Sentences with phrase «fiction story at»

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But as stories and news travel at lightning speed, it's more difficult than ever to tell fact from fiction.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

I switched from academic papers to climate fiction a few years ago, seeking to inform, and in one story envisioned trouble at the BC / AB border... «Blown Bridge Valley», an excerpt from a climate reality novel series... a free e-book at the link here https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/497190

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

Since much of the bible is clearly fiction, likely the stories of what Jesus allegedly did are fictional or at least embellished.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

-- A children's story / holiday fiction at one level, Christian doctrine oft times at another level, and perhaps something else at yet another level?

At this point in my career, I took a break from fiction to write Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.

He functions as the focal point at which the various currents of the story are concentrated into the lurid fiction of an international Jewish cabal bent on corrupting Christendom and ruling the world.

And a look at past and modern sci - fi, fantasy fiction and horror stories shows how prevalent and easy - to - conjure this stuff was and is.

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On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

At other places and other times, the fictions have been ghost stories and fairy stories delivered in penny - dreadfuls and Hollywood films.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

At least my dating life... 1 This story, though it contains flecks of non-fiction is technically — and properly — categorized in the fiction genre.

The guys at Frictional Games tried something really hard, in telling a story that reflects good old science fiction.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

A few core story beats aren't fully realized and there are some awkward moments of truth and fiction balancing but, nevertheless, the movie delivers a brutal and exceptionally honest look at the Bondurant Boys and their fascinating (not to mention dangerous) bootlegging days.

And whether fiction or not, this story does provide a valid look at the Soviet Gulags and a reminder of this often overlooked tragic chapter of history.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

We kick off the show looking at some of this month's key films, including Steven Spielberg's literally - ripped - from - the - headlines true story The Post, Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, and Ridley Scott's ambitious Getty family biopic All the Money in the World.

The story of Solid Snake, Raiden, and Snake's evil dad Big Boss (it's... a long story) isn't just ridiculously fun, it's also a terrific vehicle for asking the kind of questions that science fiction has always asked, at its best.

We look at a handful of this month's films, including Star Wars spinoff prequel Rogue One, Jim Jarmusch's contemplative drama Paterson, science fiction drama Passengers, and Amma Asante's true story adaptation A United Kingdom.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

Instead, she has Cowperthwaite, wading into her first fiction feature and struggling with the limp noodle actress at the story's center attempting a realism she can not achieve.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.

Which is not to say a true story can't or shouldn't be embellished, but the layering - on of these moments and coincidences, and the telescoping of them all into such a brief period just feels too constructed, and so ironically does precisely the opposite to what it's designed to — it slightly softens the true force of the tragedy by reminding us that there is fiction at work here too.

Creating a docudrama allows for certain narrative leeway, and if you're not going to use that flexibility to craft an engrossing piece of based - on - a-true-story fiction, why bother telling the story at all?

Big - ticket characters like franchise mascot Iron Man are represented, but Infinity War often plays more like a Guardians of the Galaxy story because they're more at home with the overt science - fiction themes of the film, and Gamora (Zoe Saldana, I Kill Giants) has had a multi-movie arc directly related to Thanos.

At his heart, Superman's always been a science fiction story.

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

In order to capture this ludicrous, stranger - than - fiction story in it's entirety, it demands a maestro at work and Affleck can certainly consider himself one.

Fortunately, director Spike Jonze (creator of oddball favourites Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) has made a science - fiction film that is partly a glimpse into the future of advanced computer software, a current day look at our overreliance on technology and also the unlikeliest of love stories.

Hill has always had a penchant for dropping pulp fiction ideals of gangster code and loyalty under fire in a gritty existence, shaped and stylized into a rarified, at times insular world where the rest of the population is either backdrop to their story or simply absent from the frame.

Last week, Hammer to Nail published seven reviews of mine: Big Sonia, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Creep 2 (the only fiction film among this batch), Island Soldier (seen at DOC NYC), Kedi (also seen at DOC NYC), Love Means Zero (also seen at DOC NYC) and Quest.

The issue of climate change figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

The issue of climate change also figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

It's a monumental amount for any franchise to rake in, but when you look at the history of «Fifty Shades» and its author, and remember that the story she was telling was actually a fan - fiction based on the «Twilight» series of novels and films, it's incredible to see how far the series has come.

It's a transcendent blending of fiction and fact, a compelling drama in constant negotiation with the various layers of artifice at play in telling its true story.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

You know the rest — except, perhaps, that a good chunk of the story takes place at a sci - fi convention, where all the weirdos in costume collectively form a belaboured symbol of how fandom and obsession have sapped science fact and fiction of its wonder and curiosity.

Because the preposterous life story of Tonya Harding — from 4 years old on to her celebrity boxing stint — is too unbelievable not to chuckle or even laugh hard at; it might as well be a fiction except it actually happened.

ARRIVAL Paramount Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Denis Villeneuve Written by: Eric Heisserer based on Ted Chiang's short fiction «Story of Your Life» Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 11/7/16 Opens: November 11, 2016

Inaba didn't elaborate on the story too much, but he did say that Jack from the company's Wii title MadWorld will be playable, though the fiction of the two games isn't related at all.

Paul McGuigan There's a lovely warmth and likability to this heartwarming stranger - than - fiction love story, starring Jamie Bell as Peter Turner, an out - of - work actor in the 1970s who met and fell for the legendary Hollywood star Gloria Grahame, who was then in the endgame of her career and suffering from ill health — and who later came to stay with Turner's mum and dad, played by Julie Walters and Kenneth Cranham, at their home in Liverpool.

Blatty then returned to the world of fiction with a novel that was inspired in part by a story that he heard about while studying at Georgetown about an alleged case of demonic possession and a subsequent exorcism that was said to have occurred in 1949 in Maryland.

At that point the story becomes just a murder mystery with a science fiction bend.