Sentences with phrase «about private eyes»

Crooked House (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel of the same name about a private eye (Max Irons) hired by an ex-lover (Stefanie Martini) to investigate the mysterious murder of her wealthy grandfather (Gino Picciano).

As a detective picture about a private eye with flawed vision — in this case, a small - time independent dick and former football player named Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), who'd like to think he's Sam Spade — it would make a great double bill with «Chinatown,» released the previous year.

Not exact matches

One trend to keep an eye on is mutual funds investing in private capital markets, according to a press release about the report.

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

Through its requests for discovery, Alphabet dragged Uber's reputation through the mud, forcing private messages and emails between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and others, as well as letters about the company's questionable surveillance tactics, into the public eye.

Companies such as Vodafone have vociferously denied the figures about outstanding tax made by groups like UK Uncut, but the Commons committee used evidence from a whistleblower and a private eye to reach similar conclusions.

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

It's also worth noting that those medieval centres of power that Letwin & Blond get all misty eyed about included nobles with their own private armies.

These two funding sources often can have synergistic effects: Foundations can elevate important issues into the public eye, while federal funding can bring about developments that attract the attention of private donors.

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A stylish new «Ultimate»70s» trailer has arrived online for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film Inherent Vice, and we have it for you below... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be -LSB-...]

On how the film came about, director Black said he had always wanted to bring back the «private - eye» film: «There's a bone - deep DNA to this ever since I raided my Dad's bookshelf when I was a kid.

The Nice Guys (R for violence, profanity, sexuality, nudity and brief drug use) Unlikely - buddies crime comedy, set in L.A. in» 77, about a pair of private eyes (Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe) who grudgingly join forces to investigate a fading porn star's apparent suicide.

When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin... well, easy for her to say.

The Big Sleep (Blu - ray) Release date: Feb. 23 Details: 1946, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe in this confusing whodunit about murder and blackmail.

«Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan — and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets.

Film - maker Paul Thomas Anderson talks about Inherent Vice, his new nostalgia noir based on a Thomas Pynchon novel, in which a stoned private eye hits the trail of his ex, and leads a homage to 70s California

Fast describes it as «an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he's most vulnerable»... Shane Black has teamed up with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling for The Nice Guys, in which a pair of private eyes investigates the suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy «bizarrely rooted in smog and the U.S. auto industry.»

Its labyrinthine plot takes in three separate but just - about interconnected mysteries, with Joaquin Phoenix's shambolic private eye Doc Sportello pulling on all the threads from somewhere on the outskirts of the tangled web.

INHERENT VICE Paul Thomas Anderson did the script and directed this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel about a sky - high LA private eye, circa 1970.

In getting more clear about what her students are doing during private reading and about which element to focus on with these students — in this case eyes on text — Tracey is able to enter a partnership with her students where the students can take an active role in their learning.

Most of the headlines about social media usually involve celebrities and their inappropriate or bizarre public or private behavior, but the emergent genre of mass communications has caught the eye of major corporations, and is resulting in reallocation of marketing resources.

My private - eye mystery - suspense series books staring Tony Avanti are always about more than just solving a crime.

Even before Baldacci put pen to paper (well, you know what I mean) to write this latest book in his popular series about two Washingto, DC private eyes, he faced the challenge that mystery and thriller fans tend to be a hard demographic to impress.

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But then a line in an Independent article about the dark private lives of children's authors caught my eye: «The creator of Willy Wonka, the Twits and Fantastic Mr Fox was often less than fantastic as a human being.

Here's the set - up: «A must - have for any writer serious about crafting authentic private eyes.

Encouraging private citizens to become effective armchair activists for the sake of their own pets and the animals in shelters, the book is an eye - opener about the problem of animal homelessness.

An abstract painting of a lighthouse caught the eye of Dallas Museum of Art curator Sue Canterbury as she visited a private collector about five years ago.

The abstract painting of a lighthouse caught the eye of Dallas Museum of Art curator Sue Canterbury as she visited a private collector about five years ago.

[9] In a law review article written in 1960, the leading American torts scholar, William Prosser, listed four distinct kinds of invasion of privacy interests as follows: (i) intrusion upon the plaintiff's seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs; (ii) public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about the plaintiff; (iii) publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye; and (iv) appropriation, for the defendant's advantage, of the plaintiff's name or likeness: see William L. Prosser, «Privacy» (1960) 48 Cal.