Tag: Murder on the Orient Express
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Emma Mackey Stood Out From an A-List Cast in This Murder Mystery
Hercule Poirot may be the most famous of Agatha Christie’s iconic heroes, and the whip-smart detective has certainly been on his fair share of big-screen adventures. Each generation seemingly has its own Poirot in the same way that there’s a new reboot of James Bond, Spider-Man, or Batman that everyone remembers from their childhood. Compared…
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Poker Face: Everything We Know About the Rian Johnson Series
One of the most recognized filmmakers working today, Rian Johnson is as popular as he is polarizing. Ranging from more minor indie hits like Brick (2005) to mid-budget high-concept science fiction films like Looper (2012) and all the way to the colossal budget spectacle of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Johnson’s work is adored…
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How To Watch Black Adam At Home
For almost a decade-and-a-half, Dwayne Johnson has been developing the Warner Bros./DC film, “Black Adam.” We’ve finally gotten to see the titular antihero on the big screen going up against the Justice Society of America. And we’ll likely see more Black Adam in the future if that cameo in the mid-credits scene is anything to…
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Three Pines: Everything We Know So Far
Audiences of every age level sure do love a good mystery. The idea of following likable characters in solving a mystery gives the illusion that the audience members are putting the pieces together alongside them, and that’s a narrative device that can easily be translated into a variety of mediums, be it video games, films,…
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Zodiac Worked Because David Fincher Didn’t Give You What You Wanted
David Fincher’s 2007 thriller, Zodiac, does what few films can; it doesn’t give you the desired outcome at the end but still works as a taut psychological film. Based on the non-fiction novels Zodiac and Zodiac: Unmasked by Robert Graysmith (who is played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the film), Zodiac centers around the string of…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – sequel has more bung for buck but blunter weapon
Toronto film festival: Rian Johnson’s entertaining follow-up brings back Daniel Craig and the same, if less potent, cocktail of twists and mysteryThe hugely deserved enthusiasm that met Rian Johnson’s crafty, infectious 2019 whodunnit Knives Out was of such frenzied intensity that it didn’t just launch a franchise, it helped relaunch a genre, one that had…
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Oscar Winner Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot Explained In Death On The Nile Bonus Feature Clip [Exclusive]
After seven Oscar nominations since his splashy debut in 1990’s “Henry V,” Kenneth Branagh finally took home his first Academy Award for the screenplay for “Belfast” this past Sunday. Lest you forget, the brilliantly talented multi-hyphenate has another movie arriving on home video this week: The star-studded sequel to “Murder on the Orient Express,” titled…
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Another Kenneth Branagh Poirot Movie Is On The Way
First came “Murder on the Orient Express.” Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel of the same name (and the novel’s fourth screen adaptation) made a killing at the box office, pulling in $352 million on its $55 million budget. Not two weeks after its release, a sequel was announced in which Branagh…
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‘Death on the Nile’ Sails To Top Spot With $12.8 Million Debut, J. Lo’s ‘Marry Me’ Gets No Love, and Liam Neeson’s Latest Is D.O.A.
Super Bowl weekend tends to be a pretty pokey period at the multiplex each year as folks are too busy stocking up on chips and dips. But this year, things looked like they might be different. After all, three big, star-driven debuts were set to arrive in theaters on the eve of the Big Game.…
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‘Death On The Nile’ Leads Super Bowl Weekend Box Office
As expected, Super Bowl weekend has brought the usual slowdown for the box office, with 20th Century Studios’ “Death on the Nile” leading the charts with an opening day of $5.1 million from 3,280 theaters and an estimated weekend total of $12-13 million.The Kenneth Branagh adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Poirot murder mystery is a follow-up…