Sentences with phrase «in suspense with»

Dean Koontz once again keeps us in suspense with this gem of a mystery novel.

Director Anthony Waller made quite a splash debut with the clever Hitchcockian exercise in suspense with Mute Witness in 1994, but hasn't exactly lived up to the promise shown in it since.

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

Not exact matches

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

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

Along with other Winter Olympians, Uhlaender has had to deal not only with suspense over whether a Sochi medal might come to her after all but also the possibility that Olympians who flouted the rules will be in PyeongChang.

Goodkind is a great storyteller, and the novels are often filled with suspense and twists in the plot.

Which means that somehow director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane) keeps the audience gripped in suspense for nearly two and a half hours largely with facial expressions, minimal dialogue, a sparse but hard - hitting score, and stunningly beautiful cinematography.

Instead of preserving suspense through nihilism (in which God is either nonexistent or malign) or through Manichaenism (in which dark and light are equally matched and equally likely to prevail), the novelist gives us a God too powerful and too aloof to bother with anything so interventionist as the Incarnation.

We kept the OT streak alive in this Game and of course with that brings some suspense and drama..

It is one of the most - entertaining holes in golf and with it's unpredictable nature, leaves the tournament in suspense.

PARIS: With its formidable attacking might, Paris Saint - Germain has killed any sense of suspense in the French league halfway through the season.

Liverpool on the other hand are waiting in suspense over the fitness of captain, Jordan Henderson, after the midfielder was brought off with a thigh injury in their recent 1 - 0 win over Bournemouth.

In a week filled with suspense as Arsenal fans look to welcome a new signing, it looks as if we'll have to wait a little longer according to Arsene Wenger's latest comments.

The Marvel superhero, first seen in a March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, is busier than ever with his own eponymous comic - book series.

During the moments of greatest suspense, activity in the frontal parietal brain regions, which are devoted to orchestrating attention, flared up in healthy participants and became increasingly intense until the end of the film, when the boy nearly hits the family maid with a real bullet.

As with anything in life it's been a learning process for me these past few years: plot & structure, mechanics, conflict & suspense.

I feel like everyone is talking about it but in case you haven't heard, it's a Netflix original series with a mix of sci - fi and suspense.

For me life a game filled with suspense we have to play it in a cool way.

«Conquest of the Planet of the Apes» is cinematically etched in broad, brash strokes slashing social satire and science fiction suspense with large - scale spectacle.

The film starts off quickly in suspense, with a suspicious looking eastern European officer taking us through the events that would become the main emphasis of the film.

There's none of that fancy editing in here — Joe and Dottie do it with clothes on — but the suspense is palpable.

Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright - inducing effects.

The initial emphasis on Jack's decidedly mundane endeavors - ie he eats dinner with a priest, he meets with the aforementioned client, etc, etc - proves instrumental in transforming the character into a surprisingly compelling and sympathetic figure, which inevitably does heighten the suspense once the tense and thoroughly engrossing third act rolls around (ie the viewer can't help but actively root for Jack's success).

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire adapts the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy into a fast - paced, character driven film with action and suspense to spare.

Combine that with as much blood / gore / violence as you can imagine and you've got yourself and breathtaking season that has twists, turns, drama and suspense in every frame.

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.

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

Ryan Reynolds gave the performance of his life in Buried, and it was needed in order to believably sell that story, but on top of that you had dialogue that was covered with suspense and tension.

Taut with anxiety, «7 Days in Entebbe» is a powerful example of how dramatizing a well - recorded chapter of history can still generate hard - hitting suspense.

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.

Thanks to a layered performance by Franco and director Rupert Goold's willingness to let him play silent moments for maximum tension, «True Story» continually surprises you with scenes in which suspense creeps into casual scenes and makes them something else.

This series, about an underground British antiterror team that has joined forces with U.S. Special Forces veteran Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), does succeed in wresting plenty of high - level suspense out of these low - aiming scripts — no small miracle.

The minimal suspense comes from whether Dominika will be able to take back control of her body, both from the State and the American CIA operative named Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) with whom the plot dictates she fall in love — despite zero chemistry between the two stars.

With the exception of one genuinely breathtaking, blood - curdling ambush, «Annihilation» has little interest in the conventional mechanics of suspense and surprise, as evidenced by an array of flashbacks and flash - forwards that reveal at least one outcome of Lena's journey (she lives!)

Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery — with its compulsive symmetry and brightness — is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.

Director Colin Higgins plays foul with the audience, constructing some of the most dishonest suspense sequences ever filmed, and ends with a thriller that is obnoxious and manipulative in the extreme.

There's no suspense about what will become of Anne: The whole film is a recounting of the events leading up to the one haunting pre-credit image, of Anne in her final repose, with which Haneke brings us into this experience.

A brilliant mini series by the BBC with a superb pair of leading cast members, The Night Manager is exactly what many of us want in these types of shows: intrigue, suspense, class, strategy and some unknowns.

It's an element of menace in keeping with the movie's otherworldly atmosphere; Holmer shoots these fits with suspense worthy of horror films, but she's not interested in shocks or viscera.

A master craftsman notable for his almost Hitchcockian ability to create suspense and keep action moving at an exhilarating pace, director John McTiernan began his involved with theatrical arts early in life.

I was pretty much right — his homely lullaby for Eleanor (Lily Taylor) was appropriately innocent, and his creepy theme (with full strings) for «the house» provided just the right amount of ominous suspense and foreboding in the scene that it was used.

And don't think ZACHARIAH is wanting in the suspense department; in fact, the entire film (especially in its third act) hums with an imperceptible tension, as these characters slowly figure out if they can trust one another (and, really, spend the rest of their lives together).

Detective Dee makes its own place somewhere in - between, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable adventure flick awash with kooky sight gags, some questionable CGI, and a few instances of honest to goodness suspense.

A tiring exercise in time - biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.

Wesley Snipes is battling bad guys in the air again, this time with parachutes, in this action - packed suspense thriller.

After honing his suspense - building skills in The Sixth Sense and Signs, Shyamalan has established his ability to create films with a twist.

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.

As paramedic Nick Malloy, Orton jumps into overdrive in this pulse - pounding, thrill ride filled with gripping suspense!

In 1991, eight years before they blew everyone's minds with The Matrix and 24 years before their sizzling sex scenes in Sense 8, the Wachowskis wrote, directed and produced Bound — a smart, sexy and stylish queer crime caper that hinted at the artistry, action, suspense and unabashed sexuality that would appear in their later worIn 1991, eight years before they blew everyone's minds with The Matrix and 24 years before their sizzling sex scenes in Sense 8, the Wachowskis wrote, directed and produced Bound — a smart, sexy and stylish queer crime caper that hinted at the artistry, action, suspense and unabashed sexuality that would appear in their later worin Sense 8, the Wachowskis wrote, directed and produced Bound — a smart, sexy and stylish queer crime caper that hinted at the artistry, action, suspense and unabashed sexuality that would appear in their later worin their later work.