Word: twistings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie has a pretty twist in store. [SPOILER] Nice-guy Marty is indeed the killer - the janitor had let him out of his room, he went to Mavis? place hoping for an anniversary reunion and, when she rudely rejected his affections, he strangled her with his scarf (overtones of Franchot Tone!) - but he doesn?t remember because his alcoholic stupor blotted out the deed. Now that all is clear, he wants to save the husband of the woman he loves. A killer racing against time to turn himself in: that?s a poignant twist...
...Woolrich original had a different twist in mind: the twisting of the woman?s righteous quest into soulless revenge, as, one by one, the suspects die off and our heroine grows callouses on her conscience. The book was a variation on Woolrich?s first novel, ?The Bride Wore Black,? which was also the story of a woman who, having been infected by wrongful death, spreads the contagion around to other innocent people. (The woman may have transferred her husband?s betrayal onto other...
...decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without this poetic twist, or much else in its favor - as ?Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso? / ?Seven Blood-Stained Roses...
...little people--Frodo, his companion Sam (Sean Astin) and the ex-hobbit Gollum (Andy Serkis and a lot of CGI geniuses) on their way to Mount Doom with a mission to destroy the Ring. Cringing and crafty, Gollum is the rebellious servant, subverting Sam's selfless impulses, trying to twist allegiance of the pallid, ailing Frodo away from his friend. (So poignant are Gollum's turbid emotions, and so persuasively is this computer critter integrated with the live performers, that he deserves a special acting Oscar for Best ... Thing.) The devotion of Sam is inspiring. His plea to Frodo...
...strategy of buttering up Menino will ultimately prove successful is hard to say. Certainly, Summers seemed to recognize in his remarks last Thursday that the mayor drives a hard bargain, claiming that the housing development was a testimony to Menino’s “capacity to twist arms.” Nevertheless, Summers went on to explain exactly what it will take for Harvard and Boston to get along. The answer, it seems: money. As Summers put it, “It was once famously said that it takes a village to raise a child. I would...