Sentences with phrase «twisted tale taken»

Anger was one of several writers on yet another gritty and twisted tale taken from real life, «In the Name of My Daughter,» which stars the one and only Catherine Deneuve, and was directed by the great André Téchiné.

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CEO Jack Griffin's 18 - month redo, post - Tribune split from its mothership, Tribune Company, in mid-2014 was only the latest twist since Sam Zell took control of the company in late December, 2007, performing a clean sweep of top Tribune management, installing his own people and then entering the famed five - year bankruptcy from hell (David Carr's 2010 nail - in - the - coffin column: «At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture»).

Mercedes took an animated twist on the old «Tortoise and the Hare» tale, while Lexus had a fast - cut spot focusing on the new NX, edited to car doors slamming and tires squealing.

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There were no more twists in the tale with United taking away all the 3 points from Hull.

The tale of Keïta and Liverpool has taken a few twists over the past month.

Yesterday the strange tale took another twist as it emerged that Allan had apparently launched a late - night Facebook rant, targeting a «small group of bully boy councillors, thugs and henchmen».

The researchers take a «hit [at] the Dickensian imagery,» he says, noting the timeworn tale of Oliver Twist, which he calls a «dramatization» — even for the 19th century.

In a classic tale of science taking twists and turns before coming to a conclusion, two teams of researchers — one a group of theorists and the other, experimentalists — have worked together to solve a chemical puzzle that may one day lead to cleaner air and renewable fuel.

I definitely took a liking to this little tale of rural folk exercising their rights to be a little enterprising at the expense of a large financial corporation, and of the twists and turns as time unravels all their all - too - human motives.

Rope gets a twist because Hitchcock essentially tells the tale in real time and uses a series of uninterrupted takes welded together via subtle cuts.

take a look at our dive into the tragic and twisted tale of the original Stooges.

Former English professor Craven makes a case for the cultural importance of stories by making a decidedly grim fairy tale, a modern twist on an ancient tradition, and winds up with an imaginative take on society's fascination with horror.

The visual stylist spins an adult fairy tale that takes elements from «Beauty and the Beast» and recasts them in an alternative universe that's a wonderfully rendered twist on our own.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Director and co-writer (along with Ken Marino, who also stars in the film) David Wain takes full advantage of their impressively hilarious cast, and even with its dives in to utter trashiness, and at times, totally trite twists in the tale, I found it a delightfully entertaining film.

In «Hero» Haynes takes to the flat TV news documentary style to tell, through a series of mock interviews, the story of a seven year old boy who escaped his abusive father with a Grimm Fairy Tale twist.

In «The Shape of Water,» his most impressive work since «Pan's Labyrinth» 11 years ago, the visual stylist spins an adult fairy tale that takes elements from «Beauty and the Beast» and recasts them in an alternative universe that's a wonderfully rendered twist on our own.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Starring: Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth Directed by: Rupert Sanders In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.

Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars in this surprising tale that takes dark and unexpected twists from the frothy spree you might expect

Into the Woods takes audiences on a wild ride through never land, with a modern twist on a number of the fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm.

Recently, other Hollywood groups have taken on the oldest of tales by ones like Brother Grimm and given them a modern twist.

Whereas Tarsem Singh's «Mirror Mirror» was a light and comical take on the classic fairy tale, «Snow White and the Huntsman» is a much darker adaptation with some revisionist twists.

Dav Pilkey twists his story into a delightful tale of eight boys and girls that take a field trip to a turkey farm where they meet Farmer Mack Nugget and his eight turkeys on the day before Thanksgiving.

With richly detailed artwork and a twisted tale of horror and tortured romance, GRAND GUIGNOL ORCHESTRA takes readers to a recital where no one may make it out alive!»

Lydia Millet's satirical tale of a honeymoon that takes an unexpected twist is perhaps the funniest novel you'll read this year.

Exploring similar themes to Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things (winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize), Brass is a unique twist on a mother - daughter story as well as an immigrant's tale, with reflections on abandonment, dreams, disappointment and the kind of resilience it takes to endure, despite all odds.

The plot takes many twists, some more unexpected than others and, overall, rises above the potentially clichéd setting and premise to deliver a seductive and at times sinister tale.

Taking a slightly different tack, New York Times best - selling author Jean Thompson uses an easily digestible narrative style to twist classic fairy tales into more recognizable shapes in her new collection, The Witch: And Other Tales Re-tales into more recognizable shapes in her new collection, The Witch: And Other Tales Re-Tales Re-Told.

But nothing will change the fact that, once you've agreed to take part in his twisted tales, there's no turning back until Grave makes his final edit.

Fur Before Feathers by Roh Morgon — The choices between right and wrong take on a few extra twists in this coming - of - age tale about a young shapeshifter.

Of course this concept is hardly a new one: we've seen the idea of robots made human before in many mediums, and for the first while Binary Domain's story doesn't deliver anything special, but during the second half of the game the story picks up and by the end I was thoroughly immersed in the tale and twists and turns it took.

It has been a full decade since gamers took part in the wierd and wonderful game that was American McGee's Alice, a twisted and warped take on the classic tale, but we finally have a release date for its mental sequel, and that date is June 4th.

Credit where credit's due, conspiracy theorists certainly have the uncanny ability to take the mundane and weave it into a grand tale full of surreal twists and turns.

Man Vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler (Known going forward as MVS) takes a hard look at Tim McVey, the one time champion of Nibbler (record set in January of 1984), the arcade classic that tasks the player with disposing of a seemingly endless growing snake.

The second part of the story in Broken Age Act 2 takes new story twists and turns and brings a satisfying conclusion to this new Double Fine tale.

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In a year of sequels, reboots and twists on familiar tales — we've another Red Dead Redemption and a Nathan - Drake-less Uncharted incoming, alongside reset - button takes on God of War and Prey and new entries in the Mass Effect and Persona series — the Switch shines brightly as something else.

It can highlight and tag enemies, temporarily mark weak points, elemental strengths and weaknesses, and as the story starts to delve into the past and how the world came to be the way it is — a tale that initially appears simple, but takes a few dark and twisted turns — it's Aloy's link back to those days.

Based on DC's Fables comics, the game takes the fairy tales we know and love, and gives them a gritty, noir twist.

In the several hours it takes to play through its twisted tale, your heart will definitely be going more doki doki than usual.

It will take you around 12 hours to guide Batman through the twisting tale of See more about «Arkham Origins introduces ultra hardc...»

Soul Sacrifice takes the hint of other formulas in other games and then dramatically warps it into a twisted tale of sorcerers and monsters, redemption and sacrifice.

When we caught up last week, I expected to hear job search woes, but his tale took a refreshingly hopeful twist...

The tale takes place in the «Stalag» of Tweedy's Farm — minus the machine gun towers and jackboots — and comes with a feathery twist; and from a feminist perspective.