Sentences with phrase «nature of my thrillers»

Due to the nature of my thrillers, I read reports on advances in technology, sustainability and health as well as environmental and political issues.

Not exact matches

As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attraction.

Despite the clichéd nature of much of the dialogue and the derivative thriller set - ups, «State of Play» provides sufficient old - fashioned entertainment value to justify the ticket.

Journalistic ethics and the scandalous nature of politics are featured in the taut conspiracy thriller, State of Play.

One day you decide to (a) read Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Huysman's Against Nature, short novels all, (b) watch Clouzot's 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear, Anger's Lucifer Rising, Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and maybe something by Eisenstein, (c) take an LSD microdot, hot - knife some hashish and down a half - bottle of absinthe, (d) draw a warm bath and then (e), having sufficiently and systematically disorganized your senses, start to write a script.

What surprised me about the movie is that it's not as much of a thriller (although it delivers scares aplenty) as it is an exploration of grief and human nature.

That seems to be the prevailing message loudly stomping around the surface of Adam MacDonald's man - vs - nature thriller Backcountry.

The nature of a movie involving reincarnation seems like the perfect set - up for a captivating supernatural thriller, but instead, Glazer uses the seeming return of Sean as a way to explore Anna's grief and how her love affects her grip on reality.

Despite the rather promising nature of its setup, Retreat inevitably (and lamentably) establishes itself as a generic and hopelessly uninvolving thriller that grows more and more tedious as it progresses.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

For fans of the human verses nature thriller, the film offers an idyllic location, ominous music, plenty of intense attack scenes and gallons and gallons of blood.

In Take Shelter we saw Nichols and Shannon examine the nature of paranoia in a fascinating way, but with an added sci - fi element and a thriller pursuit narrative, Midnight Special opens up a world of possibility for the actor - director team.

Relentlessly bleak and hopeless, as well as grisly and gory, this well - made thriller nonetheless paints an interesting portrait of human nature and the divide between perceived strength and kindness.

We Need to Talk About Kevin is haunting and chilling thriller that was based on a book by Lionel Shriver that rehashes the classic debate of nature - versus - nurture in an uncompromising art - house style.

With a remarkable eye for detail, this low - key sci - fi thriller really gets under the skin as it probes the nature of humanity while keeping us on the edge of our seats.

Lynne Ramsay's triumphant return after her fascinatingly elliptical Morvern Callar nine years ago has been acclaimed as a taut psychological thriller that intelligently explores the notions of nature vs. nurture, with a peak performance from its star.

Part psychological drama and part crime thriller, this warped love story leverages its disturbing plot into a mesmerizing and nerve - wracking portrait of a damaged woman forced to reckon with her true nature.

(It seems mandatory for the mutilated bodies in this sort of thriller to be discovered in wide - open snowy, piney terrain, for maximum pathetic - fallacious contrast, presumably, between the unnatural crime and the lovely innocence of nature and the American landscape.)

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

A better word for «weak» would be «hodgepodge,» as the psychological thriller cum horror «A Cure for Wellness» brings in elements from «Bride of Frankenstein,» «The Phantom of the Opera,» «Hostel 2,» and all the laughable sci - fi pictures of the 1950's wherein the scripts for dystopian civilizations seem often enough to end up with «Perhaps we scientists would be better off if we did not interfere with nature.»

Shooting Scott Cooper's last two films — pitch - black backwoods thriller Out of the Furnace and gangster picture Black Mass — cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi shifted visual gears once again with the director's latest, the Christian Bale - starring Western, Hostiles, shooting out in the wilderness, with much of the film's aesthetic dictated by nature itself.

A gritty spy thriller here from Spielberg with a timely message on the cyclical nature of violence and revenge.

In his disturbing child - abduction thriller, The Captive, writer / director Atom Egoyan explores the ambiguous nature of the human condition and how ordinary people react when drawn into dreadful circumstances.

Hanks looks great, while the thriller nature of it will surely be a box office draw.

Too choppily paced to be considered an intentional slow - burner, not parodic enough to warrant comparisons to Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, and not poorly acted enough to generate entertainment of a purely schlocky nature, Australian writer / director Kriv Stenders» thriller regrettably makes precious little out of its great potential.

Jordan Peele's racially - charged suspense thriller, Get Out, has not only sparked a ton of dialogue about the terrifying nature of racism and Black masculinity onscreen, but it's also... Read More

The trailer is interesting, as it shows the confused nature of the film, as it appears to be a teenage sex comedy and a thriller rolled into one.

Our sense of time and place is challenged in this psychological thriller as Mary searches for her identity and examines the nature of her relationships to others now in her life.

And so we discover in the resolution of this exciting thriller, which is also a telling mirror on human nature.

Joanna Penn does this very well with her blog on JFPenn.com, where she writes very readable articles about strange and sometimes macabre things in interesting places around the world («14 Weird And Wonderful Places To See In Spain», for instance, or «12 Of The World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations useOf The World's Best Anatomical Museums»): this ties in well with the dark thriller nature of her fiction, and with the international locations useof her fiction, and with the international locations used.

Now, with the much - anticipated publication of Valley of Bones, Gruber fulfills that genre - bending promise as perhaps no writer since Graham Greene, with a genuinely exhilarating thriller that simultaneously offers a profound, deeply provocative exploration of the nature of faith itself.

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson «Part thriller, part love story, part tale of daring impersonation, part wrenching examination of repression and its toll on human nature, the novel is set in North Korea (with a side trip to Texas).»

About S.R. Johannes: S.R. Johannes is the award - winning author of the Amazon bestselling thriller series, The Nature of Grace.

Evil Genius is a kid - sized thriller, a fast - paced, intriguing novel for teens about the nature of good and evil.

It's a murder mystery and a literary thriller, a multilayered nonlinear narrative and a psychological portrait of the dark side of human nature.

As a result, non-fiction titles of a complex nature (i.e. research - based) and those genres outside of the Chinese popular realm — such as hard sci - fi, epic fantasy, horror, high - tech thriller, historical fiction, etc — generally have difficulty in finding enthusiastic translators.

«-- People» (four stars) «[A] thoroughbred thriller about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships.

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Amazon's Kindle Daily Deals include supernatural thriller The Rook: A Novel for $ 2.99, the classic Second Nature: A Gardener's Education for $ 1.99 and a animal - lover's romance, The Dogs of Christmas for $ 2.99.

Interactive drama as a genre lends itself to thriller and horror style games because of the nature investment in the characters and their development.

Facial animations, dimly lit backdrops and intense action sequences fully define the gritty nature of this world and how thrillers are usually shot in Hollywood produced feature films.

The aging nature of the building itself creates odd situations that the women share — perfect fodder for the psychological - thriller mood Vance likes to give her paintings.