Sentences with phrase «played on the big screen for»

Though Ms. Hawkins won the latter statue, beating out Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, Happy - Go - Lucky only played on the big screen for another eleven days, remaining in just 50 theaters.

Not exact matches

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

Or at least that seems to be the case for many men, whose emotional lives are played out on big screen TVs and twenty - four hour media coverage of everything athletic.

While Noah and the animals on the Ark have often been played for laughs on the big screen (e.g. Evan Almighty), Aronofsky considers the Flood «the first apocalypse story,» and his film underscores the psychological toll it takes on Noah (played by Russell Crowe) and his family (Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, and Anthony Hopkins, among others).

Apart from the game itself the two additional highlights of the evening for me were the roll call of our players and managers who are no longer with us displayed on the screens as a backdrop to the band playing Abide With Me amid rapturous applause from the fans, and the ending with the lights being turned off on the big screen by the player in the number 6 West Ham shirt.

Uma Thurman throws her hands in the air while showing her support for the Time's Up movement while backstage at her play The Parisian Woman on We often think that the celebrities we watch on the big screen have minimum education.

For the first time on the big screen, Spider - Man will battle The Lizard (aka Dr. Curt Conners), who will be played by Rhys Ifans, and our hero's web - shooters will be mechanical, not organic.

If this turns out to be true, I would love to buy it for my Wii U. I like the idea of playing it on my big screen!

He might still be best known for playing Josh Lyman on The West Wing, but Bradley Whitford has enjoyed a healthy career on screens big and small.

For Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms in the film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screFor Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms in the film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screfor De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screen.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Will Kern adapts his own play for the big screen based on his real - life experiences in driving a cab in the streets of Chicago.

Though the movie takes place in the homes of two seventeen - year - old women, intricate camerawork and editing using shot - reverse - shot techniques to close in on first one speaker and then the next help to open the play for the big screen.

Coupled with some nice film and musical hommages, this makes for great viewing on the big screen, so you folks across the pond should head out to your cinema on September 12th if it is playing in your neighborhood.

The Girl Who Played with Fire is much more of a thriller than a traditional murder mystery — a pity since one of the reasons I liked the first film was that I hadn't seen a straight murder mystery on the big screen for quite some time.

While — like (I guess) many Rohmer fans — I tend to find myself most at home in his beach houses and Parisian apartment blocks, I was drawn to this presentation of his lesser - known historical films for two reasons: one was the pure joy of being able to enjoy his greatest work, Perceval, on the big screen; the other was the opportunity to finally be introduced to his feature - length television play Catherine de Heilbronn, a production that, in its grey set design and even starker minimalism, in many ways felt like the former film's shadowy companion piece.

Keaton plays the lead role, that of a former movie star, best known for playing a comic book hero on the big screen (hello!)

Silver Surfer first jumped on the big screen in 2007's lesser received Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer with Fishburne providing the voice for the superhero while Doug Jones playing the physical embodiment of the role.

Even Rob Reiner (who plays Belfort's dad) delivers big - screen excellence, for the first time on either side of the camera in longer than I care to remember.

Some arthouse movies, even perfectly accessible ones, never play beyond big cities, but for a wonderfully insane counterpoint, observe that The Neon Demon somehow opened on nearly 800 screens nationwide back in June, sadly just short of the number of screenings needed to receive what would have been a wonderfully low CinemaScore.

Legion showrunner Noah Hawley has toyed with the idea of including Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, the two actors famous for playing Professor X on the big screen.

Perhaps Judas Kiss would have played for effectively on the big screen, for what does distinguish the film somewhat is the slick visual style of co - writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez — a virtue that is severely compromised when panned and scanned for the small screen.

Today's release of The Help on DVD is cause for celebration because the film plays just as well on the small screen as on the big one.

As for the state of the Nintendo Switch port, it plays beautifully in the portable mode while it is not too shabby on the big screen.

Oprah Winfrey as Gloria: Quickly canceling any inclination that this would be some of grandiose big screen comeback for the cultural icon, Winfrey plays a part that does little for the story, despite the amount of time spent on it.

This is the movie that sets up the overall «big bad» for the Marvel films, and it begins what will be a roller coaster five - plus - year ride to the third Avengers film where one of the most popular Marvel stories of all time will play out on the big screen.

As well as giving you access to apps that have no desktop or web equivalent (like Snapchat), it's great for playing games on the big screen — we got Alto's Adventure up and running on the Pixelbook with no problems, and plenty of other games would...

What with Lifetime's adaptations of At Risk and The Front and news that Angelina Jolie will play Scarpetta on the big screen, it's been a busy year for Patricia Cornwell.

and now have the Captivate and the Dell streak so the game play capabilities and touchwiz mixed with a larger screen like my streak would be the perfect phone... I only hope Samsung smartens up and comes out with a new model with a dual core in it... A 4.5 inch screen is the happy medium for me... The streak is nice however is a pain sometimes when I don't have big pockets or a jacket on... This phone seems large however not so big that is can't be carried around... After having the Dell Steak for a while... a 4 inch screen seems so small when surfing the web or watching movies... Hopefully there will be a big enough demand for 4.5 to 5 inch screens to push samsung to produce another dual core version.

Consider getting ones with bigger displays, around 15.6 to 17.3 inches as playing games for longer durations on smaller screen can be tad tiring.

I'm a huge fan of the series and although I've been playing it on my Z10 I prefer to play this type of game on a bigger screen so I had to download it for the PlayBook too.

Being able to play videos or view slideshows on a big screen is a great feature for using this tablet in a business setting but unfortunately I wasn't able to play the architectural render that one of my co-workers needed to show at an afternoon meeting so he had to take the laptop.

The Novo 8 Discovery features a Quad Core processor, a MicroSD slot, WiFi, and is also one of the first Android tablets to offer Miracast HD Wireless capability, similar to Apple's AirPlay system to provide wireless connection to any HDTV with high resolution 1080p HD — ideal for streaming movies (including NetFlix), and to play 3G games on a Big Screen TV using the tablet as a motion control device, as well as to display any other tablet and web content in HD... essentially turning an HDTV into a multimedia computer console — T abletSprint also offers the new CloudNetGo Miracast adapter ($ 45) which became available last week, which is less than half the price of most other Miracast HD Wireless systems on the market, which are priced around $ 100.

I use mine for remote play, and my PSTV for streaming to another room... although I now have a 2nd PS4 to hook up in the other room, so now PSTV is just for playing Vita games on the big screen.

The Switch won't be the first Nintendo console with a thin launch line - up, of course, and knowing the Big N, it has plenty of games in the pipeline: the great - looking Super Mario Odyssey was conspicuous by its absence at the event we attended, save for a trailer playing on a screen in front of a Mario diorama.

For players like myself that can't play on the big screen because wife is using it & some games I don't feel good to play on the gamepad oh say XCX because the text is so damn small to read that this idea would solve that problem.

Play on a tablet for big - screen mobile gaming.

That might be easier to play but this game is so huge I'd prefer it on my big screen to be honest as for waggles in platformers..

This game is made for the big screen I think playing it on my vita would take away from the games great visuals, any way good job guys.

If you're in the market for something that you can hook up to your television to play on the big screen before taking the same hardware and games on a flight across the country, you don't have a lot of other options out there.

So fans of the PSP game might want to re-experience Gabe's adventure on the big screen with new controls, and those who have never played it have a treat in store for them.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

With the Nintendo Switch version, players can venture into Isaac's basement on the big screen or the game on the road for portable play.

For the first time, gamers have the flexibility to play both local wireless and online multiplayer with up to three other hunters — whether playing at home on the big screen or on the go in handheld or tabletop mode.

Back in September 2017, Sony president Andrew House explained that the company viewed the handheld market as «limited» and intended to focus on games that are played on the «big screen» for the future.

Pac - Man Championship Edition 2 Plus for the Nintendo Switch is an absolute blast to play on the go as well as on the big TV screen.

The main thing that bothers me and it's a rather big problem, is the game is mostly online only, granted they do give you the option of playing local split screen or against the AI in skirmish mode so it isn't completely online, but with heavy emphasis on mulitplayer, with ranked matches and special events I can forsee that it wouldn't be the type of game I play for many hours and instead play for short bursts before repetition sets in and I get bored.

For the first time, gamers have the flexibility to play both local wireless and online multiplayer with up to three other hunters whether playing at home on the big screen or on the go in handheld or table top mode.

Playing on the smaller screen is just the same as on the big screen, and you can use a combination of Wii remotes and Wii U controllers for multiplayer.