Sentences with phrase «with odd story»

Images of him on foreign trips with Fox, combined with odd stories about Werritty claiming to be an «adviser» to the defence secretary, built up a picture of a man in the twilight, just offstage, having the air of the powerful.

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I find this an odd thing to say (although I certainly agree with the idea), because there is no discussion of sex at all in the creation story (not till after the fall), only companionship.

• In response to Yoffe's story, Drinan's family issued a non-denial: «We find it odd that anyone would come forward with this allegation decades later when our uncle is dead and in no position to defend himself.»

The second Story - substitute proposal suggests that moral rights and duties can be squeezed out of the characters themselves, without the aid of any Story - like the odd movie that succeeds with good characters even without the benefit of a discernible plot.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

But as damaging and hurtful as my childhood was, these are still my stories that I tell with an odd, confusing sense of nostalgia.

Considering Job's story is based well after the death of Moses (which oddly enough happens beofer the end of the first 5 books, yet he's credited with being the author... always found that odd).

Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories with a dear friend.

The banter climaxes when McAffrey presents Della with a necklace of pens and she finally admits that when someone reads a big news story they should have «newsprint on their hands», an odd thing to emphasise in a political thriller.

-LSB-...] The oddest part of this story is what the Journal News intends to do with the names once they have them.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a a new movie by Disney that is the story of a couple, Cindy and Jim Green (played by Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton), who desperately want to have a child of their own, but are only left with their dreams of who he might be.

The director who is known for his earlier works like The Sixth Sense, Signs, and more recently, The Visit, is accustomed to bringing very odd and open ended stories that largely deal with bigger forces than we can control.

One of the best WWII - themed games ever released... Despite minor flaws with the story's continuity, length of game and odd mission choices, the game stands strong as one of the best of this year.

If you're familiar with Wilde, you'll probably expect a few misunderstandings and odd contrivances to dominate most of the story, which by today's standards aren't very fresh, but with Wilde, the pleasure derives from the journey, not the destination.

It's an uneven movie with some odd jolts in the story, but the performances — especially from Patricia Clarkson — are noteworthy.

In the end, it is a fine film with what should have been a dramatically effective ending, that I was not connected to at all, due to its odd pacing and underdeveloped story.

It morphs from historical drama into an odd little PG - rated ghost story with surreal flourishes.

It had an odd development history with origins in Russia and it featured a story and setting based on the...

With heavy overtones of Hitchcockian mystery and intrigue, this stylish thriller is the enjoyably melodramatic story of a rather odd 9 - year - old boy and the adults caught in a twisted vortex around him.

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A series of flashbacks fill us in on the back story, including a montage of him testing out different costumes, torturing and killing goons to find his nemesis, reconnecting with his bartender buddy Weasel (T.J. Miller), and finding a blind roommate (Leslie Uggams) who won't mind the sight of him or his odd masturbation ritual.

It's quirky and odd with an outrageous story and over-the-top characters, and that may not sit well with some people, but that's the kind of game Swery is known to make.

As U.N. investigator Gerry Lane, it is his story that leads us through another zombie apocalypse, starting with the odd happenings during his rush hour in Philadelphia, to his increasingly desperate globe - trotting in an... Read More»

The story focuses on the painfully odd teen, Duncan (Liam James), who is forced into a vacation with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell) who's decided it's his job to educate and humiliate Duncan over the course of their stay.

There also is an odd feel to the make - up of the city itself, nondescript, with an intentional microcosm of different nationalities, races, genders and accents (It is claimed that author Saramago had the producers agree the story not be set in any recognizable city and without named characters, like the novel).

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

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The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

He also had the good fortune to work with some of the best film composers in the business, ranging from John Barry to Jerry Goldsmith to Ennio Morricone... to Maurice Jarre, for his 1971 western Red Sun, which features the somewhat odd story of a Japenese ambassador who has his priceless samurai sword stolen and so much enlist the help of a gunman - Charles Bronson - to recover it.

And far from being definitive, the creative minds behind Leatherface have merely stitched together pieces of the mythology we already know into a story that has less to do with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and more to do with the Wrong Turn series and its increasingly odd sequels.

Known for directing beautiful, intense British dramas (and the odd episode of British teen drama Byker Grove), Tom Hooper returns to the big screen with the award - winning The Danish Girl, a delicate, sensitive story of love, friendship, and being true to oneself.

He then finds an odd note on a bathroom wall with an old man promising to tell fascinating stories.

The film tells the story of an ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, who takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a «foolish» fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate (Danny Devito), a street magician (Jon Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnett) and a self - admiring model (Dax Shepard).

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

Grim Prairie Tales (Wayne Coe — 1990) An odd anthology film that spends more time with its wrap - around story than the 4 tales spun from it.

The story itself is fairly standard — a quarreling odd couple learn about themselves and each other through a perilous journey — but Stoller embellishes the tone with a sense of deep weirdness.

HEARTS IN ATLANTIS (Grade: A): Scott Hicks («Shine») adapts this Stephen King story (with screenwriter William Goldman) about the friendship between an odd, threadbare, literature - quoting recluse (Anthony Hopkins in an understated, serene performance) and his adolescent neighbor (Anton Yelchin).

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.

Valkyria Chronicles is an odd beast: a grim war story constructed with standard anime elements, all wrapped around an unusual twist on turn - based strategy and painted with every bright color in the palette.

It seems odd that the story of Joy Mangano, queen of home shopping, would make for such a fascinating movie, but under the hands of David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) and with star Jennifer Lawrence in the titular role, the movie comes off as an inspirational, thrilling movie, with style coming out of its pores.

Its framing story something to do with the approach of the odd couple's first year anniversary, the wise - cracking duo of gorilla Turk and elephant Tantor remind Jane of the tumult of T & J's common - law existence.

He tries to make himself comfortable, searching out a suitable hiding place for his journal, starting a puzzle, and making conversation with Terrence (John Neville), a fellow occupant with many odd stories.

McMartin is more interested in telling a feel - good Hollywood story than she is in telling a real and nuanced one, which is odd since this is her story (she's obviously the real life Charlie) and it would be more compelling with some shades of gray and relatable emotion.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

TV and movies are filled with stories of stone - faced assassins, but only this one comes from the exceptionally odd comic mind of «Saturday Night Live» alumni Bill Hader.

The film's basic stylistic realism is provocatively at odds with its purposely preposterous story; a throwback at once to the luxurious American melodramas of the forties and fifties and to postwar European filmmaking, haunted by the new realities of a ravaged, upside - down world, this gorgeously odd picture plays like a cross between Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, with a dash of John Frankenheimer's Seconds — communicated, crucially, through the specific experience of Jewish - German identity.

An interesting premise, The Beaver tells the odd story of Walter Black (Mel Gibson), an executive with severe depression.

It seems like an odd attempt to tell the Armenian genocide story with a Hollywood cast.

That's an odd disparity, considering that The Disaster Artist is mostly faithful to its source material, but percentages aside, Franco does take a few liberties with the story.

Pak goes on to point out two lesser known Silver Surfer stories that both happen to show the character as part of an odd duality with other characters.