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A featurette from "A Haunting in Venice," directed by Kenneth Branagh based upon the novel "Hallowe’en Party" by Agatha Christie, has been released.
Despite some problems, director Kenneth Branagh's "Death on the Nile" plays as a well-crafted travelogue that happens to have a reasonably engaging murder mystery at its center.
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Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, "Belfast," is the filmmaker's autobiographical coming-of-age story of a nine-year-old boy told amidst the tumultuous late 1960s.
Even though it may be the most anticipated theatrical opening of the past year, especially given that we are ourselves caught in a bewildering pandemic reality wherein each one of us we may tend to question what exactly is reality these days, the fact that writer/director Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet is both equally remarkable and utterly confounding, yet somehow entirely forgettable, ma...[Read More]
Welcome to this week’s “Preview Reel” column, where we look at the week’s upcoming wide-release movies. Unsurprisingly, Thor: Ragnarok dominated the box office last weekend with a debut of $122.7 million, which was good for the fourth-highest opening of the year. The well-received Marvel film will likely repeat this weekend as Kenneth Branagh’s murder mystery Murder on the Orient Express and the c...[Read More]
“There’s no hiding from this, son,” Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance) warns Cillian Murphy’s character after he is rescued at sea. Dawson is referring to the German forces that surround the Allies at Dunkirk, but he could be referring to what the audience is experiencing as well. There’s no hiding from Christopher Nolan’s latest masterpiece as it grips you from the first scene and doesn’t let go until the...[Read More]
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a re-boot of the character that Tom Clancy created back in 1984 in his book The Hunt for Red October. Several novel and movie sequels later we are re-introduced to Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) thru this film. His origins are updated to fit with contemporary American history. We meet Jack as post-grad student in London studying Economics. He abruptly opts to join the USMC, du...[Read More]
We’re two-thirds of the way through October, and Gravity has just had its third straight week atop the box office, which I think qualifies it as succeeding beyond anyone’s expectations. In the meantime, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at this Christmas’ upcoming thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Premise: Jack Ryan (Chris Pine), a young CIA a...[Read More]
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-two film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan. Each critic submitted t...[Read More]
Arriving at England’s Shepperton Studios in the summer of 1956, Marilyn Monroe is at the height of her star power and notorious for her unreliable nature on film sets. She is there to play an unchallenging, bubbly role for the great actor/director Laurence Olivier in his production The Sleeping Prince. Tellingly, the movie will arrive in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl in order to play up Mari...[Read More]