Sentences with phrase «year of the throwback»

2016 is definitely the year of the throwback... Zoya and China Glaze's fall collections were inspired by the «90s and now Urban Decay is celebrating their 20th anniversary.

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All of which made Darlington Throwback Weekend platform a finalist for SportsBusiness Journal's 2015 Event of the Year.

This weekend, and in particular Sunday night's race (the Bojangles» Southern 500 airs Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN) marks the third year of NASCAR Throwback Weekend, an idea hatched in 2015 by track officials to commemorate the race's return to its traditional Labor Day slot on the NASCAR calendar.

Fair enough, but if you prefer to meet your streaming needs with the likes of Spotify, Pandora or Apple Music, the 15 - year - old company's throwback rebrand could seem somewhat perplexing.

Last year it was «Call of Duty: WWII,» as seen above — a throwback to the many previous «Call of Duty» games set during the events of World War II.

(Bloomberg)-- Amid all the reflection on the 10 - year anniversary of the start of the subprime loan crisis, here's a throwback that investors could probably do without.

The project is under attack by a Jewish group that terms it «a throwback to Germany under Hitler,» recalling the «buy Christian» campaigns that started in Germany in the 1930s, and that resulted in a widespread refusal to trade with Jewish merchants in the years preceding the Third Reich's more brutal acts of anti-Semitism.

This year, the company is recognizing its past by offering a «throwback» label based on a 1960s - era design, as well as http://www.fooddrink-magazine.com Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Food and Drink - Summer 2010 Food and Drink - Summer 2010 Contents News Book Review Case Study Dr. Praeger H.C. Schau and Son J&G Foods Inc..

I think it's a real missed opportunity that we didn't do a throwback to the mountains this year or last year for the 20th anniversary of our finals appearances

College Football team's have had a lot of similar ideas this year, with blackout's and throwback uniforms.

In something of a throwback to the past few years, both Mercs were well ahead of everyone in a race that won't exactly go down as a classic... in fact, quite the opposite - it was probably the most boring race of the year.

In 100 years people will be as horrified at this barbaric throwback of a practice as they are about today things like blood letting and slavery.

What a great round - up of VD treats ~ Thanks for bringing this by Throwback Thursday and Happy New Year ~ I'll be pinning this to our Throwback Thursday board.

Hey kids, let's celebrate the election year by digging into the sordid past of Epolitics.com, resurrecting posts from 2008 and 2012 for a semi-regular Throwback Thursday feature.

He was also a liberal throwback completely unconcerned about, for example, the wisdom of hiking budget spending by 11 percent, as he did one year, or by enacting a package of tax increases so huge and costly it was called «The Big Ugly.»

Being that the 10th Annual Drums Along the Hudson is next month on Sunday May 20th, our Throwback Thursdays this week took us to last year's function and the photography of our good friend Paul Lomax.

They've evolved over the years as they've been improved and fine - tuned, but using this kind of machine is a bit of a throwback to how tattooing all started.

When people first set foot in Madagascar 1,500 years ago, the island was a bit like King Kong's Skull Island: a place of rare and monstrous beasts, many of them throwbacks to a previous era.

In remembrance of our 1 year wedding anniversary, I will be doing a series of throwback posts related to our wedding last year as I simply couldn't find time to settle down to blog about it earlier.

Today I am spending the day organizing my home (in anticipation of Vietnamese New Year tomorrow) and I took a break for some true throwback Thursday and reflect on my journey into wedding photography.

A couple of years ago, I did «Throwback Thursday» post to highlight some of my favorite posts and collaborations.

Indeed, the perpetrators of this throwback flotsam have been so diligent in their efforts to replicate the look, tone and smirk of those instantly forgettable trifles, their movie could almost pass for a thirtysomething - year - old feature only recently recovered from a time capsule.

Content to merely spend time with its characters as they chat, bicker and strategize, the film comes off as a lackadaisical throwback oater until it reaches its climax, at which point Bone Tomahawk veers suddenly, shockingly into outright horror, replete with what may be the most chilling, unforgettable death scene of the year.

The buttery smooth throwback shooter was Polygon's Game of the Year in 2016.

Roger Deakins Breaking a five - year streak of nominations for the master cinematographer, the Academy shunned Deakins» ravishingly good - looking camerawork on the Coen brothers» Old Hollywood throwback Hail, Caesar!

This Land Is La La Land A throwback to the musical traditions of old, a showcase for charismatic screen idols, a shameless love letter to the film industry — La La Land has long been considered the year's Oscar slam dunk, and the nominations confirmed that it's going to be the behemoth to beat.

Working again with writer / producer Lionel Wigram, after the two successfully made a franchise out of Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes six years ago, Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a welcome throwback to early Bond films, loaded with hip action, and always having a tongue planted slightly in cheek.

Hoot is a throwback movie to the type of kids entertainment that I used to watch in my formative years, with a brand of humor and blithe sense of importance that one could find regularly on television known as the «After School Special».

Indie adventure studio Wadjet Eye Games has been quietly pumping out top - notch throwbacks for years now, filling its roster with titles like Shardlight, Primordia, and the Blackwell series of supernatural mysteries.

A well - made throwback, Allied doesn't generate enough excitement to stand among last year's best, which as a Thanksgiving week opening, it was kind of expected to do.

Given the state of the art, as seen earlier this year in Coraline (whose director, Henry Selick, was briefly attached to this film), Fantastic Mr. Fox looks like a throwback to the Rankin - Bass holiday specials of the»60s and»70s.

Silver Linings is one of the most charming movies of the decade and a delightful throwback to the zany screwball romantic comedies of the «30s and «40s, a better tribute than the previous years Best Picture winner The Artist.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

A Most Violent Year stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, two of the hottest actors around right now, and a throwback story that recalls Sidney Lumet in his absolute prime.

In a year where 80's retro electronics are all the rage when it comes to the sci - fi throwback realms of «Stranger Things,» leave it to Matthew Margeson to salute to the era's days of sports - ready synth glory with this run down the slope of power - pop electro artists like Harold Faltermeyer, Bill Conti and Vince Di Cola Margeson also layers on inspirational strings for his tribute to The Day's most unlikely Olympic ski champion of them all.

WayForward have been hard at work on a lot of projects, with this year's XBLA offering in the form of the 80's throwback Double Dragon Neon.

Two years after it premiered to the hoots, hollers, and horrified walkouts of festival audiences, Eli Roth's barf - bag throwback The Green Inferno is finally making its way into American theaters.

From Kim Ji - woon making a fun throwback to 80's action with The Last Stand, to long time cinephile favorite Park chan - Wook making the best film of the year (so far) with Stoker, modern American filmmakers could learn a thing or two from their foreign colleagues.

There were no short supply of spy movies this year but none topped the edgy, hysterical, badass spy movie throwback Kingsman: The Secret Service, though Steven Spielberg's taut, old - fashion and elegant Bridge of Spies and Guy Ritchie's super smooth, super spy caper The Man From U.N.C.L.E both gave it a run for its money.

One of the most beautiful and glamorous throwbacks to the golden years of Hollywood, she lights up the dreariest vehicles, and there is no one more chameleon - like when it comes to disfiguring herself for the sake of a character.

The classic western had all but already faded away, so thinking about the Coen's version as being such a classic western (though I'd argue with enough of a darker tone and elegiac ending that it's edging toward revisionist in tone if not in content) after so many years of revisionist westerns is interesting in relation to the original True Grit being almost a throwback to earlier western styles itself, as 1969's westerns generally blew the lid off classic westerns as a genre.

The film marks co - writer / director Mike Flanagan's third horror release of the year, after «Hush» and «Before I Wake,» and he leans into the throwback vibe of the 1967 setting, down to the opening title design, in a blazing yellow font reminiscent of the game box.

But the film has aged remarkably well over twenty years, perhaps because it was even something of a throwback at the time: the imprint of conversation - driven French auteurs like Eric Rohmer is borne proudly by this sharp, sexy and nastily funny comedy of manners, whose dialogue crackles with such cutting truth and wit one wonders why Soderbergh doesn't write more these days.

In a normal cinematic climate, this wouldn't be a novelty, but sci - fi action has so degenerated in recent years that to see one that's not a succession of undifferentiated explosions feels almost nostalgic, like a throwback to the 1990s (think «Jurassic Park»).

I wrote recently about how this year's Best Actress race seems to ushering in a striking new wave of young talent, from the elfin throwback charm of Carey Mulligan to the rawer screen presence of Gabourey Sidibe, while a range of youthful names, from the long - hyped Abbie Cornish to the out - of - nowhere Katie Jarvis, have been racking up critical plaudits all year.

However, Ford will need to prove that this revival is more than just a good - looking throwback - it'll need to come with the performance, and more importantly, the reliability, to hang with a range of solid competitors in the segment (most notably, TopSpeed's Performance Car of the Year, the Chevrolet Corvette Z06).

The Sundance and Shadow were throwbacks in some ways, with their upright driving position and slant - six - influenced 2.2 / 2.5 engines; the performance version of the Plymouth was even named «Duster» in later years.

90's Throwback Dog owners were certainly feeling nostalgic this year; references to «90s icons like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Spice Girls and Harry Potter made up 3 percent of all dog names in 2017.

This balance of risk and reward is what drives you, and what makes the game such a successful throwback to the retro years.

Revelations was a throwback to the Resident Evil games of years past.