Sentences with phrase «mystery story while»

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And while her humble two - story home in Queens is no mystery mansion, the set - up sounds strikingly similar to the plot of the 1985 film «Clue,» which was based on the board game.

«What I love about this story, while its very rare and unusual, it really shows the brilliant diagnostic work of one doctor who can think a little bit unconventionally and piece together this medical mystery.»

The modern Cavern venue offers a stunning range of Beatles trips and options but if you want to spend a date in some great company while enhancing your knowledge of local stories and the best band England ever produced, roll up for the mystery tour.

Trier masterfully navigates the mystery elements of the story, dishing out just the right hints to potential supernatural elements while keeping the film grounded in Thelma's point of view.

Nostalgia Director Mark Pellington tries to create a sense of loss and mystery, with this rambling story of various people suffering from grief or catastrophe, but while the attempt is occasionally effective, the story becomes grim and lugubrious.

Paterson is a typical Jim Jarmusch film: slow paced, quirky, filled with a diverse cast of interesting characters (with place serving as a character in and of itself), capturing the beauty and mystery of day to day living while telling a story that doesn't really have a beginning or an ending.

While each individual mystery can be hit or miss as to its difficulty, the overarching story is incredibly interesting for the Pokemon - inclined.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

While plenty of games have made the leap from Nintendo handhelds to mobile in recent years, from The World Ends With You to Layton's Mystery Journey, Capcom's sudden port of Monster Hunter Stories is still quite the surprise.

While not uproariously funny, this story about a kidnapping game gone real brings the fun through charming characters and a zigzagging mystery plot.

Steven Spielberg directs Jamie Bell as the young intrepid reporter who stumbles upon a great mystery while searching for a story.

... Speaking of Phase Three, The Hobbit star Martin Freeman has teased his mystery role in Captain America: Civil War, while Marvel chief Kevin Feige also offered up a few words on the the film itself: «Civil War is a relatively simple story,» states Feige.

As with some of his previous movies, Morris isn't exactly after answers here, but rather to simply explore the mystery of the various versions of this story that circulated; McKinney tells one version, while journalists tell another.

The heart and mystery of the story, which trundles along entertainingly enough under director Ridley Scott, is embodied in J.P. shown driving a hard bargain for a Renaissance painting of «uncertain provenance» while his ostensibly beloved grandson sits in a cell.

His show Mosaic, which initially debuted in November as an iOS application that allowed users to choose their own adventure / perspective in a murder - mystery story, will premiere on HBO tonight, while another innovative project of Soderbergh's, Unsane, has -LSB-...]

That's OK by me, as this is one of his films where the story takes the center stage, while his direction and a fine cast provide the fuel for the mystery to run.

As a result, does McTeigue's The Raven offer both a fun spin on the last days of Edgar Allan Poe — while also delivering an exciting mystery story?

While cutscenes could have used a trim here and there, the story of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 — or, at least, the story that we've engaged with so far — is deep, lore - filled and packed with mystery.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

While Stoker does seem determined to explore themes of grief, burgeoning sexuality, and fate through the incestuous triangle of India, Uncle Charlie, and Evie, the nuances of these themes never quite make as much impact as the stylish direction, which overwhelms the story's mystery with its too - heavy leaning on brooding looks, gothic atmosphere, and vague, circuitous dialogue.

A laid back adventure that slowly builds its mystery, the work presents itself in a gentle fashion while not shying away from contemplating darker story elements.

It's an adventure, a love story and a mystery that travels back in time while remaining firmly anchored in the present.

«As someone who read stacks of Carolyn Keene's mystery stories as a young girl, Nancy Drew has been high on my list of «characters I'd like to draw comics of» for a while now,» says artist Jenn St - Onge.

Deon Meyer's engrossing South African thriller pits Detective Benny Griessel against a mystery that unravels like the threads of a complex tapestry... Because the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, race relations and the legacy of apartheid are an inevitable topic, and Meyer works his social commentary into the story while remaining true to his characters... Thirteen Hours draws to a satisfying conclusion, with answers that prove surprising.

For example, his Pulitzer - winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay offers historical fiction along with a look at the Golden Age of comics, Jewish mysticism, and the importance of family, while The Yiddish Policeman's Union won multiple literary, mystery, and science - fiction awards for its blend of alternate history and noir in a story rich in characters, ideas, and polished prose.

With its themes of mental illness, physical abuse and dealing with loss By The Time You Read This could be a deeply depressing story, but in fact it's an absolutely riveting character - driven mystery, a thinking - person's novel that tackles big issues sensitively, while reaching the pulse - pounding heights of the best thrillers.

Mystery, fantasy, realistic — while some genres have a special pull, it's the story and especially, the character that draws her in.

While not all questions are answered by story's end, readers will certainly be swept up by Martha's pluck and the mystery's many layers.

For fans of cozy capers: Small Plates by Katherine Hall Page Mystery lovers looking for some lighter fare while find Page's collection of cozy short stories to be ideal quick bite.

While researching the life of the inventor, genius and polymath Nikola Tesla for my novel The Seventh Plague, I came across a mystery surrounding the enigmatic scientist, one that bears relevance even today, as his story dovetails into the life and work of the president - elect's uncle, John G. Trump.

While this could be the summary for a trite monster of the week mystery series, what Marillier delivers is a richly imagined world where fairy stories are old rumors and magic is a dangerous, unknowable property.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

While on the surface, these two stories appear to be about ghosts and the mystery of solving them, they are also about the importance of family and friends and working together to solve a problem.

«I love TV - style serial storytelling, getting to know characters over time and unfolding a big «mythology» mystery, while at the same giving each episode a satisfying mystery story that's wrapped up by the end.

These agents, with their own stats, could be sent out to solve various minor mysteries while we progressed through our main story arc.

Set in the same universe as Stories: The Path of Destinies, Omensight is a fantastical murder mystery about the end of the world that retains the storytelling chops of its predecessor while improving on the parts where you're controlling a character.

UNCOVER THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE - Unravel the secrets of the menacing Silent Ones on your journey through the forest, aiding fantastical creatures in handcrafted short stories while learning the secret of Fe's origin.

While Stories was inspired by Choose Your Own Adventure books, we've pushed our experimentation with branching narrative structures further and created an unique experience: an action - adventure murder mystery game.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

The story and the mystery surrounding the world is where Hyper Light Drifter falls short, as while the world oozes detail and mystery it's ultimately left unexplored, instead choosing to show vague details rather than stopping for a moment to explain anything.

Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery takes place between the birth of Harry Potter and before Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts, so while you could consider it a «prequel» of sorts — it's very much its own story.

Look forward to interacting with some eccentric individuals on your search for the truth, while experiencing a shocking story, gorgeous visuals, and a mystery you can really put your hands on, thanks to the Oculus Touch controllers.

The story revolves around a plot - point taken from one of the other sub-plots in the main game that Aloy encountered while attempting to piece together the mystery of «Zero Dawn.»

It's a very nice touch that both adds to the mystery of Dear Esther's story, while also offering up more details about the island, the narrator's past, and the car accident.

While most mysteries rely on point - and - click puzzle - solving, Her Story forced players to unlock its truths on its own.