| 单词 | potboiler |
| 例句 | “Dying,” a jazzy potboiler has enough room for silly wordplay, a chanteuse ghost played by Maya Rudolph and the occasional animated segment. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z But it also made Bloodline, a Damages-style potboiler, and Orange Is the New Black, a Showtime-esque drama/comedy from the creator of Weeds. NBC Wants to Be Netflix. Netflix Wants to Be NBC. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Lavender should be able to write his third, fourth and fifth puzzle-crazy potboilers on the visceral strength of the first two. Books of The Times: Literature Can Turn Most Lethal 2011-07-06T21:30:34Z We were redshirt extras inside a potboiler driven by, and customized for, the adrenaline urges of a conflict junkie. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The satire here is disguised as farce masquerading as a stage potboiler. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In Southworth’s books, sentimental potboilers with titles such as “Mystery of Raven Rocks,” “A Beautiful Fiend,” “The Doom of Deville,” “The Curse of Clifton” and “The Missing Bride,” the action never stops. The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z This is the hypothesis that Monica Ali sets forth in her potboiler of a new novel, “Untold Story.” Books of The Times: Imagining a Secret Life for Diana 2011-06-13T22:41:42Z Even this fall Dr Ken, about an Korean family, is doing well on ABC as is Quantico, a potboiler with a female Indian lead, maybe the first in TV history. The best (and worst) US culture 2015: TV 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z In the American phase of his career, Mr. Verhoeven, who started out in the Netherlands, was a blockbuster sleight-of-hand artist, disguising pungent, politically tinged satires as noisy sci-fi action movies and overheated potboilers. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The last books Millay read, including “Italian Self-Taught” and a Georges Simenon potboiler about a sea captain’s suicidal wife, are stacked on a library table. Antiques: Edna St. Vincent Millay?s Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore 2010-07-29T20:44:00Z It's a potboiler about a French governess who was falsely accused of murder and thrown in a dungeon. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z His third symphony, the so-called Organ Symphony, is sometimes derided as a potboiler, but I submit that there are few joy-delivery systems better than the piece’s finale. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z A potboiler about very intense male friendship, it’s a sui generis phenomenon that became a runaway hit. Review: ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Traumatic Tale of Male Friendship 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s a cheap, cheesy, wooden, stupid potboiler that hinges on a premise so dumb that you can only conclude that the characters deserve everything they get because they’re all such catastrophic morons. Why does Netflix keep making so many cheap TV movies? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But in recent years he has dropped off the film-making radar: his last completed film was the anti-death penalty potboiler The Life of David Gale in 2003. Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set' 2013-01-24T19:00:00Z Splashy potboilers — the most popular numbers from Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony — opened and closed the concert. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z If you need something else to watch on Sunday nights, try getting into new hit Quantico, a surprisingly satisfying sudsy potboiler only a few episodes into its run. Netflix and stress: is binge-watching out of hand? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Jenna Bans, the show’s creator, is a longtime writer and producer on several Shonda Rhimes shows and has also created “The Family,” a domestic potboiler, and “Off the Map,” a sultry medical drama. On ‘Good Girls,’ They’re the Criminal Moms Next Door 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The works were treated like cheap potboilers, subjected to the kinds of cuts, interpolations and fudgings unthinkable in Mozart, Beethoven or Wagner. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “I was disappointed in the book when I first read it because it’s very long,” said the director, who called Puzo’s book “a bit of a potboiler”. An offer they couldn't refuse: The Godfather cast reunite, 45 years on 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps the Met carefully planned this deep dive into verismo, that blood-and-guts, heart-on-sleeve, homicidally inclined genre of Italian potboiler that flourished around the turn of the 20th century. Review: Met Opera’s Dreary January Is Brightened by ‘Cav/Pag’ 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z For all its graphic crime and intentional potboiler homage, "True Detective" is the most obvious descendant of the recently concluded "Mad Men." 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Shrewdly, Gibson is stepping back out to meet audiences in "Darkness," a relatively low-risk genre potboiler that's right in his wheelhouse. 2010-01-15T03:56:00Z That may seem an unlikely birthplace for an Italian potboiler. Music Review: At Rose Theater, a Gritty Neapolitan Love Triangle 2010-05-25T22:35:00Z Sylvia Plath’s mother has insisted that her daughter thought of the book as a “potboiler” and did not want it published in the United States. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Their first pilot season yielded Amazon’s first original drama, the so-so political potboiler Alpha House, which debuted earlier this year. Amazon's new pilots: Sevigny shines in standout show The Cosmopolitans 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z That was followed, surely for the first time in history, by a piece by Ponchielli, composer of the 19th century Italian potboiler opera "La Gioconda," the kind of music Reich hates most. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Presented as a series of overlapping, metaphor-thick monologues, “Battle” is a potboiler with poetic style to spare. Kieron Barry’s ‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A Love Triangle 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Fisher mined her potboiler life for fiction and nonfiction, most notably in the novel “Postcards From the Edge.” Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z To those familiar with only Orwell’s later, more pared-down work, “Burmese Days” offers a diverting glimpse at what qualifies as a potboiler by Orwellian standards. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z "The Closer" strains to be street wise but mostly projects the tight-sphinctered, Fox News Channel conservatism of a CBS crime potboiler. A last hurrah for Kyra Sedgwick's brilliant kook 2011-07-12T13:13:00Z The mood was festive, the audience large and enthusiastic, for the gala premiere on New Year’s Eve of a rare new production of Umberto Giordano’s lovably preposterous potboiler “Fedora” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The previous year, The Green Berets, Wayne's jingoistic Vietnam potboiler, had divided audiences, been ridiculed by the press and shunned by the Oscars. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z Reviews of Ferrante’s work note how liberally her work borrows elements of the romance and the potboiler: the unapologetic melodrama, the cliffhangers. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Take respite from the heat and eye strain with “Beach Reads: From Sand to Screen,” nine days of guilty pleasures spun from popular midcentury potboilers, starting Aug. 7 at the Quad in Manhattan. The Week in Arts: Dancing Around Graves, Beach Read Flicks and ‘GLOW’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z As it progressed, “Spoils” became less about potboiler pulp and more about artistic integrity because Williams’s character — wouldn’t you know? — had a code. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z If you want a dark, British crime show, a family potboiler or an excursion into comic books, they've got you covered. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The shock of realizing how little has changed over the decades is the main reason to revisit this potboiler. ‘Within the Law’ Is a Revival Focusing on Social Justice 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z And “The Bell Jar” is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures; it is literature. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In a five-star review, Observer film critic Mark Kermode called it “a deliriously disorienting experience that can be read as either political parable or pulpy potboiler – preferably both”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Shepherd returns to the US, and forges a career writing hugely popular Aztec potboilers. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z Too many ingredients don’t spoil this potboiler, but they do leave a slightly sour aftertaste. Book review: ‘The Siege,’ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Though this tale of a woman’s search for a missing friend is built using basic potboiler blocks, “Sandra,” which opened Sunday at the Vineyard Theater, is far from generic. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Chewing on a line like that, Shannon is the only the actor who seems to recognize that this material is more suited to a potboiler than a limp, contrived spiritual parable. ‘The Quarry’ Review: Traveling With a Guilty Conscience 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s Latino Theater Company satire disguised as farce masquerading as a potboiler. 5 picks: What's on our radar for art, theater, music and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Legendary among them were the ones adapted from bestseller potboilers built around a torrid affair or a romanticized setting. Netflix's lush "Self Made" deftly glams up an underexposed history 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Is Milo, the guy who arrives in a potboiler twist at the end of the first episode, going to upset everything like his namesake in CBeebies' Tweenies? TV review: The Last Weekend; The Function Room; I'm Spazticus 2012-08-19T22:15:01Z The experimental composer — inspired by myths, potboilers and the rhythms of American speech, as well as elements of pop and jazz — made operas like no one else. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He already knows what the first copycat will be: Mr. Barry owns the rights to the French Revolution potboiler “Scaramouche,” which has more than its share of swashbuckling opportunities. Battle-Honed Commander Unleashes Pirates 2011-02-25T00:04:44Z And in his equatorial travels, represented here by illustrations commissioned for his potboiler of a travelogue in the 1890s, Twain’s own disgust at the track record of imperialism and white dominance becomes palpable. Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z “Hell or High Water” If anyone wants to live in Texas after watching this nifty potboiler about oil and guns, then they’re made of sturdier stock than I am. The Rex Reed of Central Texas dares to predict the Oscar for best film 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z "This is a heck of a potboiler to swallow whole," she wrote. Reitman shifts gears with 'Labor Day' at Toronto film fest 2013-09-07T22:13:24Z Such conflicts are the stuff of old-fashioned potboilers. Review: This ‘Daddy’ Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z McGee’s staging winks knowingly at the play’s potboiler narrative and creaky dramaturgy: Stylized sound and lighting cues underscore soap-opera-style developments, and the characters react to events in deliberately exaggerated fashion. Review | Bravo for reviving the play that scandalized Jane Austen’s world 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Traditional in structure and sometimes veering into potboiler territory, the Naples novels follow the friendship of two women, Elena and Lila, from their impoverished childhoods in postwar Naples well into the women's 60s. Elena Ferrante, Author of Naples Novels, Stays Mysterious 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “Casablanca” was intended as wartime propaganda, but it was also a riveting potboiler of romance and intrigue that won Oscars for best picture, director and screenplay. Madeleine LeBeau, French actress who sang ‘La Marseillaise’ in ‘Casablanca,’ dies at 92 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Aside from a tour in a popular potboiler, Beazley gave up acting. Sam Beazley obituary 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z A truer comparison would be to the Showtime potboiler “The Affair”: the reliance on fraught flashbacks and the feeling of being underwater, in a constant state of unease. Review: Jessica Biel in ‘The Sinner,’ a Whydunit 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z This Orientalist potboiler may be known chiefly for the sweeping tenor aria “Nessun dorma,” but this season its leading ladies are the draws. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z In her first season in Hanover, Berman scored a hit with Halévy’s religious potboiler “La Juive” — which, like Meyerbeer’s grand operas, faded from the repertory by the early 20th century. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “Salome” is a feminist potboiler, a tale of enterprise and upward mobility that follows Sonya Mendel from sweatshop seamstress to prosperous fashion designer. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z One senses that there’s a quieter, more thoughtful drama agitating in this rattling potboiler, but as yet, it’s still on the simmer. In 'Sunset Baby,' a reunion sets the stage for rage 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The sketchy motivations involving cruel fathers and sexual jealousy aren’t that far removed from the sort of costumed potboilers like “The Tudors” and “The White Queen” that “Wolf Hall” is careful to distinguish itself from. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Mini-Series, Unspools Its Power Plays on PBS 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Much of the writing in these scenes is in the shameless tradition of roman à clef potboilers, as when Maria confesses to Ari that she is pregnant and longs to bear his child. | 'Master Class': Enough About You; Let?s Revisit My Glory Days 2011-07-08T02:01:43Z To stick this Russian pops potboiler between Stravinsky and Brahms made no musical sense whatsoever. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z That hook shows up in too many subsequent caper movies to be particularly noteworthy, but “Souffle” is about much more than its potboiler plot. Stream These Ultra-Cool Heist Movies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The Godfather was based on a pulp smash, Vertigo on a Gallic-noir potboiler, and Casablanca was written by committee. The Great Gatsby never makes a great movie 2013-05-13T05:00:00Z Notes on a Scandal While many dismissed it as a lurid potboiler, there’s something commendably mean-spirited about this perverse thriller. Cate Blanchett: five best moments 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z This is, inevitably, a decadent potboiler bubbling with family grudges, double-crossing business deals and illicit humping on beautiful mahogany desks and in chauffeur-driven cars. Dynasty: a camp classic rebooted for the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The curtain rises on a scene that brings to mind both archetypal rustic potboilers like “Tobacco Road” and the brooding family portraits of Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. Review: In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father and Family Dissolve Into Darkness 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Pseudonyms aside, there is no evidence that he was embarrassed about writing mass-market potboilers to pad his bank account. Royston Ellis, Bridge Between Beat Poets and the Beatles, Dies at 82 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z And it’s easy to imagine that the show will find its way away from the dopey potboiler its script wants it to be and into something in line with Krause’s and Enos’s mutual angst. 'The Catch' Proves Why Casting is So Important 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Like his other movies, “The Immigrant” is messy and glorious, a potboiler with the soul of a tragedy, a Dreiserian opera. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She coped with isolation by running up a three-thousand-dollar-a-month phone bill and reading everything from potboilers to the pillars of the Western canon. Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z And that’s just it: Of all the recent dramatic work that could be supported, why does a minor, conventional potboiler merit this singular kind of showcase? Review | I’m not rejoicing over a play produced by the Kennedy Center. Here’s why. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z It works fine; it's a decent enough potboiler of a tale anyway. TV highlights 09/02/2012 2012-02-08T20:00:05Z Unlike that wife, Hitler at least gets some grudging respect and decent dialogue in this potboiler about the diplomatic efforts to stop Germany. ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ Review: ‘Well Navigated, Sir’ (Not!) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Although two uses of the Blind Boys of Alabama’s version of “Way Down in the Hole” may conjure memories of the “The Wire,” this largely diverting potboiler isn’t interested in sociological scope. Review: A Crooked Cop Is Caught Between 2 Brutal Masters in ‘Asura: The City of Madness’ 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Lillian Hellman’s great potboiler about greed and chicanery in small-town Alabama in 1900 allows plenty of opportunity for camping it up wickedly, and with a Southern drawl to boot. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z They have accused Gelb of mismanagement for his attempts to keep up with the times by presenting interesting new operas and productions rather than counting on a crowd-pleasing, potboiler aesthetic. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The literary guard consider genre fiction to be crass, commercial, whizz-bang potboilers. Gaiman's choice: shouldn't good writing tell a story too? 2010-06-23T10:41:00Z After regaining Kelly’s trust, she suggests that Kelly earn extra cash by dashing off a quickie erotic potboiler. ‘Happy Christmas’ Stars Anna Kendrick 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Not one of these choices quite screams “beach read,” but if you’ve already plowed through a few juicy potboilers, you may be ready for one of these. 10 books to read in August 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z In that potboiler, a film he later disavowed as too tame, he was publicized as the first Black matinee idol for mainstream audiences. Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In modern music circles, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and this notorious potboiler, in particular, was to be avoided at all costs throughout much of the 20th century. Commentary: The curious case of Rachmaninoff and his connection to Philip Glass 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Too operatic at times, too in love with violence and macho posturing at others, it’s a potboiler dressed up in upscale designer clothes, but oh how that pot does boil. How to watch every best picture winner from 2000 through 2009 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z "I definitely didn't want to make it a potboiler, I didn't want to make it soapy or constantly have huge dramatic tension happening," he said. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed love affair told in opera 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Much as he showed in “Gone Girl,” another gleefully amoral potboiler about a loveless marriage, he excels at playing the emasculated dreamboat, the golden boy gone to seed. Review: 'Deep Water,' an erotic thriller with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, runs hot and cold 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Even “Active Service,” a dismal 1899 potboiler, is “a nonsense frolic similar to a host of MGM films from the 1930s starring Clark Gable.” Review: Why is Paul Auster so obsessed with Stephen Crane? Find out in 800 pages 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z DeepFocus, a movie review blog on the social media platform WeChat, was suspended for 14 days after it said the film’s theme was “potboiler.” Americans vanquished, China triumphant: 2021’s hit war epic doesn’t fit Hollywood script 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z He went with a smaller publishing firm, which sold the rights to a cheap paperback publisher of potboilers. Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born author of ‘In Praise of Older Women,’ dies at 88 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “Landslide” is the third in a remarkable trilogy of Wolff White House potboilers. Column: Donald Trump just won't go away 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z But Sanga errs by giving his movie the deterministic structure of a potboiler and the muted tone of a slice-of-life indie drama. Review: Melodrama 'The Violent Heart' stays at a low boil 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Victorian thriller writer Wilkie Collins knew all about how to craft epic and taut yet unhurried potboilers to warm up a long winter’s night. Brace yourself for cold winter nights with these 6 epic classics, retold in audiobooks 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Director Scott Teems keeps this laconic potboiler on a steady simmer, even when a few plot twists beg credulity. New movies to stream this week: ‘A White, White Day,’ ‘The Quarry’ and more 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z To German prosecutors, Dr. Berger is an archetype straight out of a potboiler: the revered enforcer who went to the dark side. It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z At once gripping and disturbing, the series is a well-acted and well-written potboiler, tapping into a uniquely modern kind of paranoia. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ is good, goofy fun 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “Trump ’in danger of losing control of the political storm unleashed’ is all narrative," Graham told Fox News. "This sounds like CNN is writing a potboiler political thriller, not a news story. CNN puts ‘building a mood of doom’ narrative ahead of facts with anti-Trump Iran coverage, critics say 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Among Australians of a certain age, they stir memories of a Hollywood potboiler about the end of the world filmed 60 years ago in Melbourne. Australia is becoming a nation of dread – and the world looks on with pity and scorn | David Marr 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z It starts out as basically a woke “Network” that in subsequent episodes turns into a standard-issue potboiler – Intrigue! What’s the good news? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s an irrational urge, and readers of such potboilers are often left wondering whether the protagonist secretly wants to get caught. Opinion | In Ukraine, the quid pro quo may have started long before the phone call 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z But he overpowered all that came before with an original interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s potboiler “Scheherazade,” supplying far and away the most spectacular playing from what should no longer be considered a regional symphony. Review: In San Diego and Thousand Oaks, new music directors hail new orchestral eras 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s impossible for film to do justice to Faulkner’s novels except, perhaps, for “Sanctuary,” which he deliberately wrote as a second-rate potboiler, disparaging it as “a cheap idea … deliberately conceived to make money.” The botched new ‘Catch-22’ adaptation reminds us that some novels are unfilmable 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In any case, it reemerges with the same 139-minute running time as before, and it remains a terminally, sometimes enjoyably overstuffed potboiler that moves to its own poky, meandering rhythms. Review: Andrew Garfield gets lost in the L.A. noir puzzles of 'Under the Silver Lake' 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Violinist Ray Chen was the suave soloist in Saint-Saëns and Ravel potboilers. Review: With a brilliant 'Buddha Passion,' L.A. Phil and Tan Dun usher in the Year of the Boar 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z This fin-de-siècle potboiler shows up at the Met every decade or so, usually at the behest of a reigning diva. Psychotic Operas at the Prototype Festival 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Such speculation is just another addition to the perpetual political potboiler forever stewing on the D.C. stove. Inside the Beltway: Mitt Romney damages his political brand 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s a fairy tale and an opera, a potboiler and a news bulletin, a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance.” Indie Focus: And the top 10 films of the year are ... 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z “Serial,” borrowing equally from the conventions of investigative journalism, the memoir, and the potboiler, was a leap in narrative innovation on the scale of “In Cold Blood,” Truman Capote’s 1966 “nonfiction novel.” How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The psychological thriller “Sharp Objects,” which premieres Sunday, isn’t designed to entertain like the potboiler 2017 serial drama. Review: 'Sharp Objects' pierces slowly but cuts deeply, and Amy Adams is phenomenal 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z An engaging if ungainly hybrid of “The Graduate” and “House of Cards,” the political potboiler “Affairs of State” benefits greatly from being both timely and, for this day and age, uncommon. Sex-tinged melodrama 'Affairs of State' mirrors real politics 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z "Love Never Dies" indulges in the sensationalistic twists of a turn-of-the-century potboiler, messing with the original in ways that will taint some fans' memories. 'Love Never Dies,' a sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera,' struggles to abduct us 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The rest of the film brings in the usual elements of a potboiler — a love angle, the rise and rise of the protagonist and Gayatri’s forgive-and-feel-proud reconciliation. Bollywood takes on menstrual hygiene 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Their conflict centered on the perennials of business potboilers, namely power and money. How a P.R. Firm That Aided Despots and Rogues Met Its End in South Africa 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z But after she is killed by Islamic terrorists, Mitch undergoes a kind of physical and political transformation that only occurs in Hollywood, or in the pages of potboilers. Review | ‘American Assassin’: A killing machine riding the conveyor belt through an action factory 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z This sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller or a paperback potboiler in which the world is heading for conflagration. Why are investors so relaxed about the tensions in Korea? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z This meaning showed up occasionally in crime reports or action potboilers, though it stayed out of public view, for the most part, until April 1999. Perspective | ‘Active shooter’ used to refer to sportsmen. Now you cringe when you hear it. 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The third in the writer's so-called frontier trilogy, "Wind River" examines big themes like Native American-white tensions, geography-as-destiny and the residual nature of grief, all in the context of a potboiler. With 'Wind River,' Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan captures a chill of the soul 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Let’s look at the two protagonists in our presidential potboiler. Opinion | A look inside the country’s real-life spy thriller 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Publishers there have been spooked by the 2015 abduction to China of five Hong Kong booksellers who pedaled lurid, poorly sourced potboilers about China’s leaders. Historian’s Latest Book on Mao Turns Acclaim in China to Censure 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The potboiler “Life on the Line” salutes the folks who risk serious injury every day to keep our power flowing. John Travolta toils in working man melodrama 'Life on the Line' 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Movie review of “The Charnel House”: This predictable but polished horror potboiler has an interesting take on the doppelgänger theme. ‘The Charnel House’: a haunted tale with some meat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z With anybody other than a superstar like Tom Cruise in the title role, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” would just be a routine potboiler. ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’: Sequel falters, even with Tom Cruise 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “The Girl on the Train,” a woozily inept suburban potboiler adapted from Paula Hawkins’ bestselling mystery novel, would love nothing more than to join that short list. Not even Emily Blunt can get 'The Girl on the Train' to its destination 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Their conflicted, should-know-better connection is the stuff of cheap pulp novels and messy potboiler thrillers, and it belongs in a better movie, where it might be more than a weird afterthought. The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a cluttered, confused riff on a Guillermo del Toro fantasy 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z As for this clumsy movie’s own missteps, one of them is a free-fall of knowing exactly where its ham-fisted, head-scratching mix of fantasy, potboiler and family drama is headed. 'The 9th Life of Louis Drax' doesn't survive the free-fall of obviousness 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But I still think this dark political potboiler would make for great TV. This TV muckity-muck and coastal commissioner thinks the columnist is a conspiracy theorist 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Movie review of “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back”: Even with superstar Tom Cruise in the title role, this sequel is still a routine potboiler. ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’: Sequel falters, even with Tom Cruise 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Dynastic potboiler set around a Memphis megachurch, like "Empire" in choir robes. Summer TV: 21 shows worth staying in to watch 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The notion of a politicized military put to political use is the stuff of potboiler fiction, but these days fiction must hustle to keep up with reality. The Dangers of the Ever More Powerful Presidency 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Book blogs did not respond to the general priorities of “American readers,” either, who tend to read more potboilers than literary fiction. Jessa Crispin: 'We're not allowed to say the Paris Review is boring' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He studied poetry at the prestigious Peking University, but later discovered that potboilers about the Chinese leadership were more lucrative. Why Did China Kidnap Its Provocateurs? 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z With superstar Tom Cruise in the title role, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is … a routine potboiler. ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’: Sequel falters, even with Tom Cruise 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z In October, Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong book publisher who specialized in potboilers about China’s Communist elite, disappeared from his vacation home in the Thai coastal town of Pattaya. Chinese Journalist Seeking Refuge in Thailand Disappears 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The literary press still regards them as simple potboilers, gimmicks dependent on twists, escapist formula fiction. Crime fiction in 2015: the rise of the Girl that could be any of us 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Even if it’s only the latest potboiler, you don’t know the landscape the first time through. Hello, Old Friend, Time to Read You Again 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z From an American perspective, a sports biographer seems like an oddball choice to carry on a potboiler series about international human trafficking and buried family secrets. You just can't kill Lisbeth Salander 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The title alone seems to be telegraphing that it’s more than a mere sci-fi potboiler, what with its reference to apex eschatology. Why Everybody Should Play 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Some summer selections here, courtesy of David M. Whalen, provost and professor of English at Hillsdale College, who offers a list of must-reads for those craving more than a vacation potboiler. Inside the Beltway: David Petraeus’ Bilderberg Conference appearance puts him among power 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Mantel’s books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” are embedded in Cromwell’s cautious, clever, pragmatic consciousness, which makes them virtuoso psychological portraits rather than action-packed potboilers. Thomas Cromwell, TV’s Latest Anti-Hero 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A reviewer from Backstage.com applauded the show’s pleasant music, even if the songs were “draped around an unconvincing noir potboiler from book writer Glenn M. Stewart.” A Billion-Dollar Mirage 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Officially announced today by ITV, the network that broadcasts Downton Abbey in the UK: the blockbuster costume potboiler will return for a sixth season next year. Official: 'Downton Abbey' Renewed For Sixth Season in 2015 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The rage – oh, the rage! – over KP and his potboiler will surge back and forth in the next few days. Kevin Pietersen saga shifts focus to the wider weirdness of cricket 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Thumbnail: Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, is a terrifically entertaining potboiler that successfully blends topical and thoughtful subject matter with unapologetic genre elements. Review: 'Gone Girl' Is What We Want At The Movies 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Most meetings of Turkic nations end in potboiler platitudes, but little action. Kyrgyzstan hosts first World Nomad Games, but can they unite the region? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z But the fact that we are seeing an old-school potboiler that just happens to star two black actors is something that shouldn’t be a big deal in 2014 but still remains as much. To Find 'The Next Denzel,' Hollywood Needs 'No Good Deed' Alongside '12 Years A Slave' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z As soon as he left office, Mr Brown got to work on his own book, but a potboiler it was not. What's Gordon Brown been doing? 2014-03-10T13:23:03Z It begins like a pulp potboiler, with sentences that could have come from James M Cain. The Spin 2013-04-10T10:22:52Z The new season adds fire under some simmering story lines, but never to the temperature of potboiler ridiculousness. A thrilling return for ‘Homeland’ in season two 2012-09-27T16:12:38Z The heroes of those potboilers were so clean-cut as to make even Horatio Alger characters seem dissolute in comparison. City Room: Big City Book Club Tonight Discusses 'Bang the Drum Slowly' 2012-06-27T17:46:25Z But these unreliable potboilers are not a substitute for history. Libya’s Teaching Moment 2012-06-18T05:00:00Z The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us As if the inside story of our planet weren’t already the ultimate potboiler, a host of new findings has just turned the heat up past Stygian. Earth’s Core: The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us 2012-05-28T19:27:17Z Sure, you can buy bestsellers at Walmart and potboilers at the supermarket. Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life 2012-01-28T20:17:55Z In October, Harvard Business School began teaching a new case study about Russia, which, in the words of one of its authors, "reads like a potboiler." Russia: An American Businessman's Crusade Against Moscow 2011-12-03T05:20:00Z I went into the house to fetch the required sum, and, by some means I cannot explain, got to work again upon the latest potboiler. Mr. Punch in Bohemia 2011-04-16T02:00:17.803Z The message of his artwork, and its relevance to the C.I.A., is more nuanced than a plot point in a potboiler novel, he said. Sculptor Dangles Clues to Stubborn Secret in C.I.A.?s Backyard 2010-11-20T21:37:00Z The H.P. sequel may not be steamy potboiler, but it is a welcomed model of board governance after a steamy season of costly corporate cowardice elsewhere. Another View: At H.P., Governance Trumps Gossip 2010-08-26T16:50:00Z Of course it may be said that like so many of his literary friends, he might have written novels and thus eked out a living by potboilers of various kinds. Stories of Authors, British and American His potboilers were good and honest books; his brief history on the Thirty Years’ War has received the praise of scholars. Historical Essays She is reminded of a college friend of hers, who told her that she was not going to allow her literary husband to write unworthy potboilers for the sake of earning a living. Democracy and Social Ethics And he can mysteriously put himself even into a potboiler. The Author's Craft He was no more forced to write potboilers than any other author. The Author's Craft Meredith subdued his muse, and Meredith wrote potboilers, because he was a first-class artist and a man of profound common sense. The Author's Craft It may be said that Meredith was forced to write potboilers. 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