Sentences with phrase «of suspense from»

Admittedly, though these mechanics nearly alleviated all of the suspense from the game, I found myself enjoying them.

Murder, a missing woman, and a sociopath from the past sweep Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus into a labyrinth of mystery and danger in this electrifying new tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman...

From the book jacket: Rich with the intricacies of book collecting that only an expert like John Dunning can offer, this is a beautifully crafted, enthralling novel of suspense from the consummate bookman himself.

And though it's not jump - out - of - your - seat scary either, it does squeeze a good deal of suspense from the legitimately frightening home invasion setup.

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Thus the suspense of The Statement does not finally center on Brossard's flight from his pursuers but rather on the fate of his soul.

After a long period of suspense, the Obamas, either seeking the assistance of or acceding to pressure from, the late Senator Kennedy, a personage of enormous wealth, procured for the family pet a Portuguese Water Dog (PWD).

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.

Wenger loves to keep us in suspense... I just pretend that the transfer market is only 10 days, the last 10 days of Jan... This is the only time we see some movement (if any) in the transfer market from Wenger!

Cuomo has been keeping activists from both sides of the fracking issue in suspense.

From a climate change perspective, 2015 had all the elements of a good drama: suspense, a surprise twist and a (somewhat) happy ending.

It has everything from psychological drama, romance, suspense and it's wrapped in a very nice little bow of crazy.

There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

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Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

The Interpreter tries to cast itself in the Hitchcockian tradition of Secret Agent and The Man Who Knew Too Much, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspense.

George Clooney and Thekla Reuten star in this international espionage tale of suspense and intrigue from director Anton Corbijn.

The protagonist of» 71, a gritty and garrote - tight suspense story set in the split city of Belfast in the year before Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday massacre, is Gary, a stand - up chap from Derbyshire who has joined Britain's Parachute Regiment.

Submarine movies have their own weird attractiveness to them: something that overcomes the genre's many clichés, something that generates suspense from creaky pipes and ominous booms, something that allows us to endure numerous close - ups of a pale, sweaty Harvey Keitel.

In addition to being a first - rate suspense - thriller, «The American» is also a character study of Jack, aka Edward, as he runs from trouble in Sweden to hide out in a small Italian village posing as a photographer.

The newest version of The Fugitive from CBS is as much fun as ever, a first - class, fast - paced, smoothly executed production packed with suspense, thrills and style.

The first half of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number of classic hunting situations — from the perspective of the prey — being flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby - trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.

That Collateral — a four - part Netflix drama involving the struggles of migrants seeking asylum, the evils of human trafficking, perfidious intelligence agencies, women's sexual victimization, drug - dealers and more — succeeds in achieving a certain suspense is no small miracle, given the confusion resulting from its hugely overcrowded script.

A tale of horror and suspense cut from the same jump - scare cloth as «Alien,» with a dash of «Arrival» thrown in — with its subtext of a woman mourning an unspoken loss — «Annihilation» initially exudes a form of magnetism every bit as somber and determined as Portman's tersely self - possessed protagonist.

The far - from - engrossing vibe is compounded by a quizzical dearth of action or suspense oriented interludes, and it does, as a result, become more and more difficult to work up any real interest in or sympathy for the central character's exploits (which proves especially problematic by the time the twist - laden finale rolls around).

Georges and the eldest son, Constant (Nicolas Giraud), intermittently visit the farm on small periods of leave from battle over the years, intensifying the drama and suspense, as the audience doesn't know if it will be their last time visiting or not.

There follows a long working out of the film's title, as Jen transforms herself from victim to warrior and Ms. Fargeat turns her skills to suspense and gore.

Not only does this shortsightedly prevent most of her later sequences from posing their full potential of suspense (since she surely can't die), but it also reveals that her teammates won't be joining her for debriefing.

Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long - running radio program.

It has the appeal of suspense radio plays from the»30s and»40s and even a touch of Orson Welles's most infamous Mercury Theater broadcast.

The minimal suspense comes from whether Dominika will be able to take back control of her body, both from the State and the American CIA operative named Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) with whom the plot dictates she fall in love — despite zero chemistry between the two stars.

Despite protestations from his wife and the ever - present suspense generated by his interactions with the Germans and Nazi sympathizers (particularly from the weaselly Bortnik, an old prison buddy turned Nazi thug), Poldek, a historical antihero, finds his moral compass pointing toward some semblance of a conscience.

Marty's entrapment in the past, decades away from his girlfriend and future wife, ensures some amount of suspense, to be certain.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

This well - done suspense - thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.

The other approach to suspense music - of having soft strings occasionally punctuated by violent stings from brass and percussion - can also be found in the score («Breaking In», for instance, though that does develop into some great action music as it progresses).

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.

Elizabeth's very cinematic blindness to Darcy's very British advance is the centerpiece of both novel and film, with all suspense drawn from the «will they or won't they» dilemma.

Buried may not have a lot of rewatchability but the first time will leave you exhausted from the tension and suspense it creates.

Well, I can answer that rhetorical question: For an interplanetary nail - biter, it's largely devoid of actual suspense, and its much - vaunted sense of humor consists primarily of cutesy faux - irreverence and dad jokes (apparently imported intact from the beloved novel, courtesy of screenwriter Drew Goddard, who's usually wittier).

A Freddy Krueger figure, in other words, is transmogrified into a Jaws one, adding a rich layer of suspense to a film that lacked the thrill of, to borrow from another famous Curry grotesque, «anticipation.»

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

Willy Wonka's line, «The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last» is a quote from Oscar Wilde's play, «The Importance of Being Earnest.»

Released in May of 1997, Breakdown is an old - school suspense / thriller from director Jonathan Mostow and starring Kurt Russell.

In the end, the only real suspense comes from seeing whether the film can stretch its wafer - thin premise and paucity of ideas out to a full 90 minutes — and at 88 minutes with credits, even there it comes up short.

Still, this tame but fitfully funny goof on suspense cinema at least assembles an agreeable guest list — from McAdams, beamingly charming even when her character is fishing a bullet out of her husband's arm, to a hysterically deadpan Jesse Plemons, playing the awkward, heartbroken cop who lives next door.

Much of the suspense derives from the fact that Kaufman's ending will have to be different from Siegel's; and so the story direction stays unpredictable.

The film was released to theaters in a 137 - minute cut, but Cameron's preferred 154 - minute director's cut is even better; he keeps the suspense slowly building until it becomes almost unbearable in the final, tense minutes, with Ripley racing against the clock to rescue Newt from the bowels of the endless green - blue fortress.

And when it turns out that he wasn't alone on that street, and that maybe the guy he thought he killed was already dead, he finds himself lost in an ever escalating spiral of darkly comic suspense sequences, moving from mere moral corruption to unbelievably, but no less thrillingly, wild cacophonies of destruction.

Lesley Coffin: Because people go into a film expecting one thing from Michael Shannon and he proves not to be like that here and the film has an undercurrent of suspense and thriller, is that type of casting against type an asset you were looking to exploit?

For instance, De Palma's prom scene, which features tense, split - screen moments of suspense, is replaced with cheap snafus that culminate in the climactic moment being replayed from different angles no less than three separate times, in case we missed its significance.