Sentences with phrase «riding high»

Writer - producer MacFarlane has never been a critical favorite, although he has been riding high with «Family Guy» and the feature hit «Ted.»

Rowling didn't give any more away, of course, but her tweet did serve to stir up excitement among fans, who are already riding high after the first Harry Potter related Oscar win; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, awarded to Colleen Atwood.

Portman flexes her acting muscles in a very visible way, riding high from her exposure in Star Wars Episode I. Here, she is much more natural, playing a normal teenager instead of a princess with an unidentifiable accent.

That's a pretty significant bloc of the academy, but we're guessing there's a considerable overlap of fans between Frozen River and the smarmy In Bruges, which was quickly forgotten after opening in early February but has built a sizeable cult following since then and is now riding high off Golden Globe and BAFTA fumes.

Focus, riding high on Oscar wins for «Darkest Hour,» will try to be back in the awards hunt with «On the Basis of Sex,» «Mary Queen of Scots,» «Boy Erased,» «Tully,» and «Black Klansman.»

It's been the darling of Top Ten lists and star Mickey Rourke has been riding high on actor accolades and awards.

Bethesda is riding high with the huge success of Skyrim.

Terrio is riding high at the moment, with «The Ends Of The Earth» set up at The Weinstein Company with Jennifer Lawrence attached and he also recently completed a draft of the «Tell No One» remake that has «Argo» director Ben Affleck linked to helm.

It opens in U.S. theaters just three days after the Oscar nominations are announced; Amazon certainly hopes they'll be riding high off a Best Foreign Language Film nod by then.

The recipient of the Golden Globe and a handful of critics» prizes, Lawrence is still riding high on a wave of success that ushered her to last year's Oscar podium, where she claimed Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook, another David O. Russell dramedy to score across - the - board acting bids.

Back in 2008 Jim Carrey was riding high on the box office success of Yes Man and Horton Hears a Who!.

The actor is riding high following turns in Darren Aronofsky's «Noah,» Robert Rodriguez's «Sin City 2» and «Amazing Spider - Man 2»

Case in point: Foxcatcher, the upcoming true story - inspired sports drama starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, is riding high on a wave of early positive reviews and engaging trailers, so it makes sense for it to have landed a spot on Fandango's list.

Which brings us to the other big premiere Friday night, Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» still riding high off of taking Telluride by storm.

«The Brink's Job» (1978), 5:00 and 9:15 p.m.: Based on the famous $ 2.7 million Boston robbery of 1950, «The Brink's Job» was disowned by its director, Chicago native William Friedkin, then riding high after career peaks of «The French Connection» (1971) and «The Exorcist» (1973).

What It Could Win: Arrival is riding high on festival praise, slowly building an Oscar run on solid word of mouth from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

And, following all of that, he's riding high on what is a phenomenal debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thanks to a supporting part in Black Panther.

And the film is riding high at the post-holiday box office.

And Get Out is riding high today, with Jordan Peele's flashy triple - nomination and the Best Picture inclusion.

Still riding high on the success of The Woman In Black, the filmmaking team at Hammer has been moving swiftly to capitalise on it.

GameSpot's resurrected monthly chart roundup sees superheroes, ogres, and cowboys riding high on NPD's top - 10 lists.

Nakashima «Äôs film was THE summer hit in Japan this season and is riding high as a crowd pleaser in festival circuits worldwide.

Still riding high on the success of Twins, which proved beyond doubt that broad comedy was very much in his wheelhouse, Arnie reunited with director Ivan Reitman for this similarly wholesome kiddie policier.

It's been a little over two months since Horizon Zero Dawn was released, and here at Guerrilla we're still riding high from the game's positive reception.

Theme song: Tom Jones, already riding high in 1965 with his theme for What's New Pussycat?

Currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Film Theatre and riding high on the strength of The Tree of Life, his fifth film in 37 years and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick is an American visionary and cinematic poet.

It's 1942, and the German Navy is riding high.

Going out on a first date can be a nerve - wracking experience, but if it goes really well, you could walk away from the date riding high on endorphins, a good time and the distinct pleasure at the thought of seeing your date again.

You might be swept up in a new romance, or just riding high after a passionate kiss.

Burberry's stock price is currently riding high after the UK's «Brexit» referendum sent the pound plummeting, boosting tourist spending in the company's home market and helping to offset declines in its Asia business.

Last Saturday we visited the local Hot Springs and I think I'm still riding that high.

I'm still riding the high, so don't be surprised by my first favorite.

I was riding high on that stuff!

During the first half of the luteal phase you are still riding high off of the effects of the ovulatory phase.

Like narcotics, this dramatic fall back to Earth after riding high on the sugar clouds will create an intense craving in your body for another «hit.»

«Right now we're riding high on this wave we had from the early 2000s,» says Lakdawalla.

As the company he built hunkered down, David Heydon was back in Brisbane, having left Nautilus in June when the company was riding high.

I was riding high on a series of recent academic honors for my work studying toxigenic molds and was looking forward to spending a sabbatical leave at The Institute for Genomic Research, now the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Maryland.

Watson, riding high on the tide of molecular biology, tried to rid Harvard of ecologists and any other «traditional» biologists.

In the new century the gene once again is riding high.

The feeling returned that evening as some of us looked at the stars in the Southern Hemisphere sky, which is spectacular and different, with the Southern Cross riding high and the Big Dipper sinking below the horizon.

We are currently riding high because of how bad that Labour and the Lib Dems are currently seen to be.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

Labour may be riding high in the polls, but according to Labour insider Dan Hodges in this week's New Statesman, there is growing discord within the party supposedly united after Ed Miliband's election.

And when Cameron was riding high in the polls, so was Zac.

The little boy riding high on his dad's shoulders as he contemplates a «future fair for all» looks a bit like Tony Blair.

Boris is riding high after an astonishingly successful Olympic Games in which he was the main political beneficiary, although strategists question if his popularity would be sustainable after a return to Westminster and a run at the Tory leadership.

As for UKIP, their prospects could not be more different than four years ago, when they were riding high and about to win the largest share of the vote in the European elections.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis is riding high on a last - minute infusion of campaign cash and renewed voter outrage over the pay - to - play scandal swirling around City Hall.

Rudy Giuliani, who was riding high approval ratings following the 9/11 attacks, publicly endorsed Bloomberg.