Sentences with phrase «bit of suspense»

Also, I am having a last hurrah holiday at my parents with the Sprogs before I go back to work (more about that after the press release... don't you love a bit of suspense?).

An episode in which Curtis squeezes single words out of Andersson falls flat, but there's pleasure and a bit of suspense in an acrobatic sequence that sees Crain ascending to Curtis» shoulders and dropping into Andersson's arms.

Romance with a little bit of suspense.

That battle, by the way, provides not the slightest thrill or bit of suspense; it's an action sequences that feels tacked on and slapped together.

And with King Kong under the audience's belt, we all know the worst case scenario, added a meaty bit of suspense to the build - up.

Universal Pictures has dropped the first trailer for its fall release Everest and it's a breathtaking, nailbiting bit of suspense as it details the events of a hiking trip that turned tragic.

And much like Lincoln, this movie wrings quite a bit of suspense out of votes we already know the results for.

When you first watch the movie, it is a bit of a suspense thriller.

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The whole thing feels a bit like a Christian prom, in that it holds little of the suspense or drama of its mainstream counterpart.

The last three sections of the novel are so excitingly plotted that the reader is kept in nail - biting suspense.

The suspense of a particular moment, carried across chapters where we learn bits and pieces of the past, was perfection.

The current system has been in place since 2006, taking the best bits of the one - hour session (the last few minutes) and making that feeling of suspense last for the whole hour.

It's all a bit improbable, but Dolan — who claimed never to have watched any Hitchcock before filming — pulls off a Master - of - Suspense Psycho - drama, down to the scraping, disturbed violins.

A tale of horror and suspense cut from the same jump - scare cloth as «Alien,» with a dash of «Arrival» thrown in — with its subtext of a woman mourning an unspoken loss — «Annihilation» initially exudes a form of magnetism every bit as somber and determined as Portman's tersely self - possessed protagonist.

Treachery and action still abound on 24 — its brand is crisis, after all — but the nail - biting, espionage - like first four hours erect a scenario that promises a recharged season built on smarter suspense gambits than the tiresome 24 (and, by extension, Bushian) tropes of outlandish risk, torture and Armageddon - mongering.

Sleek and satisfying... Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.

All this should be the stuff of nail - biting drama, but there's a curious shortage of suspense in the protracted countdown to day seven, along with a lack of impact in the rushed handling of the rescue itself — all of which is especially disappointing in light of Padilha's sharp execution of the 2002 Brazilian hijacking doc, Bus 174.

Nearly a decade ago, Olivier Assaya's Carlos examined the same radical faction's inevitable ideological dissolution without sacrificing the nail - biting suspense demanded of the genre approach.

Rope's staginess and lack of that usual edge - of - the - seat suspense leaves it kind of dangling in the air a bit...

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Well, I can answer that rhetorical question: For an interplanetary nail - biter, it's largely devoid of actual suspense, and its much - vaunted sense of humor consists primarily of cutesy faux - irreverence and dad jokes (apparently imported intact from the beloved novel, courtesy of screenwriter Drew Goddard, who's usually wittier).

Saccharinity mostly stays out of the equation, but a bit of genuine action and suspense smoothly factors into the climax without messing with the piece's relaxed, low - key feel.

So begins a nail - biting 90 minutes of suspense that moves in real time as Kyle demands to know what exactly happened.

Imagine a bit of the Master of Suspense's «Rope,» a hefty helping of Henri - Georges Clouzot's «Diabolique» and more than a little of the class conscious comedy of Wes Anderson's «Rushmore,» and you're on the right track.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Winding nail - biting suspense out of pure repetition and moderate existential panic, Jones nails a feverish pitch that takes a bizarre concept and shapes it into exhilarating cinema.

It's a consistent suspense thriller with a little bit of blood and gore in the final 20 minutes.

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The movie does forecast its moments of danger / suspense a bit more than needed, but this may be its only method of catering to its family film classification.

Going in knowing the events of «Cloverfield» surround and shape this story does lower the suspense level a bit.

This highly entertaining film from an exceedingly assured Thai filmmaker takes the underworld of organized high school math cheating and transforms it into a nail - biting caper, with all the excitement and suspense of the best crime stories.

In the «50s, drama meant melodrama, and there's plenty of good melodrama in «Niagara,» a masterful bit of film noir suspense that's worthy of Hitchcock.

Whether it was the general lack of suspense and sense of preordained coronation in the air — with really only Sandra Bullock's Best Actress victory being the only category of the four main acting awards still a bit up in the air — or just my own bloated seasonal malaise, I couldn't really get that amped leading up to the Academy Awards this year, and neither could I be counted on (obviously) to tap out exhaustive analysis after the fact.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

Disorder: Director by Alice Winocour manages the seemingly impossible and delivers a seamless blend of low - key drama and nail - biting suspense with this under - the - radar festival favorite.

He acquits himself well, generating some good tension and suspense and keeping the film visually lively despite the limited confines of the space station (there are also some odd bits of comedy, including a character's arm that becomes separated from his body and takes on a life of its own).

«Animal Kingdom» is all very grim and unrelenting; Michôd generates some nail - biting suspense, though it's not the sort of experience that many people are likely to enjoy.

You feel comfortable and relaxed, despite the bits of tension and suspense Soderbergh infuses in the proceedings.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a nail - biting masterpiece of suspense, operating on a philosophical level that is as sophisticated as it is compelling.

While the suspense is well done, there are portions of the film that drag and become a bit redundant.

The suspense bits are great, but horribly out of place, which makes one wonder why he didn't just stick to what he was good at.

That second Hitchcock movie was «Foreign Correspondent,» produced by Walter Wanger: a top - notch melodrama of international intrigue and nail - biting suspense that was set in the early days of World War II.

Because of the nail - biting suspense of the situation, the laughs come faster and louder.

John Huston's meticulously calibrated crime film combines nail - biting suspense with a mood of Chekhovian regret.

According to neuroscientists like Eric Jensen, priming the brain for particular states of engagement — such as curiosity, intrigue, surprise, suspense, a bit of confusion, skepticism, and the feeling of safety — prepares the mind to learn.

After reading your post today and rethinking a bit, I may add romantic suspense as well since each of the installments in the novella series are also mysteries with something nefarious going on.

In fact, the historical background is every bit as entertaining as the moments of suspense, and is one of the features that make the book such a stand - out.