Sentences with phrase «twisty tale»

In this twisty tale of manipulations, Midnight finds himself caught between two girls - one who is lost, the other who creates her own story.

Fourteenth - century London comes alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower — a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder.

It's a twisted twisty tale that finds humor in unexpected places, with a juicy role for Isabelle Huppert.

Set in Japanese - occupied Korea in the 1930's, it's a twisty tale of love and revenge that's just brutal but also romantic in its own way.

Our guide through the convolutions of this twisty tale is Turkish (Jason Statham), an unlicensed boxing promoter who is business partners and best friends with Tommy (Stephen Graham), who is in the slot machine business.

Writer Sarah Polley, director Mary Harron and star Sarah Gadon deliver a twisty tale of murder and transgressive femininity in Netflix's Margaret Atwood adaptation.

In true King fashion, this dark, twisty tale will leave you on the edge of your seat (and pretty creeped out).

They're all reunited for a twisty tale that finds the gang globe - hopping in an effort to locate a nuclear device before anyone else does.

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

Not exact matches

But at least as twisty is how it came to pass that a IV is the son, rather than the grandson, of a Jr., which is intimately related to the tale of the two Adam Clayton Powell IVs.

Simon Pegg «s charisma helps subvert expectations in Vaughn Stein «s directorial debut, Terminal, a twisty crime movie with a fairy tale aesthetic.

7:30 am — TCM — The 39 Steps My vote for Hitchcock's finest British - era film follows Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll though a twisty and witty tale of spies and mistaken identities.

With vivid, painterly artwork and a twisty plot that includes everything from demons and genies to drug runners and Israeli soldiers, the book sets its magic - realist tale of adventure and enlightenment in the context of the always volatile Middle East.

A twisty, Gothic tale that contains a story - within - a-story, it features a mythical «Cemetery of Forgotten Books,» a reclusive author and a Barcelona that is still reeling from the Spanish Civil War.

As today's freebie treat: The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales is up on Amazon Kindle as free download for the 8th & 9th.

Even the original Nintendo is peppered with a few greatly twisted tales, but game endings have only become weirder, twistier, and morally grayer as time goes on Metroid (1986) As space pirate Samus... Continue reading →