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Poirot is Back (Film: Murder on the Orient Express – Kenneth Branagh, 2017)

It’s not easy to adapt Agatha Christie to screen in 2017, and it is even more difficult to take upon ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ which already had a fabulous and stars-blessed version made in 1974 by Sidney Lumet. The … Continue reading

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Ben Affleck shining (Film: The Accountant – Ben Affleck, 2016)

It took me a very long time to get convinced about the acting skills of Ben Affleck. I could not distinguish him in the movies he acted, or between the roles in different movies he acted in the first years of … Continue reading

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a thriller that deserved a better name (The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey, 2011)

My preferred movie critic Roger Ebert spends about half of his review of the film explaining the title of this film. I will not repeat it here in order not to spoil your pleasure of reading it. I will just … Continue reading

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