Like Grant, Singleton, knows exactly how to create and maintain suspense.
Hitchcock's greatest gift was his mastery of the technical means to build and maintain suspense.
His convoluted tales have unexpected twists that maintain suspense for the reader.
This new season has irrevocably changed how I read the books, because for all the promises that the books and show will do different things, I honestly don't know how Martin is going to maintain suspense.
But the story is grounded firmly enough in the real world to maintain suspense as we wonder what will become of Etta – the scenes of her struggles with near-starvation in the wilderness are harrowing.
All of them have lessons to teach the Oscars - in building and maintaining suspense, in dishing out rewards and humiliations, in prolonging the agony - that might drastically reduce the show's snooze-quotient.
It couldn't be simpler in conception, yet it maintains suspense (despite the spoiler title) and paints a sort of four-dimensional (spatial plus temporal) portrait of the players, who become a cast of characters over the course of the film.
The hero of "Planman" is harder to pin down, and the movie maintains suspense by spinning out the uncertainty hovering over Jack.
But to assume so, I think, would be to give too much credit to a film that is ultimately less interested in morality and ethics than in maintaining suspense by any means necessary.
Though readers know Lydia's fate from the outset, it's unclear what transpired and why; the mystery is masterfully unravelled, with Ng maintaining suspense throughout.
