Sentences with phrase «than a murder mystery»

... In that way, The Keepers is more of a meditation on memory and truth than a murder mystery, and the telling of the tale is a resolution in itself.

It's still a good novel, but the level of intrigue almost felt like the novel should have been part of a different series, since it was more reminiscent of espionage thriller than a murder mystery.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

What's more exciting than a murder mystery?

More than the murder mystery or the town's other oddities, the greatest curiosity in Twin Peaks is the sudden resurgence of hepcat culture.

Not exact matches

Learning about the world is far more useful than entertaining yourself with the latest murder mystery.

I have been binge - watching a bunch of murder mystery series, including Poirot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSmurder mystery series, including Poirot, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSMurder Mysteries (love the series even more than the books and am obsessed with it but MY GOD KISS HER ALREADY, JACK ROBINSON!!!)

Straight from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park is a 2001 British murder mystery film starring none other than Violet Crawley (the amazingly talented Maggie Smith).

Then, once the plan forms it all gets more murder mystery than horror.

And while this adaptation - written by Akiva Goldsman - contains many of the same beats and plot twists as Brown's book, the film never quite becomes anything more than a sporadically engaging but mostly dull murder mystery.

A standard - order noir murder mystery with a confused, contrived last act, Anon is more notable for how it sees the future than what it sees going on there.

Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable.

Clement landed no less than four additional screenwriting gigs between 2005 - 2006 alone, including director Jon Jones» murder mystery Archangel (2005), set in Communist Russia; Goal!

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

In fact, it becomes very clear that the murder mystery is little more than the canvas to paint his picture on.

Still, the change isn't entirely surprising: FX has been much more forthcoming in recent months with casting news for Versace than it has been for Katrina, with Penelope Cruz, Ricky Martin, Max Greenfield, and Édgar Ramírez all signing on for its blend of fashion and murder mystery.

To that end, The Hateful Eight is more murder mystery than revisionist western, with Jackson the film's maniacal Miss Marple, looking for (or is it concealing?)

Murder mystery, journalism exposé, courtroom drama, metaphysical inquiry into the secret - sharer nature of certain American Bros, proof that James Franco and Jonah Hill can serious - act opposite one another — it seems to be going for any one of these at any given moment, and in the end winds up being not a whole lot more than ostentatiously unpleasant and ugly.

The film is more ephemeral than anything the director has ever done; it is that murder - mystery party you and your pals dress up for in a suburban living room as a convoluted excuse to hang out without the bother of attempting any kind of meaningful conversation.

Paradise goes up in flames in The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a stranger - than - fiction murder mystery in documentary form.

Has anyone ever been better at crafting an intricate murder mystery than Agatha Christie?

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

Don McKay (R for profanity and violence) Prodigal Son whodunit about a jaded janitor (Thomas Haden Church) who gets more than he bargained for when he returns to his hometown for the first time in 25 years at the beck - and - call of his cancer - stricken, high school sweetheart (Elisabeth Shue) only to find himself implicated in a tawdry murder mystery.

Other notable newly featured films include the better - than - you'd - expect noirish Nightmare Alley, a more than adequate adaptation of Virginia Woolf's difficult - to - film novel Mrs. Dalloway, Tommy Lee Jones's strong directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and the unjustly forgotten William Powell - led mystery The Kennel Murder Case.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

The Girl Who Played with Fire is much more of a thriller than a traditional murder mystery — a pity since one of the reasons I liked the first film was that I hadn't seen a straight murder mystery on the big screen for quite some time.

This trend, of course, had outliers: «Dina,» the Grand Jury Prize Winner for US Documentary, is a small - scale investigation into the life of a middle - aged neurodiverse woman more concerned with empathy than issues, while «The Nile Hilton Incident» shows how a murder mystery spirals into a political revolution that destabilizes an entire country.

Love Me essentially functions as a murder mystery, in which all the young principal characters are potential suspects, one far more so than the others and therefore a little too obvious a solution.

As a murder mystery it's better than average but as a Poe anecdote, it deserved better.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

Wind River is, at its core, a murder mystery that Sheridan has beefed up with some exceptional complexities that make it much more exciting than other stories like this.

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For my 101st published novel, I returned to a genre in which I hadn't written for more than a decade: the murder mystery.

In fact, the genesis of Monkeewrench was actually the simple wish of a mystery - lover for a game in which you could utilize more intellect and less mouse - skill to solve murders rather than commit them.

A murder mystery / detective fiction will have a lot of processing as well, but it is often very different in style and tone than the processing found in a heavy relationship drama.

Title: Murder at Macbeth Series: Flight Risk By: Susan Harper ASIN: B0799DPG7C Brought to you by OBS reviewer Andra Summary: There's nothing more relaxing than a day at the theater... until Macbeth is actually murdered A new cozy mystery from # 1 Best Selling Author Susan Harper Kendell, a fiery... Continue reading →

From sinister unsolved murders or the exploits of slavers to the realms of the supernatural, and the mysteries of the human mind, these tales heighten the senses and take you back to those childhood fears that we are all drawn to once again when the lights go out.The tales are presented from a rediscovered manuscript by Sidney Wainwright's friend Archibald Jerome along with his recollections of the illusive man himself, who is perhaps a deeper mystery than any of the stories.

Rather than pick up a cheap paperback of the latest murder mystery at the airport spinner - rack, you'll be able to purchase / download a book via USB and / or one - time use credit card.

But none of these quirky side adventures stuck out as much than the one at Tidy Park, where Golf Story turns full murder - mystery.

Rather than being forced into a game in which she has to solve murder mysteries like the original series, Another Episode is a third - person shooter that has its young hero fighting for her life in Towa City, which has been overrun by children using robots made to look like Monokuma (the series» sadistic teddy - bear mascot) to kill adults.

Murder mysteries, squirrel dinners, cut - price milk — there's more jostling for attention at the art fair than ever.

At a Comedy Mystery Night, more than 130 guests enjoyed a three - course meal, silent auction and interactive murder mystery performance, raising $ 8,600 for Haven House, an emergency residential shelter for abused women and their children in Waterloo Mystery Night, more than 130 guests enjoyed a three - course meal, silent auction and interactive murder mystery performance, raising $ 8,600 for Haven House, an emergency residential shelter for abused women and their children in Waterloo mystery performance, raising $ 8,600 for Haven House, an emergency residential shelter for abused women and their children in Waterloo Region.

More than 130 guests enjoyed a three - course meal, silent auction and interactive murder mystery performance, raising $ 8,600 for Haven House