Sentences with phrase «plotlines in»

«The seamless combination of breathtaking beauty and intense action, all woven together with strong plotlines in a massive vibrant, rural environment is mind - blowing.

For many that have completed The Evil Within, the mysteries surrounding Sebastian's partner, Juli Kidman, are among the most discussed plotlines in the game.

The epic clash between the Belmont Clan and Dracula is amongst my favourite plotlines in gaming.

Ditching on - foot sequences and overly complicated plotlines in...

Writing about predicaments we're curious about (fatal accidents, murder, drug smuggling, infidelity, sabotage, unwanted pregnancies), Kennedy anchors her high - stakes plotlines in the most familiar emotions, making generous, unmanipulative stories that pull the reader in for thrills and revelations.

- Publishers Weekly» [Dead Lions] features some of the twistiest plotlines in crime fiction... [and] is beautifully written but also elegantly structured... Ever since finishing Slow Horses, I've been waiting for a possible sequel.

In a real way, with whole plotlines in common, Verbinski's film is the crappy, mainstream version of Baumbach's picture.

Her «living off the grid» approach to life is unique in a world where everyone is connected all the time, but again, like most plotlines in Anon, this story runs out of steam before it even gets going.

Despite the Rey - Luke drama, the first half of The Last Jedi is its most lumbering and uneven, never really clicking as it rambles through its multiple plotlines in a manner that feels simultaneously rushed and overlong.

It's quite a feat keeping so many characters and plotlines in the air, but Iannucci's script does so as effortlessly as the ad libbing his actors perform.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

Whether we are mastering the intricacies of the simulation game SimCity or tracking the multiple plotlines in the TV drama 24, we are «honing... mental skills that are just as important as the ones exercised by reading books,» Johnson writes.

The brand got a free boost of publicity, as it was featured series plotline in the hit HBO show «Entourage.»

Jason finds Ellie (Imogen Poots), an aspiring author with perfectly tousled hair whom he mistakes for a hooker (yes, actual cutesy plotline in which she allows him to continue talking to her after he believes she's a prostitute).

Whether in Crash or Babel, the crisscrossing intersection of individuals across boundaries of class, race and geography has become a common plotline in contemporary film.

(An aside: I have no idea why, but drug - induced date rape appears to have been in the air as a plotline in 1984 Hong Kong, you can find it as well in Patrick Tam's bizarre romantic comedy Cherie, where Chor Yuen keeps trying and failing to drug Cherie Chung).

The series stars Joel Kinnaman, who last took a spin through an implanted - consciousness plotline in the 2014 big - screen remake of Robocop.

That's the plotline in a nutshell, though more often than not it makes way for Green's trademark animal - fondling, roadkill - toying and «bum - bum» singing.

I can't be bothered with the modern - day plotline in AC anymore and neither can Ubisoft it seems.

That is the games plotline in a nutshell without giving much else away.

It can be interesting to see characters and properties we enjoy create stories that otherwise wouldn't exist, so believe me when I say that the plotline in Project X Zone 2 could never exist were it not for the developers throwing caution to the wind and just having some fun with their intellectual properties.

Post-mortems of a different kind were perhaps on David Rayson's mind when he painted Patio in 1998 — a decade in which the paved backyard became synonymous in the UK with the concealment of suburban homicide thanks both to a series of murders committed by Fred and Rose West in Gloucester, and to a sensational plotline in the soap opera Brookside.

Not exact matches

A more probable plotline involves a scenario in which the annual debt numbers become so bad, and draw so much attention, that our looming fiscal cliff once again becomes a major political issue.

In her own scripts, she has gravitated at times toward more ambitious productions, with elaborate plotlines and nods to politics.

During its original three - season run in the mid-90s, the show attracted a surprising number of celebrity guests with its mix of suburban comedy and absurdist plotlines.

(35) More concretely, it is the sum total of all the decisions an author has made to externalize his or her subjectivity in a literary work in order to communicate a message: choices of narrator, genre, plotline, characters and characterization, repertoire, and rhetorical strategies.

Saul's abortive attack on Jonathan anticipates the main plotline, his later assaults on his son - in - law, David.

The play's main plotlines move against the backdrop of the 2012 American election — Romney's «binder full of women» gaffe gets a mention — and the decline of print and photojournalism in the age of the internet and cameraphones.

In a state - of - the - nation drama, where a number of different ideas already jostle for attention, each plotline could be more meaningfully developed with less singing.

Sure, it's not the newest plotline, but expect a visually arresting ride with twists and turns from director Guillermo del Toro, who specializes in quirky comic book adaptations (Hellboy) and eerie fantasy (Pan's Labyrinth).

It's not the plotline of some fantasy epic, but the real story of prehistoric Europe in the years after modern humans conquered the continent — as a new genetic analysis has just revealed.

But in the show's second go - round, Kaku takes on the plotlines that dominate sci - fi visions of the future.

It's the perfect curl up in front of the fire while it's cold outside novel with its mix of detective-esque plotline, Edinburgh scenery and what can only be described as Call the Midwife vibes.

I'm only a few episodes in, and the plotline is a little confusing, but it's still so good and I definitely recommend it.

Zach and his co-writer brother, Adam Braff, throw a lot on the screen in the first hour, keeping everyone a little off - kilter as to just which plotline it's going to land on for dominance.

It jumps around from planet to planet and plotline to plotline and occasionally feels like an unnecessary thread was thrown in just for a one - line gag.

Rehashing old jokes and plotlines, this doesn't bring anything new to the table, but the cast are in top form and there's a surprising earnestness to the story.

The main plotline is Cal being taught by Jacob how to be a swinger, complete with a makeover of the kind one usually sees in chick flicks.

Here Howerd could truly cut loose, allowing the rest of the cast to play utterly straight while he broke character, made racy commentary about the plotline or the heroine's neckline, and introduced a welcome touch of comic anarchy in the hidebound Roman - epic genre.

But the brilliance of Billions lies in acting like there isn't, moving at a breakneck speed through every convoluted concept and complex plotline.

«It's anyone's guess exactly which plotline this episode's title, «Iron in the Fire,» was meant in reference to - so packed was this hour of Homeland with double - crossing, nail - biting, jaw - dropping, and occasionally faith - in - humanity - ruining intrigue.»

While the novel of «Fifty Shades Freed» offered a more satisfying and complete arc that showcases how married life has changed the protagonists, for both better and worse, the movie adaptation cut some of the most important plot points, in an effort to create a shorter and more cohesive plotline.

«Perhaps recognizing that the premiere might have been a little confusing to some viewers, the writers of «Las Vegas» keep it remarkably simple, dividing their narrative into two alternating plotlines, one in each timeframe... the focus allows for what's always been the strength of this show: Liev Schreiber.

There were also clone Gwens in that plotline, because arrrgh, comics.

She's creepy, rigid, a plotline — as a recovering invalid — in her own right.

The plotline details the combined efforts of Quick and Sugar Ray to prevent white gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) from muscling in on their operation.

While Adrien Brody gives it his all in his performance, the film suffers greatly from an attempt to equalize its multiple plotlines.

The gore is still there, but the general plotline came to be very predictable (especially the merging of different timelines and who the antagonist is), and the mysterious dark feel of the games we got to see in the previous films has been replaced by pointless narrowed - down bloodshed and, sometimes, humor.

The oaken friendship in Hap and Leonard allows the plotline's racial context to feel more affecting and salient than other higher - profile series addressing similar themes.

Too much time is afforded the wheezy old plotline about two World War I aviators (Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen) in love with the same woman (Jobyna Ralston), while the comedy relief of El Brendel is decidedly not to everyone's taste.