Sentences with phrase «fiction pieces in»

Very few purely literary novels sell — and most of those are by authors who have published scores of exquisitely crafted short fiction pieces in prestigious journals and / or have endowed chairs at major universities.

I tend to write flash fiction pieces in one sitting — a bit like freewriting — and then edit the hell out of it afterwards.

Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.

I am timidly getting my flash fiction piece in decent enough shape to submit to the critique group.

Not exact matches

«This is a piece of fiction that I wrote in 1972, I think,» Sanders said.

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

There has been modest tinkering with the Canadian rules over the years, but my Globe and Mail opinion piece notes the law is struggling to remain relevant in a digital age when our personal information becomes increasingly valuable and our consent models are little more than a legal fiction.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

It's ridiculous to put so much effort in order to get inserted into a piece of fiction.

Just when it looked like the storm had blown over, Pete Enns wrote an excellent piece for the Huffington Post in which he asks, Does God talk to us through fiction?

NO... but people that believe in the biblical fantasy will always try to add some kind of science angle to it so as to legitimize the badly written piece of crappy fiction..

In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twicIn a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twicin as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren't any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose - plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction.

Wow, one more crappy long boring piece of fiction... that's quite the imagination you have Austin - did you by chance damage your brain in the crash?

As to the story's purpose, we are confident that it is not (as some remarkably allege) a subtle piece of fiction describing in fact the practice of a Bethlehem fertility cult.

And while it sometimes can be overwhelming to work on fiction while working on non-fiction parenting pieces in the same week, it also lets me have a break while still being productive if something is frustrating me in one area of my writing.

It's the first piece of fiction since the financial crisis to deal not with the technicalities of high finance but with the daily ways in which it is eating into our society.

There aren't many other pieces of political fiction in which you would find Trollope's description of the word MP «as highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman».

This piece of audio forensics was science fiction when it appeared in the movie The Conversation more than three decades ago.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Being transported emotionally into an alternative reality helps us to invest more completely in a piece of fiction, no matter how unbelievable.

Filmed with non-actors in Pine Ridge, The Rider is a stunning piece of fiction played close to the bone.

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

The film had great set design and art pieces, but it's not really like a blatantly fantastical fantasy — it is shot and depicted almost like a historical fiction with some bizarre creatures in it.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

I wish people would read the damn book, or at least be aware of what is contained in Jackson's wonderful piece of psychological fiction.

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

That's harder said than done, resulting in a relationship that not only feels more real than most of the films this year, but plays a big part in its success as a romantic dramedy and an enchanting piece of science fiction.

In fact, for a film that's based on a true story, «Machine Gun Preacher» is riddled with more clichés than most pieces of fiction.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

Each segment establishes its own vibe: the first is dim and claustrophobic, the second is naturalistic with one stark science fiction set piece, and the third ties in with «Black Museum's» frame story, which is shot with a grind house seediness.

The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.

As he did in 2009's superb District 9, writer / director Neill Blomkamp has created another piece of absorbing, socially - conscious science fiction that is visually sumptuous yet disturbing in its implications for the human race.

A chase film with tinges of science fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its mysteries together yourself.

With its wonderfully constrained narrative and stunning vision of a future society in decay, Dredd is a violent and blisteringly compelling piece of dark science fiction.

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

It can also be a dangerous choice, and perhaps should only be used by seasoned professionals, since in the wrong hands it can snap you out of the flow of the piece by reminding them that they are indeed participating in fiction.

Despite its brevity or because of it, «Fiction» is the stronger of the two pieces; Solondz crams issues of misogyny, race, and Ivory Tower pretension into its tight arc and transfers the embedded hypocrisies of both onto the process of literary criticism as it manifests itself in college writing courses.

That's harder said than done, resulting in a relationship that not only feels more real than most of the films last year, but plays a big part in its success as a romantic dramedy and an enchanting piece of science fiction.

5) «Looper» In the cleverest volte - face of the year, Rian Johnson made everyone think they were going in for a smart, original piece of science - fiction reminiscent of «The Terminator» and «Twelve Monkeys,» among other thingIn the cleverest volte - face of the year, Rian Johnson made everyone think they were going in for a smart, original piece of science - fiction reminiscent of «The Terminator» and «Twelve Monkeys,» among other thingin for a smart, original piece of science - fiction reminiscent of «The Terminator» and «Twelve Monkeys,» among other things.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» tale of an ordinary man who mysteriously transports to Mars, first serialized in 1912, is the template for just about every piece of fantastical science fiction that has come after.

But, of course, this is all just a flimsy foundation upon which director / co-writer Rick Friedberg and fellow scripters Dick Chudnow, Jason Friedberg, and Aaron Seltzer hang set pieces parodying specific films such as Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Speed, and In the Line of Fire, to name a few.

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

From the so called Package, a weekly update of content privately distributed in Cuba, which include a Classics section, I picked out Andrzej Wajda's Czlowiek z źelaza (Man of Iron, 1981), a quintessential piece of auteur cinema, blending fiction and facts in an unprecedented and maybe never again possible way, all suffused with romanticism.

Taken in a vacuum, «The Hunger Games» is a nice piece of speculative fiction.

For those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptation.

It's an impressive, epic and emotional piece of hard science - fiction, convincing in its scientific detail, but able to handle spectacle and character alongside it.

On the year of Bond's 50th anniversary, here is Skyfall — a celebration of the character's full potential, this immortal member of mainstream fiction, in a glorious piece of entertainment that only has our respect for the «classics» keeping it from immediately being designated the secret agent's most spectacular movie yet.