Sentences with phrase «usual kind of stories»

Both really aren't my usual kind of stories (they're more «otaku - targeted» if that makes sense?)

Not exact matches

I realize this kind of behavior is not the usual story, and so right around now, when the weather is starting to be sunny and 70 degrees, people bring their grills out of hibernation.

Steve: So that's the cover story of the June issue, and we have our usual assortment of other fascinating pieces, something on a whole new kind of mineral that was discovered in the Earth's mantle.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Deviating from the usual Marvel formula, Spider - Man: Homecoming filtered the story of your friendly neighborhood Spider - Man through the lens of a high school drama, imbuing the Wallcrawler with the kind of adolescent struggles that everyone can relate to at one time or another.

The rest of the movie is the usual fish - out - of - water kind of story (or, given the recurring swim - class theme, human - in - water kind of story), in which Nick must learn to be a good person before he can work his way back.

The usual I we are given has all the tidy containment of the kind of character the realist novel specializes in and none of the porousness of our every waking moment, the loose threads, the strange dreams, the forgettings and misrememberings, the portions of a life lived through others» stories, the incoherence and inconsistency, the pantheon of dei ex machina and the companionability of ghosts.

As the story unfolds, Huang will be tasked with all of the usual kinds of GTA mayhem, but there are plenty of new additions and tweaks to the usual formula that play up the Nintendo DS's strengths.

It was Uncharted: Greatest Hits and the story and performances were good but nothing more — kind of business as usual.

But all I ever get in response to this request is the usual web - blogger science, or «I personally don't understand it therefore it can't be happening» kind of stories.