Sentences with phrase «are the mysterious story»

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

The former, from the Romanian director who won the Palme d'Or in 2007 with «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days», is a mysterious story of religious oppression and moral corruption that centres on two young women who grew up together in an orphanage.

The biggest things to propel you forward are the mysterious story and the beautiful environments.

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For an entertaining yet educational eyeful of just how bizarre the Bitcoin story is, from its mysterious beginnings to its rise as a kind of, almost, on the brink of mainstream currency around the globe today, take a look at the revealing infographic below from WhoIsHostingThis.com.

From empty prison cells to mysterious nuclear laboratories, the US is full of fascinating, slightly unnerving places whose empty halls echo with the stories of past occupants.

It's mysterious, and you can't take credit for it, you just have it,» says Lang, during a chat in an empty boardroom between story meetings.

We're seeing stories on... the «mysterious» characters behind XL Foods.»

But treating cancer becomes less mysterious every day, and today Ignyta is writing a new story, identifying the genomic causes of cancer and creating targeted cancer drugs that attack cancer at its source.

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There's a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from Autism by Judy Barron and Sean Barron Simon & Schuster, 264 pages, $ 20 Of all the many states of mind, disorders, and aberrations of man, autism is certainly among the most mysterious.

Because the more novels and short stories I read, and the more times I feel an unspeakable connection to imaginary characters and their stories, the more convinced I become that every story is, in some mysterious way, my very own.

Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

No story in Genesis is as terrible, as powerful, as mysterious, as elusive as this one.

The story is well known: on descending from Sinai, in the presence of the incredible pretension of the Israelites to make themselves a god (which they could control since they had made it) to replace the mysterious Liberator, out of anger and despair, Moses breaks and destroys the miraculous talisman he was bringing: the stone tables on which God himself had written.

The myth - maker was feeling round for suitable story - models in which to express, and partly to explain, the mysterious changes and events in which he found himself caught up in the living world about him.

It's not the best fiction I've ever read, but Young weaves together a compelling story, the first four chapters culminating with Mackenzie's decision to follow up on a mysterious note he finds in his mailbox, apparently left there by God.

«Fish tells the story of this beautiful, mysterious thing we call the sea, through food — and my team and I are very excited to create this new experience at The Cove.

I'm sure it's a familiar story: impulse purchases thrown in the freezer only to be forgotten for months, half batches of muffins stashed away to stop me from eating them all in one go, mysterious foil - wrapped items, and of course those neat containers of homecooked beans and grains, which would have been sensible to have on hand — only if there was actually space for them...

s the story on this mysterious berry, and why are scammers using it.

There's all these stories of politicians making deals in this mysterious back room, and people shooting guns, and rock stars hanging out after the shows.

Amaluna is also the name of the mysterious island where this magical story unfolds.

A young elf living in the northern forest discovers a mysterious «sun egg» that has fallen from the sky, and the story is the tale of her travels to where it came from.

Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love... Alice Allan's debut novel is an original, vivid and moving story about attachment and loss.

... This guy is way too mysterious for the crowds he surrounds himself with, and its seems quite obvious any event that he attends people seem a bit uneasy and start looking for reasons to smear his reputation... He is by all the rules a democratic contender... we want the real story behind the story...

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Odd smells, mysterious silences and even a mustache are all clues that lead to unexpected diagnoses in this collection of stories.

Tofu's origins are mysterious, but the first written record appears in the stories of Chinese writer Tao Ku.

The story behind the mysterious hill is much less colorful.

Both substances were suggested in the early 1980s as candidates for the mysterious absorber, and both are interesting for the broader story of the planet.

The complete story of Laurentius Loricatus is kept in an 800 - year - old parchment that has incurred mysterious purple stains.

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There are stories of 1930s spies arriving in Deauville, 17th century ladies - in - waiting sailing across the seas, or decadent Ottoman harems of mysterious women.

The story is only told through text-less and voiceless images, and cut scenes giving you a vague understanding of a tragedy that befell the world the mysterious Drifter (the player character) explores.

In House of Caravan you play as a young boy in what seems to be the early 20th Century who has been kidnapped and brought to a mysterious house, from which he must escape by solving puzzles while slowly piecing together the story of the house's owners.

Between the mysterious thriller at the game's heart and the romantic side stories, this is a game that kept me turning page after figurative page.

The Room's audience is a devoted lot and the idea of Franco taking on the starring role of the filmmaker with the mysterious origin story - an ambiguous age, accent, and source of bottomless wealth to finance the project and its endless takes - may strike some as tampering, but rest easy.

Based on a popular book series, the story follows a mining crew that ends up on the run after being attacked by a mysterious ship; meanwhile a police detective looks into the case of a politician's daughter who's gone missing and seems to have fallen in with a group of revolutionaries.

There are many stories for you to get to grips with in this game and each one is a mysterious tale that makes you want to carry on, which is great.

So despite that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is short on story and plot, it is terrifying as hell mysterious and realistic, with tons of smartness and horrific fun.

It adds intrigue into this mysterious suicide circle and the individual stories, while the constant voice over monologues are probably the worst (as in self - indulgent and pretentious) part of the movie other than the length, at least seem to be hinting that they're all heading toward the same end.

What we actually get is a story that already has Tarzan established and well known in his time, almost a mysterious, saviour or superhero of the jungle.

Its deep and intricate story chronicling the mysterious legacy of Rennes - le - Chateau in France is infinitely compelling, and every facet of the game's construction, from music, dialog, puzzles, and characters, create an incredible experience culminating in one hell of a satisfying ending.

A trip to Wikipedia reveals that the novel, written by Michel Faber, actually gives lots of information the film wilfully withholds, such as the name of Johansson's character or the story of her race or the reason why they're mulching men or the story behind the mysterious men on motorcycles who pop up occasionally to help out / hunt Johansson down.

The story is the familiar one of young Pip (George Breakstone as a boy, Phillips Holmes as an adult) whose future wealth is assured through the auspices of a mysterious benefactor.

That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him.

The story of a massage therapist Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt) who is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact, seemed deep, but I am not sure if that was on the surface only.

What clinched the verdict was the social satire subtly packaged into the story: It is a black man who moves in with his girlfriend's mysterious family, and it is race that drives an apparent disparity of power between him and the white family.

And finally... Guillermo del Toro's story of a young girl in fascist Spain who goes into a mysterious world and meets a faun who offers a dark bargain is probably still his most beautiful, beguiling work of gothic romance.

What I can gleam from it all is that the story takes place in an alternative history United States in which «a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own.»

The story revolves around the character of Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender), a convicted murderer who is saved from a death sentence by a mysterious company, Abstergo Industries, who give him a second chance.