemble the traditional self - contained - classroom schools of yesteryear.

That's not how it worked in the one - room schoolhouses of yesteryear, and it's oblivious to the many ways that children differ from each other, the ways their modes and rates of learning differ, how widely their starting achievement levels differ, and how their interests, brains, and outside circumstances often cause them to learn different subjects at unequal speeds — and to move faster and slower, deeper or shallower, at different points in their lives, even at different points within a «school year.»

Unlike the principals of yesteryear, who daily dealt with a bench full of shamefaced class cutups, Hardy has a dean of culture, Jimmie Brown, to help teachers keep order, refocus distracted or unruly children, counsel others, and meet with concerned parents.

On the other side is Diane Ravitch, who argues that testing has corrupted the schools and that if only we could throw out the tests and return to the neighborhood schools of yesteryear, everything would be all right.

This story of two lonely people — one, a private duty nurse; the other, her dying charge's war - wounded son — is set in 1950 and contains many a nod to British classics of yesteryear.

I'm sorry, but seeing a console mascot that is so shallowly developed that I can't tell you a single solitary detail about him besides «he wears green armor and shoots a lot of aliens» as the new gold standard that all other games aspire too, as sopposed to the colorful robust console mascots of yesteryear like Mario, Sonic, and Crash, forgive me if I can't help but feel a little disheartened by that.

This isn't a Clash of Clans style tap - to - wait styled game, it is modeled more after Command & Conquer and the other classic PC RTS games from yesteryear.

The first game that I saw was Mini Ninjas which is a traditional arcade game for all ages that has a few killer twists, ensuring that this is truly a 21st century gaming title Mini Ninjas Paying homage to those classic Japanese martial arts movies of yesteryear, gamers play Hiro, a 114 cm tall Ninja who has been given the task, just like the other Mini Ninjas to save the world.

In other areas Bravely Default is a game that's very much inspired by Final Fantasy titles of yesteryear.

I must also point out another thing that is hurting not only Nintendo, but also other console video game manufacturers and even PC and Mac game makers and that is that video games that are totally dedicated to them are actually on a downward trend and the only things that are saving them are emulated titles from yesteryear, emulated import titles from yesteryear, independent developers making low cost games that are essentially DLC to your console or computer, and the massive rise of casual games and pay - to - play games.

And while you're at it, toss out any mentions of outdated skills, old software programs or other examples of terminology from yesteryear that may make you seem out of the loop.

Most companies of yesteryear kept close to half the commission from each sale and paid salespeople the other half.

Just like other SF families did in blue chip neighborhoods in yesteryear.