Sentences with word «suspenseful»

Featuring brilliant portrayals by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, Frost / Nixon is the fascinating and suspenseful story of truth, accountability, secrets and lies.

While the list offers up lots of suspenseful thrillers to curl up with by the fire — The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (our Top Pick in fiction for February!)

Even if you can spin a story as suspenseful as the best of the literary greats, your book must have an attractive exterior.

Relating the story in suspenseful prose with only occasional departures into stats and figures, Bascomb tells of the heroic teams of Norwegian and British resistance fighters who braved a harsh Scandinavian winter and harrowing bouts of hunger while lying in wait to carry out their plans.

The third season picks up right where the the other two left off, with more suspenseful tales «exploring themes of contemporary techno paranoia.»

Even the more suspenseful moments start to drag a bit and the film does rely on jump scares a few times too often; and needlessly.

The first Jeepers Creepers movie (2001) started out promisingly, with suspenseful scenes involving a sinister character dumping bodies and a Duel - like truck - from - hell chase scene.

Filled with brilliant characters and exceptional drama, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.

The series doesn't lack for suspenseful moments, the settings are intriguing, and there's much to be said for the strong performance by Mr. Morrissey and that of Roger Allam.

Unexpected twists, empathetic characters, and an unshakable darkness, «The Ones Below» is one of the most suspenseful films of the year.

Strange, isn't it, how in the midst of the great and suspenseful drama of Jesus» entry into Jerusalem, Luke devotes part of the narrative to fussing about this rather peripheral matter of Jesus» transportation?

«When a Stranger Calls» Official Premise: A terrified young baby - sitter... an incessantly ringing phone... and whispered threats set the stage for one of the most suspenseful thrillers ever filmed.

I get as excited writing suspenseful scenes as I do when reading them.

To say it's depressing, then, is to state the obvious; less evident is why Mr. Pellington, previously known for suspenseful thrillers like «Arlington Road» and «The Mothman Prophecies,» would dive down this rabbit hole at all.

Well acted, filmed and directed, Seven is a really scary film, and basically, a very suspenseful mystery.

It sounds like a great new era in suspenseful action television, but only time will tell if it lives up to its predecessor.

-- James Scott Bell, best - selling author and writing instructor «There are tons of awesome writing books out there about everything from creating suspenseful plots to using humor, but few of them cover every single part of your writing journey.

I would definitely recommend this whole series if you are looking for a fast paced read, full of sizzling passion and a very suspenseful story!

So if watching a certain suspenseful movie scene (or thinking about labor!)

Starring veteran actor Stephen Lang (Manhunter, Avatar) as a blind man targeted by three teenagers for a robbery that goes way, way wrong, Don't Breathe is being hailed as one of the strongest and most suspenseful horror films to come around in years.

I'm not sure how Jessica created this deliciously suspenseful book with so much else on her plate (she is the Editorial Director of Writer's Digest magazine, and she and her very supportive husband are the parents of two children under age five).

Alien Breed and Dead Nation create suspenseful moments only to wreck them with linear game design.

And it all leads to an amazing and suspenseful ride on a magic carpet, and a race against time to save the king and his beloved.

These opening moments, devoid of space trash flechette and the threat of dwindling oxygen, are as genuinely suspenseful as Gravity ever gets.

«An elegant musing on sacredness, history, and purpose that is, at the same time, a deliciously romantic, highly suspenseful page - turner.»

(As a matter of fact I do not know if Peter Weir received the award we sent him though Warner Bros.) I like the intercultural theme that comes through all of his films, the way he juxtaposes cultures, dramatises encounters between cultures, the way he builds suspenseful atmosphere and includes magical, surreal or supernatural elements in the telling of the stories.

Bestselling author Alafair Burke (If You Were Here) explores this question in her highly suspenseful new novel, The Wife.

With credits like The Witch, Morgan, and Split behind her, this new film is hardly the first time the actress has delved into suspenseful territory, but the projects are high caliber enough that she skirts the scream queen label.

There are loads of memorable scenes packed into this film, from suspenseful action scenes, amusing spell and magic displays, and some very polished use of time travel at the end.

You might not think a book about the struggle to wrest six thousand acres of Lake Michigan dunes from development and preserve it as a public place would be suspenseful adventure story, but Traverse City author heather Shumaker promises just that - a riveting story that spans decades about a small community of people who preserve a beloved tract against all odds.

Collective Inkwell is the home to bestselling authors Sean Platt and David Wright who write suspenseful character - driven stories like you'd see on the best TV dramas such as: The Walking Dead, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, Carnivale, Mad Men, and Dexter.

From award - winning writer / director Asghar Farhadi (The Oscar - winning A SEPARATION, THE PAST, ABOUT ELLY, FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY) comes a masterful, intimate and suspenseful new drama, THE SALESMAN, Iran's official Oscar ® entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

The result is a film of integrity and disclosure, a controversial chapter in American history that substitutes clinical accuracy for Hollywood embellishment, with an impressive attention to detail and an admirable respect for suspenseful narrative.

«Sicario» isn't the first movie to tackle the illegal drug trade along the U.S. - Mexico border, but it's easily one of the best, a relentlessly suspenseful crime thriller that offers a merciless look behind the curtain of the real War on Drugs.

After hearing this news, we decided to give you an extra dose of suspenseful reading suggestions.

Instead, I'll just tell you that it perfectly captures «that spooky bass thing» that NES games do to create suspenseful music, and I like it.

The emotions of these scenes peak and ebb, making the film quite suspenseful.

The third act gets very silly but the movie remains suspenseful enough.

Our first project is Betrayer, an eerie and suspenseful first person action adventure set in and around an abandoned New World colony in 1604.

In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses

«Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» — Smiley Describes His Meeting With Karla While being fairly low - octane for a spy thriller, «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» has a number of suspenseful set pieces that linger in the memory: Benedict Cumberbatch's Peter Guillam stealing a file from the Circus, Mark Strong being ambushed in the opening, the extended flashback with Tom Hardy in Istanbul.

The first purge was actually entertaining also suspenseful it's just the characters were retarts classic ones in a horror

Directors Glen Ficarra and John Requa are making a Steven Soderbergh's Greatest Hits Mixtape here, borrowing Out of Sight «s sexy frissions along with the Ocean's knack for somehow making things suspenseful even though they're going exactly according to plan.

This leads on to an explosive, hugely suspenseful ending.

The apocalypse music was a little ominous at times, making it seem silly rather than suspenseful when coupled with the cartoon graphics.

Most people don't think of copyright law when they think of gripping drama and suspenseful twists and turns, but the truth is copyright is actually quite fascinating.

Within this limited format, however, Raven gets it right, with frantic mayhem broken up by suspenseful moments of quiet and a uniformly satisfying collection of weapons — many of which get upgraded as the game proceeds — to help you get the job done.