Sentences with phrase «subgenre so»

remains the high - water mark of the genre, encapsulating everything that makes the subgenre so endearing while working as an inspired creation unto itself.

As the lead characters tried to decide if they loved or hated each other, the series established itself as a prime example of the «will they or won't they» subgenre so popular in 1980s TV.

Not exact matches

In particular, the ex-actress has been recognized for her show - stopping outerwear selections — so much so that the the «Meghan Markle Power Coat» is an official sartorial subgenre (just ask Mindy Kaling).

The Haunting is a superior ghost story that still doesn't overcome the stumbling - block of the whole subgenre: if there's any chance for a rational explanation for weird events, anything non-supernatural is as least as credible as the supernatural conclusions everyone is so fast to embrace.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a good film overall, but given its relatively low aims, and for its subgenre, it is an entertaining one, though some might be disturbed at a few of the grislier narrative turns, especially at seeing a loving family torn apart, quite literally.

At about 3/4 of the way through, I was ready to declare the film one of the best of this subgenre of films in recent years until it finally became everything it had been avoiding so well — a pat, artificially rousing, cliché - ridden sports drama.

The Midnight Madness section's strongest entries included Afflicted, the latest iteration of the found - footage horror subgenre, in which writer - directors Derek Lee and Clif Prowse play Canadian students Derek and Clif, whose video documents a not - so - excellent European vacation, and Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson's playful pastiche All Cheerleaders Die, in which the tangled intrigue around a high - school cheer squad turns lethal — call it When Witchcraft - Resurrected, Life - Force - Sucking Mean Girls Attack.

I get a kick out of the meteor / asteroid disaster movie subgenre, so here are a few fave guilty pleasure picks of the deadly fireball variety.

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

It comes as a bit of a surprise that, with so many recent horror films aping off of different subgenres from the past, no one has really attempted to tackle the creature feature.

At a certain point, it's so purely a delivery system for a different era and feeling in film that it feels like we're bearing witness to the birth of a new subgenre.

Not only does the film cater to the bloodthirsty fanboy, it references classics from the subgenre — Sleepaway Camp and Madman in particular — and takes all the well - worn ideas therein and gives «em a head noogie for 90 or so minutes.

Southpaw borrows plenty from other, better films, especially Rocky and Raging Bull, so it's not likely to be considered in the upper echelon of a subgenre that has produced movies worthy of Best Picture nods, as with Million Dollar Baby and The Fighter in more recent years.

They dig further back into cinema's history than you might think and go through the tropes of this subgenre to try to explain why people like this kind of movie so much.

In truth, while he invented the satiric subgenre of the mockumentary, even that can only be exploited so often.

It's hard to see another winner in this category: American Sniper has controversies regarding its accuracy (so, for that matter, does The Imitation Game, but its transgressions are at least farther in the past), The Theory of Everything scores second place in the Brit - genius - biopic subgenre, and Inherent Vice is long and woozily cryptic.

A while back, at the height of the quagmire in Iraq, it was the so - called «torture porn» subgenre of horror, kicked off by «Saw» and brought to its gruesome, bloody pinnacle with Eli Roth's «Hostel» series.

Silver takes one of the most politically disreputable of subgenres — the film in which a female stalks a male, embodying each person's respective, stereotypical fears of rejection and obsession — and turns it upside down, stretching it so that we understand the stakes driving all parties.

If you see as many movies as I do, you start to tire of certain subgenres, and the story of the PTSD - addled soldier has been told so many times that I'm skeptical of what more can be cinematically added to it.

I love the subgenre of memoirs about food, so I've loved Comfort Me with Apples, by Ruth Reichl, and Home Cooking and More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin — collections of very homey essays about dinner and cooking.

So it's really no surprise to me that this subgenre is coming back.

You'll be taken to another webpage with detailed explanations about the subgenres within your category, so you can classify your book correctly:

So, what's your favorite fantasy subgenre?

Now there are so many subgenres out there, I don't think I even know them all.

If you're doing your covers right, you'll need to talk to a cover artist about establishing a unique brand and look that both captures your subgenre and still sets you subtly apart so that people can recognize your books at a glance.

Freebooks.com is an online bookstore that provides an array of genres, including the ever - so - popular science fiction and its subgenres.

So it's important that you accurately reflect the correct subgenre for your self - published romance novel.

Read similar books to learn what readers are accustomed to in your subgenre (that doesn't necessarily mean you have to do the same; but there are some features that most readers of a subgenre strongly want, so that can be helpful to know).

Hi Adam — Narrative nonfiction is a diverse genre, so it would depend on the precise subgenre we're talking about.

So here goes... I think romance and its micro-targeted subgenres will continue to dominate.

Annoying how they insist on tagging games with so - called subgenres of the RPG genre.

The «immersive sim» is a subgenre of games that represents so much about what I personally value in game design: believable but unfamiliar places that feel lived - in as you explore them; an experience that's driven by the player's agency and the player's intent, that gives the player interactive tools to express their own role within that world; a set of game rules that feel so internally consistent and responsive that they expand what the world is, and the feeling that you are really in it.

But with so many titles on the horizon - and with so many genres and subgenres making an appearance - it's easy to get lost amid all that independently - developed goodness.

Independently made games have gone from novelties to an entire subgenre, capable of earning the makers a living, if they so choose.