Sentences with phrase «twists in his stories as»

The problem is that author Ian McEwan loves having twists in his stories as was the case with Atonement which also starred Saoirse Ronan.

Not exact matches

Failure brings you closer to discovering what works, so instead of calling something a failure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your life story.

The writing is exceptional; the plot constantly twists; the dialog is crisp and clever and never fails to drive the story forward; Damian Lewis is, as always, great; Paul Giamatti is, well, he's Paul Giamatti; the moment Wags, played by David Costabile (the ill - fated Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad), appears in a scene, you instantly smile with anticipation.

The second time we looked at this, we saw the Findus twist bring new energy to the story and as the chart shows, Tesco's Buzz score — which tracks whether consumers have heard something positive or negative about a brand — went further down and is only showing the very first signs of recovery in the last week.

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.

After being abused by my own sister, married to a Methodist minister in Maryland, who both choose to believe the lies, distortions and slander about me based on twisted stories designed to protect the abuser, when the facts are as plain and clear as the sun on their faces... all because they are «in relation» with the abuser, and I should have «kept my truth within the family» and not made it «public.»

Yet, Ethan Canin succeeds — as the writers of Breaking Bad did with Walter White — in making us sympathetic to him and keeping us deeply engaged in all the twists and turns of his story.

In the plot of the local church the story of Christ weaves itself throughout the erotic narrative, sometimes accepting and affirming the church's story as it stands (thus linking Christ and Eros), sometimes teasing (or unfolding) the congregational narrative toward the promise of the kingdom, sometimes prophetically contradicting the erotic story by disputing (thus thickening) its development, and sometimes actually transforming congregational culture by twisting its plot.

The story has taken many twists and turns as detailed in the report above, but now The Sun have claimed that this isn't the first time that Simpson has been involved with a footballer.

Another day, another big shift in the Jose Mourinho to Manchester United story... Last night, a series of sensational tweets exploded out of Manchester as the highly regarded United forum Red Issue, made some sweeping statements about the twisted power struggle currently going on behind the scenes at Old Trafford.

Sam George's revelation appear to introduce a different twist of the story as it suggests that the purchased vehicles were also included in the list presented to the new government as vehicles available for its use.

This is the latest twist in a story that began in the late 1980s, when Kip Thorne and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena suggested that although the construction of a time machine might pose considerable practical difficulties, there is nothing in the laws of physics as understood at present to make such a device an impossibility.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

«Coco,» which has the twists and turns of the kind of black - and - white melodramas Ernesto starred in, is in some respects as old - fashioned a story as they come about the close bonds of family; the many zestily - drawn characters speak entertainingly to the push and pull of tradition within that bubble and across generations.

Despite the rather distracting faux - Russian accents — as also heard in «Child 44» — all the performances are fine, but the story is convoluted to the point of being contorted, and the direction fails to energize the twists of the tale.

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.

Ayer's script, co-written by A Good Day to Die Hard's Skip Woods, isn't as tight, and though there are some twists thrown in late in the story, they're not particularly unexpected.

That's why I'm putting it down as essential viewing for anyone who loves rock»n' roll, anyone who ever played in a band, anyone who grew up in the»60s, or anyone who'd simply like to see how a story that starts with one kind of twist — by Joey Dee and the Starliters — can end up six years later on a desolate Hollywood Boulevard with another, leaving us to ponder where music, and we, still might be headed.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

A familiar story of spies, disloyalty, twists, double - crossing and a nuclear plot to destroy the globe, the movie hops from Berlin to Rome, as Henry Cavill's American spy and Armie Hammer's Eastern Bloc stooge team up, with Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in tow.

Twist on original: Like Maleficent, this one is conceived as «the story you don't know», so we're guessing it will deal with how the perky pixie became so jealous in the first place.

As such, your liking for the film may come down to how interesting you find the modest twists and turns in the story.

This is the darker one of the two, though it's not as twisted as AI (# 6, 2001), you can definitely see Spielberg slowly starting to mature in these two films, perhaps under the influence of Stanley Kubrick and Philip K. Dick (who wrote the short story this film is based on).

An incredible story, with such expertly executed plot reveals, twists and turns that, like the very best of page turning novels, kept me sat in front of my TV for its final few hours as I just had to know what happened next.

Using cinematographer Hossein Jafarian's crisp images, Farhadi develops the mode of camerawork that would characterize his subsequent films, a technique that involves constant movement and reframing (especially in the apartment's beautifully designed interiors) in order to follow the shifting of perspectives among characters as well as the story's emotional twists.

At a seemingly lean 105 minutes, the film feels more like 205 minutes as it chugs along to its big twist ending (ahem, Señor Shyamalan at your service), and though the story gains some momentum in the middle with the introduction of a group of ghost hunters, the random change in direction doesn't quite fit with the rest of the film's tone.

And yet, in another twist of the tricky plot, her remark might stand as the moral of a story flecked by moments of hope whose ending has no conclusion.

Arrival's ideas about language prove to be related to the question of the reversibility of time; and there's a fundamental deception in the film's telling that makes the story not quite what it seems, resolving in a twist perhaps a little less wham - bam than, but certainly as sneaky as, one that M. Night Shyamalan might have attempted.

Kyle Patrick Alvarez's C.O.G. is a «becoming a man» tale with a twist of Sedaris (it's adapted from a story in his collection Naked), as his Steinbeck - reading protagonist floats from fields to factory to church pews.

One should always take a movie that starts off with an «Inspired by a true story» blurb with a grain of salt, as the creative forces behind the film are basically admitting that they are going to be making liberal changes in the events of a true story and twisting them for their own agendas.

In both parallel stories, it is the Cecil family of royal advisors — first William (David Thewlis) and then his son Robert (Edward Hogg)-- who act as Svengali to Elizabeth, manipulating her and twisting events to suit their purposes.

But a visionary director should have something more to offer: Either twisting the plot or the characters in an unexpected direction, or using the story as a springboard for the sort of weirdness or kinkiness or personal idiosyncrasies that were missing from past versions of this tale.

We get all this from «Forever After» as well, the twist being that the bulk of the story takes place in a world where Shrek never stopped being that green monster living alone in a swamp.

The story is very predictable and, as we know going in that Gertrude is going to die, there are no surprising twists.

Marshall's relatively unfamiliar story puts director Hudlin at an advantage as he can keep most viewers in suspense among the twists and turns of the trial itself, without having to do anything extraordinary.

This is just one of many lazy story developments in the film, as Stenders (working from a script by James McFarland) is quick to throw all logic out the door in favor of more twists and betrayals.

In between, there's a stupid thing involving a code delivered by an autistic guy (Mercury Rising) that smells a little like first - time screenwriter (s)- itis, as well as a gaggle of story twists that are completely uninteresting except that they're played out by Pearce, Peter Stormare, Lennie James, and Vincent Regan.

Many expectant moviegoers had been describing McTeigue's Poe film as Se7en in 19th Century Baltimore but, sadly, The Raven lacks nearly all the aspects that made David Fincher's serial killer film so captivating — i.e. jaw - dropping reveals, smart twists, and — despite loads of Poe stories to pull from — intriguing murder scenes are all in short supply.

Twists abound in a story that gets credit for jarring narrative directions, but this adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's «All You Zombies» remains limited in its potential, especially as it fails to evolve past its spiritual predecessors «Source Code» and «Looper.»

There's even a nefarious, God - like narrator who provides story prompts between missions, just like a twisted, meddlesome version of the one in Bastion, albeit voiced by the same chap as in Battleblock Theater — still with me?

Where this falters is its need to repeat the same material alluded to in its predecessors, such as the facades of a constructed self and the way media twists its stories to achieve specific agendas.

It's the Cosmic Ghost Rider's time to shine this April as some of Marvel's most acclaimed writers and artists join superstar team Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw to help Cosmic Ghost Rider narrate all of Thanos» heinous exploits in a twisted, all - new story in Thanos Annual # 1.

Although Felix does not make an appearance again, he's mentioned as having fulfilled his duty because the grey rains did fall again in a different part of the world — triggering a whole new tragedy with different NPCs, and a story with twists and turns spanning multiple time skips in the past.

SYNOPSIS: Set in present - day London, the story of three friends Amar (Rez Kempton), Akbar (Sam Vincenti) and Tony (Martin Delaney), sees twists and turns as the characters face sudden and -LSB-...]

Affleck is good, as is the rest of the cast (especially J.K. Simmons and Jon Bernthal) but the script relies way too much on an obvious twist and, of all things, a back story explainer from Simmons in the final act, in which he basically relays Affleck's character's life story for ten whole minutes.

As with most film adaptations of John le Carré, and many of le Carré's stories, the vagaries of the plot in all its inevitable twists and surprises is less important than the memorable characters and the precarious world of betrayal that they inhabit.

In the months leading up to its release, Bradley Rust Gray's Jack and Diane has been marketed as a romance with a twist, a «teenage lesbian werewolf love story» about...

«Black Mass» expertly details the twists and turns of this highly complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its corrupt political machine, as well as exposing the worst scandal in FBI history.

The story of the kids is good enough that the film works as a twisted variation on a coming - of - age tale, in which the fears and traumas of real life are juxtaposed with the fantastical terrors that have plagued this town since its founding.

As she painfully twists and turns, squirming to avoid the truth, he relentlessly extracts a shocking story of opportunism, suffering, and sacrifice attendant on survival in a time of war.