Sentences with phrase «as a detective story»

Most of the film works as a detective story and follows the day after the guys» big night on the town.

This suggests such highly stylised modern forms as the detective story and the cowboy film where, because of a withdrawal of human interest which leaves the action naked, we witness death and pain lightheartedly....

Not exact matches

In an interview several years ago she discussed the conventions of the detective story in which «the good triumph and the bad are punished... This is one reason why, for some people, the detective story — however good it is — will always be classified as a subliterary form: because of the contrivances, and because, in the past, psychological truth was too often sacrificed to the demands of plot» (Times Literary Supplement.

Readers of the old - fashioned detective story usually approached it as an intellectual puzzle — a «whodunit.»

Though reviewers have treated it as a literary detective story, all biblically literate people will recognize the parable of the prodigal son in this story of a contemporary father who searches for a son who once was thought to have died in Mexico but then is alive again.

Perhaps, as I have always been keen on motorcars and driving, I would go back to the days before speed limits were imposed out of towns and look at those heroes in adventure and detective stories that drove a pre or post - Second World War Bentley or Alvis, with their magnifi cent long bonnets and separate headlights standing up on either side.

The mountain ranges overlooking the Los Angeles basin that cradles the city, and the Pacific Ocean beyond, have served as the settings for cinematic fantasies ranging from Westerns to the classic detective stories of Raymond Chandler.

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

It tells the story of a loser in debt (Emile Hirsch), his sexy - virginal younger sister (Juno Temple), their stupid, spineless father (Thomas Haden Church), his slutty, cheating wife (Gina Gershon), and a sick slickster of an hombre (Matthew McConaughey, in his second riveting performance of the year, following Magic Mike) who supplements his police - detective day job as a killer for hire.

Gary Oldman, as the fiery preacher out to rid the world of demons and their influence, saves this bedtime story that confuses itself with a typical detective whodunit (only here it's who - is - it: who's the big, bad wolf?

Since 1980, Ms. Grant has mixed acting with directing, and in 1982, launched anWhile still in her teens, Lee Grant established herself as a formidable talent by winning the Critics Circle Award for her performance as the shoplifter in the Broadway production of Detective Story.

Biography: While still in her teens, Lee Grant established herself as a formidable talent by winning the Critics Circle Award for her performance as the shoplifter in the Broadway production of Detective Story.

Michael Shannon is hilarious and unforgettable as a detective in Edward's story — a light spot in an otherwise disturbing tale.

The story and journey of «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» isn't cohesive as elements, like a police detective investigation, are never realized, built upon, or returned to.

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

Most of the noir detective story archetypes are here — the tough shamus (Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant), the murder suspect (Charles Fleischer as long - eared fugitive Roger Rabbit), the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner as cartoon bombshell Jessica Rabbit), the suspicious boss (Stubby Kaye as studio head Marvin Acme) and the formidable lawman (Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom).

That's everyone in this movie, which starts as a comedy, becomes an adventure, then a romance, then a detective story, then a comedy again.

There's a wide variety of criminal mysteries to decode as the story unfolds, most of which require you to do your own bit of detective work, much like the Phoenix Wright series asks of you.

Created by Agatha Christie, the Belgian detective appeared in 33 of her novels, as well as a play and over 50 short stories.

While the story follows the basics of detective fiction with classical fidelity, it does so in a way that establishes Marsan as a director of distinctive gifts.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.

This brave appraisal of fear and uncertainty elevates The Stranger above any run - of - the - mill detective story, qualifying it as a horror - tinged film noir, even if it doesn't always evenly line up with the genre.

The narrative's indecisiveness is obvious, as it attempts to find a connection between the story of the detectives and the story of the lovers.

At its core, the film is a low - key thriller and detective story, stripped down and singularly unique, the film follows a brother and sister as they try to piece together the disappearance of the brother's ex-girlfriend.

If read as an ideological tract, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue could refer to the expanding gyre that separates distinct concepts of «authenticity» — hence the detective story in this ersatz Night of the Living Dead (commissioned to do a straight ripper of the Romero classic — which was completely without a detective figure — Grau inserts an element of Tiresian knowledge) that underscores the futility of investigation into areas that, by their nature, resist clarification.

The dark tone was set in part through the use of flashbacks to a 1995 serial killer investigation framed in the context of interviews with the two primary detectives, with McConaughey's intense Rust Cohle looking and acting like a burned out alcoholic as he told his part of the story.

For his follow - up to the bewitching A Ghost Story, writer - director David Lowery dramatizes the twilight years of this late criminal career, with screen legend Robert Redford cast as the infamous outlaw, Sissy Spacek as the woman who loved him, and Casey Affleck as the detective in hot pursuit.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories...

Oh, and He imagines himself in a variety of scenarios including South Korean soap opera and period war film, and His heart manifests as a character from a pulp detective story because f*ck you.

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It involves the detectives in hot pursuit of a drug ring, as both the car and the story career through the streets of a backdrop so anonymous that it might as well be called Santa Metro.

Warner Bros. has set a December 12, 2014 release date for «Inherent Vice,» the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, that tells a 1970s Los Angeles - set story about inept, pot - smoking private detective Doc Sportello as he investigates the case of a kidnapped girl, who also happens to be one of his ex-girlfriends (incidentally, we place it right at the top of our Most Anticipated Films Of 2014 list).

The film stars John Hawkes as a private detective and is divided into five short stories, each consisting of one, uninterrupted shot.

Through reenactments, archival footage and talking heads interviews, Wardle treats his thrilling documentary as an intricate detective story.

Yes, it's as generic a scheme as could be imagined for any super-villain, but then again, we're not speaking of any old rogue but of Professor Moriarty, who — despite being a player in only two of Doyle's stories chronicling the adventures of the prototypical «consulting detective» — has come to be popularly known as the archetypical archnemesis.

The road movie becomes a detective story that opens up a fresh wound even as it closes another.

As the story goes, Tim Goodman comes to Ryme City, looking for his father, who disappeared a few months ago and on the day of his arrival, he encounters the Great Detective Pikachu.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

Utilizing anachronistic gumshoe dialogue in the style of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson assembled a seemingly clever detective story that uses a «brick» of heroin as the MacGuffin, and a dead girl as a plot device.

Alternately ferocious and tender, mundane and terrifying, it's the most perverse of love stories and Kastle directs the toxic tale as if off the pages of «True Detective» and accompanied by the startling flashbulb - bright photography by Weegee.

In a psychedelic spin on the classic detective yarn where the narrative unravels as the story unfolds, Gordita Beach's hippie P.I. Doc Sportello (Phoenix) embarks on a drug - fueled investigation into his ex-girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth's (Katherine Waterston) mysterious disappearance.

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«The Factory», directed by Morgan O'Neill, tells the story of partnered detectives Mike (played by John Cusack) and Kelsey (played by Jennifer Carpenter) working in New York City as they track a serial killer that has been targeting prostitutes.

Think of it as a slacker «The Big Sleep,» a shaggy dog parody of classic L.A. detective stories where the passive hero is threatened, confronted, assaulted, seduced, drugged and so completely bummed out that he's forced to solve a mystery so everyone will just leave him alone to enjoy his dope and his Dylan.

As well, the package offers an exclusive collectible 72 - page comic book containing Detective Comics # 27 (the very first Batman story), Batman: The Man Who Falls (a classic story that inspired Batman Begins), and an excerpt from Batman: The Long Halloween (a chilling story that also inspired the film).

As previously reported, Anderson has been working for a couple of years on his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's quirky, rambling detective story, which concerns a pot - smoking private eye at the tail - end of the psychedelic «60s who gets swept up in a kidnapping case involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization that bears no resemblance to any modern churches, so Anderson's safe there.

Meanwhile, for best supporting actress, Uzo Aduba appeared for the first time for «Orange Is the New Black» (though she previously won a Golden Globe for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series), as did Kathy Bates for «American Horror Story: Freak Show,» Michelle Monaghan for «True Detective,» «Downton Abbey» actress Joanne Froggatt, and Allison Janney for «Mom.»

Devil isn't quite the claustrophobic, one - set film you'd expect, as the inside - the - elevator action is broken up by side stories involving a police detective investigating the apparent suicide of a jumper in the building, as well as the building's security personnel who are actively trying to get the elevator moving again, while watching the horrific events take place through their security camera in one of the upper corners of the elevator's interior.

I suspect that «Sea of Love» served as inspiration for 1992's «Basic Instinct,» written by Joe Eszterhas, who reportedly snagged a $ 3 million paycheck for the story of police detective Michael Douglas falling in love with murder suspect Sharon Stone.

As the «forensic» part of the story unfolds, Jerry is the dourly stoic detective, wincing professionally at the bunglings of the local uniform cops, and grimacing at the intense cold.