Sentences with phrase «knockout debut»

The book's already getting some buzz; novelist Caroline Leavitt recently tweeted that she was up until three reading a galley of the «knockout debut.»

A gritty knockout debut that screams for a series.

Rewind to 1996 to recall the Boxster's knockout debut, but don't forget its stingy 201 horsepower and 6.7 - second saunter to 60 mph.

Trey Edward Shults» knockout debut stars his real - life aunt Krisha Fairchild as an estranged woman who joins her family for the first time in many years for a holiday gathering from hell.

Not exact matches

He won his pro debut on May 5 with a first - round knockout and has his eyes set squarely on a super featherweight or junior lightweight championship.

These genetic modification techniques debuted in the 1980s, but the first autism knockout mice took a while longer to develop, emerging only in the early 2000s.

Since turning heads with the intoxicating intimacy of her knockout 2009 debut, Pariah, director Dee Rees has been steadily stretching her canvas, first with the stately HBO biopic Bessie, and now with this sprawling treatment of Hillary Jordan's prize - winning 2008 book, Mudbound.

A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative fiction («Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...»), Garland made a knockout directorial debut with «Ex Machina» (2014), which gave us the gift of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor.

The screenwriter's directorial debut «Molly's Game» arrives this fall in the thick of awards season, and it's got what looks like another knockout Jessica Chastain performance at its center.

Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.

And with those words, the Oakland - based rapper Boots Riley, making a knockout filmmaking debut as writer and director, spins a social satire that'll make you laugh till it hurts, Stanfield, so good in Get Out, hits all that right notes from mirth to malice.

Strout explored the complicated relationships of three brothers in her last book, The Burgess Boys, but in her new novel, she once again explores the mother - daughter bond — the relationship that powered her knockout 1999 debut, Amy & Isabelle.

Watts first made his mark on the New York art scene with a highly acclaimed debut solo show at Gagosian Gallery that the New York Times praised as «exhilarating» and «a knockout.»