Sentences with phrase «of thrillers with»

Mark Dawson is a best - selling author of thrillers with his John Milton, Beatrix and Isabella Rose books.

While, conceptually, Transcendence has enough going for it to make it an interesting view for fans of thrillers with a heavy science fiction bent, the directions Pfister eventually goes with these ideas aren't nearly as riveting.

Although billed and marketed as a comedy, I feel the need to warn some viewers that The Ice Harvest is more of a thriller with dark comic touches rather than one that goes to tickle your funny bone.

Dive deep into the murky depths of this thriller with the featurettes The Sound of Terror: The Subliminal Soundscapes of Dark Water (learn about the movie's sound design), Analyzing Dark Water (explore the creation of specific scenes with viewing options), and Beneath the Surface (the making of Dark Water).

Akuma No Riddle is a bit of a thriller with yuri leanings, while Certain Scientific Accelerator is another spin - off from the Certain Magical Index light novel series, and fits in with their popular Certain Scientific Railgun series.

Combining the page - turning plot of a thriller with memorable characters, fascinating moral dilemmas and the painstakingly precise prose that Patchett is known for, State of Wonder is a novel that people will still be reading — and talking about — years from now.

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Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.

Not exact matches

«This science thriller is a great story of creativity and resourcefulness with the inspirational «never give up» theme.

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana - made films are being shown alongside the work of filmmakers from across the world at the New Orleans Film Festival, which opened Thursday night with a red - carpet showing of the Louisiana - shot thriller «The Paperboy.»

Tom Clancy's Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (Berkley, 800-631-8571, 1996, $ 16) has the king of the techno - thriller telling you everything you might possibly want to know, with a special eye for weaponry and vehicles.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

A real thriller in the Koontz mold, and without ruining any surprises — of which there are many — let me just say that Dean grapples with (and tears at) some of the matters we discuss here at Secondhand Smoke.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

Like many books in this genre, Moore's thrillers are almost devoid of humor, but in compensation they are richly supplied with irony.

That's just an aside, though, to a film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

With interesting project choices (along with directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakWith interesting project choices (along with directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakwith directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakers.

At its heart, it's an old school whodunnit, with a heavy shot of psychological thriller to top it all off.

It's a rip - roaring read, with a thriller's pace and a colorful cast of characters constantly butting into the protagonist's life (and, eventually, mind).

Bloodsworth is a fast - paced thriller with a happy ending, but the real hook of the story is what happened to the suspect — something that, again, could happen to any of us.

With so much uncertainty around us these days, I am truly saddened that we are grabbing the front row seats while watching a news channel as if the current events are part of some thriller movie.

We've had a few properly boring races this season too and it probably didn't help that the last race in Abu Dhabi wasn't exactly a thriller, because that's the lasting impression we're left with of the season - and we all know there were plenty of great races this year.

They had a big lead early but it withered away as they went back and forth trading TDs with Team Massel in the second half of their thriller.

The first race of 2018 wasn't exactly a thriller, with very little in the way of overtaking.

It's going to take some time for them to gel as a unit but they are already off to a very positive start as they won the most exciting game of the night on Sunday with an OT thriller over Team Shamberg.

Both have been guilty of being wasteful, and so the trend could either continue with France's class getting them the win, or they could both find their feet in front of goal and make this an end - to - end thriller.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

Compared with the previous day's pallid encounter, this game, the first played on a Sunday evening in Series history, was a thriller reminiscent of the Reds - Red Sox matches a year ago.

Iowa State vs. UNC, Round of 32 This early - round thriller resulted in an Iowa State win over UNC, 85 - 83, that concluded with a DeAndre Kane game - winning layup and a bizarre last second ending for the Tar Heels.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

Ryan Hunter - Reay's duel with Helio Castroneves at the end of the 2014 race was an absolute thriller:

With his side at risk of suffering a huge upset at White Hart Lane, the England international came off the bench to score and inspire Spurs to a victory in a seven - goal thriller.

USC lost three of its first four games this season, then won its last nine and capped the year with a Rose Bowl thriller against Penn State.

Florida beat Tennessee on a 63 - yard buzzer - beater, San Diego State beat Stanford with the lights literally going out, Vanderbilt beat Kansas State ahead of Bama week, and Memphis knocked off UCLA in an early thriller.

It was a rollercoaster of emotions for our friends at Empire of the Kop this afternoon as Liverpool snatched a dramatic stoppage - time victory from a 5 - 4 thriller with Norwich City.

When we finally got our «magic 3» of Lacazette, Ozil and Alexis all playing together against Everton a few weeks ago, all three got on the scoreboard and it looked like we were back in contention for the Top Four again with a stunning 5 - goal thriller from the Gunners.

A dramatic thriller at Turf Moor goes the way of Burnley, with Leeds landing all their spot kicks to pick up victory against the Clarets Continue reading →

Two teams in urgent need of a win will seek out comfort in each other this weekend, as Arsenal, without a win in four Premier League games, take on third from bottom Blackburn at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday, with the Lancashire club bidding to repeat their four - goal heroics in last September's seven - goal thriller between the two sides.

A ten goal thriller against Espanyol on the opening weekend gave the fans a rollercoaster of a ride as they eventually came away with a 6 - 4 victory.

Route Irish is a fast - paced thriller, with some genuinely disturbing moments, but leaves the vaguely unpleasant feeling that Fergus» final violent rampages should ultimately be viewed as the fault of his victims.

The Coens are rare beasts in today's Hollywood, as capable of turning their hands to thrillers like No Country For Old Men but equally at home with comedies like this one.

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Iain Duncan Smith's debut novel is an ingenious fast - paced thriller with an intriguing cast of characters reaching the highest level of office.

Impressive sales stem from an ability to combine meticulous research with the page - turning style of a thriller, satisfying both historians and fans of spy novels alike.

My unit from the Green Zone [upcoming thriller] were a bunch of marines and special forces guys just back from Iraq and Afghanistan, you felt safe walking the streets of Morocco with them at night.

The banter climaxes when McAffrey presents Della with a necklace of pens and she finally admits that when someone reads a big news story they should have «newsprint on their hands», an odd thing to emphasise in a political thriller.

The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller: a Bond villain - style CEO, a reclusive billionaire, a naïve and conflicted whistle - blower, a hipster data scientist turned politico, an academic with seemingly questionable ethics, and of course a triumphant president and his influential family.

Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»

It reads like a thriller, starting with the mystery of the African children with swollen faces — caused by Burkitt's lymphoma — and the controversial idea that a virus might be behind it.

Check out a movie showing this week on Science's Web site — a mystery thriller with a cast of two.