Sentences with phrase «popular form of entertainment»

Though I admit that Science Fiction is an incredibly popular form of entertainment such as Star Trek and Star Wars.

Games are becoming the most popular form of entertainment in the modern world, so it's only appropriate that GDC carry with it the same spirit of fun, adventure and discovery as the games themselves, just as it has since its beginning.»

In Deathgarden's future, a real blood sport has become the most popular form of entertainment in the world.

Aside from plans in the mobile space, the company also has profitable holdings in non-gaming markets such as health clubs, and of course it's been around long before video games were a popular form of entertainment (fun fact: it started out with jukebox rental and repair in 1969).

The topic of whether games can or can not influence violence is a lengthy one and fascinating, so I won't touch upon it here, but what Mr. Beck forgets to mention is that is gaming is now the most popular form of entertainment in the world with a games console in the house of just about everyone, while Call of Duty is the single most popular franchise in the world at this moment.

For one, it is a rather popular form of entertainment, so players are never going to lack company when in the mood for a few hands.

One of the most popular forms of entertainment in the Philippines is the festival, more popularly known locally as fiestas.

Professional film critics — be they women or men - are responsible for interpreting, contextualizing and making recommendations about what is unquestionably one of the world's most popular forms of entertainment and one of the nation's largest industries.

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That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

• The vulgarization of popular culture and entertainment, which has so deeply wounded our politics that they've become another form of reality TV, producing a spectacle that should shame us into a collective examination of our consciences as consumers.

And each year the games are becoming more popular — not only as a form of entertainment but as a medium for education or even as a therapeutic agent for keeping people's minds sharp.

Because they sit just outside the remit of what we might coin as «popular entertainment» (in short: they take ages to read), the term novel is now employed as a byword for a more cultivated, high quality and serious form of media.

This has led to many recent societal embarrassments, across media forms devoured by viewers who want to keep analytical challenging out of their popular entertainment, but it especially shines in the unfortunate backlash against that upcoming, female - led «Ghostbusters» movie.

In CADDYSHACK: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story, Chris Nashawaty goes behind the scenes of the iconic film, chronicling the rise of comedy's greatest deranged minds as they form The National Lampoon, turn the entertainment industry on its head, and ultimately blow up both a golf course and popular culture as we know it.

Anime, as a form of entertainment, has become so popular over the decades that the world collectively refers to this one country's animated content by name, rather than simply calling them Japanese cartoons the way we would any other country.

For just after Amazon announced the popular Kindle app for the HP tablet, here is further top notch entertainment option available for the WebOS tablet in the form of HP's very own Movie Store app, which post the latest round of update is thoroughly inviting.

As the adoption of tablets and mobile devices for reading and consuming entertainment in all forms continues to skyrocket, it's likely that book trailers will become a popular tool in creating an experience within book apps and interactive reading experiences.

And now we're getting new forms of entertainment, new forms of popular culture.

During the time of Minos in Crete the sport of bull baiting was quite a popular form of pagan worship and entertainment.

Our association with the Tribeca Film Festival is an extension of our ongoing efforts to support production of popular entertainment and celebrate its art form.»

Interactive Entertainment will also be adding a stocking stuffer of sorts to all of you PlayStation Now fans out there — in the form of four of its most popular LEGO games.

Influenced by both the avant - garde performance of artists like Vito Acconci and Richard Foreman as well as forms of popular entertainment, particularly stand - up comedy, Michael Smith has been cultivating his own idiosyncratic brand of performance art since the late 1970s.

With painterly brushwork and sketchily drawn forms, artists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Everett Shinn restituted the value of vernacular with subjects not necessarily considered artistic, such as grimy streets, popular entertainment, and children at play.

Deploying film and television favorites for his toys, large - scale sculpture and bold, nearly abstract painting, KAWS recasts the familiar colors and forms of popular entertainment in cheeky and often poignantly human terms.