Review: “A Haunting in Venice”

You have to give Kenneth Branagh some credit. Revealing no flagging interest in Agatha Christie and her famed investigator creation, Hercules Poirot, following his film versions of two of her most famous works, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, with a loose adaptation of one of Christie’s lesser known Poirot tales, […]

Review: ”Death on the Nile” (2022)

“Death on the Nile,” director Kenneth Branagh’s follow-up to his 2017 Agatha Christie adaptation “Murder on the Orient Express,” is a top contender for the title of most cursed film in recent memory. Production problems delayed its initial December 2019 release date to 2020, by which time the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, prompting […]

Review: “Belfast”

“Belfast” opens with a color shot of the Northern Ireland port city, the camera rising above the shipyards and eventually over a wall, peeking into a neighborhood street where kids play outside while the adults mingle. As we travel over this wall, we move from the present day to 1969, from color to black-and-white. These […]

Review: “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017)

3.5 out of 5 stars. The question, “Was this movie really necessary?” is one that accompanies most remakes these days—and as remakes of classic films are occurring more often than not these days, it’s one that is frequently tossed around by critics and moviegoers alike. It’s a large part of the discussion surrounding Kenneth Branagh’s […]