Sentence examples for mainstream pictures from inspiring English sources
People who didn't care either way recognised his face from well-placed mainstream pictures such as Sneakers and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The film brings Van Sant back to America's Pacific Northwest, the setting of the early movies that made his maverick reputation before he spent a decade working elsewhere in America on somewhat anonymous mainstream pictures such as Good Will Hunting, Psycho and Finding Forrester.
On the other hand, we all whine about the lack of imagination, originality, and/or just plain entertainment value in so many mainstream pictures.
As one of the pioneers of the body horror genre, a subgenre of horror flicks where the main focus is on the degradation and mutation of the human body, he's managed to skillfully oscillate throughout his career between more mainstream pictures such as The Fly and History of Violence and rather underground productions like Videodrome.
But you were just in "Under the Tuscan Sun," which was a big-budget, mainstream picture.
It is difficult to think of another mainstream picture in which music in the classical tradition plays such a dominant role.
(Mr. Keats's groundbreaking classic, "The Snowy Day," which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, revolutionized children's literature by being the first mainstream picture book to feature a black male protagonist).
That a mainstream confection such as this is now confined to the arthouse is a troubling sign of what constitutes a mainstream picture.
A mainstream picture, it is not the type of fare that is usually offered by New York's IFC, where it opens September 10th in tandem with its availability via the On Demand feature of cable TV.
In a country where we are still -- improbably -- trying to figure out if everyone should have the right to marry whomever the heck they want, having a mainstream picture focus in on a lesbian couple with kids who look (gasp) just like every other couple with kids is culturally important.
Not in independent film but certainly in mainstream Hollywood pictures.
