Posts Tagged ‘Agatha Christie’
Episode 151 – A Haunting in Venice
For this week’s podcast, we review Kenneth Branagh‘s third Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice. We also discuss the WGA‘s gains now that the writer’s strike has come to an end, as well as a few other movie news items. For our streaming homework,…
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Film Review – See How They Run
See How They Run (2022) is a fun little murder mystery, even when it gets too clever for its own good. The “whodunnit” storyline is a tried and true premise. It allows for a large cast of characters to interact with their conflicting personalities. Of course,…
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Film Review – Knives Out
Do you need a sweet reprieve from family ugliness this Thanksgiving? A getaway from canned cranberry sauce, drunken uncles and political squabbles? Good news, friends, Rian Johnson is here to pick you up with a heaping helping of fun in the form of Knives Out,…
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Film Review – Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) is the kind of film that seems to have stepped out of the past. Not just because it’s a period piece, but also in its execution. Director Kenneth Branagh does here what he did with his update of Cinderella (2015):…
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An Appreciation – Gosford Park
The beauty of Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001) is how it delicately balances the numerous storylines to create a wonderful mosaic of characters. We’re not so much concerned with what happens, but with how everything unfolds. We’re familiar with the set-up—from Jean Renoir’s The Rules…
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Film Review – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Downton Abbey has a lot to answer for. I like a costume soap opera as much as the next lady person, but now that genteel English country house dramas are all the rage, there’s a lot out there to choose from. Unfortunately, not all of…
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