Sentences with phrase «just as his thriller»

Arguably my most cherished interview was the face - to - face I had with an energised M NIGHT SHYAMALAN, whom I sat with just as his thriller The Visit was ushering in his career resurgence.

Not exact matches

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

The Bulldogs are shooting nearly that well from deep as a team (39 percent), and they've ridden a smooth shooting stroke to success all season, not just in their semifinal thriller.

Let's hope it's just as much of a thriller as Silverstone was!

I am expecting a thriller in the first leg just as I predicted the last Premier League meeting would be.

A real end - to - end contest saw 10 - player Tottenham Hotspur Ladies fall just short in a seven - goal thriller against nine - player Sheffield FC, as the hosts took the spoils in a feisty 4 - 3 FAWSL 2 contest at Dronfield.

In Sunday's overtime thriller against Butler, the rookie denied two shots in just under 93 minutes as Marquette scored a 2 - 1 win to punch their postseason ticket and lead head coach Markus Roeders to his 300th career win.

I have to just go berserk in a way, as you should in a good thriller.»

Part sci - fi thriller, part love story, Perfect Sense follows an improbable couple — a cocksure chef (played by Ewan McGregor) and a prickly epidemiologist (Eva Green)-- who fall for each other just as the disease strikes.

Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)

These numbers appear at the beginning of Tony Scott's latest melodramatic thriller, aptly unnerving as they set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

A sharp thriller with great atmosphere, set in Northern Ireland and tied up in the ever - knotty history of «The Troubles» (which one character refers to as «the madness of Belfast»), Bad Day for the Cut delivers its cinematic goods thanks to a smart combination of wit and violence, briskly delivered over just under 100 minutes.

Note to viewers tired of being psychologically hammered by (even well made) exploitative thrillers that ask one to accept superstition as reality: Just remember the sarcastic Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, reacting to uncanny evidence of demonic forces afoot in the public library: «No human being would stack books like that!»

«Training Day» is still a very interesting thriller where Denzel Washington truly shines just as the lucid but equally necessary and inspired work of Ethan Hawke.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

Danluck has great style as a filmmaker that harkens back to the best noir thrillers of yesteryear; she just needs to write a script with the substance to match.

As much as this is a thriller it also feels just as much a satire of overwrought Hollywood thrillerAs much as this is a thriller it also feels just as much a satire of overwrought Hollywood thrilleras this is a thriller it also feels just as much a satire of overwrought Hollywood thrilleras much a satire of overwrought Hollywood thrillers.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

«Breaking In» was clearly designed as much a marketing proposition as a movie, a thriller whose twist on the formula is predicated in part on casting an African - American woman in the kind of role generally inhabited by guys like Liam Neeson — and as an added bonus, just in time for Mother's Day.

But the familiar thriller aspects are nowhere near as compelling as the two women's angry rejection of the unbearable powerlessness they've been told isn't just their lot to bear, but the right way to respond to their grief.

DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrews.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

The Post, on the other hand, runs just 115 minutes, moving along at a brisk pace that often makes it feel like a taut thriller as much as a drama about journalism.

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This thriller balances between the slasher genre and the psychological thriller, as we try to piece together just who the killer is, whether Alice can be stopped, and who is the next person to be killed.

For me, it's a hybrid film, because it has elements of romance just as much as those of the thriller, as you say.

Chalk this one up as a forgettable would - be / should - be political legal thriller that just doesn't thrill.

If the opening intertitle didn't reveal the fact that The House of the Devil was going to be dealing with the occult / Satanism the film could just as well stand on its own as a psychological thriller about a girl working herself up into a paranoid frenzy over creaks on the floorboards.

When the nominations for the César Awards — known in glib terms as the French Oscars — were announced last month, I wrote that I anticipated a tight race between Roman Polanski's widely acclaimed Euro thriller «The Ghost Writer» and Xavier Beauvois's lofty Cannes prizewinner «Of Gods and Men,» with the latter just winning out.

Sharon Stone, the Bette Davis of the Blockbuster - era erotic thrillers, might be a surprising face to see hanging around the Prestige TV neighborhood, But that just adds to the eerie atmosphere, especially since she's excellent as Olivia Lake, a brittle and jaded author of children's books.

I'm wondering if Cruise and his agent took into account all the positive buzz that came from Tropic Thunder, as this is a comedy and Motorcade was just another action thriller.

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

Clute was just as active in the 1970s, jumping between theatrical thrillers such as Breakout and Executive Action and dozens of television series.

If you're like me then you probably missed her in Julia Leigh's unsettling Sleeping Beauty, but as recently as 2012 she was hailed as Australia's Emma Stone (just google «sarah snook australia's emma stone») for her excessively charming performance in the (otherwise terrible) local rom - com Not Suitable for Children and last year impressed in a small role in the apocalyptic rave thriller These Final Hours.

«Everest» is just as competently made as the director's two action thrillers, and yet strangely, it's also as emotionally distant and perfunctory.

Her career has continued to be just as eclectic, with appearances in thrillers like «Red Eye» and «State of Play,» action films like «Sherlock Holmes,» and romance films like «The Time Traveler's Wife» and «The Vow.»

Anthony Edwards stars in this highly underrated late «80s thriller as Harry, a lovelorn man who just happens to answer a random ringing pay phone late at night.

The first title that should be invoked when talking about not just De Roche's career but Ozploitation as a whole is Patrick, the supernatural thriller about a nurse tasked with caring for a comatosed young man who may or may not be killing people with his mind.

One more weekend before The Avengers sequel stomps into town and rearranges the all - time box - office chart — just enough time for Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine to put on their best slav - face (or Russian accents, at least) as Soviet - era child - murder thriller Child 44 opens in 20, predominantly European markets.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years later.

Though Besson is clearly intent on exploring deeper, philosophical themes with «Lucy,» he doesn't seem to know what they are, or at the very least, able to convey them in a manner that doesn't come across as just a bunch of gobbledygook tacked on at the end of a lifeless action thriller.

Variety has revealed a first look image from director Matt Aselton's heist thriller Lying and Stealing featuring Theo James (Divergent) and Emily Ratajkowski (Gone Girl); take a look here... According to the site, the film — which has just commenced principal photography — sees James as «Ivan, a suave, young thief whose specialty is stealing -LSB-...]

Now — just one year later — he comes at us with an edgy, vibrant 1970s period crime thriller, American Hustle, filled with great performances and terrific filmmaking flourishes, which some film critics have already labeled as the best film of the year.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

If the trailer is any indication, Black's crackling dialogue will be just one of the highlights of this crime thriller, and surely other Black - isms (humor, Christmas, kidnapping, kids in peril, etc.) will be on full display as well.

It's hard to tell whether director Tom Ford was extremely good at telling his story within a story, or if he's just not as good at directing a thriller as he is an austere relationship drama.

Everything else is just bonus in this romantic thriller about a woman pursued in Paris for her late husband's stolen fortune: the Henry Mancini score, the Hitchcock - ian suspense, the plot twists and Walter Mathau as a CIA agent.

Christopher McQuarrie «s adaptation of Lee Child «s novel One Shot just added Richard Jenkins last week, and has now brought on Alexia Fast as part of the thriller's cast.

Deadline reports that Gretchen Mol has just joined the cast of Chance, Hulu's medical thriller series that wonders if Dr. Gregory House can heal minds as well as bodies.