Sentences with phrase «twists his story into»

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.

Not exact matches

Just to throw another twist into the story, this Neanderthal's mitochondria didn't come from the same group as those belonging to other previously analysed Neanderthal bones.

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

It's time honored tradition for the conquering empire our country to absorb the local population by desecrating their temples, and twisting their gods to fit in to the ruling empires pantheon or in the holy roman empire's case, to fit into the jesus story.

People always want to twist some portion into their belief and forget the bigger, MORE important picture of the whole story.

New Testament books often twisted verses from the Old to try to make them fit into the Jesus story.

I find it amusing how this story has gotten twisted into a protest against «faith - based» companies.

Some of them allow you to put photos which are printed up into the book like a photo album, but with the twist that there's a story illustrated around them.

However, a total of six hours of original story is crammed into just two hours and the twists make you dizzy.

It stings for older women, but before the mature ladies completely lose faith in humanity, younger men throw a twist into the story.

Puzzle Agent 2 contains a decent story along with a unique art presentation and plenty of mind - taxing puzzles to twist the second tale of Tethers into a title sure to entertain and challenge casual puzzle gaming aficionados.

Part sci - fi, part medical thriller, part romantic drama, «I Origins» has a pleasing way of working expansive ideas into a suspenseful, twisting story line, even if it occasionally has to wrench the story around tight turns.

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

We also get a (too) generous helping of the JERSEY SHORE cast, thanks to a plot twist in the film's third episode (it's cut into three parts - that tell one continuous story) that sees the boys separated for a while.

The story sometimes slips into soapy territory, but when you think the schmaltz is going to ruin it, Yamada gives it just enough of a twist to make you realize this is not your regular romantic film.

It's the little, almost imperceptible twists to the story that make Blockers a worthy entry into the teen sex comedy canon, most notably that girls and women are funny and can play more than the killjoy or the babe.

It's trippier than «Ex Machina,» and Garland makes a valiant go of its concerns, but «Annihilation» feels like a short - story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

Into the Woods is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a musical format that follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel - all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.

The real story of the film has said slacker finally growing into a quasi-functional person and maturing by facing up to the past of the girl he so loves, which itself is given a LITERAL twist in the form of the League of Evil Exes.

You can pretty much guess that this side story gets twisted into the main one before the film wraps up.

One of the best things about Treasure Planet is that it puts several twists on the original story, such as changing the parrot to being an alien called Morph; the crazy Ben Gunn becomes a robot who lost his memory banks; and the alien characteristics imbedded into the familiar characters also loosened its ties to Treasure Island.

Penned by Max Landis and directed by Josh Trank, while «reinvention» would be too strong a word, «Chronicle» does a nice job of twisting the standard genre tropes into a pleasantly refreshing, highly entertaining story that features no costumes, no villains, no score, and even at less than 90 minutes, a fair amount of substance.

Writer / director Joby Harold effectively drops a big fat twist into the center of his story, which helps make up for the lethargy of the first half's build - up to surgery.

K is established as a purposefully shallow protagonist, initially meant to serve as the viewers» conduit into future Los Angeles, but several twists and a surprisingly powerful love story, aided by Gosling's subtle performance, make K a unique and heart - breaking hero.

A nifty twist on the standard ghost story, this British period drama starts extremely well and then slips into overwrought melodrama.

«CODE VEIN provides a fresh anime aesthetic and blood - curdling gameplay twists to the popular 3rd - person action RPG genre,» said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing for BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. «The talented development team at BANDAI NAMCO Studios is creating a tightly crafted experience filled with plenty of challenge that our fans crave along with a smart and engaging story that is sure to draw players deeper into the world of CODE VEIN.

These stories slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness...»

Based upon the comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), it tells the story of The Kingsman, a super-secret spy organisation that recruits a promising teen (Taron Egerton) into their ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Doing what every good sequel should, Taken 2 puts the audience back into the exciting world of the first film where they can enjoy those lovable characters as well as a new twist on the story.

Since things are seldom what they seem, writer - director Baumbach introduces a major twist three - quarters of the way into the story, and suddenly it all makes sense.

Step into the darkness of The Emporium with eight unique characters, each with a rich back story and a surprising plot - twist.

One could take the film as an easy condemnation of the false promise of the American Dream, and Spinelli and director Doug Liman definitely lean into that concept with the story's twist on the small - business - man - makes - good angle (The title is kind of a giveaway, too).

But if you can surrender to the way Anderson tells a story, this is a delightful, sly treat, a cinematic bon bon of malcontented lust and power twisted into a perverted romance.

Also starring Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Mark Hamill (yes, that Mark Hamill), Mark Strong, Jack Davenport and Samuel L. Jackson, the film «tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius».

The plot twists are easy to see coming, a contrived deus ex machina rescue attempt from Edith's Dr. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) is preposterous and hard to believe — when intelligent characters behave like fools, in this case charging into the lion's den armed only with accusations, not weapons or anything useful — and the unnecessary inclusion of a twirling little papillon — seriously, such a superfluous Spielberg - like addition to the story, a cute dog, stymies an atmosphere of fright in exchange for what exactly?

From the Studio: «Into the Woods» is a modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters» wishes and quests.

What is so special about The Miniaturist is that despite its delicious and unfamiliar period setting, its concerns are absolutely modern: privacy, sexuality, corruption, commerce, hypocrisy, race, public shaming... all woven into a tightly plotted story full of surprising twists.»

Seriously folks, I'm one of those people who really gets into the story while watching a movie, and thus, I'm often not looking out for twists and turns.

Even when we finally get the whole of Victor and Beatrice's back story, part of us is still expecting one more twist to be thrown at us, meaning that we never quite settle into the story.

In particular, the great cryptanalyst Joan Clarke's life is twisted into a series of plot devices that never quite ring true while her actual story should have been more than interesting enough.

Feeling at times like a faithful pastiche of horror classics past, almost an extended episode of Dyson's former League cohorts» TV masterpiece Inside No. 9, Ghost Stories wears its inspiration on its sleeve while twisting the tried and true into something a bit fresher and horribly fun / unpleasant to watch.

If you're coming into this expecting a mind - bending, plot - twisted story like the previous Xenoblade title, you may be disappointed.

He's not a visual surrealist so much as an emotional surrealist, his stories taking you into bizarre worlds and twisted circumstances.

But this proves to be more than just a ghost story, as the twists turn it into a full - blown mystery that stirs up memories of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca.

It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.

It's a convoluted twist on Richard Matheson's «Button, Button» short story, which was adapted into a classic Twilight Zone episode and the bonkers Richard Kelley movie The Box, but Collet - Serra is less interested in the moral dilemma.

Code Veronica has one of the more outlandish narratives in the series, and copiously piles in more twists and turns into a convoluted story arc that was beginning to sag under its own weight.

As the story unspools, it becomes clearer and clearer that the problems of «Skyfall» (thin storytelling and an unfortunate insistence on delving into James» backstory) are back, but with a twist.