Sentences with phrase «takes odd twists»

Not exact matches

The Powell family saga has many odd twists and symmetries, like the fact that Assemblyman Powell is now, for the second time in his career, trying to take back from Charles B. Rangel the congressional seat Mr. Rangel wrested from his father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in 1970.

But, even in the U.S., there were some people who got very concerned that — there were a few hurricanes that — around that time that took some sort of odd twists.

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

The movie crackles with an emotional energy, and cackles with a rueful laughter, that have been missing from his recent films, but which return in full force now that Baumbach has again taken up his theme of children being twisted into odd shapes by a parent's monstrous self - regard.

The twisted, darkly funny, and thrilling picture features a fantastic lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal as an odd but driven man who starts working as a freelance photographer, taking video of grisly car crashes, break - ins, etc. that he then sells to the local news networks for their morning broadcasts.

Asa takes a cold hard look at all the heavy hitters in the new Virtual Reality game and assesses which company is doing right (and wrong) by gamers and whether Microsoft, in an odd twist, are the ones for the gamers.

Jack Thompson has publicly offered to help publisher EA buy - out his rival, Take - Two, in an odd twist of fate.