Sentences with phrase «lizardy gumshoes»

He was not a talented CPA and then he failed just as bad as a gumshoe detective.

A womanising gumshoe, anti-corporate satire, literary memories, men from Mars and KGB moles.

A group of journalistic gumshoes for the Pittsburg High School student newspaper in Kansas did some All the President's Men - level sleuthing on their incoming principal and found that her credentials didn't add up.

That's your mission, gumshoes...

As Marxist historians and fictional American gumshoes know, you just have to follow the money to make sense of it all.

A third, Hank Greenberg, at first refused to comment on the question of whether he'd hired a «gumshoe.»

The gumshoes he appointed with such flair had taken their assignment seriously and were aggressive, apparently too much so for the governor's taste.

Which is to say, don't the G - Men (and Women) have better things to do than gumshoe a potential Democratic presidential candidate?

Interwoven with stories of the human tragedy is Fountain's account of the painstaking scientific gumshoe work necessary to piece together how such a monster earthquake had occurred.

Occasionally, I still run into a manager who thinks of headhunting as this old «gumshoe» approach, where key employees are lured behind potted palms to discuss wild offers of impressive stature and dramatic salary increases.

It also differs from most mystery books in that the main characters are not dashing gumshoes, inquisitive eccentrics, or cynical cops.

Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin praises the Wellcome group's work for combining the genetic analysis with «classical gumshoe epidemiology,» but isn't convinced by the authors» bottom line.

About Site - Stock Gumshoe specializes in «sleuthing out» the investments being teased and tracking them to see, over time, whether it would have made sense to buy stocks based on the teaser ads they received.

It's looks great on you.I tried on the purple gumshoe sweater coat yesterday & fell in love — it's on my wishlist & I * hope * it makes it to the sales.

My next try - on was the Gumshoe Sweater Coat ($ 168) which I loved based on the name alone.

My husband actually said the Havana madem e look fat.I love the Gumshoe sweatercoat.

Havana and Gumshoe!!

They had the following: 1 Tibur cardigan in a small1 Horizon Line orange dress in a 101 Gumshoe Sweatercoat in cream in a smallAlso had two of those robes people have been wearing as dresses... can't remember the name, but they're floral print, wrap style, with an asymmetrical bottom on the front and a kimono-esque neckline.

also, i could use some sizing advice for the much talked about gumshoe sweatercoat.

Of the 5 sweaters I own from Anthro, ALL of them have pilled within 3 wearings, including the Gumshoe Sweatercoat.

So, maybe if they make it to sale I will pick them up then; if not, I'll live!Anyway, now I want the Wrapped in Ruffles sweater coat to go on sale, along with the Gumshoe.

About Blog Stock Gumshoe specializes in «sleuthing out» the investments being teased and tracking them to see, over time, whether it would have made sense to buy stocks based on the teaser ads they received.

«Gumshoe» comes from Latin, meaning, «Plot convenience.»

Contending with terrible pain, boredom, self - pity and a meddlesome sister who just may be out for an inheritance, a wheelchair - bound cancer patient imagines a parallel world in which his world - weary alter - ego, L.A. gumshoe Rick Stone, searches for the would - be killer of a blonde femme fatale.

An intriguing first attempt at a gumshoe adventure modeled on the Carol Reed footprint.

Nevertheless Bogart exemplifies cool collected style as the self - assured gumshoe.

Robert Urich returns to his role as the gumshoe.

Being our cinematic eyes - and - ears, we are introduced to the Detective Harry D'Amour, a gumshoe with a penchant for the unknown in the occult - underworld.

By forcing these two characters — along with gumshoe Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), who also appeared in Tusk — to do battle with a malefactor from Canada's past, Yoga Hosers is meant, to some degree, to chronicle the two girls» increasing awareness of a world outside their narrow fame - obsessed purview.

Steve Martin portrays a gumshoe named Rigby Reardon, a noiresque detective on the case of a murdered man with the help of his daughter Juliet (Ward).

Hired to investigate the «accidental» death of the son of one of Ernie's old girlfriends, the two lizardy gumshoes stumble upon a cult called the Voice of Progress, comprised of fanatical dinosaurs who want to wipe out all humans and take over the world.

Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons.

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

There are marquee screenings not long after dawn and teatime premieres; four - hour Holocaust documentaries for supper and Asian gumshoe flicks at midnight.

A bungling gumshoe uncovers more than just a simple kidnapping when he searches for the Miami Dolphins» missing mascot.

But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.

Little biographical detail finds its way into Francophone director Pitof's anti-biopic Vidocq, but a cursory knowledge of the gumshoe's legacy can't hurt.

He plays Brendan, a brooding teenage loner with the panache of a wisecracking gumshoe (think Humphrey Bogart as a high - school senior), who follows a trail of clues through a drug - fueled criminal underworld while investigating the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

He subtly conveys the conflicted nature of this two - bit gumshoe whose conscience just might outweigh his judgment.

Okay, so director Rian Johnson's teenage gumshoe doesn't exactly have a professional license, but Brick is so indebted to the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett that excluding it would be a noir travesty.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

The film's originality stems from a private eye named Visser (Walsh) whose double cross leads to a series of misunderstandings and terror stricken scenes between the lovers as they try to outsmart the gumshoe to ensure their own survival.

There's a moment in particular when amateur gumshoes Patrick (Casey Affleck) and Angie (Michelle Monaghan) are flanked by veteran homicide dicks Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton) at the beginning of an interrogation sequence that made my heart leap with joy.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

He speaks of the concessions he made to accommodate Ford's much - publicized desire to be more of a gumshoe and dispels the notion that the infamous voiceover was imposed on him, confessing that he agreed to it out of concern that he was losing his audience.

Iconoclastic at the least, Frears turned his back on a career in law and began his tutelage in the arts at the Royal Court Theatre under Karel Reisz and, eventually, Lindsay Anderson, on whose fantastic If... he worked before making his feature debut with Gumshoe in 1971.

Researchers had a hunch that Southerners eat more salty, packaged foods, so they went gumshoeing.

The black and white widescreen Our Man in Havana looks terrific and the color Gumshoe is fine (the colors have a drained look to them appropriate to its dispiriting Liverpool location).

Asking for an explanation, disgraced gumshoe O'Brien (J.K. Simmons — no, really) says that it all must be very complicated, to which Sarah responds, «We're trying to save the world.»