Sentences with phrase «more conventional story»

So in the end, once his arc is complete, the film allows itself to go into more conventional story beats (albeit in a different way from what you've seen) because Greg is no longer hiding behind his pretentions.

In the more conventional story now, comedy turns regularly to affecting drama, giving Ben Stiller the chance to star in a more complex role that he had in such childish comedies as «Night at the Museum.»

Not exact matches

Multiple outlets published stories yesterday reporting that results from finger blood tests by medical startup Theranos showed greater irregularities than more conventional tests (according to the first published independent assessment of the company's tests).

Kate Bowler's book Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Oxford University Press) moves beyond conventional wisdom to tell a more complex story about the movement.

Like Voltaire, who was ready to vouch for the sincerity of his professed belief in God, but who added «as for Monsieur the Son and Madame His Mother, that's a different story,» more and more Americans are giving lip service to belief in God, while adopting the discourse of «spirituality,» and treating conventional religious doctrine as a very different story.

At MIT researchers are working to replace conventional batteries with ultracapacitors, which can be recharged far more quickly and last more than 10 years (see story # 92, «Capacitors Could Replace Batteries»).

But, there's more to this story than meets the eye — no thanks to the «controlled reality» of conventional media outlets.

It's a similar story with ketchup, as organic brands were found in a separate study to contain 57 % more lycopene than conventional brands.

It perpetually feels like it's threatening to develop a more accessible story, pregnant with expectation that doesn't deliver, at least not in any conventional sense.

I think a story with... I don't want to say «broader appeal» about a movie on its way to becoming the most successful ever, so let's say «more conventional plotting» could have been created for Infinity War if it had opened with Thanos already possession of 3 or 4 of the stones.

Life of the Party presents a situation more than a story, and in that it's more like a sitcom than a conventional movie.

That approach is quite powerful, inviting us to think about the story's themes more deeply than we would in a conventional take on this plot.

Critics Consensus: Sharp, shrewd, and funny, Friends with Kids features excellent performances that help smooth over some of the story's more conventional elements.

A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate Strebor Books Paperback, $ 15.00 288 pages ISBN: 978 -1-59309-122-4 Book Review by Kam Williams «The story I must tell in order to be transformed is the story of my coming out — out of Islam, out of my parents» house, out of traditional choices, out of conventional thinking — in a way, out of my mind... This is a story I need to tell as much as the world suddenly needs to know more about Muslim women behind the veil... I began questioning Islam by the time I was twelve, and by the time I was twenty - one I was sure Islam was not for me.

Although the Mexican director's odd, arm's - length approach may be celebrated in a festival context («April's Daughter» won this year's UCR Jury Prize), it's too cold and disengaged for most moviegoers, which severely limits the audience for a story that, if told in more conventional terms, would have no trouble attracting interest.

Director Hooper takes a very conventional approach to an unconventional story, and this «safe» direction seems designed to make the uncomfortable story more palatable for mainstream audiences (similar to how Brokeback Mountain handled homosexuality).

It's also more classically well composed than 99 % of conventional narrative fiction — in fact, a common (and correct) observation is that the story couldn't have been any more interesting or dynamic had it been fabricated from nothing.

Sure enough, as the story unfolds in more conventional dramatic style, characters break off from what they're doing either to cast doubt on the veracity of what we're seeing or set us off in a whole new direction.

The Uninvited is DreamWorks's redo of the 2003 Korean chiller A Tale of Two Sisters, and it's rather appropriate that the title was changed, for while the film hews close to some of original writer - director Kim Ji - woon's basic concepts and a few specific shots, directors the Guard Brothers (Charles and Thomas) and screenwriters Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard take a very loose spin on things plot wise — namely, reconfiguring the overall story into much more conventional American genre terms.

The Babadook takes the form of a somewhat conventional bogeyman story, but it has much more on its mind.

The best known recent example of the style is the low - budget Lady Macbeth, which again tackled race issues in a more apparently - conventional period: here, in an adaptation of the Russian story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Florence Pugh's genteel Katherine, trapped in a loveless marriage, embarks on a Lady Chatterley style love affair with an estate worker, played by another mixed - race actor, Cosmo Jarvis.

The real - life story of suicidal Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck found two cinematic expressions in 2016: the conventional Christine and this film, a far more adventurous quasidocumentary starring the extraordinary Kate Lyn Sheil.

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

Before Chadwick Boseman suited up to become Black Panther, he put on a more conventional suit to tell the story of young Thurgood Marshall.

Reshaped by the director from a story by stand - up comedian John Ridley, the film shifts into a more conventional «men on a mission» structure near the film's final quarter when Barlow gets kidnapped and tortured in a large bunker by a dedicated Hussein soldier (a very good Saïd Taghmaoui), who delivers a riveting diatribe that touches on both Michael Jackson and American isolationism.

None of the rest of his films were quite up there with those three, but they were still very enjoyable fantasies that also continue to have an audience today and sell well on home video: «First Men in the Moon» (1964), based on the H.G. Wells story; another dinosaur epic, «One Million Years B.C.» (1966), most famous for the image of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini; «The Valley of Gwangi» (1969), an interesting blend of dinosaur thrills and a conventional Western; and two more «Sinbad» epics, «The Golden Voyage of Sinbad» (1974) and «Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger» (1977), the latter co-starring young Jane Seymour.

Though Tonya's fall - from - grace story is relatively conventional, its telling is foxier and more slippery than either the quickie TV - movie treatment Harding received back in the»90s or the hagiography she might have received had her story ended in Olympic triumph rather than violence and a lifetime ban from figure skating.

«The departure of two of the most visible break - the - china leaders is important and it raises the question of staying power — whether successors can build on these efforts, or whether they'll reverse course and opt for something more conventional, is going to be a big story over the next two years,» Hess said.

- Library Journal «The raw and riveting Chinese stories siphon narrative juice from the more conventional American angst that dominates the novel.»

Horimiya A story between an attention grabbing but conventional girl and a more anonymous boy who is secretly pierced and tattooed.

For a more conventional length flash fiction horror story you may like to read my hub «Dead Bird Everywhere.»

And then in the slightly more conventional student setting of Negima (Vol.38), it's the last volume of Ken Akamatsu's magical harem story!

(note: some of their products assume more tactical / conventional investing — that's a different story).

In execution, story mode strives for variety, mixing animated cut - scenes with static stills, more conventional fights with at least a dozen epic boss battles - and even the unexpected on - rails shooting sequence where players can take control of characters like Susanoo.

Two Star Castle 2600 CD's containing: Star Castle 2600 game ROM compatible with emulator and conventional cartridges, Stella Atari 2600 emulator (Windows, Mac, Linux) to play it on, cartridge compatible game ROM, game manual (pdf), full source code, game artwork, photos and videos including the making of the game, cartridge, case, exhibition and more, my story, inspiration, and account of making the game, and links, lots of links.

Yes it's a bad fit for «conventional media» if you mean the lazy, self - important, star system of media, more worried about perceived «activism» than the story at hand, of which, we are too often suffocated by.

«This is going to be the side story that could take over — if you look at the dynamics that call for traditional knowledge to be protected as IP in response to this pressure from conventional IP advocates to say we need more intellectual property protections.

The condos, priced between $ 790,000 and more than $ 1 million, are part of a 90 - story, mixed - use project that includes 461 conventional condominiums, a health club and shopping.