Sentences with phrase «pop culture references like»

His work incorporates everything from pop culture references like Tony the Tiger and Scrooge McDuck to Americana elements like the Lincoln Memorial to the American Flag; to religious iconography including skulls, Buddhas and Ganeshas — all filtered through his own gaze.

Again... go look up some pop culture references like Night of the Living Dead or The Walking Dead.

Using pop culture references like Beyonce and Britney Spears, the class discusses different voices and explores ways to take chances with your writing.

Not exact matches

The Kevin Smith era (like it or not) started with this different kind of independent film that had countless pop - culture references and adolescent humor.

As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

The same ear for the super-specific that informs Cody's pop culture references (see: Julie describing Ricki as looking like «a hooker from Night Court») gives her an edge when it comes to questions of class, money, and race, even if the writing sometimes swings broad.

Like a British variation on Team America, this loudly hilarious wartime romp pushes its parallel - reality scenario in some very funny directions, although it perhaps relies too much on postmodern pop - culture references.

Such references more often than not feel like awkward pop culture plugs, in hopes of reaching out to a contemporary audience, or firmly dating this movie in 2013.

Cutscenes are portrayed in a humorous paper cutout style and often reference pop culture classics like 300.

Marketing aside, Ready Player One also has the disadvantage of being adapted from Ernest Cline's dreadful novel, which reads less like prose and more like a laundry list of pop culture references colliding into each other.

Helping someone create a new religion and deceiving cute animals may sound like an incredibly mean - spirited concept, but the excellent writing, entertaining characters, and surprising pop - culture references make this journey to find a higher calling one that I really enjoyed.

Leaning heavily on the same kind of pop culture references that made the early seasons of «Community» so enjoyable, «Rick and Morty» is like a vulgar love letter to science fiction, from its «Doctor Who» - inspired theme song, to its blatant similarities to «Back to the Future.»

Hosoda's vision of the internet's alternative universe was also populated with imaginative characters, whereas this one is mainly made up of pop culture references, like an incel version of Snow Crash.»

Now there are so many ways this could have been a joke, disaster or train wreck with all the jokes, pop culture references and the like about one of the greatest thinkers and minds of all time.

It's not just the»80s being represented in the Oasis, but a number of great pop culture references, from beloved characters like the Iron Giant to King Kong and so much more.

Iv not read «Ready Player one» (yeh yeh I know, go do it) But I gather there are a lot of pop culture references, I wonder how that will work out, I mean like in a IP rights sense.

Ready Player One is a book that's full of pop culture references, and it looks like the upcoming movie adaptation is going to add even more.

Now a new Crashing trailer has debuted, showing off more of Pete's comedy struggles, trying to hand out flyers to shows, having odd gaps in his knowledge of pop culture while making obscure references to things like Will Smith rap albums and coming to terms with the fact that he's actually homeless.

All the while, Tom is surrounded by supposedly backward locals who like watching The Notebook, hunting deer and making dated pop culture references to Ratatouille.

will find a lot to like here: bad taste gags and pop culture references abound, and some jokes — including a reference to one of cinema's more unconventional Westerns — rank among the funniest that MacFarlane has written in years.

Like Ready Player One, Armada is also filled to the brim with Easter eggs and and references to»80s and»90s pop culture.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

Adding to tons of pop culture references (Star Wars, Aliens, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, celebrities like Reynolds himself and Hugh Jackman) and two cameos of Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld (the latter is at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children), Tim Miller tied the knot with impressive fight choreography and a timely, mood - setting presence of Junkie XL's scores.

Some of the pop culture references are on screen and obvious, like the DeLorean from Back to the Future or the title robot from The Iron Giant.

The story is structured like an elaborate video game and is infused with»80s pop and game culture references, including allusions to arcade classics Space Invaders, Centipede, Joust, and Galaga.

With powerful quotes like this in our pop culture references, honestly, I can't blame my fellow book aficiandos for being so passionate about books as physical objects.

- Booklist «The story is peppered with pop culture references to The Hunger Games, the Kindle Fire, and the X-Men, as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem.

These include creative expressions such as idioms (up a creek); puns (references to an ill - fated cruise's «poop deck»); inside jokes (may the forest be with you); invented words (oyvaycation); pop culture memes (no vacation nation); similes (a hayfever sufferer in a garden is like a diabetic in a chocolate factory); and metaphors (down the black hole).

Why we like it: In a field that tends to elicit yawns and blank stares, The Reformed Broker gets its acclaim from pulling from many different themes and tools, including «statistics, satire, anecdotes, pop culture references, sarcasm, fact, fantasy, and any other device that I feel necessary to get my points across,» according to Brown.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

Some of the characters seem to have names referencing pop culture, like a massive heavy named Potemkin.

Ready Player One is a book that's full of pop culture references, and it looks like the upcoming movie adaptation is going to add even more.

Though not all of the pop culture references are particularly clever (there's a character literally called «Snake» who looks like Solid Snake, which, um, I don't think you're allowed to do, Apogee), I have to admit I laughed out loud when I found I could add the «Pre-teen GMO Karate Frogs» to my party.

I love all of the little details about the game too, like flipping over tables to create strategic cover; quick warp points so you can instantaneously teleport around the floors and lessen the amount of backtracking; achievements that actually require dedication and skill to complete; secret areas and side missions that are well thought out and integrated with the game mechanics; gear based around classic gaming and pop culture references (for example a light gun that shoots a Duck Hunt duck with the last bullet of every clip); and since the Supply Drop update, the all - important option to save and quit between floors.

Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated images of pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.

«Night Studio» is the most modern of the paintings in this series — the character in the foreground wearing a baggy blue t - shirt and what look like Stan Smith sneakers is the closest to a pop culture reference you'll find in this show.

The work is zany, humorous, and idiosyncratic, and combines elements of both classic American Pop painting in her references to consumerist culture but also to the flat painting technique of the more recent Japanese «superflat» artists like Murakami.

In a timeless space filled with historical portraits, literature, and pop - culture references, Stigliani places fairy tale like characters often based on her own personal identity.

Luxurious materials, like pearls, crystals, and gold - leaf, can pull double - duty as reference to both the religious traditions of Iranian art and the opulent superficiality of Western pop culture.

Pop culture references abound and the Disney - like effect is a facade for the Grimms» fairytale beneath.

For a long time, the 1989 movie Back to the Future II stood as the pop culture reference point for what the future may look like.