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Poirot haunted (film: A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, 2023)

Kenneth Branagh continues his series of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels and seems to feel quite comfortable in the skin of Hercule Poirot and in the position of director of the films that bring him to the big screen. The … Continue reading

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the destroyer of worlds (film: Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, 2023)

It’s only the middle of summer and we are almost half a year before the Academy nominations, but I think we already have one of the serious contenders for collecting many of the 2024 awards in Christopher Nolan‘s ‘Oppenheimer‘. It’s … Continue reading

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fantasy on the Nile (film: Death on the Nile – Kenneth Branagh, 2022)

I think that Kenneth Branagh understood something important about Agatha Christie when he started the series of films with Hercule Poirot as the hero, in which ‘Death on the Nile‘ (a much delayed 2022 release) is the second film. Agatha … Continue reading

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nightmare, innocence and nostalgia (film: Belfast – Kenneth Branagh, 2021)

‘Belfast‘, Kenneth Branagh‘s film, brings to the screen the story of one of those places which were and are too many on our planet. A place where families lived together for a long time sharing joys and challenges, where children … Continue reading

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Christopher Nolan plays again with time (film: Tenet – Christopher Nolan, 2020)

In ‘Tenet‘, the film that became famous for its complicated pandemic launch in 2020, screenwriter and director Christopher Nolan plays again with time. It is one of his recurring themes and the one that ensured his first great success with … Continue reading

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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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men at war (Film: Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017)

I fail to join the chorus of praise from critics and many film fans for Dunkirk. I came with big expectation to this film, not only because I read the critics, but also because Christopher Nolan is a director whose … Continue reading

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the comet and the star (Film: My Week with Marilyn – Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, 2011)

Films about film making, about famous actors and directors were very much en vogue a few years ago, and “My Week with Marilyn” belongs to this wave. About that time two (good) movies about the master of suspense were made, … Continue reading

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