Sentences with phrase «with more suspense»

Frankly (and mostly unfortunately), I don't think we will be presented with a second season unless the first serie find a way to evolve with more suspense and... action.

Not exact matches

If you can add an element of anticipation to build a little tension, anxiety or suspense, you can hold the attention of an audience until you're ready to release your punch line with much more impact.

Doesn't always supply the smoothest ride of revelations and comeuppance, spending more time sorting out its homework than dealing with the sweet slings of sleaze and suspense that often define the genre.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

The plot plays out like a very bad Silver Age comic, with a cringeworthy heavy - handed «Captain Planet» - esque anti-nuclear weapon message, beyond cheesy plot consisting of multiple meaningless subplots, mediocre effects - driven action sequences that induce laughter rather than suspense, and actors who seem more disinterested than the next.

This retread has been bloated far beyond its B - movie origins, beefed up with more characters and an all - star cast, stripped of any real suspense and loaded down with music cuts and one - liners aimed at pleasing a crowd of rowdy male teenagers.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

Affleck certainly did this story justice, trusting the audience with a significant amount of detail and developing suspense on a more cerebral level, leaving you with a deeper respect and understanding of the situation.

As with his later Pickpocket (1959)-- also a great film — Bresson is more interested in the everyday details of the escape, and not the suspense.

Other recent noirs from the Warner Archive Collection include Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express (1948)(a more romantic noir on a train), John Farrow's The Fallen Sparrow (1943), The Bribe (1949) with Ava Gardner and Robert Taylor, Suspense (1946) and Lightning Strikes Twice (1951).

One of the more consistently underlined truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of suspense as a director with full control over every effect in his films.

Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.

Compared to the previous entries, the action in Alien 3 is fairly minimal, with the alien attacks coming more out of shock than suspense this time out.

This is a classic Hitchcock film, but credit should go more to the deft script by playwright Frederick Knott with a really smart succession of twists and turns to keep you in suspense.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

While it shares similarities with its current - gen predecessor Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Downpour looks like more of a return to form in terms of how it builds atmosphere and suspense through the relative helplessness of its protagonist, Murphy Pendleton.

It may not top the list of films that purport to «scare» — a goal that seems to be becoming increasingly unrealistic — this heady mixture of atmosphere and suspense is far more concerned with making filmgoers uncomfortable.

The film concludes in a more conventional manner, perhaps, than might be expected, in that it's a flight to freedom — or maybe a fool's errand — but remains gripping and tense, balancing suspense and narrative drive with emotional entanglement and an unerring sense of dread.

by Walter Chaw Nicknamed «The Italian Hitchcock,» Dario Argento is more aptly classified «The Italian DePalma»: a director with his own set of stylistic excesses who, especially early in his career, borrowed many tropes from the Master of Suspense en route to crafting his own distinctive thrillers.

Superbly acted with a deliciously creepy score from Michael Abels that ingeniously mixes up Swahili vocals (another ghostly warning echoing from the past) with Bernard Herrmann-esque suspense, the movie is a treat for the intellect, gut and funny bone: 12 Years a Slave meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, yet infinitely less glib, more ghoulishly delightful and more endlessly surprising than that description implies.

Admittedly, the production value has improved with more characterful creature effects and the claustrophobic locations make for more scope for suspense, but the pedestrian direction and tired formula makes the film feel like a TV movie with little in the way of flair or imagination.

Rarely does the lead actress category provide more suspense than leading gentlemen and rarely is it as packed with fine performances as it is this year.

Only the score is genuinely unusual, with thrash metal combined with more creepy elements that go a long way towards building some suspense that might otherwise be lacking.

Ditto for the finale, a completely ludicrous search and rescue plot that does more to turn an audience against Kim for recklessly endangering her life and the lives of the soldiers tasked with protecting her than it does to create suspense.

Monroe and Cotten are compelling enough as a husband and wife who've had it with each other, and more suspense comes from wondering to what degree their younger foils will be hurt along the way.

reached this ending and Alma and Reynolds reached a perverse understanding, I felt as if I had watched one of Hitchcock's later, more psychologically explicit films — albeit one layered with an aching vulnerability that the Master of Suspense wouldn't have dared.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Jaws 2 surfaces from the deep with even more terror and suspense!

Luckily Scott's formidable visual style and, more importantly, skill at the more down - and - dirty genre requirements is as sharp and confident as ever, the slow burn building up and paying off in thrilling fashion, delivering all the queasy body horror one would expect and then some with imagination and nailbiting suspense.

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Instead, the film feels more like an expertly crafted missed opportunity, a suspense opus filled with some solidly intriguing ideas that for some reason it refuses to investigate.

This is certainly the strangest project in Sudeikis» career to date, and while it's nice to see him expand his range beyond more traditional studio comedies, his broad style never quite syncs with the story's odd tonal shifts between comedy, drama and suspense.

(Mom's an issue, too, though what's happened to her and what her relationship is with her sons is a matter of some suspense, so I won't say much more than that.)

On the menu are political British Gangster dramas, Nazi propaganda films, Art - Giallo hommages, silent comedies, a knuckle - biter suspense spectacular, the Bard with music «n guns, more 80s nostalgia and TVs Party Down.

The film is definitely more action - oriented than its predecessor, less concerned with building suspense than watching its would - be victims fight off a never - ending onslaught of crazies («The Warriors» and «Assault on Precinct 13» were obvious influences), but there are still so many questions about the sheer absurdity of the premise that it's hard to invest in the story.

Even the above - average cast — with Paul Giamatti livening things up as the requisite concerned - scientist / exposition - delivery - machine — can't seem to make it work as anything more than a series of reasons to get from point A to point B. Which should be fine, given that it's how disaster movies generally play, but Peyton can't sustain suspense past the first earthquake scene, set at Hoover Dam.

With so much to get to, let's not waste any more time building suspense.

The pirates» approach unfolds with more tension and suspense than any horror movie idea.

It's her strong yet delicate performance in combination with the suspense of «who will survive» that makes Testament of Youth more than just another stuffy war era drama.

Directed with that genre's same sense of understated, but lethal, suspense borne of uncertainty by Anton Corbijn it updates the action from... Read More»

Using Acting Skills in the Classroom Students will be more engaged and behave better when educators teach with enthusiasm, using acting techniques such as physical and vocal animation, role - playing, and the use of suspense and surprise, according to the authors of a book on acting lessons for teachers.

This month, for example, you will find a suspense story about a blogger who unravels the mystery of a hijacked ship carrying stolen Russian missiles to Iran; a gorgeously written novella about a bullfighter matched with a seemingly indestructible bull, a financial guide to retirement in the new economic reality, and more — all well worth your time and attention.

It is difficult to say more without spoiling the signal pleasure of Jane Harris's story, for the author has succeeded where the narrator fails: in telling a seamless story with near - perfect control whose very style becomes the source of its suspense.

- Publishers Weekly «Lacking mystery and low on suspense, this installment reads more like a family in extremis soap opera larded with Native American lore.

Robinson, a media veteran of more than three decades, works with authors of mysteries, suspense, and thrillers as well as authors of non-fiction and children's books.

I agree with the other readers that there are definitely more talented mystery writers, whose books I regularly reach for, and that this author could improve upon character development, pacing and building suspense / tension.

Last year's Die Trying inspired even more: «a suspense writer to be reckoned with» (Chicago Tribune) and» [Reacher is] one of the more fully realized and intelligently resourceful heroes to come along in years» (Rocky Mountain News).

With more than one mystery being unraveled simultaneously, The Dry keeps up a brisk pace, is full of surprises, and has the right balance of tension without overindulging in the brutal, tense - suspense formula of many potboilers today.

- Booklist «Deeply scented with atmosphere, Eric Lundgren's The Facades possesses more depth than a whodunit without relinquishing its existential suspense.»

Add to all of that Amber's devious plot to steal away Daphne's husband (with some twists that I can not mention, since that would be giving away major plot spoilers), and, here too, the authors grab the reader with just the right amount of suspense to turn this into a real psychological thriller, but it is also not overly heavy or dark, making it all the more readable.