Sentences with phrase «biting suspense»

«The game offers a VR experience unlike any other that's challenging, fun and full of nail - biting suspense, and we can't wait to see it in the hands of console players to see how they do.»

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This month's best new romances include a rough - and - tumble tale set in Texas, nail - biting suspense and a cheeky historical.

Bursting with humanity and humor, The Girl in Green is heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measures, delivering nail - biting suspense while bringing readers into the heart of the conflict in Iraq.

My chief aim and responsibility as a thriller author is, first and foremost, to entertain readers with a captivating story, filled with colorful characters, headlong action, nail - biting suspense, mystery, intrigue, and romance.

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

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

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.

With its breathtaking photography and nail - biting suspense, Chasing Coral is a dramatic revelation that won't have audiences sitting idle for long.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Norwegian director Roar Uthaug has had past success with nail - biting suspense, as in his well - received 2015 disaster movie «The Wave.»

The twists, turns and nail - biting suspense that the show is known for?

It's a spoof, and judging it based on jump - scares and nail - biting suspense is like rating a romantic comedy on gore.

The delay in the radio signal returning to Earth from the spacecraft adds to the nail - biting suspense, since it takes 48 minutes for it to come back all the way to Earth.

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

On the menu are political British Gangster dramas, Nazi propaganda films, Art - Giallo hommages, silent comedies, a knuckle - biter suspense spectacular, the Bard with music «n guns, more 80s nostalgia and TVs Party Down.

Not exact matches

Thankful for not keeping me in suspense for too long and saving me a bit of research time, @ivanhoff followed up with this tweet:

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

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

Keeping your taste buds in suspense with every bite, these gourmet snacking tomatoes are a truly unique experience.

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 only in the last fifteen minutes when things finally pick up and all the bits start coming together, but it never feels like the so - called «suspense» that's been building — and we're being charitable by suggesting that it has — leads to anything particularly exciting or shocking.

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.

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

THR's David Rooney calls the film «sluggish and lacking in bite,» lamenting that «it has neither thrills nor suspense,» while The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth (in a «C -» review) deems it a «disappointingly bloodless» work that «often feels as gray and lifeless as the corpses in the film.»

Boxoffice Magazine finds it to be a «smart, crafty suspense - laden picture,» and, in its A - review, The Playlist calls it «a gripping nail - biter, superbly suspenseful and yet occasionally light on its toes.»

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.

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

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).

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 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.

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.

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

Ryan and Tucker give you bite - sized previews of April 18's new comic releases, including DAREDEVIL, INFINITY COUNTDOWN, POE DAMERON, TALES OF SUSPENSE, and all the other books that will be waiting for you in stores!

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.

The ending may be a bit over-the-top, but the journey is packed with great, understated acting and pounding suspense.

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

Jordan Peele's directorial debut may not be what fans were expecting from the comedian, but it's a clever and confident genre mashup that expertly blends suspense and humor with biting social commentary on race relations.