Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Director: Kenneth BranaghWriter: Michael Green (adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party) Quick Impressions: “Snip! Snap Dragon!” My mother was such a Poirot enthusiast that when my daughter was little, she always imagined my late grandpa as David Suchet in costume. It’s easy to see …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutesDirector: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Before my mother became the world’s biggest fan of David Suchet’s Poirot, there was a time when I was in high school that she and my grandma used to watch Peter Ustinov in the 1978 film Death on the …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Director/Writer: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Two questions gnawed at me as I watched this film. 1) Is Kenneth Branagh teasing that he’s going to make a third Hercule Poirot film based on Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party? (My mom used to watch the one starring …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 30 minutesDirector: Christopher Nolan As the end credits rolled, my husband mused, “I think it’s impossible for human beings to comprehend…” And I broke in, “This movie?” Then I laughed heartily at my own joke. We all know Christopher Nolan likes to craft mindbenders about altered …
Runtime: 1 hours, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Traditionally, January is a dumping ground for bad movies, and the bigger they should have been, the worse they actually are. My husband and I went to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit hoping that it might be different, however, because I …
