Sentences with phrase «pop tunes»

You hear a stale pop tune, I hear my wedding song.

Great cast, inspired visuals and a blast of a soundtrack of»70s pop tunes which will be stuck in your head long afterward.

The soundtrack does, however, feature a few late 80s pop tunes that rank high on the scare factor.

Also making a mark is Hamish Linklater, playing an enthusiastic young man who follows Sophie around like a puppy, singing her romantic»20s pop tunes on his ukelele (a sight ten times funnier on screen than it is on paper).

But it's also something of a mess, blaring pop tunes of every sort as it lurches between rip - roaring car chases, colorful pre-caper banter, and a twee young - love subplot — to the extent that the movie will resonate most with audiences that skew young, hip, and, like its helmer and its hero (the latter played by baby - faced «The Fault in Our Stars» star Ansel Elgort), more than a little obsessive.

It's a pretty loud mix which is marked by John Debney's sappy score and a light, somewhat eclectic blend of recognizable pop tunes from the likes of John Fogerty, ZZ Top, and C+C Music Factory.

In the interim, however, she cranks out hit pop tunes for Joel and a variety of musical acts, developing a successful songwriting career while getting involved in disastrous romances, including a marriage to «socially conscious» songwriter Howard Caszatt (a hilarious Eric Stoltz) and an affair with married disc jockey John Murray (Bruce Davison).

Tarantino has always been the master at juxtaposing intense scenes with catchy pop tunes, and never has he done it better than here.

The music is a combination of restructured modern pop tunes manhandled into clever new forms.

in San Pao even sound like pop tunes, and one squiggle resolves into actual handwriting: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, after Duke Ellington.

Elizabethtown mistakes countless scenes of people throwing their hands over their heads as they're walking away to some alt - pop tune as poignancy while mistaking Bloom as a viable romantic lead when he's more accurately a plaster casting of one.

They get to work almost immediately in this outing, pulling up to an occupied trailer home in an otherwise empty trailer park in their beat - up pickup truck — a peppy pop tune blaring on the radio (Roberts has that song play over the production logos and a black screen, but as soon as the film proper starts, it cuts out with a jolt, as we take in the dim, streetlight - lit scene).

However, if you can put up with ample doses of kids - know - best intentions, high - pitched helium - sounding pop tunes and corny sentimentality, then you might be okay letting your offspring ride along with the crazy chipmunks on their fourth big screen adventure.

And this is especially true, not only given to tough road of a musical that has no pre-established fan base, as well as one that incorporates so many jazz pieces that can't be made into pop tunes, along with a romance that doesn't actually give those who just want a sweeping love story something to fawn over as they leave the theater.

Japan Airlines offers a wide range of audio entertainment options covering everything from the latest pop tunes to traditional Rakugo - style Japanese comic monologues.

In the background, a campy»90s pop tune called «Meeting on Manezh,» the location for the rally, blared on repeat.

Watch as the balloon pilots, with perfect synchronization, ignite their balloon burners to a musical beat of rock and pop tunes illuminating the pitch black sky with brilliant color.

Ackerman and Loker developed the system to produce pop tunes, but say it could be adapted different genres.

Neon Indian's second album is a collection of more serious and straightforward pop tunes that separate his penchants for the past and its oddities, and shed nearly all trademarks of the dubious genre he haphazardly pioneered.

There are also a couple musical numbers, including the singularly generic pop tune «When Christmas Comes to Town,» plaintively sung by Hero Girl and Lonely Boy (well, by two singers the producers brought in to sing for them) in a manner suggesting someone really, really wants the song to be nominated for an Oscar.

Innocuous pop tunes deserve an innocuous movie, and there's no form of movie musical more innocuous than the beach party flicks of the 1950s (particularly Frankie and Annette's).

Cheaper by the Dozen adheres religiously to formula, showcasing the children either as adoringly cute or rude brats to elicit audience reaction, while keeping the peppy pop tunes cranking to simulate a good time at the movies.

The movie stop - starts between fight - chase sequences played out against pop tunes from Quill's beloved mix - tape; there's something a little alienating about the repeated use of dissonance between the cheery songs («Come a Little Bit Closer» by Jay & The Americans) and the slomo violence meted out by the Guardians.

Like later Scorsese films, Mean Streets has an explosive climax and uses old pop tunes for its soundtrack.

With bouncy pop tunes and a breezy tone, this Scottish musical sometimes feels so weightless that it seems to float right out of existence.

For all its lightheartedness, Rushmore reeks of mortality and historical trauma — a paradox made possible by its stylistic fleetness, pumped along by snatches of nearly a dozen British pop tunes of the 60s.

As I'm writing this review of «Guardians of the Galaxy,» I have «Come and Get Your Love,» the bouncy 1974 pop tune by Redbone, stuck in my head.

The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is quite limited, with score selections scattered and Christian pop tunes serving as infrequent montage fodder.

The sound effects are extremely good, and there are many sing - along moments for those that enjoy films with lots of music (mostly pop tunes of the 70s, 80s, and 90s here).

The soundtrack is actually pretty amazing, with a score by Billy Polard and Brian Rey that evokes the best of Tarantino at its wildest and Carpenter at its creepy quietest, punctuated throughout by some well used Halloween - friendly pop tunes from Boris Pickett's classic Monster Mash album.

«Once Upon a Time in Venice» is a cheerfully depraved guilty pleasure in which Willis and a host of other recognizable faces meander about, cracking off a few good lines here and there while the soundtrack blasts mood - setting tunes that all but announce the filmmakers didn't have the budget to pay for REAL pop tunes.

Just when «Anchorman 2» seems to be finding its groove — and we haven't even mentioned its soundtrack of cheesy easy - listening pop tunes — the story veers off into an entirely different direction that causes whatever momentum it might have had to grind to a halt.

and rousing anachronistic Broadway - pop tunes about individuality; «Come Alive» sounds like Robbie Williams, while «This is Me» longs to be a pop singalong showstopper.

The core gameplay involves tapping specific buttons to the rhythm of unfamiliar pop tunes in order to build up chains and influence a tug of war meter that determines how successful your food dishes are.

The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is fine, with no problems to report on, though the mix is largely front / center - based and only really boosted by Ford's bird hunting scene and plenty of female pop tunes (full list here; despite the film's title and tagline, there's as much as Oasis here as in Definitely Maybe, which is none).

While there are plenty of special effects, action sequences, gadgets and gizmos, and hard - driving pop tunes, the entertainment value is damn near nonexistent.

I try to use all types of music and especially pop tunes that are current — but I have to choose songs with good language and that are positive and motivating.

«As usual with Robinson, the characters are beautifully drawn, the frequent conflicts sharply etched and the soundtrack of pop tunes ubiquitous.

Its flexibility and ease - of - use has inspired throngs of PC influencers and YouTubers to create their own tunes and re-create pop tune favorites en masse.

With echos of familiar characters who pervade our cultural consciousness like annoying déjà vu or pop tunes running repetitively through our mind when we are trying to concentrate on a complex task.

Synthesized pop tunes, with a sprinkle of a punk rocker's drums is enough to get me hooked on any song, let alone an album

Armed with nothing but his acoustic guitar, Blake unspools folk pop tunes with inventive melodies and unexpected chord changes that tend to worm their way into your consciousness.

In her video projection, a woman wearing a stylishly old - fashioned dress and red high heels insouciantly strides along the street of a post-war neighborhood in a central European city to the beat of an infectious pop tune.

In the Globe and Mail this morning, I learn that researchers have found that the songs of male humpback whales change from year to year and, indeed, propagate throughout the world community of humpbacks, rather in the way that pop tunes spread among human beings — or the way that negative advertising infects ever larger portions of the polity.

London Bridge is a catchy pop tune, but the rest of the album is awful.