Sentences with phrase «live in suspense»

Unless it starts to happen soon, we'll just have to live in suspense.

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.

Lest the suspense that flows out of that phone call distract from our larger plot, I should say that both Norma and her fearful friend advanced in their own lines and lived happily ever after.

I'm sorry to have left you in what must have been the most suspense - filled two weeks of your life, wondering when I'll finally post another recipe -LCB- or at least I like to think that you feel this way -RCB- but life has become busy.

The only real suspense among these legislators - for - life in next year's elections is whether Republican Bill Larkin, 90 years old in February, will stand for another two - year term.

Hardy negotiators spend much of their lives waiting around on these occasions and, as usual, were kept in suspense by Gordon Brown and Hamid Karzai.

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

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

Here, Zemeckis labours away to build suspense — busy elevators; inconvenient security guards, a lost cable — but in truth there's no huge drama in a plot to smuggle several hundred pounds of wire cable into a building still under construction when the only life that is threatened is Petit's own.

It tries to create suspense about the survival of Bilbo, who we know full well is going to live long enough to be in the «Rings» films.

Mad Men may thrive on a certain heartless suspense, but it's definitely got a brain, one that's interested in how our lives are a battle between the narrative we imagine for ourselves and the path we happen to be on.

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.

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!)

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.

The cool articulation here of an intense lived experience is not unlike the suspense beats in the Coen's No Country for Old Men.

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).

Good schlocky suspense, thrifty distribution of grue, Angelina disrobed again, and a supporting cast mostly in on the gag... What stops Taking Lives from becoming a guilty pleasure is an ending involving the sadistic stalking and injury of a pregnant woman.

The suspense of being a real life agent is brought to the screen in Breach, a movie based on a true story.

It's in Saulnier's script, which balances fraught suspense with understated irony, brought to life by an incredibly naturalistic set of actors.

A24 has revealed a new trailer for the suspense - horror indie film titled The Blackcoat's Daughter, from writer / director Oz Perkins, who also made the horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from last year.

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.

After recent impressive suspense horrors THE WOMEN IN BLACK and THE AWAKENING, the British horror industry has been given an all - new lease of life...

It plays with the Robert Wise - directed The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), a handsome suspense melodrama about a European WWII relocation camp survivor (Valentino Cortesa) who takes the identity of a deceased friend for a new life in America, which includes a son, a San Francisco mansion, and a suitor (Richard Basehart) who may have ulterior motives.

Countless journalists are live on location and following the train as the whole nation watches on in horror and suspense.

Annihilation isn't always as consistently well - executed or involving as it might have been, and it's told in a manner that robs the story of some much needed life - or - death suspense, but overall it's a bold undertaking that doesn't play it safe and features some strong performances.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

After changing different director's hands for years in development, French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (of Incendies) got the job to bring the story to life and has delivered a very chilling, Fincher-esque, visually sleek mystery - suspense - thriller.

From a bent nail posing as Chekov's Gun to damning and life - saving «rockets», Krasinski proves himself a maestro of suspense behind the camera, holding hostage audiences breathless and on knife's edge from damn near the very first frame, finding room for fine - tuned familial drama and smuggling in a touching coming - of - age subplot along the way.

Patrick Watson gets to the bottom of why a child made a seemingly suicide plunge for the «9th Life of Louis Drax» (Varese Sarabande), and in turn opens up a captivating, surreal world of musical possibilities as he enters an enchanted, subconscious realm of eerie voices and hallucinogenic samples, as coming back to reality with suspense - thriller stylism, as well as waltz - like rhythms.

Fearing suspense in real life (Hitchcock didn't even like driving a car), he did enjoy capturing suspense on screen in memorable scenes, which often included monuments and famous landmarks.

In typical Sayles fashion, the plot begins as an examination of small - town Alaska life, territory rarely mined in feature films, but soon transforms into something completely different, a suspense tale of man's survival among the elementIn typical Sayles fashion, the plot begins as an examination of small - town Alaska life, territory rarely mined in feature films, but soon transforms into something completely different, a suspense tale of man's survival among the elementin feature films, but soon transforms into something completely different, a suspense tale of man's survival among the elements.

An excellent movie that through great acting, photography and story it allows one to feel the streets, the fear, the adrenaline, the suspense and an unexpected love of life for someone that lives in epicenter of the mafia world.

Edith, at sea in her new life and intimidated by Lucille, explores the house (by the end of the film the layout is clear, essential to the suspense of the finale).

The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people - a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts)- collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller.

Yorick Le Saux's lensing is crystal clear, providing Mr. Gere with the closeups that his fans live for, Douglas Crise's editing is never choppy (no martial arts fights or general mayhem that loses impact from too many cuts per second), and Cliff Martinez's music is never overbearing but just enough to add suspense to a plot that already builds to a crescendo before winding down in the final moments.

We see the ripples through his home life, as his spouse (the heartbreakingly good Tuva Novotny) deals with the unruly behaviour of their youngest son; we see the legal ramifications in courtroom exchanges that crackle with quiet suspense; and we see the positive benefits it has for his squad.

The narrative is much easier to digest here than in live performance and the careful balance of camera, light, music, and close - up that cinema allows produces constant suspense and giddy excitement.

In a series of tautly constructed dramas that imbue the everyday struggles of married life with suspense and tragedy, filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has proven himself a remarkable observer of the social, moral, and personal dimensions that shape contemporary Iranian society.

Also, once we had returned to the present day to see the drama play out, the tension kicks down a notch leading to an ending, that while pleasantly surprising, doesn't quite live up to the suspense in the earlier part of the film.

A tapestral suspense drama about the intertwined romantic fates of a quartet of Baton Rouge residents — each wounded in their own way, and some more freshly than others — The Ledge exhibits a willingness and desire to let its characters bat back and forth opposing philosophies of life and faith more frequently found on display in literature or off - Broadway theater.

Hectically breakneck, casually absurd, or touchingly poignant, these moments recognize car interiors as a confined setting ideally suited for humor, suspense, philosophical debate, action, and symbolism about its passengers advancing to or retreating from stations in life.

While her new novel deals with many of the themes typically explored in Li's writings — assimilation to American life, the lives of everyday people in China, and the damage wrought in the aftermath of China's civil war and turn to Communism — Kinder Than Solitude also contains a suspense element.

In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true - life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia — fear of oneself.

Anne Perry has never worn her literary colors with greater distinction than in A Sunless Sea, a heart - pounding novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to make the hardest decision of his life.

Life and love are both battlefields in Wallner's anguished debut of wartime suspense, translated from German, which quickly embroils the reader in the tragic double - life of 22 - year - old Corporal RLife and love are both battlefields in Wallner's anguished debut of wartime suspense, translated from German, which quickly embroils the reader in the tragic double - life of 22 - year - old Corporal Rlife of 22 - year - old Corporal Roth.

One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I'd Know You Anywhere, etc.).

In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling tale of psychological suspense that delves into the mind of a man with a chilling double life.

From a powerful new voice in suspense fiction comes the unforgettable story of a young woman facing the most difficult choice of her life: family loyalty, or freedom.

Boku Dake ga Inai Machi by Kei Sanbe — This suspense manga is running in Young Ace, detailing the life a manga author who, struggling to get by, discovers supernatural forces.

Of the dramatic plot twists that routinely occur in suspense fiction, one character in Harriet Lane's Her complains that they are «unsatisfying... nothing like life, which — it seems to me — turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.»