Sentences with phrase «subgenres from»

The cutting - edge stories appearing in the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have won numerous awards and run the gamut of mystery's subgenres from the classic whodunit to hardboiled private - eye tales to pure suspense.

A note about the often - overlooked and misunderstood subgenre of category romances: These quick reads are most closely associated with pioneering romance publisher Harlequin, and come in dozens of subgenres from historical to inspirational.

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.

As a result, Tales Of Halloween is unusually consistent in tone with few missteps, while spanning subgenres from straightforward ghost story to claymation splatter - comedy.

Similarly, it's hard to laugh at a Hollywood satire like America's Sweethearts that hasn't figured out what it's satirizing, particularly since it seems vaguely modeled after a subgenre from the 30s.

This is born out of the MMORPG subgenre from which the broader MMO genre originated.

Not exact matches

We offer a variety of game genres ranging from mind Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

Our product is designed for any education formations: from small distance Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

2018-04-08 13:41 Free science and math simulations for teaching STEM topics, including physics, chemistry, biology, and math, from University of Colorado Boulder Digital pets are a subgenre of artificial life game where players train, maintain, and watch a simulated animal.

Although the public's appetite for this tacky subgenre seemed to know no limits, I quickly tuned out the endless string of copycat movies and TV shows about Horrible Inhuman Serial Killers, the kind that exist to derive sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering.

A glib yet intelligent spoof, it joins the ranks of Our Man Flint (1965), Aghaye Hallou (1970), Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984), and other international pictures that glibly satirize the subgenre made infamous to Americans by Bond; like Mad Mission 3, it even packs in an OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) with a startling resemblance to Sean Connery.

Fargeat from the outset signals her darkly playful take on the «video nasty» rape - thriller subgenre.

Without the confines of identity, he is free to be untethered from the normal framework of the superhero subgenre.

The film plays like an awkwardly edited clip show of highlights from his troubled life and career — complete with all the booze, drugs and womanizing that's become commonplace in the subgenre — jumping from scene to scene with little direction or purpose.

«21 Jump Street «It shouldn't have worked — yet another tired reinvention of a preexisting property (in this case a beloved but marginal eighties television series), gussied up with of - the - moment stars and a more comedic bent (something found, time and time again, in the television - series - adaptation subgenre — see also: «The Addams Family,» «The Brady Bunch,» and «Charlie's Angels «-RRB-, shepherded by a pair of directors making the shaky transition from animation to the much woollier world of live action.

Neighbors, a new comedy from the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may be the first film of its subgenre to acknowledge how old the freaks of Freaks And Geeks have actually gotten, and to express nostalgia for the days when they could still believably play overgrown adolescents.

It rather belongs to the «Seventies paranoid conspiracy subgenre even though it does contain one SF element, namely the ominous high - tech medical facility in which coma patients are dangled from the roof with wires.

«State and Main» — his weird take on the Hollywood satire subgenre — is a film we love but no one else seems to, while his subsequent con - game / crime films range from enjoyable («The Spanish Prisoner») to mediocre («Heist»).

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.

The evolution of found footage from creative device to horror subgenre has robbed the design of almost all its luster and originality.

But the series spoofs almost every subgenre imaginable, from undercover journalists to corporate thrillers to cross-dressing comedies.

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.

Taking several pages from the ubiquitous superhero subgenre that currently rules the multiplexes, writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have positioned the latest take on Bram Stoker's infamous bloodsucker as an origin tale with the titular character as the protagonist.

Historically, this subgenre has been far from delicate in regards to its subject matter — in fact, these tales often feature male saviors avenging the assault of a feeble, victimized female protagonist — but, too often, it is the only realm where rapists receive their comeuppance.

The references have ranged from thematic to blatant — as in, literal writing on the wall — and they span several horror subgenres, from old slasher movies and Japanese horror to mid-aughts-style torture porn.

From Software earned its top - tier developer badge with Demon's Souls and the Dark Souls series, spawning a whole new subgenre of action role - playing games.

While some might reduce its endless stream of songs to added set dressing (cue Daniel Walber's Atomic Blonde installment of The Funiture here) or just another fabulous costume, it actually does some heavy lifting to both immerse us into a specific world of its the Cold War setting and distinguish the era apart from the cinematic cliches of the subgenre.

With two little words — «They're here» — a pipsqueak Heather O'Rourke brought the haunted - house subgenre back from the great beyond, after William Castle's dime - store hokey fun laid it to rest in the early 1960s.

An iconic use of the haunted - doll trope, this Alberto Cavalcanti - directed tale of a ventriloquist and his seemingly sentient (and malevolent) dummy has stood as a touchstone of the subgenre — everything from the Anthony Hopkins - starring Magic to recent offerings like Annabelle owe the British horror sequence a debt.

< br / > Still, «Gravy» has its faults, which for me stem from my lukewarm take on this particular subgenre.

Enthralling from start to finish, with stellar performances, striking visuals that traverse the Finnish snowscapes and Moroccan deserts, and a superbly atmospheric yet inventive score from The Chemical Brothers, Hanna offers a fulfilling and fantastic take on a tried and tested 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.

Tackling this from a female perspective may actually result in an approach that mixes things up a little and doesn't just recycle the same four or five set pieces we've seen in this subgenre a hundred times already.

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.

But the idea of the adjective becoming a catch - all term divorced from economics or patronage — something that would also encompass an aesthetic, a sensibility, a community and a dozen different D.I.Y. subgenres, the cinematic equivalent of «college rock» — was not on anybody's minds.

A decent cast and competent direction from promising Irish first - time feature filmmaker Ruairi Robinson are wasted on a derivative story with The Last Days on Mars, which is yet another entry in the already overcrowded «zombie infection» subgenre.

The woman - suffering - from - amnesia picture was almost a subgenre, a facet of women - in - jeopardy dramas that addressed the vulnerability of female protagonists in a threatening world dominated by dubious males.

Dynasty Warriors 9 is the latest game in a sweeping subgenre of 3D brawlers where you play as historical figures from 2nd and 3rd century AD China during the fall of the Han Dynasty and the ensuing civil war.

«The Collection» may have been inspired by the 1967 thriller «Wait Until Dark,» as the publicity materials claim, but it hardly strays from the torture subgenre of the «Saw» franchise.

In the subgenre of «prison film,» Hunger blows away other lauded films, from Cool Hand Luke to Midnight Express, which are conventional melodramas, in comparison.

From In the Name of the Father to Bloody Sunday to Hunger, there's no shortage of films willing to engage the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but Yann Demange's ’71 might be the closest the political subgenre has come to full - blown action cinema.

FrightFest has seen several attempts by Italian directors to revive their nation's giallo subgenre, but the broad pastiche of Dario Argento's Giallo and Federico Zampaglione's Tulpa merely elicited derisive guffaws from audiences knowing enough to see the turkeys beneath all the crystal plumage.

Made on the wonderful jungle sets of King Kong while that epic's special effects were being finished, this is one of the great action - horror films and has provided a template for many «rich sicko» melodramas — the entire «torture porn» subgenre springs from the obsessions of its villain, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks).

The extremely specific subgenre of magical - realist adventures about kids who cope with familial trauma by retreating into fantasy worlds full of monsters — see also: 2009's Where The Wild Things Are, 2016's A Monster Calls — gets a new entry in I Kill Giants, the debut feature from Danish filmmaker Anders Walter.

The formula that Black continues to use emerges from the subgenre known as buddy cop: from Lethal Weapon to his most recent film, The Nice Guys, the protagonists are a pair of unusual detectives, who are instantly a peculiarity among the unfolding crime story of the film.

Sometimes a negative review comes from a person who got the wrong idea of your genre or subgenre.

She doesn't write in the most popular subgenre of fantasy, and she creates anthropomorphized characters for her adventures, but she's diversifying her income and making notable money from her work.

From Browse, choose the genre Detective & Mystery and then the subgenre British.

From its title page, select a subject, setting or subgenre that interests you, and you'll only see titles with the same element.

Judging the covers in the same subgenre (romantic suspense) was very revealing because the direction I and my co-writers were heading got, at most, 3 - 4 from me.