Sentences with phrase «suspense set»

Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart - pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.An eighteen - year - old covert agent is pulled out of training before graduation by Black X, a espionage group so secret even the President of the United States doesn't know it exists.For her first mission, she must go undercover as the long - lost daughter of a recently deceased billionaire, infiltrate high society, and protect the Prince of Montrovia from assassination.But Prince Lorenzo is known as the Playboy Prince for a reason and his sensuality and charisma add a whole other level of complication to her mission.

I started with two books — The Eyes of Pharaoh, a mystery set in ancient Egypt for ages nine and up, published under the name Chris Eboch, and an adult romantic suspense set in New Mexico, called Rattled and published under the name Kris Bock.

This month's best new mysteries include a heartbreaking search for a missing child, a delightful old - school noir, a literary suspense set in Mexico and a tale of historic espionage.

«Foster's second page - turning tale of suspense set on the snow - covered moors has something for everyone: mystery, romance, paranormal activity and mortal danger.»

This month's best new romances include a small - town fling out West, a thrilling romantic suspense set in Victorian London and a story of later - life marriage that ends Mary Balogh's Survivor's Club series.

The Clerkenwell Tales, a story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world, was published in 2003, followed by The Lambs of London, in 2004, and The Fall of Troy (2006).

Best - selling eBook author Ryan made her successful print debut this year with this romantic suspense set on the Montana plains.

This is a tale of exceptional suspense set in an idyllic historical setting.

Kind of noteworthy, if not actually remarkable, then, is that the movie actually works as well as it does, offering up suspense set pieces that are genuinely suspenseful despite one's security that everyone in the top - billed cast that we're supposed to care about will be okay.

Rainer Klausmann, Akin's regular cinematographer, creates a rain - soaked atmosphere of suspense set in a world that feels real, not one simply designed to trigger emotions.

What critics said: «It's at once minimalist and maximalist, cynical and dopey, a big - boy white elephant art film that is actually a lean and mean suspense set - piece machine.»

Not exact matches

The potential Tesla rival has been building the suspense to the car's reveal set to take place at the Consumer Electronics Show, which begins Tuesday and runs throughout the week.

The match was well - constructed to keep her on the sideline to build suspense and prevent exposing a surely still - limited move set, but she surprised by breaking out a hurricanrana on Triple H, showing she'll get to use her full athleticism, rather than just be cast as the scary grappler who breaks people's arms.

Set to the music of Tchaikovsky and based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin, the ballet is full of passion, suspense, and drama.

The stage is set for the big battle on Saturday and Nigeria Politics Online's Olaitan Osola is in Ondo to give minute - by minute account of what promises to be a great suspense in history of elections in Nigeria.

The protagonist of» 71, a gritty and garrote - tight suspense story set in the split city of Belfast in the year before Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday massacre, is Gary, a stand - up chap from Derbyshire who has joined Britain's Parachute Regiment.

The story is slight, but the gentle humour and mild suspense will keep young viewers engaged, and the animation provides its own magic, particularly in the moments when Tink sets foot inside the Winter Woods and her wings gain a shimmering iridescence.

Apart from the odd titter, this is a sound formula suspense movie with spiffy set piece thrills, directed with assurance by Dead Calm's Philip Noyce and attractively played by the plausibly anxious principals.

Not dissimilar to Rosemary's Baby, the made - for - TV The Glow was supposed to have aired during the fall of 2001, but for various reasons (including an unofficial post-9 / 11 moratorium on suspense films set in New York) the film did not make its Fox Network bow until August 30, 2002.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

In addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetype.

That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro - centric chattiness, to name just two.

What the film lacks is genuine suspense, because for all of its twists and turns, the set - up never reels us in effectively enough to bother paying attention when things become odd, and all interest is jettisoned in time for the epilogue where all is supposed to be explained.

Even if the fun stops, the characters have been properly set up such that the resulting suspense delivers the necessary tension to help the film coast to its inevitable confrontation between Kale and Turner, the boy who has often cried wolf and the man who just wants to be left alone.

With a spectacular setting and two solid actors on - screen, this thriller builds enough solid suspense to distract the audience from the implausible premise.

But when Emmerich couldn't get that ambitious project going, his tidy fallback was teaming with 2012 golden boy Channing Tatum in a suspense thriller set inside the Oval Office.

It's in Saulnier's script, which balances fraught suspense with understated irony, brought to life by an incredibly naturalistic set of actors.

There are even Hitchcockian moments of suspense as Petit and his crew set up the wires across the two towers.

The finale, set at the drive - in, is an extended sequence of immense terror, beautifully staged by the director for maximum suspense.

The suspense in Homeland goes beyond what will happen next in an international game of high - stakes cat - and - mole, set against a frighteningly timely backdrop of Middle East turmoil.

The intimate setting provides some chills, but as it transitions into supernatural nonsense as a vehicle for the requisite comeuppance, the film fails to provide consistent suspense.

It is in fact a prequel set just before the events with kurt russell, now having seen the 1982 version about 10x i kinda know whats gona happen for the most part in this film, now that does nt mean there wasnt alot to enjoy, seeing cool new versions of the thing (which are very well done), and still being in suspense on who is infected and who isn't.

No one is there, maybe, in «The Pact,» a tightly controlled low - budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense.

well, considering that «sci - fi» is just a setting and not a genre, you're looking at either comedy, horror, drama, action, suspense... etc..

Woolley, for his part, has promised the new version will be «a dark and Gothic version» with «elements of suspense and terror» — all of which fits with the original novel, as far as I'm concerned — while I presume the period setting will be maintained.

Screenwriter James V. Simpson provides the sort of set - up that allows Antal to really tighten the screws, to work the film's warehouse setting, plus both inside and out of the impenetrable vehicles that give the film its title, in a way that maximizes tension and suspense.

Director Fede Alvarez creates enormous suspense in a claustrophobic setting where the horrors emerge naturally from the action, one building on the next.

The film's simplicity also prevents it from feeling unduly dated (save for the onscreen computers, for which there's no help), and Spielberg's sense of tension and suspense result in some terrific set pieces.

The first thirty minutes of The Conjuring 2 are relentless as it sets up the suspense at hand.

Hitch wasn't really a horror director outside of Psycho, but The Master of Suspense was a master of thrillers, and this set features his very first thriller:

It's a clever idea for low - budget suspense, because it essentially has just one set.

The Darkest Hour's negligible 3D effects (typically squandered in the first 10 minutes) combine with a complete absence of tension or suspense, and indifferently staged set pieces, yielding a tedious, inconsequential snoozer.

The murder sets the story, told via flashback, in motion and lends an edgy suspense.

However, those viewers looking for a good suspense film that breaks new ground will be very disappointed by the unrealistic set - up and poor delivery.

A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.

Three, the latest from the unparalleled Johnnie To, is a twisting, crisscrossing suspense flick set over a few hours in a hospital — strikingly conceived in blues and greens, with doorways and privacy screens that limit point - of - view and build tension — where a cop, a wounded criminal, and a surgeon are forced to match wits and wills.

The scene where she first ventures up into the ship combines chilly, Kubrick-esque composition and heart - pounding suspense, set to the soundtrack of Louise's ragged breathing as she struggles not to pass out inside of her hazmat suit.

Speaking of explosive set - pieces, The Lost Legacy has some incredible moments of adrenaline - filled suspense; with impeccable AAA presentation.

Bird's proven hand at creating spectacular and imaginative set pieces (a chase in a raging sandstorm; an insane parking garage fight that's Pixar - ready) is in full effect here as well as a heretofore unseen skill at nailbiting suspense (a sequence of Cruise — not a double — scaling the side of the world's tallest building is by far the best non-documentary use of large format IMAX photography to date).

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