Sentences with phrase «private eye story»

Moonbot Studio's Wonderbook private eye story, Diggs Nightcrawler, which is a film noir detective story featuring «a bookworm gumshoe.»

City of Tiny Lights Riz Ahmed follows up his hit turn in HBO's The Night Of with this modern private eye story set in London and directed by Dredd director Pete Travis.

Not exact matches

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Prof. Louise Fresco speak, who advised scholars to be a good story teller, to be interdisciplinary, to keep your eye on your long term career goal (s) and that finding balance between private, government, NGO and scientific research in our work will be invaluable.

A stylish new «Ultimate»70s» trailer has arrived online for Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film Inherent Vice, and we have it for you below... When private eye Doc Sportello's (Joaquin Phoenix) ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be -LSB-...]

But although Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski and Robert Benton's Twilight differ in tone, style, milieu, and generational perspective, both films arrive at their private - eye stories through the unorthodox detour of the western.

PEARL HARBOR (Grade: B): This «Titanic» - like recreation of the events of Dec. 7, 1941 — is no «Saving Private Ryan» and only passably successful as a love story, but it works as an eye - filling military spectacular.

Inherent Vice is a story of private eyes and criminal shenanigans in 1970s Los Angeles.

How Lynne Ramsay tells the story of a PTSD - scarred private eye (Joaquin Phoenix) tends to be more interesting than the story itself

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin... well, easy for her to say.

As previously reported, Anderson has been working for a couple of years on his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's quirky, rambling detective story, which concerns a pot - smoking private eye at the tail - end of the psychedelic «60s who gets swept up in a kidnapping case involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization that bears no resemblance to any modern churches, so Anderson's safe there.

The story soon lapses into familiar private - eye formulas, though, and the characters aren't interesting enough to hold much attention on their own.

It's a story that happens all over the world everyday but normally without the eyes of the planet on both the victim and the surviving family and we see Jackie in both her public role — battling with the administration to ensure that her husband receives a fitting funeral — and her private life — telling Carolyn and John that their daddy is now in heaven with their brothers & sisters so that they won't be lonely.

That's all fairly standard «Proud Family» material, but what takes this story out of the ordinary is the other plot line: Oscar's invented a new peanut - based snack that catches the eye of Dr. Carver (former TV host Arsenio Hall), a demented, peanut - obsessed scientist who invites the Proud family to his private island, where he and his squad of peanut clones are prepared to use any means necessary to capture Oscar's snack formula for their own means.

In the Dresden Files» latest installment, Ghost Story, the wizard private eye is, well, a ghost.

The Splintered Paddle is the story of a private eye, Ava Rome, and her personal foray down the mean streets of Hawaii to protect the defenseless in the dark side of paradise tourists seldom see.

Ava Rome, the private eye in my stories, is an outsider.

The cutting - edge stories appearing in the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have won numerous awards and run the gamut of mystery's subgenres from the classic whodunit to hardboiled private - eye tales to pure suspense.

Set in the 1930s to the 1950s, Collins's gripping and humorous hard - boiled stories follow Heller, a Chicago private eye with a knack for nabbing high - profile cases involving famous people.

In 1990, Walter Mosley first told the story of black postwar LA through Easy Rawlins, an Army vet turned private eye.

Experience, in non-linear fashion, a story that combines the pleasures of pulp, private eye, and horror fiction, all of it inspired by writers such as Raymond Chandler, Algernon Blackwood, Stefan Grabinski, and H. P. Lovecraft.

Working simultaneously as private eye, archeologist and accidental stalker, Fallah creates new narratives that tell universal stories of love, life, and regret.