Pastiches

The movie, like many of Harryhausen’s mythology pastiches, is chock-full of great set pieces to showcase the stop-action work. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Though, of course, this means we’re basically just getting a magazine full of Holly Lisle pastiches, which is nice if you like Holly Lisle, I guess. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The entire piece, with its wholly new libretto devised and written by Jeremy Sams, was inspired by the 18th century tradition -- not unlike like our own widespread tendency to copy-and-paste -- of repurposing music and lyrics to create fresh pastiches and masques. ❋ David Tereshchuk (2012)

The problem pops up early when tunes like "Christmas 1962" prove good pastiches but nothing more. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

But for those of us that can appreciate the different takes an author can give on the Conan character and just like a good rip-roarin 'tale of battles, wenches and treasures, the pastiches can often provide. ❋ Reis O'Brien (2009)

The period pastiches of the John Kander-Fred Ebb score are cunningly wrought, and the ensemble cast, led by John Cullum and Joshua Henry, is as good as it could possibly be. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)

The novels, with convoluted structures and indeterminate endings, are a postmodernist mélange of fantasy worlds, dystopias, alternate realities and genre pastiches, all overlaid on an unsuspecting contemporary Japan. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Little Black Dress charts eight decades of adaptations, parodies and pastiches from the femme fatales of 1940s film noir, through the miniskirted precociousness of the 60s Chelsea sex kitten, to the goths and power dressers of more recent decades. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There's so much bring-down-the-house performing during these examples of the brilliantly astute and irresistible Sondheim pastiches that it feels as if the next day's implosion would only be redundant. ❋ David Finkle (2011)

In the late 18th century, musical pastiches enjoyed something of a heyday. ❋ David Mermelstein (2011)

Sikoryak clearly knows his material, both literary and comic, which is why these pastiches work so well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I left Australia in the early '70s, the only Asian cuisine was cheap Cantonese and one or two Indian places, while French restaurants were of the simple bistro variety or pastiches of grand hotel dining. ❋ Bruce Palling (2011)

At his best here, he produces unpersuasive pastiches. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

I am learning about these Conan pastiches and their authors as I go, and I believe that much can be learned and added to your list by looking at Russian websites. ❋ Cromsblood (2010)

This show casts various celebrities in pastiches of famous paintings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even if this were a passably good idea, the score would have sunk the show, for the songs are period pastiches so anonymous as to actively resist recollection. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Such pastiches are unlikely to live, but who wants to stand in the way of science? ❋ M_francis (2009)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the works of a classic English novelist still in print after 200 years, and thus in the public domain, must be in want of sequels, prequels, parodies or pastiches—reverential, revisionist, blasphemous and sometimes downright ridiculous. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)