Sentences with phrase «subgenres like»

For the genres that do not have subgenres like Historical / Literary Fiction, chances are you still need to compete aggressively within your genre.

Fantasy also has subgenres like science fiction does: high epic, urban, historical, slipstream, traditional, comic and contemporary.

These genre specialties include nonfiction & fiction subgenres like how - to, history, career, business, biography, autobiography, self - help, and historical fiction.

These genre specialties include nonfiction & fiction subgenres like how - to, history, career, self - help, spiritual, historical fiction, memoir / autobiography, and biography.

Imagining «classics» (ick) of the subgenre like I Spit On Your Grave -LRB-» 78) and Savage Streets -LRB-» 84) being crafted today is an impossibility, not to mention unnecessary.

The Hitman's Bodyguard won't be enjoyable for people well - versed in 80s buddy movies like Midnight Run, 48 Hrs., or Lethal Weapon, and the recent gems of the subgenre like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or The Nice Guys.

Open world games aren't as rare as they used to be, but for a conservative subgenre like the one Dynasty Warriors belongs to, it seemed like a radical new direction.

Not exact matches

Games Like The Sims FreePlay for All Platforms Games Like The Sims FreePlay for Android Games Like The Sims FreePlay for iOS Games Like The Sims FreePlay Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

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.

But this may still feel like a slog to anyone who is tired of how this has come to dominate the subgenre, because there's not much else going on here.

The explicit shift to centering an entire film on the heist, which gained notoriety with films like Rififi, The Killing, and Asphalt Jungle, cemented the subgenre as one of our most beloved kind of crime film.

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.

In the subgenre of mother horror, The Babadook deserves mention among the likes of Rosemary's Baby, Dark Water and The Conjuring.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

School of Rock is a film that sounds, on paper, like a wafer - thin lark that fits snugly within the condescending subgenre of inspiring teacher films.

ROUGH NIGHT Director: Lucia Aniello Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Kate McKinnon, Paul W. Downs, Demi Moore, Ty Burrell, Ryan Cooper I feel like movies about bachelor / bachelorette parties should just be a subgenre of their own.

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.

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.

«The Invitation» might be labeled as a horror film, but it far better fits the prodigious «mindfuck film» subgenre label, following the likes of «The One I Love» and «The Gift» in recent years.

V / H / S feels like a natural conclusion to the found footage subgenre that's become increasingly popular since Paranormal Activity's...

I must say that I am not the biggest racing fan out there, but if there is one subgenre of racing I do enjoy it is the fast paced futuristic action - packed racing found in games like Wipeout and F - Zero.

Like many new games entering this particular subgenre (God Eater, Soul Sacrifice, and Freedom Wars to name a few) it focused too much on emulating Monster Hunter instead of improving in areas where Capcom's trailblazer had continued to fall short.

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.

There are many different subgenres of the comedy genus, including screwball, black comedy, parody, anarchic comedy, and gross - out, a subgenre that has become increasingly popular with films like «There's Something About Mary» and «American Pie.»

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.

For those who like the punishment subgenre and want something that falls much more in the realm of dark comedy, «Gravy» will be a hoot.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

Hey, Jurassicalien, you shouldn't automatically presume that people who didn't like a film are just ignorant of the subgenre.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

This alarmingly prevailing idea that this movie somehow proves that women can too be funny is a pretty insulting thing, but the fact remains that a disproportionate amount of movies with female leads tend to be cloying tripe that hide behind the firewall of the «Chick Flick,» a bullshit subgenre classification invented to give an excuse for women to like crappy rom - coms and men to avoid great ones.

Taking the formula established in Dark Souls and expanding it in new directions, Nioh is the first «Souls - Like» game that really convinced me that these brutally hard third - person action games have enough breath to truly spawn into a new subgenre.

Romantic talkathons form a rich subgenre, with Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, Andrew Haigh's Weekend, Chris Rock's Top Five, movies by Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer and episodes of series like Netflix's Love and Master of None some fine examples that spring to mind.

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.

WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Like Lucille Hadzihaliovic's ravishing Innocence (2004) and Jordan Scott's unfairly overlooked Cracks (2009), The Falling has empathy and rigour that cuts against the potentially objectifying qualities of the long - standing «mysterious schoolgirls» subgenre.

Ostensibly a horror film of the «girls trapped in a basement by a madman» subgenre, like last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, it somehow ends up being a rape - revenge superhero movie, like a DC Comics version of Elle.

It's the same ideology that once made Ben Affleck a big surprise — take a workman approach to a recognizable subgenres, and let people be surprised when your directorial credit pops up in the credits — but it hasn't yielded Krasinski resounding success or critical respect like his third film, the very frightening and very good «A Quiet Place.»

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.

As his teammate Fink observes, having Gil on the team «will be like we never lost Landfill,» thus surmounting a plot obstacle and making fun of the entire one - actor - playing - twins subgenre.

That particular subgenre has been a boon for horror fans who have been treated to gems like You're Next,...

I'm also completely unaware of any pentup demand in the consumer market for self - pubbed books - even in my tiny niche subgenre of m / m, people just aren't interested in self - pubs even though the books certainly exist, * unless * the author already has an audience (which they often do through things like fanfiction.)

To help readers find the books they like, Amazon provides a host of book categories and subcategories, distinguished by genres and subgenres, each with its own bestseller list.

The subgenres include everything from the mildly unsettling (like Twilight Zone), to splatterpunk (which is exactly what you think it is).

Evangelion inspired another round of the mecha subgenre, with series like Eureka Seven and Code Geass using religion and imperialism as backdrops.

Because I feel that the current titles — even though I like them a lot — don't accurately reflect my writing or the subgenre of the books.

Meanwhile in the left hand margin, I got more subgenres to consider like art & photography as well as social issues.

Finally, I checked out the absurdly named Love To - LIE - Angle, which seemed to slot neatly into the «exploitation lesbians» subgenre of shows like Citrus, though with a lot more fanservice and a more slice of life tone.

For example, instead of restricting yourself to the general genre like Fiction or Mystery, you can «drill» down into the subgenres to increase the visibility for your book.

The studio also won the attention of other developers, as the Dark Souls games have spawned their own subgenre that fans have affectionately labeled «Souls - likes.»

I mean, you've got a very niche subgenre of games (the dungeon crawler RPG) that is a sequel to a game that did poorly (both in sales and reviews) and that's up against a lot of fierce competition (like the Etrian Odyssey series and Legend of Grimrock)-- that's just not a recipe for success.