Sentences with phrase «startling scene»

The most startling scene occurs when a speeding vehicle runs over a child.

It's a startling scene and one of the most effective of his entire career.

He's a big - deal scientist with a best - selling book, The Complete Eye, although, as revealed in a startling scene, he still obsesses about Sofi, which Karen maturely accepts.

Why else the constant evocations of leftist terrorism (so much in the news at the time), particularly in one startling scene in which Taylor witnesses an Arab potentate blown to bits by a casually tossed bomb?

Astronomers staring across the universe have spotted a startling scene: three supermassive black holes orbiting close to one another, two of them just a few hundred light - years apart.

results in some startling scenes even though one or two of them serve as a serious disconnect and can only be judged as creative missteps.

The MPAA rated Gridiron Gang PG - 13 for some startling scenes of violence, mature thematic material and language

In fact it delivers some startling scenes of torture earning its 18 rated ticked.

The source of a lot of buzz at the recent 2009 Pulse Fair in Miami, Prager's highly - saturated heroines and oft - startling scenes speak to her fondness for David Lynch and Hitchcock films, as well as her belief that deep down «all women are actresses.»

Not exact matches

It should come as no startle that the United States» crypto - scene is as different as the landscape or the people that live it.

Liberation theology burst on the scene with startling creativity in the early seventies in Latin America.

Not as sexy as Facebook and Twitter, or as startling as a Herman Cain video, but it's the kind of behind - the - scenes digital politics that should actually make a difference on election day.

The scene is certainly startling, but is this movie stirring up the right emotional reactions deep down?

While others taking the tour startled or screamed at the strange noises, creepy music and eerie scenes featuring actors dressed as murderers, monsters and ghosts, SM smiled and laughed.

Anyone who recalls the images of famine victims in the Sahel region of Africa might be startled by the scene today in one village in Burkina Faso.

The scene that really sticks with me, though, is the morning after a startling revelation, when the father figure wakes up crying.

What's startling about the scene is not its explicitness, which is not inordinate.

There is an uneasiness to [Perry's] performance — in some scenes he looks startled, even frightened — that makes it hard to play off Mr. Lennon, who seems very comfortable as a nervous nelly.

Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling scenes worth mentioning: many «jump» scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night in many scenes (creaking doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at doors) and doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly face is seen at a window and in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a few times (in one scene, a ghostly baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.

The scene is both striking in execution and startling in the subject matter: Isabelle compares her lovers, and in the course of doing so describes triggering her orgasms with Vincent by contemplating her disgust for him.

The 5.1 DTS - HD Master audio track is equally impressive, delivering the scenes of the tsunami or the bombings with startling presence and immersion while handling the many dialogue - driven ones with clarity and balance.

The scene between Pacino and De Niro, where Pacino finally gets to let down his guard — up almost entirely in the rest of the film — is startling.

There is a telling scene deep inside «Boyhood» that gets at the essential core of the emotional appeal of Richard Linklater's startling new film.

There's a dream sequence late in the film that reminded me of something out of a Luis Buñuel film, complete with surreal visuals and butchered meat, and it's startling and alive in a way the film overall fails to achieve, outside of a few scenes.

Bernard tells Françoise, an actress, that she talks as if she is auditioning, and when Hélène suddenly pulls back the red - patterned drape in her apartment to reveal one of the film's many crucial meal scenes, the startling effect is of a stage curtain revealing a set.

Every scene mixes effects realistically to an almost startling degree.

Nighttime jungle sequences creep onto the screen with dramatic contrast while daytime scenes startle with vibrant greens.

You could see similar elements in Lodge Kerrigan's chilly «Claire Dolan» (with a dash of Polanski in there — an unsettling manicure scene followed by a startling shot involving a mirror on an armoire)-- and, sure enough, it turns out that the young, unknown Bahrani so admired Kerrigan's work that he sent him an early cut of the film and asked for Kerrigan's advice.

MPAA Rating: (for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material)

Jenkins is hilarious, Russell's in fine form, and it has a startling kill scene that is utterly gruesome and equally awesome.

A scene in which Freeman is directed to grab Page's breasts is made safe by him rubbing his hands together to ensure his co-worker isn't startled by any undesirable coldness.

In McDonagh's simmering crockpot of small - town personalities, resentment commingles with a shared history and understanding — sometimes within a single scene, like the startling gear - shift moment where a tense confrontation between the chief and Mildred disarms itself when he suddenly coughs up blood.

Rated PG - 13 For: intense sequences of action and peril, brief startling violence, and thematic material Runtime: 121 minutes After Credits Scene: No Genre: Action / Adventure, Biography Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw Directed By: Ron Howard

The last third of the movie is dominated by an epic battle scene that would no doubt startle the gentle medievalist J.R.R. Tolkien.

«Nearly every scene reveals a tiny, startling truth about what it's like to grow up way too fast.»

And it's surely no secret anymore that Hugh Jackman makes a startling cameo as Wolverine in a scene that plugs right in to his own elaborate history.

Wood's startling nude scene in the finale is one for the memory books.

His startling «We Are Still Here» announced a director who was willing to do things a little differently from the rest of the indie horror scene, and this film really makes his unique voice clear in that it doesn't feel like anything else that came out last year.

But our pick is another scene in which Somerset and Mills come upon the seemingly - dead third victim, guilty of Sloth, who startles them with a terrifying cough.

The accompanying 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio is, predictably, above - average for dtv fare, though scenes with jump scares appear to be the only ones taking advantage of the discrete soundstage — clarifying in the process the idea that there's a big difference between being scared and being startled.

The use of flashbacks, too, far from being a cheap narrative device, serve to enrich and heighten earlier scenes marked by either cruel acts or startling revelations.

There are a number of startling action scenes to be found here, and one mighty fine car chase.

Segel and Diaz are game for anything — both of them have nude scenes, and Segel even manages a graceful if startling naked headstand — and at the film's end, when the audience finally gets a glimpse of the sex tape in question, a few horrified laughs may erupt.

Editor Dan Zimmerman succeeds a few times in eliciting genuine startles, particularly in a graveyard scene that starts out creepy, turns cathartic, and ends with an unexpected jump.

Set and filmed in a western Irish coastal town, the film has a most unusual first scene, including an acknowledgment of such as the priest (Gleeson) says «Certainly a startling opening line ``.

Beautifully scripted, the action scenes and miniature effects maintain a startling level of energy, and director Michael Curtiz balanced his camera so every supporting character is never forgotten during the film's multiple battle scenes within its two hour running time.

A day earlier on a field filled with some of the best the local club scene had to offer, I'd also been startled to find myself standing in front of my beautiful green 1971 Mercedes - Benz 300 SEL 6.3, last seen by me when I sold it in 2009.

As James evolves into Jennifer in scenes that are by turns tender, startling, and witty, a marvelously human perspective emerges on issues of love, sex, and the fascinating relationship between our physical and our intuitive selves.

Psycho «s startling surprises (and its «shower scene») made the movie a legend, and a shared experience that a lot of movie - lovers still treasure.

You'll read about a SWAT officer's startling crime - scene discovery and the rescue that followed, as well as a safe haven for unwanted horses.