Sentences with phrase «with pop culture references»

New Zealand About Blog An offbeat journey around the asia, infused with pop culture references and the occasional rant.

I have always festooned my work with pop culture references, puns and humor.

Nichole van Beek is a New York - based artist who creates sculptures, installations, and paintings that bring together natural elements with pop culture references.

It is, however, littered with pop culture references from Sherlock Holmes to The Shawshank Redemption.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

Despite two mainstream locations, this Thai seafood restaurant hasn't compromised on its hole - in - the - wall ambiance or quirk, which includes a cheeky menu brimming with pop culture references.

In two - minute spots, she offers a satirical take on financial trends and publicly traded companies, with irreverent scripts and clever visuals, replete with pop culture references.

- Booklist «The story is peppered with pop culture references to The Hunger Games, the Kindle Fire, and the X-Men, as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem.

Cline and I would probably get along well because this book is dripping with pop culture references.

The problem with pop culture references is that, as a high school teacher, I need to keep my references up to date; there is a gap that needs to be bridged and each year it gets wider.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

I've enjoyed watching the Avengers evolve — individually and collectively — as well as the GOTG characters (with their pop culture references and killer playlists).

From Back to the Future and The Iron Giant, to Akira and The A-Team, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is absolutely jam - packed with pop culture references.

Tarantino's films aren't so much stories as strings of anecdotes: movie moments, urban myths, conversations strewn with pop culture references.

Every conversation is bursting with pop culture references; if you're bored it's because you're not listening.

It's an exciting escapist adventure that'll entertain the whole family, without talking down to kids or pandering to parents with pop culture references.

More than any other type of songwriting, rap lyrics are peppered with pop culture references, from movies to cars to sports to fashion to other rap songs.

If you're looking for an animation that is rife with pop culture references and riffs on fairytales; save yourself the agony and watch Shrek instead.

The visual design of Ratropolis is colorful, playful, and dense with pop culture references.

Typical of DreamWorks Animation toons, «Megamind» is crammed with pop culture references and jokes invented to show how up - to - the - minute it is in its slang and encyclopedic comic - book know - how.

In fact, the play is strewn with pop culture references to the 1980s - there's even some Saturday Night Fever dancing, a la John Travolta.

Not exact matches

The Kevin Smith era (like it or not) started with this different kind of independent film that had countless pop - culture references and adolescent humor.

And thanks to the creator of the Oasis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), there's also a whole slew of 1980s pop - culture references he loved as a kid («You can even climb a mountain with Batman,» Wade says at the beginning of the movie).

Using pop culture references like Beyonce and Britney Spears, the class discusses different voices and explores ways to take chances with your writing.

Accessible and unintimidating, the Big Picture tackles both the economy and the financial markets with a conversational style and ample references to pop culture.»

Maybe we can't keep up with 99 % of pop culture references but I'm okay with that.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, in his typical machine - gun staccato delivery, pop culture references dished out with an arched eyebrow and declarations best suited for a James Ellroy noir, seemed more disappointed than angry at yesterday's news conference that he keeps having to police Albany.

Randall is an enthusiastic narrator who leavens her prose with references to such pop culture phenomena as the group Talking Heads («And you may ask yourself, Am I right?

She is a great writer and she's funny, but she lost me with all the television show, political and pop culture references.

Filled to the brim with pop - culture references, the amount of ways you have to escape all the pre-made prisons is only surpassed by the levels that came from the Steam Workshop.

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As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

Okay, yeah sure, it's a movie cribbed from an Android videogame application but, that being said, it's not bad with all the pop culture references and lame - o bird jokes.

The jokes are a combination of «Lego humor» that anyone who has ever used Legos could appreciate, mixed with family friendly pop culture references that will go right over the little ones heads.

There are some pop culture references to the 1970s, with Heart's «Barracuda» and Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» featured on the soundtrack, but there's never the sense of a movie begging for laughs by throwing in anachronisms.

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

Plus the film is loaded with enough funny pop culture references to keep the adults laughing (thank YOU Shrek!)

As director, he does solid work, but peppers his film with some bizarrely picked pop culture references.

The script leans heavily on pop culture references — a plague of just about every recent comedy — but it isn't entirely lazy, with successful sight gags and one painfully realistic failed round of Celebrity.

Most egregious are the lame pop culture references, with endless quoting of iconic 80s movies.

Full of pop culture references and with tons of humour, Randal's Monday takes the concept of Groundhog Day and turns it into a quite enjoyable point and click adventure game.

Great script, great puzzles (challenging, yet sensible), great characters with good voice acting, and finally great dialogues with tons and tons of well placed pop - culture references and humour.

«2003 saw two films that: (1) featured female lead (s), (2) valued action, atmosphere, and attitude over plot, (3) replaced character depth with exhaustive references to pop culture and / or cult films.

Coogler and Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole did a really good job in bringing Wakanda to life so that it's quickly become a pop culture favorite with people referencing it as if it does exist.

While there are some similarities between the main characters and their dispositions, having to prove themselves and their big, lazy bodies worthy or the fight, the anticipation that Kung Fu Panda will be just another adventure coated with incessant pop culture references are not warranted.

While the script does present a realistic take on the chaos of life with little ones as far as this writer can tell (full disclosure: I am nobody's mother), it still conforms to the tired comedy mandate that at least a half - dozen contemporary pop - culture references must be inserted into the average feature - length script.

A concise summary of the «plot» of Meet the Spartans is not possible, but suffice it to say that the film generally follows the outline of last year's 300, with detours along the way to reference other recent films and pop culture icons.

Adapted from Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline's debut novel of the same name, this dystopian sci - fi is absolutely jam - packed with»80s pop culture references, making it one of our most anticipated films of next year.

The hilarious jokes and jabs are there (with plenty of references to other movies) and so are the many, many zippy pop culture references that go flying by, begging for repeat viewings.

The mood's mostly pretty dour, which leaves the audience particularly grateful for those who provide comic relief: Dave Bautista's growly Drax, who in one scene is practicing the underappreciated art of standing really, really still; Tom Holland's chipper Peter / Spidey, taking it all in with wide eyes; Robert Downey Jr.'s ever - grumpy Tony Stark / Iron Man, who's pretty sick of Peter's pop - culture references (particularly «a really old movie called «Alien»»).