Sentences with phrase «on older novels»

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A computer AI program being tested on old Atari video games found a novel way to win at the 1980s title Q * bert.

The novel's protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, is a thirty - four - year - old New Yorker who has been drifting through life, from one vague and interchangeable job («cross-stream pricing consultant,» «implementation analyst,» «systems administrator at a networking site») and relationship («She lived on First Avenue and First Street and I didn't know whether her name was spelled Gale or Gail») to the next.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

In the opening pages of the novel, a peevish ten - year - old boy conceals a stone inside a snowball and throws it in anger at another, who ducks, so that the snowball goes on to hit an unintended victim, a pregnant woman who is thereby brought prematurely into labor.

Consider, for example, the following passage from John Galsworthy's novel One More River, in which a character named Dinny reflects on the death of old Betty Purdy.

You'll enjoy Dee Kittle's new twist on old - fashioned «monkey bread»... Rob Landolphi's fresh approach to fried green tomatoes... Jules Shepard's boisterous take on hush puppies... and Beth Hillson's novel yet nostalgic vegetable lasagna.

The Multiplex wasn't filled with comic book adaptation after graphic novel adaptation; genre exposure came via late Sunday night airings of (old school) Doctor Who on WTTW.

ALMOST MISSED YOU by Jessica Strawser, is an intriguing novel involving a husband and two - year - old son disappearing while on a family vacation.

It's a teenage novel based on a story of a 15 - year - old boy from Rochdale who is kidnapped in Pakistan and taken to Guantanamo Bay.

Cahill also offered a novel take on an old economic development standby — using tax breaks to reward and encourage long - established Kingston businesses, rather than to attract new ones which may fail or fail to deliver on promises.

Rebekah Brooks's husband had important historical drafts of a new novel on one of the laptops he concealed at their Chelsea home, the Old Bailey has heard.

Using a novel approach, scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older adults.

What we didn't realize is that our work could be so profoundly inspiring to a young generation of scientists — one eleven - year - old passenger pigeon enthusiast and de-extinctionist to be exact, who was so excited by the idea of de-extinction that he published a novel in 2015 on the subject.

She is currently hard at work churning out more novels in the Lizzie Hart Mysteries series and in the Java Jive Mysteries series, which includes That Old Black Magic (released on February 4, 2015).

Loads of coloured paper lanterns hanging from the ceilings, flowers in mini milk churn buckets on the table, and wedding favours / place cards that were old penguin novels wrapped in lace string.

Dubbed by some as the next Jennifer Lawrence due to the inevitable comparison of her film to Hunger Games (much to the anger of fans who insist on the stark difference between the two storylines), it seems that the 21 - year - old actress is planning on taking advantage of this career momentum — reps confirm that the shorter do is indeed for her new film The Fault in Our Stars, another film adaptation of a wildly popular novel.

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My name is Hollie, 31 years old and i'm single no kids am a nurse, and I am devoted and true christian.my fav color is green... I love listening to music, reading novels, watching tvs and movies, Camp out, Fishing, playing basketball, volley ball and i like jumping on Trampoline as well, I'm an ex...

Japanese eroge, also known as H - Light novels or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of Rodney Alcala raped an eight - year - old and murdered four people before appearing on national TV as a «Dating Game» contestant.

The concept of online dating sites is not a novel idea anymore as they constitute one of the oldest services available on the web.

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It's World War Z, based on a 2006 novel by Max Brooks that's anything but back - to - the - old - grindhouse.

Based on the internationally best - selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100 - year - old man who decides it's not too late to start over.

Whether stealing Lean on Pete from his proper owners or attempting to dine - and - dash from a restaurant when he has no food, Charley's actions are convincingly those of a 15 - year - old boy — but they are lifted directly from Vlautin's novel, with little indication that Haigh understands the psychology behind those impulses.

Detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) was originally removed from a missing child case but is reassigned with a new partner, Detective Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), when the 13 - year - old's body is found in this Canadian crime drama based on the mystery novels by Giles Blunt.

«Disobedience,» based on Naomi Alderman's novel (with adaptation by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz) is a good old - fashioned melodrama, albeit with a quieter touch.

The drama is based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel and focuses on 25 - year - old Atticus Black (Majors), who joins up with his friend Letitia (Smollett - Bell) and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father.

Based on a bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue, the film unfolds chiefly from the perspective of the woman's 5 - year - old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), fathered by the abductor and born into captivity.

On the surface, Wayne Wang's Because of Winn - Dixie looks like it's busting convention, too, since it defies easy description, but it's actually just the latest quasi-magic-realist, two - birds - with - one - stone shrine to non-traditional families and the power of myth (à la Big Fish or Holes), told from the novel point - of - view of a 10 - year - old girl.

Marking a shift to the serious for both the filmmaker and his lead actor, «Joe» is based on the novel by Larry Brown, and tells the story of the unlikely bond between an ex-con (Cage) and a 15 - year - old (Tye Sheridan) from a broken home, with both of them looking for a better life in a southern town.

Certain filmgoers might think concern over the fate of Hoffman's work in the young adult novel adaptation series was unnecessary, given the breadth of the fan - favorite performer's career in movies and on stage; yet, Hoffman was a standout in the well - received second installment, Catching Fire, and many fans (young and old) were eager to see him return in the two remaining sequels.

Noruwei no mon (Norwegian Wood, Tran Anh Hung, 2010) * Based on the best - selling 1987 novel of Haruki Murikami, Norwegian Wood reflects the inner journey of 19 - year - old Toru Watanabe (Ken» ichi Matsuyama), a journey that embodies the pain of love and loss, the tantalising embrace of death, the end of dreams, and the beginning of adult responsibility.

«Call Me By Your Name» --- A gentle, almost - pastoral tale of first love directed with affection by Luca Guadagnino and based on Andre Aciman's novel about a highly educated 17 - year - old (Timothée Chalamet) whose world gets rocked by Oliver (an apparently never - aging Armie Hammer), a handsome scholar assigned to assist his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a professor working in Italy during a long, hot summer.

The 30 - year - old actor is set to helm the forthcoming film, based on the David Barclay Moore novel of the same name, after Endeavor Content acquired the big screen rights to the project - and he can't wait to get started behind the camera.

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

A parallel storyline to Charlie Brown's girl troubles involves the fearless beagle and pal Woodstock writing (on a old fashioned typewriter) an adventurous romance novel of the Ace trying to capture the heart of his new love Fifi, and defeat his nemesis The Red Baron.

Based on the Daniel Woodrell novel, this film is a riveting exploration of old - society notions of responsibility and obligation, loyalty and betrayal.

Based on the novel by Joe Hill, HORNS follows 26 - year - old Ig Perrish (Radcliffe), who wakes up with an evil hangover to discover that his girlfriend (the ever brilliant Juno Temple) has been raped and murdered, but Perrish is the main suspect.

The movie is as predictable as any of the old clichés about country music and men who write it, although that's mainly because Cooper's script (based on Thomas Cobb's novel) uses so many of them without delving any deeper.

Given the speed and unpredictability of change in this arena, it's reasonable to wonder if a big - budget feature film, much less one based on a four year - old novel (by Dave Eggers, who co-wrote this adaptation's screenplay), can hope to speak to the needs of the moment.

Based on the third novel in the Jumper series by Steven Gould, Impulse features a rebellious 16 - year - old girl, Henry (Maddie Hasson) who has always felt different from her peers and has longed to escape from her seemingly quaint small town.

Richard Linklater chases his underrated Last Detail sorta - sequel Last Flag Flying with another literary adaptation, this one based on Maria Semple's novel about a 15 - year - old investigating the disappearance of her agoraphobic mother (played here by Cate Blanchett).

Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Indignation is set in 1951 and focuses on Marcus (Lerman), the 18 - year - old son of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

-- Gina Prince - Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best - selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14 - year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).

Small - town bank - robbery montages are as old as the Hollywood Hills, but here the robberies are predicated on a relatively novel premise (hitting the off - the - books bank accounts of Al Capone), and the heists are pulled off by a father - and - son team — with a 12 - year - old driving the getaway car.

Based on the Patricia Highsmith novel «The Price of Salt,» «Carol» follows the forbidden love affair between a young shop clerk (Rooney Mara) and an older woman amidst a difficult divorce (Cate Blanchett).

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.

Even though this drama is based on a 115 - year - old novel, it feels powerfully timely today in the way it recounts events surrounding a particularly grim divorce.