The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture offers two annual programs focused on jazz, Jazz Matters and Jazz @, highlighting the genres issues and feature opportunities to listen to live jazz music.
Even though Us leans into its genre, social issues linger as subtext.
"Mr. Fox's" unflappable producer Allison Abbate is a veteran of many stop-motion productions, including Selick's epochal "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and Tim Burton's Oscar-nominated "Corpse Bride". She pointed out that it wasn't unusual in the genre to issue directions from off-set.
This, briefly, is the plot of what, in its return to the genre's root issues, is the most radical western ever made.
But the thrust of the criticism hinges on a more genre-specific issue.
For a genre whose central issues involve processes of historical change, time travel is irresistibly attractive.
Matt Thrower of Pocket Gamer noted how the PC-based MOBA genre has had issues adapting its precise controls to the mobile platform, but that Vainglory trimmed features in the right areas.
Becky Masterman's pulse-quickening debut thriller, "Rage Against the Dying," starts with the genre's standard-issue opening scene — almost.
Standard-issue genre accessories (dank stairways, flashlights, overcast skies, frosty windows) abound; shocks are mild and few.
Quirke, a Dublin pathologist with the genre's standard-issue drinking problem ("Here's to sobriety," he toasts, lifting a glass of Champagne), is the product of a grim childhood, and it still shows.
